OS X Leopard on your PC

Ok, here we go…. how would you like to run OS X on your pc? Don’t think it’s possible? Think again! I remember a few years ago I had tried this but the only way to make it work was with a virtual machine. I hadn’t thought much about it lately, kind of let the idea pass. I stubled across an updated story about a project that would allow you to run it on your pc without a virtual machine. I thought, hmmm, lets give this a shot. I didn’t really have high hopes because the supported hardware is limited. As of yesterday though, I now have OS X running on my pc.

CAUTION: I am not liable for you f&#king up your system by doing this. These instructions worked for me but may not work for you. So I would back up everything before I continued including my master boot record just in case something bad happens.

Step 1:

Before you waste any time go to the supported hardware list and just see if your hardware will be compatible: Link

Once you have decided to move forward, you need to get a copy of OS X Leopard. This can be found on the internet (Not going to go into details here) I used the Kalyway Leo DVD.

Ok, now you got your copy, you need to download the GParted Live CD.

Now you should burn both of these to disk. And for this guide I’m assuming you have XP Installed and want to dual boot OS X and Windows XP.

Step 2:

In XP open the command prompt(windows key + R) then type “cmd”(w/o qoutes) and type in “diskpart” (w/o the qoutes) into the command line.

Now type “select disk(0)”
Then “create partition primary id=af”
Next type “list partition”
Now you should see a list of partitions and the one you just created should be labled unknown or something along those lines.
Now you need to select the partition you just created by typing “select partition x” x being the number of the partition
Type “active” to make the new partition active. Close your command prompt.

Step 3:

Put your OS X DVD into your drive and reboot. Be sure you have your dvd drive first in the boot order in your bios.

When the dvd starts to boot and it says hit f8 for start-up options hit f8, then type -v and hit enter. It should start loading then.

After the installer loads up, hit the button on the welcome screen and then wait for the next screen to load. Once it has loaded you should see a menu across the top of your screen, select Utilities -> Disk Utility

After the disk utility has loaded select your hard drive from the left side, then select the new partition you created in windows.

If its not already then change the type to Mac OSX Journaled

Now click on erase and then click erase in the pop-up window

Once that is finished then close the Disk Utility and click continue on the screen. Once you get past the Liscense aggreement you should see another screen and a Customize button at the bottom. Click on customize now you need to go through all of the settings and read their descriptions by clicking on them. Select any that you think you may need to turn on. If you have an AMD Processor please pay attention to the AMD patch, patch 1 didn’t work for me so I used number 2.

Once you have finished that and closed the customize window now you can proceed. Click install and then select your partition from the next screen. I recomment letting it finish the media/dvd check that it starts doing just to be sure you dvd wrote correctly and there are no corrupted files.

The install may take a while depending on your hardware. At times it seems like the progress bar is not moving anymore, but it is. I would just leave it for about 20 min or so and come back.

Step 4:

Now that the install is done it probably rebooted on its own and when back to the installer depending on wether you stopped it before it done it on it’s own. Take the OS X dvd out and reboot with the GParted dvd in. Load up GParted and change the flag on your windows partition to active or boot. Now close out GParted and reboot. Hopefully if nothing went wrong you will be able to get back into windows now.

Step 5:

Now you need to download EasyBCD to edit the windows boot loader to include your MacOS X install.

Once you have downloaded and install EasyBCD, open it up and click on Add/Remove Entries.

Select the Mac tab from the bottow right side, the select generic x86 from the drop-down menu. Click Add Entry

Now just to be on the safe side select Diagnostics Center and select Repair OS X “HFS + Partition Error” and click Recovery. Now enter in the partition of your mac os x install(drive number and partition number).

Step 6:

Now reboot and you should see the boot loader come up with Mac OS X in the list. (In my case I select OSX and hit enter, then it shows up the darwin boot loader and i hit f8 and hit enter in order to boot, not sure what happened there)

If you have any issues with this guide leave a comment and I will try to assist you the best I can. Just understand that OS X is not meant to work on PC. So if it dont work then I’m sorry.

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