Hello and questions regarding my notebook.

[Tristian1022]

Hello everyone here at InsanelyMac!

Quick bio on me:

Im young (less than 25), Im in the United States Air Force working as a C-130 loadmaster at Peterson AFB, and I absolutely love computers. I have been quite an active member of the jailbreaking community for iPhones and iPods, and have decided to take the next step short of buying a MacBook Pro, and i want to Hackintosh my Dell Notebook. I'm absolutely new to the idea of running Mac OS X as a standalone OS on a PC, so dont be afraid to treat me like the newb to this that i am. I can take the hazing

 

My notebook is a Dell Inspiron 17R series notebook.

 

Specs:

Intel CORE i5 processor (M450 @ 2.4GHz)

Intel Integrated HD Graphics Chipset

Realtek HD Audio

Intel 5 Series / 3400 Series Chipset

4Gb DDR3 RAM

500Gb SATA HDD

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

 

So far I kinda get the feeling that since my notebook is 64-bit, my chances of dual-booting OS X with Windows 7 is slim, but I still want to try.

The only thing i've attempted is to use iATKOS S3 v2 and a youtube video with the basics of using it, but so far it doesnt do anything other than flash some random stuff for a second and then restart my laptop.

 

Please give me some suggestions and feedback! Thanks!

[dothacker]

can you give a step by step of what you did, if possible.

 

did you choose a "Modified kernel" for your build? did you set the AHCI on BIOS? what about the format of the drive... MBR or GUID?

[Tristian1022]

Basically, i shrunk the Windows 7 installation of my HDD to leave an unallocated space of 25GB for the mac install on my HDD, and then I rebooted to boot off of the iATKOS s3 v2 DVD. At this point i got into Chamelion (sp?) boot screen, and i go into verbose boot, and then it fails and my laptop restarts and boots back into windows. i dont know about "modified kernel", and the youtube vid i was watching told me just to leave the drive partition alone until after chamelion boot. thats all i've done so far. Af for setting SATA to AHCI, yes i did that. But i havent been able to format the partition at at all because i cant even get to the point where it gives you those options.

 

I've been poking around on the forums here, and someone else with my same laptop has got Snow Leopard working, using a utility called [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to get an OS X retail DVD running on his notebook.

Heres the link to that thread:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=234159

 

Do you think thats worth a try? It sounds like he is going to use Mac OS X only, and i need dual-boot capabilities for work....

 

 

Update: I ran the iATKOS s3 v2 installer under safe mode and verbose boot so i could see where it was failing, and i got to this:

 

(loading bunches of kexts)

efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL trying stringdata

No SMBIOS found.

Patched DMI table.

 

then it just restarts....