OSX on Thinkpad T60p 2008-F65 - please help!

[wangchuck]

Hi,

I'm trying to install OSX using the Kalyway 10.5.1 dvd on my T60p 2008-F65. My specs are ( IBM T60 2008-F65 T7400 2.16Ghz 4GB 100GB 7200RPM, Fingerprint Reader , 256MB ATI FireGL V5250, DVD-CDRW)

I have partitioned my drive - Windows XP has a 70GB partition, and I created a second primary partition for OSX. The partition is an HFS+ journalled partition.

The boot/install works fine. I install using the Vanilla+ACPI kernel, NATIT For ATI, EFI_MBR and Azalia_Out for audio. Following the install, the laptop reboots, and is stuck at a blank black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner.

I verified that the OSX partition is active using a Knoppix bootable cd.

I turned off Vanderpool virtualization in the bios. DEP is enabled.

Anyone have a clue why I'm stuck staring at the blinking cursor? The hard drive light is solid-on, but there is no sound of hard-drive activity. I finally gave up after having it stuck there for about an hour.

Thanks,
Wang

[obpsym]

This may or may not help.


On my T60P I did not install NATIT for ATI, the first installation would not boot when I installed NATIT for ATI.

After installation without NATIT I had 1024x768 resolution.

I installed the kexts included in this post by Andrey and set the "graphics mode" to 1400X1050X32 in the boot.plist (Google it)

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 390#392390


All is well

[wangchuck]

I figured out the blinking cursor problem - when I created my mac partition using diskutility, I named it "Mac OS X". Apparently the bootloader has trouble with partitions containing spaces in their name.

After erasing and reinstalling using "MacDisk" as my partition name, I'm booted into OSX!

I'm going to apply your graphics patch now (I find myself at 1024x768 as well). Thank you for your help.

-Wang