Installing Mac OS X Lion on PC
Apple
has always been known for its outstanding devices and especially for
there OS they use in their devices. But as superior they have been they
are as restricted too.The Mac OSs have been very fascinating but
it is basically limited to MAC computers and notebooks (MACs and
Macbooks). It was impossible to port it on other devices that are
basically the normal(non Apple) PCs and notebooks.
But
it was the case before 2006,when the apple started to use intel
processors in their computers. Before it they were using their self
manufactured processors. The use of intel processors opened the doors
for the potability of Mac OSs. Many communities started their research
to port Mac OS on normal PCs and today these communities have developed
many distros (distributions) of Mac OS which can be installed on normal
or non-Apple PC or notebooks. A computer built to run this type of Mac OS X is also known as a Hackintosh .
There are various Hackintosh distros available on the internet, each of them have their own qualities. Some of the popular distros are iAtkos, iDeneb, iPC etc.You can download one after googling around and checking for its compatibility with the pc or notebook you want to install on. Download the latest distro after reading its compatibility with hardware and feedback on various forums.
However, http://tonymacx86.com/ provides method and tools to install retail(those provided by Apple) versions of Mac. But these are vary huge in size and cannot be burned on a single layer dvd, so you need a dual layer dvd to burn it on and install and for that you will need a dual layer dvd writer and reader which does not come with normal PCs and Notebooks. Methods are also available there to install it from Pen Drive but that need a working Mac to make the Pen drive to install it (Why would you do it if You already have a Mac?). So it is useful when you are upgrading or you have a generous millionaire friend owning a Mac or Macbook and can lend you to install it on your Pc or Notebook to make your PC or Notebook a cloned brother of its Mac or Macbook.
The latest retail version of Mac OS X is Lion and its distros are also available. However you may not have a successful install in your very first attempt and you may have to switch to some other distros after failure. So please use the very latest distro after googling around and reading others feedback about it because the latest distros may have fixed compatibility issues.
The other issue you would have to face is drivers oh sorry "the kexts"(the thing like driver in windows is called kext in mac). Even you get success in installing your distros you would need kexts to make it fully functional like windows need drivers. However,distros like iAtkos comes with basic drivers which you can select from while installing and http://tonymacx86.com/ provides a software named Multibeast , a package containing kexts you can select according to your hardware after installation. But there may be the hardwares for which the kext may not be available then you would have to additionally search for them on the internet. And here its not enough the certain kexts have conflict with those kexts that come with the installation and you will have to find and delete them before you can install the compatible ones unless the Mac will cause Kernel Panic(just like blue screen crashes in windows) after booting up or at the time of booting.
So if you are a Apple geek and want to try and use a Mac on a PC or Netbook you can mess up with these stuffs or otherwise Windows 7 is not too bad.
I myself have installed Mac os X Lion IAtkos L2 on my Dell N4010 with intel core i3 first gen,1 GB ATI Redeon 5610 GPU and 3GBs of Ram. It works fine but i am still searching for the kexts for graphics card , Atheros Ethernet card, Intel wilink WiFi card and Bluetooth. So you if you want to try it here is my experience of successfully installing it which i gained after 10-15 unsuccessful attempts and changing 3 distros.
Here are the steps which you need to follow to install it on a PC or Notebook along Windows 7 :
There are various Hackintosh distros available on the internet, each of them have their own qualities. Some of the popular distros are iAtkos, iDeneb, iPC etc.You can download one after googling around and checking for its compatibility with the pc or notebook you want to install on. Download the latest distro after reading its compatibility with hardware and feedback on various forums.
However, http://tonymacx86.com/ provides method and tools to install retail(those provided by Apple) versions of Mac. But these are vary huge in size and cannot be burned on a single layer dvd, so you need a dual layer dvd to burn it on and install and for that you will need a dual layer dvd writer and reader which does not come with normal PCs and Notebooks. Methods are also available there to install it from Pen Drive but that need a working Mac to make the Pen drive to install it (Why would you do it if You already have a Mac?). So it is useful when you are upgrading or you have a generous millionaire friend owning a Mac or Macbook and can lend you to install it on your Pc or Notebook to make your PC or Notebook a cloned brother of its Mac or Macbook.
The latest retail version of Mac OS X is Lion and its distros are also available. However you may not have a successful install in your very first attempt and you may have to switch to some other distros after failure. So please use the very latest distro after googling around and reading others feedback about it because the latest distros may have fixed compatibility issues.
The other issue you would have to face is drivers oh sorry "the kexts"(the thing like driver in windows is called kext in mac). Even you get success in installing your distros you would need kexts to make it fully functional like windows need drivers. However,distros like iAtkos comes with basic drivers which you can select from while installing and http://tonymacx86.com/ provides a software named Multibeast , a package containing kexts you can select according to your hardware after installation. But there may be the hardwares for which the kext may not be available then you would have to additionally search for them on the internet. And here its not enough the certain kexts have conflict with those kexts that come with the installation and you will have to find and delete them before you can install the compatible ones unless the Mac will cause Kernel Panic(just like blue screen crashes in windows) after booting up or at the time of booting.
So if you are a Apple geek and want to try and use a Mac on a PC or Netbook you can mess up with these stuffs or otherwise Windows 7 is not too bad.
I myself have installed Mac os X Lion IAtkos L2 on my Dell N4010 with intel core i3 first gen,1 GB ATI Redeon 5610 GPU and 3GBs of Ram. It works fine but i am still searching for the kexts for graphics card , Atheros Ethernet card, Intel wilink WiFi card and Bluetooth. So you if you want to try it here is my experience of successfully installing it which i gained after 10-15 unsuccessful attempts and changing 3 distros.
Here are the steps which you need to follow to install it on a PC or Notebook along Windows 7 :
- Firstly check the compatibility of your hardware with the latest Hackintosh distro.If you have a core series cpu then it will be compatible.Then you should have at least 1 Gb of Ram and 15 GB of free space on your hard disk.
- Then download the distro from the internet. You can download it from internet using some torrent client by searching the torrent over the internet.I had downloaded it from Pirate bay
- The downloaded distro would be an DMG image.You can't burn it to DVD directly. You would need an application Transmac which you can download from Here. The software come with a 15 days trial,But you don't need to worry as you only have to use it once.Open the dmg image in transmac which will appear in right pane then right click on it and select burn to DVD. Sometimes the file may be extracted first to an ISO fi;e in that case after extraction is completed open the ISO image in transmac and then right click on it and select burn to DVD.
- Now you need an extra free partition for installing Mac on it. If you have an empty hard disk and you want to dedicate entire hard disk to it then you don't have to worry about partitioning your hard disk. But if you have a single hard disk then you have to partition it. You can use some partiotion manager to partition your hard disk.I used EaseUS partition manger home addition which you can download from here. Now use this tool to resize your partitions to make some extra room to create a 15-20 GB partition.After creating some room select the unallocated space and create a primary partition and let it remain unformatted.You can give it a label so that it is easy to identify it later.
- Now when you have a bootable DVD and a partition to install a Mac you can start with the installation on your PC or Notebook. First of all change the bios setting of sata to AHCI mode. Then insert the DVD and boot from it.If everything goes fine you will have a boot screen displaying your partitions or disks and DVD drive with iAtkos disk on it. It is advisable to not to directly boot from that screen . Instead of that press Tab Key and it will switch you to the command screen. Place the highlight bar on DVD drive and type -v (which is verbose mode). The verbose mode lets you see the progress of installation step by step and if any error occurs you can see it and search to fix it by just googling away.After typing -v press enter.The installation would start and you will see lines of text being displayed . Sometime it halts on a single line. Don't panic just wait for 10-15 minutes (if it clears not written error on the screen) . If it don't move further just see the last lines and search over the internet to fix it.
- If every thing goes right you will be welcomed by welcome screen. Select your language and do not select continue yet.(Sometime the trackpad or keyboard won't work during the installation,in that case use a USB keybord or mouse and restart the installation) . A menu will apear on top of the screen. Select utilities from the menu and select disk utilities. Now select the partition you created to install mac os from right pane after expanding the disk icon.Now click on Edit and format the partition to Mac OS X Journeled file system. If you want to entire disk to install mac you can reformat the disk as a GPT disk for better results. But if you do have important data and other OSs installed on it, as in my case i had Windows 7 installed on MBR so i just formatted the partition.
- Sometimes the formatting of partition fails if you have MBR disk
type because the Mac OS may not get the write access to partitions. In
that case you will have to use some other tool to format your partition
in MAC OS X Journeled or hfs+ file system. I used Parted Magic
live CD to format the partition. Just boot the PC or Notebook with Live
CD and format the partition in hfs+ file system using Gparted disk
utility . Then you can restart the installation of IAtkos and skip
formatting the partition but you have to Enable Journaling for that drive in Disk Utility by selecting the drive and clicking on Enable Journaling Icon.
- Now Click on Continue and select the partition or disk formated for installation but do not select insall Mac OS yet but click on Customize. You will be displayed with a menu with check boxes to choose drivers and components to select from with the installation as:
You can select the options for bootloader,bootloader options and pathches as shown in the image.But if you have an ATI graphics card do not select graphics enabler but select ATY_Init from VGA - ATI options. Do not select any of the driver because it can make an conflict with the apple drivers. However you can select the drivers for Hardware Sensors according to your hardware and drivers for PS/2 and laptop battery.For installation on Netbooks with Atom processor choose Atom kernel from custom kernel options.
- Now after customizing the installation now select the ok and click on install. The installation will start and would take 20-30 minuter. When the installation is complete the system will be restarted.
- If everything goes right your pc will be restarted with chameleon bootloader. Select the drive in which you installed the Mac. The mac will booted up. (If it does not boot up normally because a kernel panic and text in two or three language comes up written on screen reinstall Mac with some other options in customize menu according to your hardware ). Now create a new user in on Mac and set a user name password according to your need.
- When the installation is completed successfully and your Mac boots up normally now you need to install kexts. You can download Multibeast from http://tonymacx86.com/ a package to install kexts for your Mac. Now can select the kext from this package according to your hardware.
- To install the audio kext you need to install VoodooHDA v2.5.6 Package from the Multibeast and install.Sometime certain kexts cause kernel panic because the have a conflict with existing kexts in that case you have to remove it. As in my case the Voodoo v2.5.6 makes a conflict with AppleHDA.kext. So my Mac did not booted up normally and made a kernel panic making a high beep at boot up. So in such situations need the Macdrive application for windows to remove that conflicting kext. You can Download Macdrive from Here. This application lets you see the contents off the Mac partition in windows.Now after instaaling this app the Mac partition will look just as other drive in your windows.You can find about the conflicting kext on the internet and can delete it in windows using Macdrive. The kexts are located in the drive in which the Mac is installed in system\library\extra folder. In my case I deleted the AppleHDA.kext and MAC booted up normally with working sound. Hence you caninstall other kexts to.
- You can find other kexts according to your hardware by searching over internet.You can use KextHelper to install individual kexts.
GOOD LUCK!
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