Whenever I try to install Snow Leopard, I get a "No such AHCI .kext available" or something like that. Even in safe boot. Same when I try with BIOS set to capability.

Native AHCI suport is handled by DSDT (see silencer's thread). I never had an error like this one ... can you be more precise : is it kernel panic on boot ?

Exactly. It is a kernel panic on boot whenever I use your package, the modified iBoot, and the insert the vanilla Snow Leopard DVD. I have tried using the -x & -v -F -f modifiers to no avail. I have also tried nearly every BIOS setting combination possible. I have been able to get Snow Leopard to install before using iAnteres but I don't remeber what settings I chose to get a correctly booting system so since then I haven't been able to re-produce the successful install. Today, god willing, I am going to try and use iPortable Snow, and if that doesn't work iAtkos S3. If those don't work I do have a last resort but so far a hackintosh on this T60 seems impossible. I have been able to get OSX 10.5.x running nearly perfectly. Whenver I try to full screen a flash video, nothing appears, do you have this problem? Otherwise it runs perfect except for the sleep giving me a jumbled screen. But I do know how to fix that, I'm just being lazy.

SIDE question: Do I have to use AresBLN to use the /E/E folder or will any bootloader handle it? Or is it a Operating System thing?

If you were curious as to the hardware I have, it is this model

2008-VEP

Can you be more precise about the KP (boot -v and take a picture ...)



According to Lenovo's website your config is VERY close from Silencer's ... You should use his /Extra folder instead of mine (juste replace it in my package, and then you can go on with my guide).



/Extra is related to Chameleon Bootloader : it picks up files necessary for the boot sequence in this folder by default.

The kext in /Extra/Extensions are seen as if they were in /S/L/E and if there are the same kexts in /S/L/E, they "override" them. This folder is NEVER altered by MacOSX even during updates, and this point is VERY convenient.

Oh crap! I forgot to mention, I am not able to get a successful boot using AresBLN 1.1.9, or any version for that matter when using a .pkg file, which should be fool-proof. What I get instead is a a bootscreen with jumbled numbers and obscure ASCII characters.

Very strange ... you should definitely take a picture of that too !

Just try again this guide with Silencer's ./Extra ... and see what happens ...

NEVER MIND! I figured it all out. Vanilla OSX. Working 100%

I love you Sebinhouse, Silencer. <3

You are the second one to report faulty USB detection, so I updated the files for the X61 and you can now try the new version : http://www.mediafire.com/?f72l12mfua4rnj8
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You are the MAN! It works great! But some small problems
1. Display is 1024x768x32@85Hz and higher Hz, and i tried to force it in boot.plist to 50Hz and it works oftenly but not always.



2. No sound, Audio ID: 0

My DSDT and outer BIN and full info of my computer
http://www.mediafire.com/?d6a0bttvvcadb2c

Do post if there was any variation to how you got it all "figured out"

I've got a small, but very annoying issue. After sleep/wake the sound is being played with noise on top of it. Seems like some bug in VoodooHDA. Does anybody experience the same?

Two people said all is working or 100% working....do you mean everything is working? I have no Gigabit Ethernet and no sound. The VoodooHDA kext mentioned earlier on by sebinouse kind of works but there's crackling sound when I got to youtube and it makes the video stutter. Without the audio the video plays fine. How are people getting the audio to work and Ethernet port? I'm not even bothered about sleep but if anyone can give guidance for audio and ethernet port I would appreciate it.

As about me, it seems like 98% Cardbus, Sleep/wake, Sound, SDHC card, USB ports, tablet buttons, tablet pen portion, Intel C/P SpeedStep states, Bluetooth, external monitor, fingerprint, trackpoint, temperature with iStat, WiFi.
I didn't try finger touch (answered you here about it), and I have a gigabit driver (Intel82566M) that reports that it works OK, but I didn't have a chance to test it. All other peripherals are working cool - except I'm having bad sound when woke up from sleep. Need to experiment with VoodooHDA.
And about sound - try deleting AppleHDA.kext and install VoodooHDA.kext with VoodooHDA pref pane that will allow you to
tune the volume/mic levels.

The finger touch question...it was someone else, similar name I guess lol. Anyway, for Gigabit driver? Did you install it yourself or it just worked out of the box? If you installed it? where did you install to? /E/E or /S/L/E? was it a kext file or a package you ran? Where is this ApplieHDA.kext file i should try and delete? /S/L/E? And finally which version VoodhooHDA.kext are you using and where did you install it to?

Ooops. I'm very sorry

I took Gigabit package from this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... opic=87574 (Sorry, can't upload it anywhere, got problems with Internet).
You can use VoodooHDA package from here: http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/
It automatically installs and deletes all necessary files - except the sound starts cracking after sleep. But it's a known issue and it seems they're working on it.

I'm experiencing the same issue
After 1-2hrs of heavy load (Parallels, Safari, iTunes), the system freezes. No messages in log.
Music continues playing, cursors turns into "colourful pizza" and no interface element responds

I've just found out that X60 and X61 don't have the same sound card ! ...
X60 : AD1981HD
X61 : AD1984

That explains why my solution doesn't work for you !!! So forget about custom plist in VoodooHDA v256 ... it will never work for your X61.

As Anastasius said, VoodooHDA v272 support AD1984 (Accoding http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda). Distortions have been reported after wake up (issue 4).

Has anyone tried to unload VoodooHDA.kext (v272) on sleep (with rc.sleep), and load it again on wakeup (with rc.wakeup) ?
Does it change anything ?



Can you share your files, to include them in the package instead of my buggy ones ?

after install, it appears to be working but I notice my core 2 duo + GMA950 tends to hang after hour of usage due to the heat problem (the core temp is around 70 C), then I found from Activity monitor that there is a process called kernel_task is constantly using 90% of one core... I switched back to another snow leopard install from iatkos v3, it didn't have this problem... so what can I do to fix this excessive kernel_task usage and get my osx into stable state? ( I tried the DSDTstable.aml, no change)

Did you check if power management is enabled ? (P States and C States, see the first post to do so ...).

thanks for the tip.. I used the ioreg command and it seems p state and c state are both enabled... but I'd agree with you this must be something related to the power management....

I noticed the LegacyX60T mket was not loaded when I search via kextstat command, and I saw the /Extra/Extensions folder shows that mket highlighted as orange (while none of other mket was orange), should I expect to see it is loaded?

Yes 70°C is way too much ... you should get 50°C max.

LegacyX60T.kext does not appear in kextstat because it is a "legacy" kext which mean it doesn't contain any driver but a plist file that modifies other plist files located in /S/L/E.

The color of the kext doesn't matter, it is a reminder for me ... feel free to modify it !

Can you give me more details about your hardware, installation and current config ?
(attached files if possible ... no logs on the board please ... )

what I have is a t60 with t7200 c2d (2Ghz, 667 front bus), GMA950, 1400x1050, 2G RAM, Atheros wireless,

in terms of install, I followed the top post, things appear to work well after the install, display/audio/wifi all work out of the box after the DSDT fix, except it hangs after 30 mins of use.

current config is vanilla 12-16 package, no modification whats so ever not sure what files you would prefer, like ACPI dump?

If you can get ACPI dump, you can get DSDT. Then you can apply Silencer's guide with a macbook 2.1 profile ...

Yep
Just give me a little bit more time - I fixed Fn+keys with updated DSDT, need some more testing - some of them work, some of them don't.
I also was able to communicate to ACPI and VoodooPS2Keyboard in order to modify keyboard mappings on the fly. Now multimedia keys (and many others) work and could be remapped to any action within Preferences. I'll put these files soon to public.

Edit: I redownloaded VoodooHDA sources from googlecode and compiled it. It solved the crackles/loud beeep on start. But Mic stopped working and VoodooHDA.prefPane crashes with an error.
VoodooHDA is the most amazing driver of all.

Edit2: OK, I found the correct version of VoodooHDA, recompiled it from scratch and injected a temporal workaround for sound problems. Now VoodooHDA works for me without any glitches!

I just somewhat successfully loaded SL on my x61. My specs:

7673-Y3S
core 2 duo t7500
Intel X3100
8GB RAM
Airlink 101 Wireless N 150 (since my Intel card won't work)
AD1984HD sound

SL installs successfully but I am unable to boot directly despite installing Chameleon - I have to use my USB drive to boot. I'm actually on my third installation attempt but it's not looking good.

I followed the same steps that I used to install on my X60s & T60 so I don't know what can be going wrong. The only thing I can think of is the way I've partitioned my disk. On the X60 & T60 I have Win7 as the primary/active partion and OS-X an another primary partion. On my x61 I have the OS-X loaded on an extended partition. If this latest installation attempt doesn't work I'll try to move SL to a primary partition.

Besides not being able to boot the only other thing that I've found not working is sound and sleep. I can easily live without both since I really don't use the Mac side that much; I just pop in and out to figure how to do things for my clients.

Any help on the booting side would be greatly appreciated!

Looks like my original partitioning scheme was the problem. I duplicated the partition order that I used on my X60s and all is working fine now - sound, too.

Triple booting with Win7 Ultimate 64-bit, SL, and Ubuntu with no problems.

Sebinouse,

Thank you very much for the informative guide. It looks like it has helped many people avoiding the frustrations of installing osx86

As a osx86 newbie, I would like to install sl on my x60s. Having read your guide and the thread, I still have some questions that I hope you can clarify (hopefully you can add it to the update)

1. Which steps of the installation is done on a Mac vs. On the thinkpad?
2. When is Hdd snow used in an USB enclosure vs. Being installed in the thinkpad?
3. When you say boot from USB key, that is done on the think pad right?
4. As most would like to also run windows also, can you expand a bit on dual boot options? And also steps to get it working? E.g. Do you have to wipe out existing windows installs?
5. Can you use bootcamp to handle dual boot?
6. Can you clarify the wifi issue? For newbies, should they just buy a compatible wifi card for the install to save the headache? I have the intel abg card right now.


Thanks for all your help. I hope my "newbie" perspectives will expand the audience of your guide!

1. Every step with "On "MacOSX" "
2. whenever you want, for me there is not difference ...
3. Yes
4. I have only done a dual boot with WinXP : for that you must a MBR partition table, you install Snow and use chameleon to handle dual boot. You can keep your windows install if you can add a HFS+ partition on your disk (with MBR partition table)
5. Use chameleon instead
6. Intel Wifi Cards don't work on MacOSX (an will never work properly). The best solution is to switch your card for a compatible one.

Hope that helped and that next time you post with your hack !

Glad you found a solution !

Can you share information about your triple boot ? ( installation, boot, GRUB or chameleon )
Many people ask about Win7 and I don't know what to answer ... I only need WinXP !
Thanks

I can't wait to try that !!!

Glad to help out:

1. Install or start with Windows as the primary OS
2. Create & format partitions for OS-X and Ubuntu. I name my OS-X partition Hackintosh or something similar to make it easier to find when installing SL
3. Follow the instructions in the original post to install OS-X to the Hackintosh partition
4. After installing OS-X you will not be able to boot into any OS until you repair the Windows boot record.
   
   1. Boot the laptop with the Windows installation disk
   2. After selecting region info, click on Repair
   3. Select first option and then Command prompt
   4. In Command Prompt type
   • diskpart
   • select disk 0 (or whatever disk Windows is installed on)
   • select partition 1 (or whatever partition Windows is installed on)
   • active
5. Reboot and Windows 7 should once again boot
6. Install EasyBCD. I use and old version 1.7.2 because I've had problems with the newer versions.
7. Add Mac to boot menu
8. Add the following string to the registry to fix the time. When you boot into OS-X and then back to Windows the time in Windows will be 6 hours fast due to OS-X's use of a different time standard (UTC? Can't remember).
   
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
   • Add dword "RealTimeIsUniversal" = 1
9. Reboot into Windows and time should now be correct.
10. Download and install Ubuntu. I use the Ubuntu Windows Installer (wubi.exe) to install to the Ubuntu partition that I created in step 2. It will automatically add Ubuntu to the Windows boot menu

Hope this makes sense.