Requirements
1. USB Flash Drive (8GB above) or external drive and Mac Computer or Hackintosh also considerable and your toy Dell 1525.
2. Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10A432) 10.6 Retail. You can buy from apple store or you can download utorrent and install then download from here.
3. Download this Dell 1525 Snow Essential. Place to your mac desktop.
NEXT STEP REQUIRES A MAC OR HACKINTOSH...
1. Restore installer to USB flash drive. If u dont know how to restore u can refer my previous post. carbon cloner also recommended to clone the installer, its free. Name it your USB flash drive as Snow.
2. Open Dell 1525 Snow Essential. Inject Chameleon 2 RC3 bootloader by installing to USB Drive Snow.
3. Copy All files under folder “Boot/Extra” to Folder Extra on USB Drive Snow.To make installer recognized the MBR partition, we have to replace original OSinstall file with cracked version.
1. Open terminal type “sudo su” and insert password. copy following to terminal and press enter. It will show all hidden files on your mac.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
killall Finder
2. Replace “OSInstall” file on USB Snow. read instruction inside OSInstall folder.
3. Copy “boot” file inside Boot folder and replace to USB Drive Snow directory. “boot” file inside USB Snow is hidden. u cant just replace the files by drag and drop. the simple trick without using terminal is
- Move to Trash “boot” file inside USB drive snow directory.
- Drag “boot” file inside boot folder Dell 1525 Snow Essential to USB drive Snow directory
Thats it. Now your hacked version snow leopard is ready.
Installation on Dell 1525
1. Boot press F2. Disable all boot sequence. save and exit.
2. Boot press F12 and select USB Flash drive and press enter. Chameleon bootloader will come up. Select USB Snow type -v -x and enter. This -x(safe mode) flag is important. i had failed many times to load the installation screen only because without -x
.
3. Once your installation screen appear. do as usual. go disk utility to format partition to Mac OS Extended Journal and name it as u like. Close and Next
4. select your partition to install. this time if u are using MBR partition u are lucky no alert error will appear anymore. click customize if u want to save space, otherwise just click install. it will takes around 15minutes. after finish installation
5. restart. press F12 and once again select USB partition and chameleon shown up. Select partition installed OSX. type -v -x. after booted up Setup your information data.
Post-Install: Credits for this part go to Macyourpc.com
Step 1:
restart again, press F12 and once again select USB partition and chameleon shown up. Select partition installed OSX. type -v -x.
Step 2: Once the system loads, connect to a wireless network and Download SnowBoot v1.1.iso and burn it to a CD using Burn, which you can get from here.
Step 3: Download Mac OS X 10.6.6 by clicking the following link and proceed to install it. Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update. Once you’ve done that you must restart and boot into the partition by
pressing “F12″ and boot from the Boot-132 (SnowBoot CD) disc, this time select the Macintosh HD partition and again boot
by pressing enter. If it fails restart the computer again and this time push the space bar and boot with -v -x.
Step 4: Now that you’ve booted into your partition open “My Boot CD” from the desktop. Navigate to the Post-Intall folder located in “My Boot CD/Extra/Post-Install” and double-click “Chameleon 2 RC3″ After this go back to the Post-Install folder and highlight “Extra” and copy the folder.. After you have copied “Extra” from the Post-Install folder open up your “Macintosh HD” and paste “Extra” by right-clicking and pressing Paste Item.
Step 5: Now Open up the Applications folder from the Post-Install folder and open “Kext Helper” now go to “Local Extensions” and Kext Helper all the files in there.
Step 6: Navigate back to the “Post-Install” folder and double-click the “10.6.2 – AppleHDA Installer” and follow the prompt.
Step 7: Go to “System Preferences” click “Security” then click the little lock in the bottom corner. Now uncheck “Use secure virtual memory.”
Step 8: Open up Terminal Located in “Applications/Utilities” and run the following commands one by one:
sudo -s
pmset -a hibernatemode 0
rm /private/var/vm/sleepimage
mkdir /BackupPreferencePanes
cp -R /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Trackpad.prefPane /BackupPreferencePanes
rm -rf /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Trackpad.prefPane
cp -R /Volumes/My\ Boot\ CD/Extra/Post-Install/PrefPane/Trackpad.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
Step 9: Restart and at this point you should be all done and updated to Snow Leopard 10.6.6.
Step 10: Now from your new hackintosh, download the Snow Leopard 10.6.7 update from http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1363 install and reboot.
Step 11: From the Chameleon boot loader screen, press space and boot with pmVerison=21 and press enter.
Step 12: Go to System/Library/Extensions and find SleepEnabler.kext and then delete it.
Step 13: Open com.apple.Boot.plist found in /Extra/.
2. Under <Kernel Flags> Change pmVersion=20 to pmVersion=21 and add arch=i386 then save the file. (See example kernel flags here)