Install Snow Leopard on PC

Tuesday, November 03rd, 2009 | #Tags: Guide, hackintosh, howto, leopard, MAC OS X, snow leopard

We had been into Mac OS X Installation on PC for a long time now. We ‘ve produced several flawless guides, though complexity may have varied.

With all your generous support, we are now able to produce the Easiest Guide to Install Snow Leopard on PC.

Update: You can upgrade to OS X 10.6.2 without any issues.

Before We Start:

This is “Retail method” for Installation [Most Trusted]
You need Supported hardware.
8GB or Higher USB drive.
Snow Leopard Install DVD ($29 upgrade disk works) or an equivalent downloaded ISO.
Another Mac to prepare your thumb drive. You can also do this over a Hackintosh PC.
The EP45UD3P Snow Leopard install package: Download. This Automates all CommandLine work.

Step 1: Prepairing USB

First, we’re going to format usb thumb drive, later copy the Snow Leopard DVD image to the thumb drive.

Watch the video in HD and fullscreen to get clearer look at the process.

After you restore the Snow Leopard install DVD to your thumb drive, all you’ve got to do is Run the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard.pkg file (download link above), select your thumb drive, and, let the installer will take care of all the work.

Step 2. Configuring BIOS:

You’ve got to make some small adjustments to your BIOS.

Boot Priority: Enable USB Boot, and set USB thumb drive the highest priority for Boot.
AHCI Mode: SATA RAID/AHCI Mode should be set to AHCI
ACPI Power mode: Set it to S3(STR).

If you have trouble finding these settings, refer to the images below (click to enlarge) credits to Adam Pash.

Step 3: Installation

Now comes the easy part.

Restart PC, Make sure your prepared thumb drive is plugged into your PC. :

As shown in the Video: Boot into the Snow Leopard installer, format the hard drive you want to install Snow Leopard to (go to Utilities -> Disk Utility, then click on the drive, select 1 Partition, Mac OS X Journaled, give it a name, and make sure GUID Partition Table is set in the Options. After you Apply the new partition, go back to the installer and install like normal to that drive. When you reboot after the install completes, press the arrow keys at the graphical boot menu and select the drive you just installed Snow Leopard to.

Step 4. Minor Tweaks (optional but good to have)

You should have everything working by now. But here are few additional, optional steps to enhance your Experience:

1. Get Sound Fully working:

Sound isn’t entirely working yet. You may notice that sound actually does work in some instances, but not all. All you should actually need to do is open up the Sound preference pane in System Preferences (/Applications/System Preferences), click the Output tab, and change the output device to Built-in Line output (I haven’t tested with digital out, but it should work fine in theory).

2. Boot into Snow Leopard without USB Thumb Drive

Right now, your Hackintosh needs USB to boot. To boot from internal harddisk, install the custom bootloader to your hard drive. Unzip EP45UD3P Snow Leopard.pkg zip file that you downloaded initially, run it and select the hard drive you’ve installed Snow Leopard to. Once the installer completes, you’ll no longer need your thumb drive plugged in to boot into Snow Leopard.

Bingo! You installed Snow Leopard on PC by the Easiest Way!

For Fixing WiFi: Intel 3945 Wireless Driver for Snow Leopard

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samsa

Hi taran,

first of all, thanks for your guide. Looks easier as anything i've found so far. Still, i need your help.

I prepared my thumb drive as described above and when i boot from it, i get the darwin loader screen. But shortly after I get a kernel panic, just the same as alexannic got: 'Should have 2 threads but only found 3 for Die...'

Now I wonder if - like in his case- my processor isn't supported. I do have an intel core 2 quad q9300 boxed. I thought this one actually was supported by SnowLeo. But please tell me if i'm wrong about that ;)

My other hardware:
- MSI P45 Neo-F
- 4GB DDR2 RAM
- ATI Radeon HD 4870

Thanks a lot, I appreciate any help I can get!

samsa

Addition to the post above:

I forgot to mention that I can't set this option "AHCI Mode: SATA RAID/AHCI Mode should be set to AHCI" in BIOS. I just can choose IDE.
I tried this guide to enable AHCI http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in... but it doesn't change a thing.
Do I have to flash my BIOS? Actually, I wanted to avoid that, don't want my PC ending up chrashed.

Thanks again!!

Taranfx

flashing the BIOS is not required in 90% of the cases. DEfault setting (though not shown in BIOS) is fine.

eric

All,

I think there is a safe/safer approach to testing if your hardware is compatible with OSX.
Install Vmware workstation on your windows box and install a virtual OSX. That should be telling if it will work at all.

Tomorrow Im getting a pc, first time in years, to try and install OSX on it, or run ESX4 on it so I can then run a virtual OSX at least.

chris

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4254/img0057...

I've followed this guide but when i try to boot the thumbdrive i get this error :< whats wrong :<? Please help me!

mikekliem

I tried this method
Its not working for me the install fails with this message
"the installer could not copy the necessary support files"

Snow Leopard 106.0 retail DVD
gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR
geforce 7400GS
sata HDD
4 GB ddr3

mikekliem

I followed these indtructions but get an install error saying some files could not be copied?

gmick

wait is there a way to install leopard on the usb drive so you can have a portable copy of snow leopard

Kev

question.. before i even attempt this will Mac work on my AMD Phenom II Quad base system?

System

2x AMD Phenom II x4 965
6gb DDR3 2GHZ

Dual XFX ATI 5780 Toxics
2x1tb Sata HDD

Hyder

plz answer my question send me reply @ hyder7nh@gmail.com
i use EasyBCD to dual boot my Windows 7 and Leopard(iatkos v7)
can i do d same for dis?
if i can,which option do i select in OS Type under mac tab
do i select Generic x86 pc or d oder one?
or what oder method do i hav to do to dual boot windows 7 wid snow

Christian

Hello there, great guide, EXCEPT...I have a school laptop. I have 4 partitions on it.

1: Windows XP (Required for school)
2: Backup (Stuff for school, also an account is linked to this drive)
3: iPC OSx86 (just small partition for iPC)
4: Snow Leopard (largest partition, awaiting Snow Leopard install!!)

So I absolutely CANNOT format the entire hard drive, I need it! Is there any way at all to set it to GUID Partition Table, but just for the Snow Leopard partition, and NOT by formatting the entire hard drive???

GREATLY appreciated if you can help!!! :D

Christian

Christian

Hey, I have a school laptop with 4 partitions on it. One for Windows XP... (need that one for school) one that's just backup files FOR school (need that one too, because one of my accounts is linked to it), one for iPC OSx86 and one for Snow Leopard (blank). So I CANNOT format the entire hard drive. I need the stuff. So, is there any way to make the Snow Leopard partition GUID WITHOUT formatting the entire hard drive??

GREATLY appreciated if anyone can help! :)

Christian

Olivier

For a reason or another, when I switch DVD (like said in the post) I get this:

You should eject this CD and insert an OSX disc
Do you want to continue....

Anyone an idea??

alex

i'm just interested to know why my hard drive isn't shown when i open the disk utility ???
all steps before were successful.

alex

Hi,
I just followed the steps, but no drives appears just after the language selection.
I will try to format a partition in hfs+ and see what happens after that.

sensimeon

i followed the lifehacker guide and this and everything works great except for shut down/restart/sleep.

but the weirdest problem is that when i click "about this mac" it goes to a blue screen, and seems to reluanch finder and im staring at my desktop again...

evga 9500gt
ep45-ud3p
intel duo core 3.0ghz

any ideas?!?!?

DoctorT

Can this method also be used for Leopard (10.5.)

samuelon25

hello

hi well i right now dont have a usb that has 8 or 16 gb but instead i tried restoring on a partition and then i installed the EP45UD3P and it worked fined
after that i reboot it then chameleon boots up and then i see the partition where i put the mac os x image file so i click on that partition but then my mouse and my keyboard for some reason dont work
i see the installation screen but my mouse barely moves and besides it moves to the opposite side and my keyboard doesnt seeem to be working plz help i want mac os x snow leopard really bad
my current specs are
dell inspiron 6400
i have mac os x leopard 10.5.7
2 gb of ram 667 mhz
intel duo core running at 1.9 ghz
nvidia gforce go 7300
plz help me
Any suggestion will be appreciated

intel core 2 duo

cky1billion

I also experienced this, the processor is running slow as molasses, which is why the cursor jumps, not to mention the inordinate amount of time to get to that point. I believe it has to do with the bootloader, but I could be wrong about this. I used the magic package in conjunction with some leopard disks and also experienced the dreadfully slow bootup which is what leads me to think its the bootloader, and no leopard distro did this on my dell studio 15 laptop before either. I am looking for flags that tackle this, theres a ratio flag I have seen but dont know if that will work, but leads me to think it will.

DoctorT

I solved the "input not supported" by downloading a newer version of ep45ud3p v3.
Found it using Google

bebgsurg

Hello,
I have formatted a 16 Gb USB drive with GUID partitioning system. I have made a Mac OS X Install DVD disk image from a legally bought SnowLeopard DVD. However when I try to use DiskUtility to restore the mounted Mac OS X Install DVD to the USB drive, by dragging the image in the left column over to the Source: field, it won't "stick" and so I cant do it. I feel foolish but what can I do? Thanks

JohnnyPlaid

I have a kinda the same problem, I have made an iso of my real install disk with Toast and partitioned my 16gb usb the way told but when I go to Restore to the iso image it gives me the following error. It tells me that it cannot restore the image because my iso needs to be imagescanned so I try to do that with disk utility but it either says 'resources temp unavailable' (Something like that) or "Unable to scan "Mac OS X Install DVD.iso (Invalid argument)." I don't know what to do...I cannot figure it out. Thank you so much for your help.

cky1billion

mount the image first, once you see it under the image name, then drag the little sub image thing to the restore tab. Sorry I cant be more specific, play with it you will see.

tay187

If you still have your disc, rip it as a .dmg file... i had to do the same and mine worked with a .dmg but not with a .iso... try that out?

DoctorT

I tried to install from USB but got a blank screen showing input mode not supported.
On that screen which appeared right after the boot I typed "Graphics Mode"="1024x768x32" enter (I couldn't see what I was writing so it is important to get i right) Then installation started

DoctorT

I have problems with "out of range" graphic signal. How can I change the boot loader on the USB stick to start using a lower frequency?

timesheep

When i choose to boot from my USB stick (i haven't even installed it yet) nothing happens, exept there is a blinking underscore. It stays there for a long time, so i don't assume it's supposed to do that...

Mark

did you ever get an answer to this? I have the exact same problem.

Street

hi i dont have a usb stick with 8 gb or more so can u please tell me how to make a boot through an external hard drive

alexannic

Hello,

I cannot get SL to boot the first time, shortly after Darwin loads I get a kernel panic message:
'Should have 2 threads but only found 3 for Die...'
http://it.tinypic.com/r/25gzdwl/6

Notes:
- I have tried booting with -cpus=1, arch=i386 and -x but with no luck.
- BIOS Settings: AHCI set, ACPI: S3(STR)

Strange, but when i enter the -cpus=1 setting I get exactly the same error message (2 threads but only found 3) as if nothing happened. But if I disable the 2nd core through BIOS, the message changes, and says: 'should have 1 thread but only found 2'! Link:
http://it.tinypic.com/r/oqkiuh/6

My Desktop PC setup:
-Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6Ghz
- Foxconn MB P43A01 with P45/P43 RevA3 chipset
- 2GB RAM DDR2 400MHz
- ATI Radeon HD 4770

Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it!
Alex

tay187

You ever find a solution to this?? Mine is doing the exact same thing no matter what BIOS settings I try...

eldhosegeorge

MAC snow leopard doesn't support Pentium D processors. u will have to upgrade it to Core2Duo.

I hope this clears ur doubts

tay187

if you open the OSX installer from the USB/Hard Drive you made, I deleted the DMCT or whatever file from under the Extra's folder and it now can boot to the installer screen, but now I have the problem of it not seeing my hard drive :(

Jal

Hi Guys, I am trying to install Snow Leopard on my External USB HD using alienware m17X, which has Intel Core 2 Extreme Q9300 @ 2.53GHz, Dual GeForce GTX280m sli, 8GB RAM, GeForce 9400, and 500GB of SSD with RAID0 configuration. I am using win 7 64bit. But after i try to boot from prepared usb, nothing happens. it just stops.
One more thing, I have installed snow leopard on my another extarnal hd 160GB by using dell mini 9, which worked perfectly by dell123 boot thing. And now i am able to use xp on internal hd and mac on usb hd on dell mini 9.
I don know what problem i am getting on m17x. But please help me with this. I really want to use snow leopard on m17x. Thank You.

Greg

Using this guide. If I wanted to dual boot windows 7 which I already have installed.
Would installing Osx as per this guide on a sepperate partition work? Would i still use guid partition table when i format the disk or should i use MBR if i want to dual boot.
If so let me just make sure I know what i am doing before I attempt.
After Os x I then have to boot with windows 7 CD and repair installation then add OSX entry with Easy BCD. Am I right?

Thnx so much

Louis

I would like to do the same thing. Did you get an answer to that question? I would like to be able to dual boot between my Windows 7 partition and the Mac OSX partition. Did you succeed modifying the boot entry with bcdedit?

Thanks!

Anan20

Heyy..
I use a Dell Studio 1555.
I'm really keen on installin snow leopard on my notebook.
The tutorial looks simple and i'm going to give it a shot.
Just wanted to know that if it fails it won't screw up my notebook rite?

plopbellie

yes when i boot from the falsh drive it goes to the apple but then it says to restart. it doesnt boot and it doesnt show any words in the background please reply soon

Mac Learner

I have done what this tutorial says and after setting up the thumb drive, applying patch. I restart PC and change the bios as suggested. Now when the computer boot up I get "75.1/60 HZ Frequency out of Range" and thats it. I can not do anything else. Help!!!!!!!!!!

Jon

i have this same exact issue 75.1/60 HZ out of range... any ideas?

nimh

hi all please update me anyone .letme know can i install SATA HDD . i have problem with my SATA .. please help me.

Randy

I followed the tutorial and put the iso on the thumb drive. When I reboot it says the following...
boot0: GPT
boot0: testing
boot0: testing
boot0: done

Nothing else happens. Any idea what I should do?

W Henke

where did you get the mac install disk

Randy

I downloaded the ISO from a site online. My buddle has the disk. I'm thinking I should try out his disk.

sundeepgill

Hey Taran Thanks for everything you support. Okay so I bought a perfect working hackintosh from someone, it was awesome, fast. It had snow leaporad 10.6 and had tons of software I need, cause Im a video editor, anyways one night I decided to do Software Update :( and then next day it wouldnt boot. I learnt that is destorys the patches, is there anyway to fix that? I cant find any info on the web..Thanks

ASUS MAXIMUS FORMULA SPECIAL EDITION MOBO

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: BOOT.EFI.V80
Serial Number: CK157KMHK5B

jeff

Ok Im a newbie here ;( Ive looked at the wiki and It looks like all of my hardware is fine (Asus P5Q3, Quad Core,mobo supported,2 Nvidia 9800's etc...)
But Im running Windows 7... Ive got a 16GB USB Flash Drive.... but all I can find is HOW to make the Leopard BOOT USB Drive Under OSX.... Is there any way I can make the USB Boot Flash Drive Under Windows 7 ?

Thnaks in advance I really appreciate anyone that can reply to me :)

Thomas

Hey Jeff,
use this VMWare Version of Leopard to prepare your ThumbDrive.
http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_c...
BR,
Thomas

coukz

Good Day Taran,

Kudos for all these great tutorials and I could say that they are easy to follow.

Would like to ask for your help as I am having issues with this USB method. This is my Notebook Specifications :

Sony Vaio VGN-CR353
Core2Duo Processor (2.1GHZ)
4gb RAM
ATI Radeon X2300

In this notebook I have set up a dual boot for Win7 and iPC OSx86 (10.5.6). iPC works fine except I could not crank the resolution further and WIFI :(

I followed these detailed steps for SL installation via USB but I keep getting the Restart your PC error. Attempted to boot into safe mode and I got the message systemshutdown false and some other strings of "directory not found" or something like that. So my question is, is there any other way to tweak the installer or the files from the patcher I guess and could it be that this is not compatible with my hardware? ( I suppose not, pretty much I have the generic ones. ) and lastly if you have any workaround to get my resolution and wifi fixed for iPC.

Appreciate your help mate.

Have a wonderful day ahead.

sebwick

I managed my prepare my thumb drive correctly. But when I launch it at boot you see the normal apple loading logo but then a message comes open saying that I should hold down the power button and restart.

Why?

Taranfx

seems like you got trapped in a Kernel Panic. Boot with option "-v" on darwin console and let me know the error text u see at the last. or if u can get a pic of it.

Christian

something about processor 1 not reaching the something...i forgot. but yes it was a kernel panic. any way to fix? ibm thinkpad t60p

Pera

I did all this, but when I try to boot from the usb I get a message "Input not Supported" floating on my monitor.

Can you please help?

justry

I have the exact same problem!! "Input not supported" floating on my monitor when I try to boot from USB!! Can anyone please help with that??

luke mersh

I have an acer aspire 4920 laptop, but i am unsure about how to put snow leopard on to my PC laptop.
could you please help me

sarois3

I managed to get it working on my LG p300.
No wifi and no sound and no internal keyboard.
What do i do
The system seems to be quick and great to deal with.

winse7enandmac

how do i set the drive as active because im using a external hard drive some forums say u can do it from the installer but most people say it fails

Pera

I did all this, but when I try to boot from the usb I get a message "Input not Supported" floating on my monitor.

Can you please help?

Yupipi

I've got exactly the same problem , sure everything is well configured , bios , usb boot SL , the patching.... but I dont know whats wrong... damn I hate this kind of dumb stupid situations were nothings works fine!! hahaha well I'll keep trying!!

Pera

Also, can a USB drive be seen in Windows after all of this is done? My can't so I am wondering if I messed up something..

tay187

USB wont be seen on windows because windows doesn't recognize the mac format you formatted your USB to

Alex

Hello,

First of all, thanks a lot for the guide. Everything worked for me except after the installation is completed and I press the restart button, I do not get to the screen where I can choose the drive to start Snow Leopard. Instead it automatically goes into this grey Apple logo screen where it does not make any progress at all.

I installed Snow Leopard from a USB drive (partion 1) to the same USB drive (partion 2).

Any ideas?

eng2art

Hi,
wow in the frist i don't find the excellent guide like that
thanks for you pro-man . i have Installed on my dell inspiron 6400 laptop.and it work good However it seems that I miss a lot of drivers since I cannot get following working:
- internal keyboard ( it works with mac only external keyboard )
- mousepad ( works with mac external )
- ethernet card
- Wifi it work but it not see any networks
- Sound ( it is not work main)
how to get it and how to install it if i have already the dell ins-6400 driver package
but i can't determine are it is damage or am i don't understand how to instal it
so help me to get the good sequences to do it install
and some of problems
1- the internal boot cannot work and get me
boot0: GPT
boot0: testing
boot0: testing
boot0: testing
boot0: error
so help me to get the good sequences to do it boot from internal HDD

and the lap top is not work if i leave it for 10 minutes

Sorry and Thanks
eng2art

rancid

I could not get this to work either. I was having same problems as Denis.

One option I could not set in bios was this

ACPI Power mode: Set it to S3(STR).

I only had S3(POS) not S3(STR)

Also I could not work out how to enter the options -x -v -cpu=1

When booting I got the screen up with the drive to install and if I press down I get several options there.

CJ

hi, I also performed this tut and loaded everything perfectly until the darwin load screen, it boots up through darwin then to the apple screen where it shows the circle ring loader. After a few mins it then continues to circle and a little icon on the apple icon appears which is supposedly is a red stop sign. And it just hangs after that until it restarts. I don't know whats the problem, can anyone help out here?

bmilesp

do you think this would wotk with OSX 10.6 Server? or would i need a multitude of drivers and more hackery? Excellent article!

Taranfx

To be honest, I never Tried Leopard server via this method. But when I think about it, there's nothing different that would stop it from doing that.

Garrett

Hi,
I tried booting from usb device, It starts to boot and then the monitor says "cannot display video above 1280x1024 resolution" and then the PC reboots. Could some one tell me what I am doing wrong?

ARHIvica

I got the same problem, my monitor says "out of range", did you get through this?

justry

I have the same problem too! Did you get through it?

migento

Same here any solution?

fldkasdjfoij

Me too! Anything I could do?

woon

Hello,

I need to thank you for the instruction.
However, it doesn't work to me.
I tried to install it several times, but it shows me the same error.
They say, "You must restart your computer...... " something like that.
It is just the beginning and even I cannot see any booting screen.
And I cannot see ACPI power mode in my BIOS.
Am I wrong? How can I solve this problem???
This is my laptop.

ThinkPad X 60
Core 2 Duo T 7200
2 G ram
Intel GMA 945 chips

Thank you.

Christian

Almost exact same on mine. IBM Thinkpad T60p. any fix?

Henrik

Hi,

thanks for excellent guide. Installed on my Acer 6293 laptop. However it seems that I miss a lot of drivers since I cannot get following working:
- internal keyboard ( it works with a external keyboard )
- mousepad ( works with external )
- ethernet card
- Wifi
- Sound ( I do not get the options as shown in the guide )
- Camera ( well I did not expect that )

Help would be very much appreciated!!

Thanks
Henrik

Marty

Hi, what is it about that stella's snow magic in the vid? do i need that and what is it doing anyways?

Peter

Hi, thanks for the guide. However, the link to download the EP45UD3P package is not working well. Can't download the full file, always stuck at 99%. Any other alternative links?

Taranfx

I just tried downloading it on your request, works for me. I`ll email it to you in a while.

Arthur

I've tried using the USB install method a couple of times and the process wont recognize my thumb drive to boot. I set the boot order, set the three boot devices as USB-HDD, USB-FDD, and USB-CDRom and it still boots from the hard drive... any thoughts?

Mat

I think it depends on the BIOS spec of the PC/notebook. I've got the same behaviour on my HP 8530p, I did the same thing as you and I still can't boot by the USB thumb drive. Anyone could help please???

EazT

I might need your help here. I tried booting into my USB stick after installing abracadabra package. However, I got stuck at this screen with nothing to go on after..

boot0: GPT
boot0: testing
boot0: testing
boot0: done

What should I do next? Perhaps Im going to try the method without usb.. Haha..

EazT

Just an update. My system is running dual boot on MBR, Win7 and Leopard.
For that, I tried partitioning my usb stick as MBR. It worked and booted into Apple Spinning Grey screen, and I got a KP as per the first post. Lolz..

Additionally, I notice that the abracadabra stated 64bit. My SL10A32, i believe its 32bit. Any issues?

EazT

forgot about the link
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/EazTerence...

EazT

Update again, I tried -x -v -cpu=1 command and the attached picture is what I got. Just cant get it to run into the installation of SL.. Always kernel panic. =( Any advices?

matt

Would it be possible to use this install method from a eSATA drive? I have an eSATA port on my laptop.

varashi

it also gives me the error:
could not unlink playlist /var/db/bootcache.playlist: read only file system

Varun

when i boot from usb drive it gives me the following message and stops:
Boot cache: could not terminate cache on bad hitrate
What do i do?

Prashant

I followed every step carefully. But when i boot my pc using the prepared USB stick, the installation says 'Loading Darvin' and then gets stuck at the grey apple logo screen. What am i missing here?

matt

Regarding the getting stuck booting at the logo screen. I did boot with verbose and looked like it got stuck with this message:

USBF: 296.270 [a bunch of letters and numbers] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.

So I guess that means there is a problem with the USB drive. I tried it on both my USB ports but get the same message.

Any idea how to fix this? Any BIOS change needed?

Thanks!

matt

I have the same problem as Prashant. When I boot from the USB it gets stuck on the gray screen with the Apple logo....not even a spinner. Any fix for that? Thanks!

W Henke

I have the same problem, any sollutions?

Aman Fahimullah

Thanks for taking my Pic at the end. ;)

kevinmscs

Hi,

I tried to install using this guide, the only thing different was I used a USB hrad drive instead of the USB thumb dirve and the PC reboots after the screen that said Loading Darwin. I could not get any further. Any suggestion?

Thanks

Taranfx

Booting from USB HardDisk is bit tricky. You have to set the partition active.

kevinmscs

Thanks. Which partition should be set to active? Did you mean the USB hard drive partition where OS X is located (or created using the DVD) or the target partition (the blank local hard drive) where we'll install OS X into it?

Taranfx

The USB HDD partition on which OS X is created from DVD

kevinmscs

Sorry for the dumb question but how do i do that?

timesheep

In windows you go:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Storage > Disk Management.

Choose your disk, right click the partition, and click mark partition as active ;)

Xzar

This option is greyed out for me. And windows treats my Ext. HDD as 3 partition(one of them not used). Where would be the problem?

timesheep

Well, you might need administrator privileges, but i always forget them, since I am the administrator, and have turned off UAC. So i don't notice it.Try right-clicking Computer Management, and run with administrative privileges.
Besides you can always try using the full access recovery admin account built-in. This is a pretty dangerous way to gain administrator access though. Give it a google, i forgot how to enable it.

jazz7

can i install it alongside windows 7 this way???
how to dual boot

Taranfx

Install Windows 7 First then use this method, it will automatically do a Dual Boot

Rahul aggarwal

Good news guys, worked on First try on my Dell Mini with Core 2 Duo.
Thanks for a peaceful guide!

Dennis

Thanks for this tutorial! I'm trying to run Mac on my PC. Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2. CPU: Intel I7-920.
When trying to install I get this error message:
http://uploads.dennismadsen.com/MacOnPC01.jpg
http://uploads.dennismadsen.com/MacOnPC02.jpg

Hope someone can help me!

Dennis

After the "Darwin loading" text a screen with a loading-icon is starting. But after 2 seconds the screen is black - nothing happends. I have a Asus ENGTX260 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX260)

Taranfx

One More thing, I see that Kernel Panic is related with ACPI. It could be that you didn't set it as described. If you did, try different values. Secondly, -x -v -cpu=1 while booting, Thirdly unplug all USB devices and try rebooting without them.
Also let me know after what exactly did it happen.

Dennis

How can I boot with this options: -x -v -cpu=1

I can't find any section where I can type this bootoptions..

Taranfx

While booting, specify these options at boot prompt. Also try booting in safe mode by Holding SHIFT key during boot

Dennis

What is Kernel Panic?

Taranfx

I guess you are new to Mac world: Kernel Panic happens when some critical fault comes into picture. In this situation it cannot be recovered due to a Hardware or software level fault, hence has to shutdown.

Taranfx

Question: did it boot once? Try safeboot with -x -v -cpu=1 option. If this works, Great!
By default, Snow Leopard, hence this method doesn't support Core i7, Max I tried was Intel Quad. However we can try a workaround. In Step 1 While creating The Install partitioin we have to introduce proper KEXTs (drivers) for your Motherboard. You can download those Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard kexts by referring to InsanelyMac's guide [It's fairly complex] http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?show...
Try downloading those and add those KEXTs by referring to older guide: http://www.taranfx.com/blog/how-to-install-mac-...
This can get complex.

guest1

wish there was a guide to do this without having a mac, isn't that the point of installing it on pc?

Hyder

first,download iatkos or ideneb
dat allows u to install mac on pc widout use of an oder mac laptop
den to format USB,make image n use d patch
use iatkos or ideneb(whichever one u installed)

Sparky

Learn to spell.

Andrew

Agreed

Taranfx

unfortunately not yet.
you can get macbook from one of your friends. The process takes couple of minutes.
Otherwise, you can install Leopard osx86 for this.