iatkos dell vostro 1500 mac os x

by Michal Blazek on April 26, 2012 Tweet 4 6 25

Installing Mac OS X operating system to desktop PC or laptop

For a long time Apple Mac computers used a different architecture than IBM-PC and

the core parts of Apple's operating system (System 1, Mac OS Classic etc.) were

integrated to Mac's BIOS. These barriers made it impossible to install Mac OS

on PC-compatible computers.

In 2006 Apple introduced new Mac computer family based on Intel

platform with new EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) architecture. Also

Mac OS X operating system was remade to be compatible with Intel platform.

After these changes, some enthusiasts started the project called Hackintosh (also known as

OSX86) that makes Mac OS X available for non-Apple Intel based and not supported

computers. The trick is to emulate Apple Mac EFI and have hardware configuration as much as close to

Mac.

To create "Hackintosh" computer you will need an bootloader/EFI Emulator, such as Chameleon or Boot

132, retail Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion installation DVD, customized drivers and other utilities.

However, we have found a much more comfortable to make your own Hackintosh only with a

single DVD disk and we will show you how.

How to make your own Hackintosh with iATKOSiATKOS is fan project based on OSX86 that is developed for users with basic knowledge about

computers, but that want to try Mac OS X. It is one installation image with Mac OS X installation

including all customized system drivers, various EFI emulators and other tools for successful installation to a

PC.

Step 1 - Download and burn iATKOS DVD

iATKOS ISO installation DVD images are available to download on many data sharing servers, or

BitTorrent peer to peer network. The most downloaded version is iATKOS L2 with Mac OS X Lion and

iATKOS S3 with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

After the download is finished, burn the .iso file to a DVD disk, such as Nero Burning ROM etc.

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Step 2 - Installing Mac OS X

It is strongly recommended to install on the separate desktop, or laptop computer without any

important data, like in our case we have installed it on an unused Dell Vostro 1500 notebook (Intel Core 2

Duo, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, GeForce 8600GT, 15,4" LCD 1680x1050). List of Hackintosh compatible PC

desktops, laptops and hardware is available on OSX86project Wiki.

Be careful, OSX86, Hackintosh, iATKOS etc. are unofficial ports of Mac OS X for non-Apple

computers and you install them on your own risk. File-extensions.org is not responsible of any

data lost caused by unofficial installations of Mac OS X.

If you don't have any basic knowledge about Hackintosh problematic, study more information

about it before you install iATKOS, or other ports. The list of other web resources you can find

at the end of this article.

Preparing computer BIOS

First thing you need to do, is to change the boot sequence in BIOS setup of the computer to the Boot from

DVD drive at first place. Put the DVD with iATKOS installation to drive, save BIOS settings and exit from

BIOS. Wait until the Chameleon emulator will be started from DVD.

When Chameleon is loaded, simply click any key to continue with installation process, wait until the Mac OS

X installation utility will start.

Chameleon boot manager

Hard disk formatting

After the installation utility is ready, select installation language and click on Next arrow button. Start the

Disk Utility. You can find it in upper menu section Utilities. In Disk Utility select the disk, where the Mac

OS X system should be installed.

Select Partition option Select Partition layout to 1 Partition Select format Mac OS X Extended

(Journaled) Click on Option button and select GUID Partition Table and click on OK button Click on

Apply button and wait until the disk will be prepared. Close the The Disk Utility.



Mac OS X drivers and EFI settings

Now you ar back in the installation window, click on Continue button. Read the license information and click

the Next arrow button. Select the installation disk and click on Customize installation button.

This is the most important part of installation, where you must select drivers for your

hardware, boot loader and other software to optional work of the Mac OS X on your computer.

By default, these settings are pre-defined for hardware similar to Mac computers. However, if your hardware

is more different of Mac's, you need to customize these settings. It looks complicated, but many optional

settings for specific hardware, can be found on iATKOS official forum and other Hackintosh forums (You can

see the example optional settings for Dell Vostro 1500 at the end of this article).

Finishing Mac OS X installation

When you have chosen your settings, just click on Install and wait till its finished. If there were no problems,

on next reboot there should be no problems. Just make sure you take out the DVD from the drive after the

installation, else it would boot for installation again.

Apple Mac OS X on Dell Vostro 1500 (Dellintosh)

If there is some sort of error during the boot, you have to reinstall and tweak the settings from previous

step again. It might take a while, but in most cases it really works.

Notes

Keep on mind, this installation of Mac OS X is without any support from Apple, Inc. iATKOS project is only

for testing and learning purposes, not for commercial use.

List of web resources:

Hackintosh.com - Hackintosh Instructions, Hackintosh Tutorials

OSX86PROJECT - Tutorials, List of compatibility hardware, forum

iATKOS - customized Mac OS X installation based on OSX86 project

Hackint0sh - specialized forum about Hackintosh, Jailbreaking etc.

Example settings for Dell Vostro 1500:



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-Bootloader:

-AnVAL Loader (select)

-Bootloader Options:

-Graphics Enabler (select)

-USB

-USBBusFix (select)

-Patches:

- /Extra directory (select)

- fakesmc (select)

- Disabler (select)

- RTC

- 32-bit (select)

- EVO Reboot (select)

- Sleep Enabler (select)

- USB

- Drivers:

- Main Hardware

- SATA/IDE

- AHCI SATA (select)

- Sound

- Voodoo HDA (select)

- PS/2

- Voodoo PS/2 (select)

- CPU Power Management

- Voodoo Power (select)

- Laptop Hardware (select)

- NTFS-3G (select)

- Network:

- Wireless

- Broadcom (select)

- Wired

- Broadcom

- BCM440x (select)

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