OSX on a Thinkpad T400?

SmoothRunnings · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:03 pm

Has anyone been successful at installing OSX on a T400 if show what version did you use?

I tired both the iATKOS L1 and L2 DVDs and both load but don't get past the apple screen with the spinning thingy.

Thanks
A.

sanjuro · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:09 pm

You may have better luck with installation of 10.6 using multibeast with retail 10.6.

checkout http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... /Portables and see notes regarding T400.

SmoothRunnings · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:33 pm

sanjuro wrote:

You may have better luck with installation of 10.6 using multibeast with retail 10.6.

checkout http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... /Portables and see notes regarding T400.

Yeah I have 10.6.8 running on it already but I would really love to see Lion running on it. I wish there were other installs other than iATKOS available I could try.

sanjuro · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:01 am

You can try multibeast from tonymac which supports 10.7

SmoothRunnings · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:31 am

sanjuro wrote:

You can try multibeast from tonymac which supports 10.7

Whats multibeast?

sanjuro · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:47 pm

SmoothRunnings wrote:

Whats multibeast?

It is a boot installer package for osx developed by tonymac. much easier than using usb boot drive.

siachori · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:51 am

Someone has nes over Lion or ML?
I have installed iATkosL2, buy graphics card just 1024 ...

Also trying with tonymacs Lion, but still installing ....

glasgood · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:18 pm

SmoothRunnings wrote:

Has anyone been successful at installing OSX on a T400 if show what version did you use?

I tired both the iATKOS L1 and L2 DVDs and both load but don't get past the apple screen with the spinning thingy.

Thanks
A.

I have managed to install it on mine and have provided a guide on this site. You mention you could not get past the screen with the spinning thingy. Did you have your BIOS set to ACHI ?

As of this moment I now have Mountain Lion installed on my Thinkpad T400, everything working apart from Photo booth and FaceTime. This time I used myHack. It went really smooth. You can also use myHack for Lion. It is very straight forward if you read the guide provided on the site where myHack is located.

All the best!

glasgood · **Posted:** Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:56 am

SmoothRunnings wrote:

Has anyone been successful at installing OSX on a T400 if show what version did you use?

I tired both the iATKOS L1 and L2 DVDs and both load but don't get past the apple screen with the spinning thingy.

Thanks
A.

Try booting in verbose mode and see what is causing the problem. use -v option.

siachori · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:00 am

Hello glasgood!!

What graphic card do you have?

glasgood wrote:

I have managed to install it on mine and have provided a guide on this site. You mention you could not get past the screen with the spinning thingy. Did you have your BIOS set to ACHI ?

As of this moment I now have Mountain Lion installed on my Thinkpad T400, everything working apart from Photo booth and FaceTime. This time I used myHack. It went really smooth. You can also use myHack for Lion. It is very straight forward if you read the guide provided on the site where myHack is located.

All the best!

glasgood · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:10 am

It is the Intel x4500MHD ( Not the best )

glasgood · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:20 am

SmoothRunnings wrote:

Has anyone been successful at installing OSX on a T400 if show what version did you use?

I tired both the iATKOS L1 and L2 DVDs and both load but don't get past the apple screen with the spinning thingy.

Thanks
A.

Here is the PDF iATKOS OSX Lion guide for the Thinkpad T400.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6sti2BWygODeE9sdFF4bVoxbGc/edit

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