Install Mac OSX Leopard on Dell M1330

Dell M1330

  • CPU: Intel Core2Duo T9300
  • RAM: 4 GB @ 667 MHz
  • Video: Intel GMA X3100 @ 1280×800
  • Audio: Intel HDA (Sigmatel STAC9228) aka Azalia
  • Bluetooth
  • Webcam
  • Wifi: Intel Wifi 4965AGN (not working)
  • LAN: Broadcom 5906 (not working)

Requirements

Install

  • Boot Leo4Allv3-10.5.2 with option ‘-v platform=X86PC’
    • Might need to reboot a couple of times before it works
    • Push ‘F8′ to get into the boot options
    • Wait 10-20 mins
  • Must make a partition before installing
    • Go to Utilities > Disk Utility
      • Select partition and click on Erase (next to ‘First Aid’)
        • I selected an empty 20 GB partition
      • Name the parition to anything you want
      • Click on ‘Erase’ to erase and create the partition
      • Exit out of Disk Utility
  • Good idea to view installer log to see what’s going on
    • Go to Window > Installer Log
    • Click on ‘Show Error Only’ and go to ‘Show All Logs’
  • Click on ‘Continue’ on the Welcome screen
  • Click on the parition you made earlier and click ‘Continue’
  • Click on ‘Customize’
    • Select what you think you need, but here is my selections
      • Kernel-9.2.0
      • Third party drivers
        • Chipsets Drivers
          • Intel-ICHx
        • Audio Drivers
          • AzaliaAudio
        • Good Applications
      • SMBIOS
        • SMBIOS-667
      • PowerManagement-Laptops
      • AboutThisMac
    • Click ‘Done’ when finished
  • Click on ‘Install’ and watch ‘Installer Log’ go.
    • I usually skip the DVD verify because I did it once and I know the DVD is good.
    • You should do this atleast once.
  • Should take about 20-30 mins.
  • Push ‘Restart’ to reboot.

Start OSX first time

  • Let it boot up by itself
  • Go through the registration
    • You don’t have to enter ‘Apple ID’ information. Just click ‘Continue’.
  • Finally… up at the destop
  • I don’t want to send the registration, so I delete it
    • Drag ‘Send Registration’ to the trashcan.

Upgrade to 10.5.3

  • Must set ‘Hot Corner’ to ‘Sleep Display’
    • Go to Apple menu (the Apple icon on the top left corner)
    • Select ‘System Preferences’
    • Go to ‘Desktop & Screen Saver’
    • Select ‘Screen Saver’
    • Click ‘Hot Corners…’
    • Assign a ‘Sleep Display’ to a corner
  • Read Kalyway combo update 10.5.3 instructions
  • Install 1_Kalyway_UpdCombo10.5.3.pkg
    • Don’t reboot!!
  • Install 2_kalyway_10.5.3_kernel.pkg
    • Install vanilla kernel
      • I read somewhere if you use the modbin_kernel_9.3, it could cause problems. And since we’re going to use update to 10.5.4, it’ll just install the 9.4.0 kernel anyways.
  • Restart from the 1_Kalyway_UpdCombo10.5.3.pkg screen.
  • Let it boot up with boot option ‘update -f -v’
    • This will reboot by itself… let it
  • Boot up normally
  • If you see the blue screen then it goes blank, move the mouse to the corner you setup to ‘Sleep Display’, then move the mouse out of it.
    • Because it installed the Intel X3100 drivers, you will need to do this everytime you boot up. But atleast you will have have 1280×800 resolution.

Upgrade to 10.5.4

  • Install Apple update 10.5.4
  • Restart when finished.

Upgrade to 10.5.5

  • No! I’ve done this many times, and it doesn’t work with ComboUpdate or just Update from the Apple download. It will freeze and hang the installer. You have to hold the power button for a couple seconds to shut it down.
  • You can update to 10.5.5, you just need to run a command in terminal while updating.  Follow this step: http://ihackintosh.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-update-105x-to-1055-for-osx86.html

Dell Laptop Post Installer

  • Run the ‘Dell Laptop Post Installer’ application
  • Select what you want, but this is what I selected
    • Power Management
      • SpeedStep Enabler
      • Battery Meter
      • Lid Sleep

Sound still doesn’t work… sometimes

Update: I don’t have this setup anymore.  I use VMWare to install a retail version of OSX.  This is the best solution for me and I recommend this to anybody.

13 Responses to “Install Mac OSX Leopard on Dell M1330”

  1. jamie Says:

    Did you use any special BIOS settings? All the various disks I’ve burnt seem to crash on an IOPIC message.

  2. henry Says:

    I did turn on virtualization in the BIOS. Did you burn your disks at low speed? I don’t think I got an IOPIC problem before, did you mean IOAPIC?

  3. jamie Says:

    Thanks for your reply. I did mean IOAPIC, but I actually think it’s probably to do with the line that would come after it, ACPI. And it could be a problem with the burns, but it would a be a bit of a coincidence if all of the burns happened to stop on the same line. I eventually got Leo v2 to boot, but it failed about 2/3 of the way through the install :(

  4. henry Says:

    I remember getting IOAPIC errors with different installers too. The only way I got rid of that was booting with Leo4allV3 and with boot parameters “-v platform=X86PC”? Sometimes it won’t work on the first try, so I had to do it a couple times.

  5. jamie Says:

    Thanks, I finally managed to get v2 installed last night, thanks to your “try it again” trick, it always seems to boot on second go for some reason. Anyway, did any of your networking work? Apparently there aren’t (practical) drivers for either my wired nor wireless devices (Broadcom something and Intel 9465 respectively) which makes it pretty useless, I’ve ordered a Broadcom wireless card which should work apparently. Also some programs didn’t work, including terminal!

  6. henry Says:

    I actually abandoned putting OSX on the laptop. What I did instead is installed Ubuntu. From there I installed VirtualBox and I installed OSX in VirtualBox. It was definitely a lot easier and I have network support.

  7. JamesLaugesen Says:

    Hi Henry, did you use relatively the same process (as in this post) to install under virtualbox?

    As you’d know the VB community is a bit stand-off’ish about osx guests so google is having trouble finding good info for me :-)

    Cheers
    James

  8. henry Says:

    Hey James… I made a mistake, I acutally used VMWare, not VirtualBox. But the process is much simple than this post since I installed using a 10.5.5 disc.

  9. JamesLaugesen Says:

    Uuh ok that makes sense :-) Thanks for replying.
    I’m trying my luck with KVM/QEMU now.

    Cheers

  10. becu Says:

    first off, thank you. i followed your guide and installed successfully.

    i just upgraded to 10.5.3 and like you said i have to go to the corner every time, thats fine too, but can we get higher resolution? maybe 1440×1080? thanks.

    and are we still have to do that (sleep display thing) even if we upgrade to 10.5.5?

    Thanks again!

  11. tsaG Says:

    Hi, thanks for this walktrough!

    But I have a problem. Installation worked fine but when I started mac there was the b0 error, so I fixed it with fdisk. Now it starts and I see the welcome Screen. Then there is a Screen “Do you already own a Mac?” If I say [X] Do not transfer my information now and click on continue, the “Welcome” screen appears again. What did I do wrong? :( . I Installed all things that where shown in this walktrough (Under costumize etc).

  12. henry Says:

    Sorry, I don’t know. I don’t have this setup anymore, so I don’t know what could be wrong.

  13. tsaG Says:

    Made it, just forget to swap to the non mbr partition :>
    Does anyone know how to get the Geforce 8400M work with higher resolution? Atm there is just 1024×768 aviable.

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