Mac OS X Hackintosh on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v

I installed OS X 10.5.7 on a Dell Mini 10v using the method found on Blog in Black. It was initially designed for the Dell Mini 9, but it worked without a hitch. This writeup does not yet include the fix for audio–Audio will not work. To find the audio fix, and many other fixes and tweaks, look at this thread on the MyDellMini forum.

Here is my summation of the steps I followed:

What You Need

• A Mac
• A PC
• An external USB hard drive
• A retail copy of OS X 10.5.x DVD or dmg (I used 10.5.4)
• The OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update, available from Apple (torrent)
• Carbon Copy Cloner, available from Bombich Software (torrent)
• Syslinux, available on kernel.org (torrent)
• DellMiniBoot/TYPE11 bootloader 8.01, available here in Step 1. You actually only need some of the TYPE11 files that I’ve extracted to this torrent
• DellEFI 1.1, available from this thread on the MyDellMini forum (torrent)

Prep Work

1. On the Mac, use Disk Utility to create two partitions: a 1GB FAT partition, labeled “TYPE11″ and partition the rest as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled), labeled “OSXDVD”.
2. If you do not have one already, create a dmg of your OS X installation DVD.
3. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to “back up” the dmg to the OSXDVD partition on the USB hard drive.
4. On the PC, run syslinux on the 1GB FAT partition of the drive, where F: is the drive letter of the FAT partition: “syslinux -ma F:”
5. Copy the DellMiniBoot/TYPE11 files to the root directory of the external hard drive’s 1GB TYPE11 partition. Do not overwrite the ldlinux.sys file.

Installation

1. Plug the USB drive into the Dell Mini 10v.
2. Boot and hit F2. Make sure legacy support for USB devices is enabled.
3. Boot and hit F12. Boot from USB.
4. Choose the second option (OSXDVD) from the menu.
5. Install OS X.
6. Boot and hit F12. Boot from USB. Hit Esc.
7. Boot disk 81 with option -f.
8. Complete the OS X installation.
9. Install the 10.5.7 combo update.
10. Boot and hit F12. Boot from USB. Hit Esc.
11. Boot disk 81 with no options.
12. Run DellEFI.
13. Remove external drive and reboot.

At this point, you should boot into OS X.