Hackintosh Macinspiron1525 Almost there!!!!!!
Last week I decided to play around with my dell inspiron 1525. Started installing iAtkos 4i (MAC OSX 10.5.4 Leopard for x86 hardware). The initial installation was smooth. I just followed the instructions available on many places on the web, mainly on the http://www.freewebs.com/bass-2k7. Was very happy when I saw the Installation successful message, but happiness didnt last long though. When I restarted my system, I wasnt able to boot into mac at all. Hmm. There were lots of reasons why that happened . I had installed OSX on an extended partition and had not followed the instructions to install darwin bootloader.So I could boot only through the DVD with specifying the options rd=disk0s2.(here 2 refers to partition where I had installed).
Second trial, logged onto windows, some neat partition magic tricks, converted the logical drive to primary partition and then installed OSX again. WOW, this time also successful and I was happy as I had heard lots of people face different kinds of problems. This time I did go through the following commands to install darwin bootloader
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 2
write
update
quit
rebooted again. My system was able to boot with darwin bootloader but no luck this time also, it kept on crashing and rebooting. So put the DVD back again, and flagged my first primary partition again to boot my windows XP.
On more googling came to know the CHAIN0 file which actually can boot off a OSX from NTBDLR of windows. Some copied the file from the DVD and made an entry into boot.ini file. Tried booting this time again. Chain0 file is able to detect HFS+ partition and load the darwin bootloader but again same problem it kept crashing and rebooting.
For time being I am able to boot into OSX using the DVD only. Need to get a workaround on this.
Hmmm... Hackintosh Macinspiron1525 Almost there!!!!!!
Second trial, logged onto windows, some neat partition magic tricks, converted the logical drive to primary partition and then installed OSX again. WOW, this time also successful and I was happy as I had heard lots of people face different kinds of problems. This time I did go through the following commands to install darwin bootloader
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 2
write
update
quit
rebooted again. My system was able to boot with darwin bootloader but no luck this time also, it kept on crashing and rebooting. So put the DVD back again, and flagged my first primary partition again to boot my windows XP.
On more googling came to know the CHAIN0 file which actually can boot off a OSX from NTBDLR of windows. Some copied the file from the DVD and made an entry into boot.ini file. Tried booting this time again. Chain0 file is able to detect HFS+ partition and load the darwin bootloader but again same problem it kept crashing and rebooting.
For time being I am able to boot into OSX using the DVD only. Need to get a workaround on this.
Hmmm... Hackintosh Macinspiron1525 Almost there!!!!!!

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