(At the time of writing, 10.5.4 is the latest version of Mac OS X)
I’ve done it, and I absolutely love it for more reasons than one. Now I’m going to show you how it’s done so you too can have your own Inspiron 1525 HackBook Pro. First, let’s look at the specs and see what we’re dealing with. I bought this laptop at Best Buy about a week ago now for $499.99. It was either on a fast sale or priced incorrectly because now the identical model with the same SKU and Best Buy # is showing up for $649.99 — same color and everything. You snooze, you lose.
On the outside is a rather unattractive and hard to keep clean jet black lid with silver trim. I’d say the only good thing about the exterior is the Dell logo. Opening it up reveals a very sexy, modern silver design, perfect key placement, a really attractive touchpad that looks like it’s built right into the case — very nice indeed. Touch senor media buttons with a nice blue light finish off a well-designed interior with a very modern feel. This thing was well thought out on the inside. One of the best I’ve seen from Dell.
Under the hood boasts a little bit older processor technology with a 533MHz FSB — Intel Pentium Dual Core. This is very similar to the new Celeron Dual Cores but don’t let it confuse you with the Pentium D — this CPU is actually rather nice. Although using the Pentium name, the Pentium Dual Core is based on the Core technology you’re already familar with on your Core Duo and Core2 Duo Macs. While the battery doesn’t last quite as long as a similar Core2 Duo (Centrino), this 1.87GHz packs a punch and unlike all you other dual core users, I don’t have to boot with cpus=1 — that’s right! This HackBook Pro is using both cores and it’s putting out some power with Mac OS X.
Let’s go over the fine details:
- Dell Inspiron 1525
- (Best Buy Model: I1525-121B / SKU: 8878002)
- Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.87 GHz
- 15.4″ Glossy XGA HD Widescreen LCD (1280 x 800)
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Like MacBook, MacBook Air!)
- 2 GB DDR2 Memory (Up To 4 GB!)
- 160 GB SATA Hard Drive (5200 RPM)
- Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW w/ Label Support
- 16×4x16 DVD+RW; 8×4x16 DVD-RW; 40×24x40 CD-RW
- Built-in 10/100 Ethernet, 56K Dial-up Modem, Dell 1395 Wi-Fi
- USB 2.0, Firewire, ExpressCard/54, Lithium-ion Battery, Card Reader, etc.
There are a couple things I’m going to end up doing to this laptop over time, including upgrading to a larger, faster SATA hard drive and maxing out the 4 GB supported memory. A few really attractive points of this system is not in the hardware, but in the drivers and support for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.4). The wireless card is recognized and used as AirPort and the battery management works. Those are two huge pluses for those of you who have “half-supported” laptops running jury-rigged applications to connect to your wireless network or preserve your battery life. Oh, and did I mention that you don’t need ANY graphics drivers? That’s right, this model is fully supported with Quartz Extreme and Core Image!
Of course, getting your new Inspiron to run just like mine is going to take a bit of work, including downloading the ususal files from the usual places like a certain bay of thieves or the little green monster, but once you’ve burned everything to a single layer DVD, you’ll be up and running in under an hour! I highly suggest to any “noobs” that you don’t attempt to dual boot just yet. Let’s start with a full hard drive, no partitions, no “bull.”
1] Start by doing some downloading on a working computer that is connected to the Internet. You’re going to need a DVD burner, a fast Internet connection, and some Googling skills to find everything you need. Lucky for you, I’m going to provide all the difficult stuff to find — the drivers and hacks that are going to give your laptop the extras you need. First, download “Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Kalyway” (AMD/Intel) installation DVD. It should be around 3 to 4 GB. Next, download the “Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 Kalyway Combo Update” which should be around 500 to 600 MB. Go ahead and burn them to separate discs using Disk Utility if you’re already on a Mac, or PowerISO if you’re on Windows. If you use Windows a lot, PowerISO is one of those few programs I’d actually purchase. It’s that good. I suggest burning everything at 8X or slower to ensure it’s 100%.
2] Insert your newly burned 10.5.2 Kalyway Installation DVD into your laptop and boot from it. I assume you still have Windows Vista pre-loaded, which is fine. We’re going to delete all that crap. It’s going to take a while for the installation screen to load and you’re going to be flooded with a ton of text lines, even some errors, as the DVD probes and pokes around your hardware. Once the screen loads, you’ll notice your keyboard and touchpad instantly work out of the box. The first thing you want to do is click on Tools in the menu bar and select Disk Utility. Once this loads (give it a minute), select your hard drive (160.0 GB ….) by clicking on it, and then click on the Erase tab. Select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for Volume Format and for Name type “Macintosh HD” then click “Erase …” Give it a few minutes to rid all instances of Bill Gates and you’ll see your new “Macintosh HD” appear. Once that has completed, exit out of Disk Utility and continue the installation by going through the on-screen instructions. You may want to click “Customize” before you go through actually installing Mac OS X as Kalyway has included a lot of extras that might appeal to you. Be careful not to select the wrong items, like things that don’t pretain to your hardware or you’re going to end up screwing yourself later. I got you covered, don’t I? After your installation is complete, it’s going to reboot your computer.
3] This is where the fun begins! Take out your installation disc and reboot. When you get to the Darwin boot loader screen, hit F8 to enter some boot flags. Type -v -f and hit enter. After a ton of scrolling text, your screen will black out as if it’s asleep. Don’t panic! You want your computer to sleep. When you see the screen go black and activity slow down on your CPU light, unplug your inspiron from the power cable and close the lid. Come back to it in about 15 minutes when it has fallen asleep and wake it up by moving your finger around on the touchpad. Welcome to the post-installation. Go ahead and opt out of transfering files from another Mac, and also select that you don’t have an Internet connection. Keep clicking and you’ll be asked to enter your personal information. Keep clicking! You’ll soon be presented with the desktop — sexy, huh? Now there’s something you need to do ASAP or else you’ll be waiting for this computer to fall asleep every time you reboot.
4] Before you start drooling and examining your Mac-powered laptop, click on the Apple and go to System Prefernces. Click on “Expose & Spaces” and then click the “Expose” button. On one of the Active Screen Corners select “Sleep Display.” I chose the lower left-hand corner. Go ahead and exit out of that and reboot. When the screen goes blank, move your finger down towards the corner you selected. It may take a few imaginary strokes since you can’t see the mouse pointer. After a few tries you’ll master it and your screen will appear — ta da. Now, one thing I did notice that few people report (Maybe it’s just me?), with the “sleep trick” being used, sometimes the desktop icons become unclickable or hidden. Although this is a pain in the ass, it only takes a moment. After you boot up and do the sleep trick with the touchpad, go ahead and log out of your user account and log back in. This ensures everything’s 100% with your session. The only downside to the sleep trick is it requires you to leave Auto Login going. There’s a work around for this to put the display to sleep at the Login screen but I’m not going to go there yet.
UPDATE! Want this sleep trick to happen automatically and be able to see the Login screen? Click here!
5] Now it’s time to pop in your other DVD — the Combo Update. Go ahead and drag it all to the desktop and install it. Before we get busy with it, let’s make a copy of our current kernel for safe keeping in case you fuck something up. Open up Terminal (use Spotlight if you’re not sure where to find it) and type sudo su - to get a root session. Root is like the Administrator account on Microsoft Windows. If you screw up as root, you’re done. After su’ing to root, type cp /mach_kernel /mach_kernel_bkup1052 to make a copy of your existing kernel that you can use to boot up with later if you need to. It’s always good to have a backup plan, right? Install the Combo Update but don’t reboot. It’s going to ask you to but keep that window open! With that window still visable, go ahead and install the kernel package. Once that has installed successfully, hit reboot on your other window and hang on for the ride.
6] Boom. Now you’re running Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard. But that’s not the latest version. Lucky for you, the next round of upgrades to get to 10.5.4 are going to come from Software Update. That’s right, directly from Apple like a real Mac! But not just yet. First, we have to get this laptop online. This is where I come in. Click on one of the links below to download my Inspiron 1525 Mac Drivers Pack. A lot of this stuff may/will work on other Inspiron models but I only guarantee it’ll work on my exact model (see above). Go ahead and grab my pack, although I only take credit for making all this stuff easily accessible, I didn’t create any of these tools, just modified them to work with this laptop (if applicable).
7] After you download and unzip the pack, take a look inside. Now open up a Terminal window and find the directory on your desktop, or where ever you downloaded the ZIP to. Go inside Broadcom-Script and type sudo su – ; chmod +x bcm43xx_enabler.sh ; ./bcm43xx_enabler.sh to run the installer. Don’t worry, I’ve added the correct values for our internal Dell 1395 Wi-Fi. Once that runs, close Terminal and open up Disk Utility. Repair disk permissions just in case and then reboot your computer. AirPort should appear on your menu bar and you’ll be able to find your wireless network and get online.
8] Go ahead and use Software Update to download everything. When you reboot, since you’re upgrading to 10.5.4, you’ll have to run the Broadcom-Script again like we did above. Once you’ve upgraded to 10.5.4 successfully and re-applied the Wi-Fi drivers, fixed permissions, etc., connect back to your wireless network. Now it’s time to get audio working. Use my supplied 1525 Codec file and fire up crazy green frog (AppleHDAPatcher_v1.16). Drag the 1525_Codec.txt file into the window and let it work its magic. Repair permissions again just to be safe and reboot. Now you’ll notice sound works and you don’t have to keep re-applying the Broadcom-Script patch.
9] At this point I assume you’ve learned enough or done enough reading elsewhere to know how to install kexts. Unzip PowerManagement_137_1.bundle.tar.gz and install the PowerManagement.bundle. Repair permissions, delete kext cache and all that fun stuff. Now reboot again. You should see your battery meter come to life on your menu bar. Keep the settings set to ‘Custom’ if you want it to continue to function. I set mine to Percentage.
10] If you’re like me, you want to be able to “tap” the touchpad to click, and scroll with a finger, etc. For this we use the install.sh script inside of ApplePS2Trackpad. Once that’s up and running, go into System Preferences and you’ll find a Trackpad tab within the Keyboard & Mouse window. Play around with the settings. Sometimes you may have to set it to what appears to be really low (slow) in order to get the speed just right. It’s a little funky, but you’ll find a setting that you can enjoy. Scrolling is a bit more than hit and miss as it doesn’t work REALLY well but it’s still useful to some. I’ve disabled it.
There are some loose ends, but I’m going to leave that up to you. The wired (Ethernet) will work using a quick patch that you can find by searching the InsanelyMac forums. Sleep will wake up properly with a different kernel. You’re welcome to replace your Dock with a darker, more attractive theme like I have included in the Midnight Dock directory. I suggest saving my Drivers Pack and stashing it somewhere, for when the next upgrade to Mac OS X comes out, you may end up re-applying some things again.
All in all, it’s a lot cheaper than spending $1,000 on a MacBook, or even $2,000 on a MacBook Pro. And it’s a lot more fun! I would put my current Mac-powered Inspiron at around the level of a MacBook Air at a fraction of the cost (And a bit less “Airy” since it’s pretty heavy). Unlike you crazy mobile gurus, I don’t carry around a full-sized laptop like it’s Palm Pilot. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll respond within 24 hours in most cases. Good luck!
UPDATE!
Once you upgrade to 10.5.4, if you’re having issues getting the battery meter to display in your menu bar, you may be missing some files. Download my AppleACPIPlatform.kext, move yours somewhere safe as a backup (/System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext), pop mine in, repair permissions, kext cache, and all that fun stuff (Or use Kext Helper), reboot and check out your Energy settings in System Preferences now. Boom!
UPDATE!
Need S3 (Hibernation) Sleep on 10.5.4? Tired of putting your HackBook Pro to bed, only to find out it won’t wake up? Open Terminal and type sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 hibernatefile /dev/null then click Apple, Sleep. Wait for it to snooze and the fan to turn off. Now lightly hit your power button and it should crank back up, find your wireless network again, etc. If it doesn’t hold after a reboot, throw it in /etc/rc.common (Or /etc/rc.local if you’ve found that to work). Report your success here!
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Sounds like you got a bad burn. Reburn the Install DVD at 4X or slower using Imgburn in Windows and Toast 10 in OS X.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 AM
when i go to install the cd it works fine but then once its at like 2% is says could not install volumes/macosx baseband or something like that does aanyone no what that is and how to get rid off ir or bypass it
June 27th, 2009 at 11:03 PM
I don’t believe so. It can easily be done in Windows and probably Linux, just not OS X yet on our laptops.
June 27th, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Thanks @Thomas, So theres no other way?
June 27th, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Currently the only Video Out port working is the VGA port. That being said, it might not work entirely in OS X because you have to set it up from your Laptop Screen.
June 27th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Extreme Help Needed!
I was on vacation and my dell inspiron 1525 screen crack/broke. I didn’t really worry to much about the damage because I juss knew I could use the S-Video port |O| port now.
I removed the screen and top part of the laptop,
I have it hooked up to an old dell dimensions CRT monitor.
Every time I install the Kalyway 10.5.2 Disc.
I have the chance to install everything but after everything is installed the monitor shuts off and I’ve waited 15mins to wake up but it juss doesn’t work.
Can anybody tell me anything to help me I’ve tired everything.
I’m running windows 7 right now and its cool but I need my Hackintosh back ASAP!
I thought about buying a LCD or juss getting the screen replaced but I would like to see if theres a way around this first.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Well. Still not working.
This is what happens:
london-burdens-macpro31:~ londonburden$ sudo su -; chmod +x bcm43xx_enabler.sh ; /Users/londonburden/Documents/Dell/Broadcom-Script/bcm43xx_enabler.sh
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your typing whenusing sudo. Type “man sudo” for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
chmod: bcm43xx_enabler.sh: No such file or directory
You need to have root-privelages!
To run this script, simply type ’sudo /Users/londonburden/Documents/Dell/Broadcom-Script/bcm43xx_enabler.sh’ and enter your password
london-burdens-macpro31:~ londonburden$
the thing is — we haven’t set a password. Is this a problem? How do we set it up…? I’m really, really confused.
And yes, we tried typing sudo su, then enter, didn’t enter a password, since we hadn’t made one — and then dragged in the script and pressed enter.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:46 AM
Ducky- You are over complicating this step. All you have to do is type “sudo su” w/o quotes, type your password, hit enter, and then drag and drop the script onto terinal and hit enter.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Okay. So after extracting bcm43xx_enabler.sh to the desktop, my friend opened Terminal and typed in
sudo su – /Users/(her user name)/Desktop/bcm43xx_enabler.sh
and it gave the standard warning about using sudo, and asked to confirm password (which she did — none) and it did not then offer any further prompts but instead provided “(firstname-lastname)-Macpro31:~ username$
What are we doing wrong? We’ve attempted to do this per 3 different people’s advice/guides with slight variations and none have worked. Please help?
Any help would be appreciated.
Anyone have some very, very specific directions as to how to execute this step? Clearly we’re terminal n00bs who are doing something wrong, but we can’t figure out what exactly we’re doing. If anyone understands what the guide is asking, and could possibly hand-feed us every little possible baby inbetween step that would be obvious to anyone who knew what on earth they were dealing with…? Screencaps aren’t even necessary — just exact instructions on what to do, since clearly we’re missing something and trying to run the program incorrectly in Terminal.
(If you want to email us — go ahead and do it at suzume.tori [AT] gmail.com )
June 18th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
London- Try booting with “-f -v -x” w/o quotes and see if you are able to get in to the system. Also, CD’s and DVD’s are not a very good option for making backups. Go to http://www.dailyblogged.com/631/backing-up-your-data-the-where-why-and-how/ to get a complete guide on backing up your data in OS X.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Hi! I’ve the same version of the Inspiron as you and I’d gotten to the point where I uploaded the kernals and restarted–now I’m getting the following error:
“Failed to load extensions com.orByte.driver.PCGenUSBEHCI.”
The disk I used to backup the original kernals isn’t functioning, it apparently didn’t burn right, so I’m not sure what I can do at this point to fix it. Help please? /meek
Thanks!
June 10th, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Thx Thomas.
Understand that Inspiron 1525 shall be run just fine with “iPC Universal PPF5″.
:) After long war – approx 7 reinstals (user errors :))) of Kalyway to work fine (but without USB, TrackPad work in the end), now I’m going to kill him again and test iPC :)
To the test zone… Thx again!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Chiaeru- To avoid the whole slew of problem you seem to be facing and you will most likely face in the future, I recommend you do a clean install with iPC Universal PPF5 and then use the guide on this site to upgrade to 10.5.7.
June 9th, 2009 at 5:35 PM
istalled 10.5.3 on Inspiron 1525 (2Ghz, 2Gb DDR, 250Gb HDD version)
- run OK, with WiFi and Sound.
- didn’t work TrackPad and USB devices.
Other kernel update will freeze the sistem (at this time, Software Update want to install 10.5.7 – skip it). tested few time. so keep on 10.5.3
Conclusion:
Only major issue is with USB. can’t use any USB drive/stick, card reader or else.
Any solution?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Sorry my fault I should look for that before
June 7th, 2009 at 8:00 PM
wadziu- Don’t bother looking around the site before asking questions that have already been answered numerous times.
http://www.dailyblogged.com/593/working-ethernet-for-all/
June 7th, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Hey,
After installation I my OS X does not wee Ethernet card and CD/DVD drive, does anywone has cure for that, any clues ?
June 4th, 2009 at 2:35 PM
R.R.Hussain- If you just installed 10.5.2 then instead of troubleshooting issues and having to upgrade, download a newer isntall disc such as iPC Universal PPF5 10.5.6 or XxX 10.5.6.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:58 AM
Dear sir i install mac x 10.5.2 in DELL INSPIRON 1525 my USB not working
please tell me what is the problem and how i can fix it thankyou
i m waiting of your value able answer,
Thank you
R.R.Hussain
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 AM
hi richard this is a great tutorial you made for inspiron 1525 and it helped me alot even though i used iAtkos 5i. i just wanted to know how the midnight dock thing worked because i didn’t understand the instructions provided in there.
and also everything is working except playing avi files and other video files on it. youtube works fine but i think its a video problem b/c im using vlc and it should work fine but no video appears only sound. so please help me out if u can
thanks and i really appreciate it
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 PM
hey i need to know if the Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset is the samething or if it is related to Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100???
June 1st, 2009 at 5:06 PM
The screen you are seeing is a Kernel Panic. You were supposed to update the kernel to 9.3 when installing but if I remember correctly, when upgrading from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4 you need to boot with update -v or something of the sort. Regardless, I suggest you backup your computer and then install 10.5.7, the latest version of windows. http://www.dailyblogged.com/960/os-x-1057-installation-guide/
June 1st, 2009 at 11:25 AM
When I try to update from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4 using the software update, the reboot just leads me to an error screen which tells me to reboot, what went wrong? Was I not supposed to update the kernal to 9.3 when I did the combo update. And why you do the combo update, you only select the bottom kernal, the not-vanilla one, correct?
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Ben- Open terminal, type “sudo su” w/o quotes and hit enter, type your password, and then hit enter. Then, drag the install script into the terminal and hit enter.
Follow the prompts and when it finishes, go to Disk Utility and then Repair Permissions. Then reboot and it should work.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:52 AM
I can’t the internet working. I have sound but I can’t get the WiFi working. I tried typing what you said to but it said that the command didn’t exist. I have also dragged the bcm43xx_enabled.sh into the terminal window and got it to work that way, but when I reboot nothing has changed and there is no internet.
May 11th, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Well you can always install OS X on your laptop but the hardware will most likely all be different. We specialize in the Inspiron 1525 so we won’t really be able to help that much.
May 11th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Hi, I’d like to know if this works in a inspiron 1420 and how to install.
May 9th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Frizkie, I saw you say that you finally got QE/CI support on your 1680×1050 resolution. Do you mind sharing how you got it so the next guy asking that question can receive a quick answer.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:27 AM
I’ll continue talking about this on the iPC blog comments.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I was trying to follow this tutorial from this comment:
http://macyourpc.com/2009/03/10/dell-inspiron-1525-hackintosh-ipc-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-15
But when I boot using -s it just goes to sleep like it always does and doesn’t give me a prompt to type things in.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:18 PM
You don’t have to although it is strongly advised.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Tried those before, no luck. Do I have to repair disk permissions after I install kexts every time?
May 8th, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Frizkie- I want you to install the kexts at http://www.dailyblogged.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ci-kexts.zip and see what they do for you. I honestly have never heard the Inspiron 1525 of having a 1680×1050 resolution before.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:55 PM
OK. I can get everything installed, but when I apply the x3100 kexts after install I can’t get past the black screen. I can’t find any good kexts! I’m on a 1680×1050 screen. Before installing the video kexts I can get 1680×1050 resolution but my cursor is a jumbled mess and I don’t have QE/CI on any resolution.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:14 AM
For anyone following this and possibly has the same issue, I suggested that you install a different Kernel and it fixed your issue.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:38 AM
I can’t seem to burn the folder ‘.HFS+ Private Directory Data’ on the Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO/HFS+ hybrid image. I’ve already wasted a 2 DVDs…
May 7th, 2009 at 9:55 PM
I got it all on a DVD and used this tutorial:
http://macyourpc.com/2009/03/10/dell-inspiron-1525-hackintosh-ipc-guide/
Unfortunately, like before, I can’t get past the wake up screen. I stick at the black screen. I’ve tried:
-v -f
-v -f -x
-v -f -s
-s
No luck. Any tips?
I don’t have the x3100 drivers checked on install.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Hey if you want an easy way to install the broadcom patch. I have it in an installer package.
http://macyourpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/broadcom.zip
May 7th, 2009 at 9:01 PM
OK I’ve got all the customize options set according to this tutorial:
http://macyourpc.com/2009/03/10/dell-inspiron-1525-hackintosh-ipc-guide/#more-29
And when I reboot I get a black screen after waking from sleep. I’ve tried all these options:
-v -f
-s
-v -f -x
-v -f -s
Nothing is getting me to the post-install screen.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:35 PM
hey man, i tried to add u in AIM but ur name that u posted not there
( TomPic823 ), so here is my mail ( WhYSoOoSerious07@aim.com or WhY.SoOo.Serious@hotmail.com )
i did reinstall leopard & when i got to the point restart and remove the dvd i hit f8 and typed -v -f and a black screen poped up then i closed the lid and when it went to sleep , i opened the lid up and bam
my laptop freezed
May 7th, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Zishan- Open terminal and then type “sudo su”. Enter your password and hit enter. Then drag the broadcam script to the window and hit enter.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:30 PM
At this current point in time, are you able to boot into Leopard and get to your desktop? If not then what are you able to get to? Also I forget your Screenname for AIM so send me an IM and I can give you quicker support because it seems you have quite a few issues. In case you forgot mine is TomPic823. Anyone else besides for WhY.SoOo.Serious that is reading this is welcome to IM me if they have an issue and need instant support.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I did it with Gparted live cd& it worked
i installed leopard and the first moment i am in leopard i installed chameleon bootloader and then restart
i tried to patch DSDT.aml but the file isn’t in the partition
the bootloader freezes couple of time when i tried the sleep trick
finally i logged back to leopard and nothin, if i hit restart, it won’t
i just hold down the power botton
So now i am in vista & waitin 4 ur help
May 7th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I think Windows will automatically create the fourth partition as a login one. Create it in Gparted Live and that will fix it.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:06 PM
it is still logic partition
i did delete twice till i got the black tab ( unallocated space )
I created new one, and nothin still logic
May 7th, 2009 at 2:44 PM
WhY.SoOo.Serious- Using Disk Management within Windows, you need to delete the partition. Once its deleted, you then need to right-click on the deleted partition and you will see the option to delete it again. This will then change it to a primary partition so that you can make the new partition. And I do not want you to reinstall MediaDirect.
Frizkie- You will be able to use Software Update to get all the patches (if you are on 10.5.6 then all current updates to date are safe to install). The airport patches will just require you to reinstall the Broadcom script and then it will work again. As for 10.5.7, because it hasn’t been released I cannot guarantee anything yet because no one knows if you can simply upgrade with it or if a clean install is required.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:57 AM
I deleted the Media Direct partition ( Was around 2.5 giga& primary )
I deleted the leopard partition, and i created a new one out of the unallocated space, the problem is the partition is logical not primary, i tried to create a primary one but i couldn’t ( maybe i don’t know the right way )
Now i am havin 4 partition as follow
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6361/97373292.jpg
3 primary& 1 logic
How to convert it to Primary?
P.S I used to have 4 primary partition as i mentioned before and u were
Confused about it, So help PLz
May 7th, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Checking back in. I got some better torrent speeds, burning my DVD right now. I’ll install ‘er in the afternoon, and check back up with any problems. Just wondering, because iPC is 10.5.6, can I use software update to get the rest of the patches like 10.5.7 and so on?
Thanks
Frizkie
May 7th, 2009 at 8:43 AM
I suggest you delete the media direct partition, temporarily shrink the windows partition to expand the deleted mediadirect partition, boot into OS X to clone your install to the new partition, delete the extended partition, expand the OS X partition with the space from the deleted extended partition, and then shrink the OS X partition to give the space that you took away back to windows.
i can simply delete the media direct partition, delete the mac partition, and create one primary partition out if them…Mediadirect boot button is already messed up( when i hit it, it says boot error)
actually i don’t use media direct( i think it isn’t that awesome)
so what do u think?
and even i follow ur way, u mentioned that in the last step to give the windows back it’s space and to have a media direct partition again, right?
i can’t do that cuz once i delete the MD partition, i have to reinstall form the dvd that shipped with the laptop which will reformat and repartition the whole Hard Disk.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:22 AM
You can’t set the partition active because it is an extended partition. NEVER INSTALL AN OPERATING SYSTEM AS AN EXTENDED PARTITION. So that you do not have to reinstall OS X to move it to a primary partition, I suggest you delete the media direct partition, temporarily shrink the windows partition to expand the deleted mediadirect partition, boot into OS X to clone your install to the new partition, delete the extended partition, expand the OS X partition with the space from the deleted extended partition, and then shrink the OS X partition to give the space that you took away back to windows