Comments on: Install Mac OS X Leopard OSx86 on PC Dual Boot Windows 7, Vista in 9 Easy Steps

By: khglynn

khglynn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:22:44 +0000

More or less. It took me a month and alot of help from the people over at insanelymac.com but now I have a barebones OS X. I can't get the screen resolution right tho, the internet working, the sound working, or the USB drives functioning. Maybe you can try some different drivers and let me know if you manage to get any of those fixed (the internet is the big one). Kind of sad.

I ended up using iPC for my install disk. Unfortunetly I'd tried so many times with so many different driver combos that I don't remeber which specific drivers I checked. But basicly to make multiboot work for you your may have to do thinkgs a little differently. After step 6 on this guide your computer will not boot to OS X. It's fine, the OS is still there. Use your command prompt after your windows boots up to do the command line stuff listed in step 7 (that is how I finally got mine to work.) It will tell you there is an error or that you can't make that drive active, but again, it's fine. Go ahead and use EasyBCD to turn on your new OS and you should be golden-ish. You will be able to multiboot anyway!

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:52:29 +0000

did you get this coputer to work? just wondering I'm about to try and I have the same computer.

By: james

james — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:32:32 +0000

hi Taranfx,
ur blog is awesome. keep going.
I have problem similar to (just copied below ur suggestion fron one of your replies:)
@Nil911
try this - Use the cpus=1 flag and turn off some things in the BIOS. -USB Legacy Support > Disabled, Execute Disabled bit > Enabled, Max CPUiD Value Limit > Disabled

i tried cpus=1 also cpus=2 , also both , also just -v in command prompt with USB Legacy Support > Disabled in bios

but still getting dead end.

also i couldn't find this options in bios : Execute Disabled bit > Enabled, Max CPUiD Value Limit > Disabled
though cPUiD was mentioned but i wasnot able to change it or even cant click on tht in bios.

i am getting last message as :
---------------------------------
Backtrace terminated - invalid frame pointer 0

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernal_task

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernal version:
Darwin Kernal Version 9.4.0: Mon jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: Studio 1555 (0D176M)
--------
it stops after the above message.

i am using MAC OSX 10.6 installing on Dell studio laptop. (4gb ram, 250 gb hdd,)
with win 7 pre installed.

actually my friend has helped me installling this before and we succeded but since i gave less space to mac os, i have to reformat n install.
now i m stuck up and even m friend is clueless.
plz guide.
thanks.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:32:21 +0000

Whenever I attempt to install OSX I read something in the command line saying “waiting for root device” or “root device not found” it never gave me an option for install to a drive, what should I do?

By: Abir S

Abir S — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:20:29 +0000

one question- does this method work with OS X version 10.6.2 ????

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:22:22 +0000

Thanks alot I'll try it If it works I'll comment here again

Dimitri

By: Suresh K. Volam

Suresh K. Volam — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:45:29 +0000

Dan,

If you still have the issue, I can suggest these steps:

1. Format the new partition - Partition type : Select HFS (Not NTFS).
2. Make it Primary.
3. Make it Active.

Now continue process (Skip the Erase process). You will see your new Partition.

By: Suresh K. Volam

Suresh K. Volam — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:38:30 +0000

Hi Dimitri,

I had the same problem exactly. After 3 days of repeated trials, I got it fixed on my system.

Here is the fix:

Initially when you create New Partition in Windows, format it. Dont' format in NTFS. Select FHS (Apple Mac). In case you cannot find it, download Paragon Partition Manager and format using Partition Manager. Select FHS format type.

Now if you boot the DVD, you will find your new partition. You DO NOT need to erase while installing. Just select your new partition (shown in Destination Locations) and continue.

Suresh.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:07:08 +0000

I have a problem…
I made a partition in windows 7 and marked it as active (15,0 GB)
But when I boot the DVD ( iPC 10.5.6) nothing shows up in the Disk Utility…
Does anybody know a solution for this?

Dimitri

By: Suresh K. Volam

Suresh K. Volam — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:03:49 +0000

Hi Taran,

I did exactly as you mentioned, but I failed at Step 4. After Erasing the new active Partition and closing the Disk Usage Window, I do not see any partition in the Destination Locations window and as such I could not move ahead. Please let me know if I did something wrong.

Here is from the Log :

Disk Utility started.

Preparing to erase : "disk1s2"
Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record
1 volume will be erased
Name : "disk1s2"
Size : 24.4 GB
Filesystem: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Initialized /dev/rdisk1s2 as a 24 GB HFS Plus volume with a 8192k
Journal
Mounting disk.
Could not mount disk1s2 with name after erase
Erase complete.

Thanks.

Suresh.

By: raj

raj — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:40:30 +0000

chain booting error HELP please

By: rajmool

rajmool — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:37:31 +0000

with this guide installed doth BUT getting chain boot error when trying to boot snow,HELP please

By: margaretnemet

margaretnemet — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:01:59 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satelite A505-S6960 laptop I have been installing Mac OSX on. The CPU is Intel Core 2 duo, T6500. There are no examples of MacOSX86 installations in this laptop in the OSX86 Wiki. The closest I could find were other Satellite Toshiba latops, which all employed iATKOS 10.5.7. I got a copy of iAtKOS 10.5.7 with Chameleon bootloader and installed it on a partition on my hard disk. The install was successful, and the PC boots into Mac, and the other two Windows platforms I have on the PC. In Mac, the Mac OS does not even fully load, before I get the message that Mac does not see my keyboard and the machine freezes right there. It does not see my mouse either, but the touchpad works. Can you suggest anything to get over this hurdle?

Thanks

By: rajmool

rajmool — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:40:28 +0000

Please need help,I am Stuck.I clicked on ERASE on right hand side and under the format option selected “MAC OSX Journaled Extended” and click Erased. The disk was erased But MEssage use disc utility to repartition this disc using”GUID partition table”
when i tried to go back to window leaving leopard installation on rebooting my laptop Message “missing operating system”.I checked order of boot in BIOS , it is set as cd drive first.
I can not even use my recovery cd Same message “missing operating system”
PLEASE help

By: clau1980

clau1980 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:22:15 +0000

I can see the apple on my screen… but that's it! nothing else? No options or select language…
Am i on the good way… can i do something at that point? Got a asus.

thx

By: khglynn

khglynn — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:24:27 +0000

I've done this process twice. Once I screwed up and everyting disapeared. The second time nothing went away. I would back things up to be safe, but if you do everything correctly you shouldn't lose any data

By: How to Install Snow Leopard on VirtualBox

How to Install Snow Leopard on VirtualBox — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:08:06 +0000

[...] 3. Switch on Virtual Machine and install Leopard distro as-usual. (You can check Install Leopard on PC guide, if you are new to [...]

By: seph701

seph701 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:21:04 +0000

should i back up my data on windows 7 first? will i lose all that? cuz you have to repair the os in some way soooo….

By: khglynn

khglynn — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:18:29 +0000

Hey Taranfx, I PMed you but am unsure if I sent to to the right email, so I'm going to post my problem here as well.

I was worried about messing up my computer, so I first tested the process on my little brother's hp vista laptop and successfully created a mutliboot system on his vista hp after much trial and error. But when I tried the process on my laptop, I couldn't make it work. I've tried 11 different "customize" combination, and (with most of them) the install says it is "complete" but when it tires to reboot with the black screen, the last message is see is "syncing disks... Killing all processes" then "continuing" and then one more message that i can never read because a moment later the computer is shut off and upon reboot the computer says "boot0:testing" three times and then ERROR.

I have partitioned off half my hard disk because I felt confident in the process and had checked on the wiki and saw that the Sony most similar to mine and their's seems to have to work perfectly. I am worried that my computer is one of those which "will never work," and will be extremely disappointed if I won't have MacOS and a hard drive that has been cut in half. Any suggestions? Here is my system info:

Product: SONY US-VGNFW490-LBOM
Component:16.4" widescreen with XBRITE-FullHD™ LCD technology (1920x1080)
Component:500GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [5400 rpm]
Component:Standard Capacity Battery
Component:ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD4650 graphics card with 1GB vRAM-great for games and movies
Component:Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7350 (2.00GHz)
Component:WLAN (802.11a/b/g/n) with integrated Bluetooth® technology
Component:Blu-ray Disc™ playback
Component:Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit (Upgraded to windows 7 legally)
Component:4GB DDR2-SDRAM (DDR2-800, 2GBx2)

Thanks so much for your time, hard work, and help,
Kevin

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:26:41 +0000

Wery important for all to install the PS2 driver. or keyboard and trackpad wont work !!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:18:27 +0000

I have a partition on my 500 gig SATA drive for about 100 gigs, unallocated. It does not show up in Disk Utility. I have also tried allocating this. I am not able to mark the partition as active unless I format it. How do I fix this?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:17:10 +0000

I have a partition on my 500 gig SATA drive for about 100 gigs, unallocated. It does not show up in Disk Utility. I have also tried allocating it, but this does not work either. I can not mark the new partition as active unless I format it. How do I fix this?

By: Virik

Virik — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:35:16 +0000

Hi!

I just tried this guide. Created partition, booted with dvd. Typed -v and all that. But when I get to the next part, where the screen turns light blue, nothing happens. What can be wrong here?

By: Andre Wayne

Andre Wayne — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:08:14 +0000

Hi I have lenovo ideapad s10-2 and have the boot able flash with snow leopard article here
http://tech-chimp.com/2009/10/300-macbook-netbo...
with windows 7 already installed, I try to install snow leopard retail but then loose the windows 7 install if I repair windows 7 snow leopard stops working please help

By: gaurav18nov

gaurav18nov — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:45:26 +0000

hello Taran,
I've just gone thru hundreds of posts and finding your's the perfect.Before i say something i want to tell u that i'm a novice to mac OS.Everywhere it is directed to use iATKOS v7 for dell inspiron 1545(i'm using).should i go with iPC.or please send me a torrent link which siuts my lappy best.(3GB DDR2 ram,intel core 2 duo 2.0 GHz).Also under HCL(the link given in your post)..it says…to get 1366×768 resolution one need to have a working linux in the system and also to replace the bootloader with GRUB2.PLz help me with that aand plz send me the link of the torrent if possible.
regards
Gaurav

By: dan6289

dan6289 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:58:11 +0000

same problem as Will. did the -v and only error is “ERROR: Firewire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure” Please help me.

By: dan6289

dan6289 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:44:08 +0000

I need help. after i installed it successfully, there seems to be a problem during the reboot. It just freezes on the white screen with the gray apple. what should i do? can i boot back into my windows 7? please help!

By: Caleb D

Caleb D — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:35:01 +0000

I read once this inst possible with my certain laptop.

Compaq Presario CQ60
AMD Athlon X2 64
nVidia GeForce 8200M

Can anyone confirm this either way please?

By: streetlightman

streetlightman — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:32:13 +0000

Just did it, works great!

Thanks for the awesome guide

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:14:02 +0000

Taranfx,
Boot 132 method has allowed for retail installation for some time now. In fact, There is only 1 Modified install disk in existence (that I know of) at this point for Snow Leo. Retail install can easily be achieved even with Pentium D/AMD Systems. And if you have a core 2, duo Core or Quad core YOU DO NOT NEED A MODIFIED KERNEL YOU CAN USE THE EXACT SAME KERNEL IN A REAL MAC. True, Pentium 4, D, celeron, AMD and a few others need a modified kernel, but not today's Processors. Modified/Custom Kexts are needed to address some motherboard quirks/unsupported devices (network, Graphics mainly), But the HARDWARE IS NOT SO DIFFERENT, IT”S THE FIRMWARE. Macbook Pro's use the same INTEL CHIPSETS, ATI OR NVIDIA Graphics and very similar components. Enough so to allow for retail installs even with 10.5 as of late. Just Google “Retail Install OS X” or “BOOT 132 OS X” or “USB Retail Install OS X”. And quit spreading misinformation. @Repititor – DO BUY A RETAIL INSTALL DISK AND SUPPORT APPLE's SUPERIOR OPERATING SYSTEM, EVEN IF YOUR NOT GOING TO BUY A MAC.

By: chrisdewitt

chrisdewitt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:25:03 +0000

ok i already have stumbled apon another problem. i compressed my c drive to get 16gb of free space and it won't allow me to make the free space into a primary partition, it comes up as unallocated space then i can make a new simple volume from the menu but once i so that it comes up as a logical drive and i cannot make it a primary partition. Is there a method i need to follow? i'm using vista

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:26:38 +0000

OK i have been looking at trying the supremacy of a mac for a while and this seems like the sensible way to do it without committing to spending a fortune. I have followed your 1st step in looking for my laptop in the wiki but i cannot seem to find it. I have an acer aspire 5735. As it is not in the list does it mean that it will not work or do i just have to check the hcl for all my individual components? I don't want to waste my time and a disk to find it doesn't work. Oh and i'd just like to add that considering you've put all this info up for free i'd like to say i admire you for being so helpful.
Thanks!

By: chrisdewitt

chrisdewitt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:09:47 +0000

ok i've always been interested in trying the supposed supremacy of a mac and stumbled apon your site. I read the 1st bit where it says check the wiki for compatibility and on the several versions i have looked up i can't seem to find my acer aspire 5375 in the portable pc list… before i pointlessly follow the rest of the instructions can you tell me. Does this mean it will not work on my laptop? by the way.. considering you put up all this info for free i admire you for being so helpful.
thanks

By: Make Bootable USB [OSx86, Snow Leopard]

Make Bootable USB [OSx86, Snow Leopard] — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:55:24 +0000

[...] can be used for installation of both Native/Hackintosh Retail Snow Leopard OR OSx86 distro like Leopard Kalyway 10.5.6 and SnowOSX v3.x Snow Leopard. In other words no matter what version of Mac OS X you wish to [...]

By: John Xie

John Xie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:55:33 +0000

Hello Taranfx,

Hi there. I need some help here with installing MAC OS X Leopard on my HP Notebook. Its one of the newer notebooks bought about one month ago. Can you check the hardware that I have and let me know if they work well with OS X?

Model: HP G60-535DX
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4300 2.10Ghz (I'm sure all the tests pass for the SSE2 and SSE3 and all this and that because I checked.)
Memory: 3GB DDR2....
Graphics: Intel 4 Series Graphics. Actual Model number is 4500M. (If it doesn't work, let me know if there's any way to set my resolution to something like 1600x900.)
Sound: Connexant Pebble High Definition SmartAudio
Touchpad & Keyboard
Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller (for Ethernet Wired Internet)
Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (doubt it would work...)
Western Digital 320GB SATA Hard Drive (Working when I installed Mac OS X last time)

I actually installed MAC OS X before but I think I messed up at one part so I will try again. However, many of my hardware did not have drivers installed so I had to use external equipment. Help me outt! Thanks.

By: Bacheegs

Bacheegs — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:58:35 +0000

Greatttt Guide! Easy for newbies!
Only thing I have an issue with is my dvd/cd rom drive. I have the SONY CD-RW/DVD-Rom CRX880A and people who have installed uphuck have said that it works out of the box just like their wireless on their Dell Inspiron 1501. I used ideneb v1.3 10.5.6 and my wireless works but my dvd/cd rom doesn't. Do I have to play with bios and change to IDE or SATA or maybe I have to install the driver on the WIndows XP to get it to work on the MAC OS? I am a newbie so sorry about the questions. Thanks!!!

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:56:07 +0000

Hi i just install the MAC OSx86 and I made perfectly Installed but i have a problem I don't have an option to choose which Ethernet (i dont have a Network) and also i dont have a Sound and the rest it works perfect..... Pls. help....

Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g Wifi Adapter
Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221

Thx and advance.....

By: DenDries

DenDries — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:06:22 +0000

Hey, I tried several things with the custom install in step 5 but nothing seems to work.
After installation on the apple boot screen it shows a stop/error sign after a while and nothing happens after that.
I guess I chose something wrong with the custom install, but I don't seem to find what I have to choose to make it work.

Maybe you can help me.
Just send me a mail so I know your email adres so I can send my hardware info.
It's quite a list and I don't know what you need to know about it.

Thx in advance

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:19:10 +0000

I am installing to a gateway laptop with intel core 2 duo t6600. I have follow the process above.
I am using ipc ox 86 10.5.6. I finish installing but when I reboot I come to a screen indicates that my keyboard is not hookup and i cannot go beyond that point. In the installation on step 5 above, I do not see the desktop and laptop option. I have reinstalled it twice and got the same result. Any suggestion is greatly appreciate.
Thanks.

By: justasking007

justasking007 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:20:03 +0000

can i install mac os x on VMware?

By: justasking007

justasking007 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:20:03 +0000

can i install mac os x on VMware?

By: rahulrana

rahulrana — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:11:39 +0000

if i have install leopard in my pc then a error is come firewire unable to determine security made; defaulting to full secure

By: rahulrana

rahulrana — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:11:18 +0000

if i have install leopard in my pc then a error is come firewire unable to determine security made; defaulting to full secure

By: pwkn0

pwkn0 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:48:36 +0000

Reinstall, and when you are setting the customization options, find the option that says ps/2 keyboard fix and select that. That should fix your problem.

By: sokoban

sokoban — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:29:20 +0000

Hello Taranfx, I used ideneb 1.5.1 ( 10.5.7) to setup osx86, everything was good, I setup leopard, I customized the setup with components as written in the setup guide, but when I rebooted the system I went to leopard. it passed the white screen of apple, I taped -v, -f , it started to write a lot of lines, then nothing it's a black screen I can't enter to mac leopard system! do you know why? please I need your help

By: Mathic

Mathic — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:29:00 +0000

hi taranfx

have downloaded and burnt ipc mac10.5.6 it has got only voodo kernel while i boot frm the DVD it shows error:0x0020950D and the last line is : Kernel Version:Darwin kernel Vs 9.5.0 sat Dec 6 19:39 Release 1.0:xnu-1228.7.58/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 any help in this regard is highly appreciated....Thanx in advance

Computer H/W
Intel processor:2.7 Ghz
2GB RAM
512MB Nvidia Geforce
160 GB HDD
MainBoard : Via chipset Intel
Realtek Sound card

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:04:27 +0000

Can't you get in trouble installing multiple O/S's by downloading a torrent?

By: jay

jay — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:27:20 +0000

scratch that… i got it to work, but it doesnt let me choose WHERE to save the drive

By: Mathic

Mathic — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:25:31 +0000

Hi,

Taranfx please email me the working torrent link for mac osx leopard 10.5.6 or which ever latest i downloaded it from http://www.btmon.com/Applications/Mac/Mac_OS_X_... and burnt it to dual layer DVD of size 7.5 GB but it doesnt boot frm it as u mentioned i checked the DVD boot option frm Boot Precedence but no go please email me the torrent link for mac…. Thanks in advance………

By: jay

jay — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:45:35 +0000

how bad did i eff up? lol....

I got up to step 3, i made my partition thing, burned the DVD

but upon re-starting my laptop... it says " missing operating system"

i cant press f8

im guessing theres no way to reverse this process... annnndddd i'll have to complain to best buy and have them fix it for free?

any help GREATLY appreciated..