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Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Henry — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:08:56 -0000

I did by pressing F2 and then placing my DVD drive before HD. It still takes me to windows. Any other suggestions?

Thank you.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

krunker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:18:10 -0000

@Henry - did you change the boot order within the BIOS to boot from your DVD drive instead? That's probably what's happening and why you're booting from your Windows boot drive instead of the DVD.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Henry — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:10:45 -0000

Hi,

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial. Unfortunately, whenever i try to boot from DVD drive it starts the windows. Can you please help? Right now I am running Windows Vista. Thank you.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

imatt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:51:12 -0000

When performing the install and using the Disk Utility to create the partitions. That is where you can choose a name for it.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Ryan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:09:12 -0000

Cannot get into the dbroot after this step
“cd /Volumes/<name of your disk volume>/var/db”
it just stays in the :volumes root#

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Lee — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:36:57 -0000

Cool, can you send the link to download MSIwindosx.iso Please.
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Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

closingm2 — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:18:04 -0000

Am asking this once again..I don't understand what to put in for the name of your disk volume. Where did you get S10?
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Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

doomble — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:13:22 -0000

thanks for your information because i am very interested with lenovo notebook

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Kim — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:04:54 -0000

I need some help, and i was wondering if any of you had experienced a similar problem. I have an S10 that dual boots in XP and Tiger. The other night i shut it down and in the morning it would not power up. The only light that even comes on is the battery charging light when the AC adaptor is plugged in.

Of course, lenovo won't touch it for warranty work because i upgraded the hard drive to a 320 GB. Has anyone else heard of these laptops having this problem? I don't think it has anything to do with the OS X hack, but i'm open to any suggestions.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

OSXUser — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:04:59 -0000

Hi,

first, I have a retail version. After I have tried the iso I got my Lenovo running. Ok the hardware doesn't fully work, but this isn't my problem. I can only boot with the DVD inserted. Thus I assume the bootloader isnt installed correctly.

Sympthoms: The welcome wizard didn't came up. I was forwarded directly into the installed OSX (admin).
I have simply touched the .AppleSetupDone, because the file system was mounted rw.

I tried to fix the bootloader with the OSx86 tools to create a bootable flash disk, because I was not able to do the same on
the active OSX partition. I miss the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist on that flashdisk, as the boot messages does tell me.

First question: The file on my Mac OS X (PPC) looks very simple, but I assume it points to the mach_kernel on the same partition. How do I tweak that on my flash disk to point to my disk0s3 partition and the kernel at it ?

Second question: The OSx86Tools finds a partition disk0s1 - the first partition to be used. Have I use that partition ?

Third question: Prior I have installed (factory) the Suse Linux Enterprise desktop with two partitions. I have shrinked the /home partition to get space for OSX and formatted it to FAT32 to identify it at installation. Given that I have disk0s3 for my
OSX installation. Are all issues clarified when the above questions are answered ?

Beside all the questions - nice work !

Thanks

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Hitendra — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:03:46 -0000

I got the MSIWIndowsx86.ISO image bootable by Mounting it first in MAC or Hackintosh then I inserted a DVD< once is mounted go to Applications>Disk Utilities>Restore. In source Drop the Mac OS Install DVD Slipstream and Destination drop the DVD then click Burn and after that the computer surely will boot from the DVD< i wrote this because the image WAS NOT BOOTING, Thank you very much for helping me out

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

kitch — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:28:43 -0000

I put together a bunch of info recently on how to get this done using Retail DVD. It's working flawlessly now.

Fans\Speedstep\Audio\wifi\webcam all working

No LAN
No Mic

A lot of this is based on the hard work from the DellEFI folks, but its working great on our S10s also.

http://www.thekitch.com/tech/mac-osx-on-lenovo-...

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Andy — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:27:24 -0000

Hi ppl!

I have a strange problem. when i try to boot from my original mac os 10.5.5 DVD to install this on my lenovo - it doesnt boot... Operating System not found...

what went wrong?

Thanks ;)

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

ionman — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:18:59 -0000

Thank you so much for this tutorial, and all of the links that everyone has posted. I have my S10 running OS X (retail DVD) almost 100% now. There are a few things that I would still like to be able to fix, if possible.

- Sleep........I installed the kexts linked to above, and the machine no longer hangs when trying to sleep, but it immediately powers back on. Anyone else seen that?
- Dual displays.........I can setup multiple displays just fine, but if I hit Fn+F3 the display goes wacky. I then have to reboot the machine.

Thanks again!

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

YO — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:36:08 -0000

It is a very cool explanation and thank you for your kindness. I have a question about normal usability of S10 + MSWINDOSX86. How fast booting speed is? And do you feel any frustration for web browsing and email usage compare to normal OSX specifically about speed?

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

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Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Mitch — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:32:50 -0000

Hello.
Maybe i will buy this one. but few question.
And what about the firewire. is it working ?
Is QE/CI enable ?
Canwe use imovie on it ?

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Jason — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:18:46 -0000

Plug it in. In Windows or Linux the display settings let you extend the display onto a second monitor. I'm typing this using a dual monitor display on my Lenovo S10,

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

3g0brain — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:16:08 -0000

For those of you who haven't found the fix for the fan speed issue you can thank Fabzo over at s10lenovo.com for figuring it out. Download this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K1FRQH2 kext. I just installed it with the kexthelper and it started working instantly.

Also a tip for those who needs ethernet, the 10/100 usb network adapter that apple sells for the Macbook Air is only 29 bucks and works fine.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

karthik.shreeram — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:39:56 -0000

Hi Krunker,

Thx for the reply, i was able to install mac and following things work

1. Sound only through speak out,
2. Network
3. Graphics
4. Bluetooth,

Things not working

1. Webcam - I am able to see the vendor ID & Product ID - I am gett error as USB communication error - Let me know if you can help on the same -- karthik.shreeram@gmail.com

2. Sleep: if it goes to sleep then the system does not respond i need to restart.

3. sound if i get from internal speakers - else it fine

I have not tried wireless

Thanks in advance
Regards
Karthik

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

ballistik — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:32:27 -0000

Great! I finally got my sound to work, which is the last thing I had to "fix"... I followed every single step or install you could think of on this and 3 other sites, and the thing that finally helped me was upgrading to 10.5.5 (not 5.6) and doing the Azalea/Audieee fix. When I upgraded to 10.5.6 (combo update) the first go 'round my whole keyboard and mouse froze, so i re-installed MSIWind dvd and now with the 10.5.5 update everything works. has anyone had success with the 10.5.6 update?

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Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

ballistik — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:48:13 -0000

I installed Audieee and developer tools... still no sound ;-(

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Renato — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:47:11 -0000

Question: I use Toast Platinum on a Mac. Which Disk Type I have to choose to copy MSIWindosx86.iso to?

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Renato — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:46:29 -0000

Question: I use Toast Platinum on a Mac. Which Disk Type I have to choose to copy MSIWindosx86.iso to?

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Tammmmo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:18:45 -0000

Does somebody know how i can install a extern monitor on my lenovo?