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Mac OSX — On HP Pavilion dv5-1235ee

I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for really long time on my desktops and servers, however, I have never used Mac OS X as my desktop. So, last night, I initiated the project of installing Mac OSX Leopard on my HP Laptop.
Last night, I tried installing iDeneb v1.4 image on my laptop.
First, The CD booted successfully, and it installed successfully, but I couldn’t boot the laptop after the install. It just kept on restarting. (Hmm, I don’t read manuals or instructions, so I missed that I have to use the Voodoo Kernel or use the AMD Patch).
However, after few installs, I got it booting, however, I never got to the GUI. After searching and reading here and there, I found out that the ATI driver was causing this issue. So, I reinstalled with a bit of a clean install, not much patches, only AMD patches stuff.
And I was happy to have Mac OSX booting on my laptop.

Summary of the install:

Voodoo Kernel
Seat-belt patch for DMG Images causing AMD to crash

Hardware Status:

USB Works
Web Cam Works
ATI Video Card: Doesn’t work
Sound Card: Doesn’t work, I need to install the driver
WiFi: Doesn’t work, I need to install the driver
Ethernet: works!!

Uncategorized | Ali | March 12, 2009 3:15 pm

12 Comments

By george, May 16, 2009 @ 7:08 am

so u practically clicked only these stuff and worked? anything else?
By Ali, May 16, 2009 @ 11:13 am

That’s right! Nothing else shall be done!
By Mohamed, June 6, 2009 @ 11:06 pm

Mr. Ali hope you are fine,
is that means that I can install Mac OSX Leopard on my hp PC??? if yes what patches I need to install it knowing that I’m using windows vista as mt default OS….
Thanks in advance
By Ali, June 7, 2009 @ 1:47 pm

Somehow Yes, you can, but as I have written in my posts, not everything works… You can read more about this in http://www.osx86project.org/
By iXMB, June 18, 2009 @ 8:44 am

Hi Ali, im Victor, i have a DV5 too, i install OSX and my Ati and sound doesn’t work too, if you find the drivers please write it on your blog.

P.S. sorry for my bad school english xD
By Ali, July 6, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

Hi Victor,

I haven’t found any solution for the ATI yet… As for the sound driver, I remember I got it fixed by installing the IDT kext files.
By Fernando, August 23, 2009 @ 7:27 am

How do you avoid the “waiting for root device…” ??
By Ali, September 8, 2009 @ 2:57 pm

Are you using IDE DVD Drive? If so, switch to a USB External Drive.
By dhany, October 21, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

hi sir,i got dmg file with size 6,8 giga..i hav hp laptop,..so how to burn this image in 2 dvd ??or i hav to convert 1st to iso then il burn it?or directly to burn..
thanks
By Ali, October 25, 2009 @ 10:19 am

You need to burn it to a dual layer DVD using a dual layer writer. Otherwise, get the separated images.
By Jeton, April 9, 2011 @ 12:51 am

Hello all! i have problem so my PC, and i cant installit OSX in my PC HP Pavilon m9242.ch
By Brijan, June 29, 2011 @ 8:11 pm

Hello Ali

I have the same Pavilion notebook with me . I was wondering how was your laptop running .

Mine is running fine with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 .