Monday 20 January 2014

Installation guides/ideas of hackintosh on thinkpad (e.g. OS X 10.6 on t400s)

This article captured idea from this article;
forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=111976

Which cites;
http://www.tonymacx86.com/374-unibeast-install-os-x-mavericks-any-supported-intel-based-pc.html

Where step-by-step guide is provided;
tonymacx86.blogspot.ca/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

------------------------------------------------workaround
linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=1072.0
on ubuntu 10.04 lucid / 12.04.3 LTS / 13.10 with gparted, hfsplus hfsutils hfsprogs dmg2img

1. burn dmg imagefile from retail cd on USB
$dmg2img snowleopard.dmg snowleopard.img
$hexdump -C snowleopard.img | grep "48 2b 00 04"
(convert 00000400_hex into decimal = 1024, then subtract 1024 from this decimal number to calculate offset, which is 000000 in this case) 
$sudo losetup -o 000000 /dev/loop0 snowleopard.img
$sudo mkdir /media/userID/test
$sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/loop0 /media/userID/test/

prepare a 8GB+ usb drive, format using gparted, give MBR scheme, give 8GB partition for image formatted as hfs+, mount at /media/userID/imgTarget/

$sudo cp -r /media/userID/test/* /media/userID/imgTarget/
Fix /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
kernel flags string to : rdisk0s1 (1st disk, 1st slice)

2. installation
a. burn iBoot image on CD, or on USB using multiboot (not verified)
b. boot iBoot with imgTarget usb plugged in
c. choose 'mac' and boot from it
d. once booted, run diskutil from Utilities-Disk Utility
e. partition hard drive to GUID Partition Table
f. format a target partition to Mac OS Extended
 

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