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[Mahesh Kondraju]

Hi,

Am getting few requests & personal messages as how to install Lion on Dell Inspiron 1525. So here am starting a thread with instructions for a successful install.


Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion 10.7.0 on Dell Inspiron 1525:

1. Firstly make sure u get a bootable Retail Mac OS X Lion DVD and install the Mac OS X System & then reboot into windows (Guessing windows already installed and in use)

2. Reason for logging into windows is snow or lion freezes without DSDT.aml in place ( you may also face this problem while installing lion so place DSDT.aml in root of the bootable usb drive or DVD before burning u can do this using transmac)

3. Install macdrive 8

4. then place DSDT.aml into snow or lion root partition

5. Now unrar 10.6.8 or 10.7.0 kexts for DELL 1525 archive and copy Extra folder and paste it into ur snow or lion root partition and replace & overwrite everything.

6. restart the system and boot into snow or lion

7. Now install 10.7.2 combo update, after successful install do not restart force quit the installer from apple menu.

8. Delete intelcpupowermanagement.kext and intelcpupowermanagementclient.kext present in system/library/extensions and then clear the caches present in System/library/Caches, most important step is to delete kernelcache

9. Now use kext utility.app from my utility apps folder and move it to desktop, now drag and drop all kexts in s_l_e folder of the kext pack onto this kext utility app on the desktop and it installs automatically

10. now finally use smcK-stat-i.app to monitor ur system heat and optionally u can use pstate menu to sppedstep the system and finally install latest chameleon bootloader and champlist and in champlist navigate it to the path of DSDT, SMBIOS and org.chameleon.boot.plist and restart.

thats it all done hopefully u can dual boot both mac os x and windows

cheers,
Mahesh Kondraju

Attached Files

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•  10.6.8 or 10.7.0 KEXTS for DELL 1525.rar   6.04MB   934 downloads

[deepakv75]

Hi Mahesh,

I have successfully install Lion on my inspiron 1525, but the webcam is not working. Could you help me on this

Regards
Deepak

[Baltieri]

Spoiler

Hi,

Am getting few requests & personal messages as how to install Lion on Dell Inspiron 1525. So here am starting a thread with instructions for a successful install.


Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion 10.7.0 on Dell Inspiron 1525:

1. Firstly make sure u get a bootable Retail Mac OS X Lion DVD and install the Mac OS X System & then reboot into windows (Guessing windows already installed and in use)

2. Reason for logging into windows is snow or lion freezes without DSDT.aml in place ( you may also face this problem while installing lion so place DSDT.aml in root of the bootable usb drive or DVD before burning u can do this using transmac)

3. Install macdrive 8

4. then place DSDT.aml into snow or lion root partition

5. Now unrar 10.6.8 or 10.7.0 kexts for DELL 1525 archive and copy Extra folder and paste it into ur snow or lion root partition and replace & overwrite everything.

6. restart the system and boot into snow or lion

7. Now install 10.7.2 combo update, after successful install do not restart force quit the installer from apple menu.

8. Delete intelcpupowermanagement.kext and intelcpupowermanagementclient.kext present in system/library/extensions and then clear the caches present in System/library/Caches, most important step is to delete kernelcache

9. Now use kext utility.app from my utility apps folder and move it to desktop, now drag and drop all kexts in s_l_e folder of the kext pack onto this kext utility app on the desktop and it installs automatically

10. now finally use smcK-stat-i.app to monitor ur system heat and optionally u can use pstate menu to sppedstep the system and finally install latest chameleon bootloader and champlist and in champlist navigate it to the path of DSDT, SMBIOS and org.chameleon.boot.plist and restart.

thats it all done hopefully u can dual boot both mac os x and windows

cheers,
Mahesh Kondraju

Hello,

I have some difficulty, to start Lion installation on dell, it is just reboot every time, please tell me, which boot cd you used ? which chameleon cd boot I need ? Thanks !

[Baltieri]

Hi Mahesh,

I have successfully install Lion on my inspiron 1525, but the webcam is not working. Could you help me on this

Regards
Deepak

Hello,

I have some difficulty, to start Lion installation on dell, it is just reboot every time, please tell me, which boot cd you used ? which chameleon cd boot I need ? Thanks !

[goksi]

QE/CI and sleep dont work on my dell 1525 lion,please help,thanks.

[Derek Romano]

QE/CI and sleep dont work on my dell 1525 lion,please help,thanks.

QE/CI seem to work for me but Sleep is a no go, does anyone have a solution to sleep issues with 1525 and Lion?

[Bronxteck]

have you tried disabling hibernation?
in terminal type each line then hit enter after each...

pmset hibernatemode 0
touch /var/vm/sleepimage
rm /var/vm/sleepimage

on some of our latitude models they needs a bios password.. you can check the wiki for instructions.... maybe your needs one? idk

[Mahesh Kondraju]

Hi Mahesh,

I have successfully install Lion on my inspiron 1525, but the webcam is not working. Could you help me on this

Regards
Deepak

Hi Deepak,

Sorry for a late reply, well i dont have a webcam in my dell inspiron 1525 and i guess u seems to be using my DSDT thats the reason y ur not able use ur webcam. Extract ur DSDT from windows using DSDTSE and locate ur webcam device and its code and paste it in currently using DSDT.dsl, compile and generate an new DSDT.aml hopefully it works.

[Mahesh Kondraju]

Spoiler

Hello,

I have some difficulty, to start Lion installation on dell, it is just reboot every time, please tell me, which boot cd you used ? which chameleon cd boot I need ? Thanks !

Hi Baltieri,

just use a mac os x lion retail bootable iso dvd, if it freezes while installing try to place the DSDT.aml in the root of the dvd using transmac and then burn it to DVD. hopefully it works. if ur still finding problems then i recommend u to intall snow leopard first, u can use the iatkos s3 v2.

[Mahesh Kondraju]

QE/CI and sleep dont work on my dell 1525 lion,please help,thanks.

QE/CI definitely works with the DSDT just make sure u boot into 32 bit, as 64 bit intel X3100 kexts doesnt have graphics Acceleration.

[Toretto]

hi guys, i need some, help, i do everythink, but when i install 10.7.2 combo update, i force quit the installer from apple menu.but i can´t find intelcpupowermanagement.kext and intelcpupowermanagementclient.kext to delete!!

what im doing wrong???

thanks!!!

[goksi]

QE/CI definitely works with the DSDT just make sure u boot into 32 bit, as 64 bit intel X3100 kexts doesnt have graphics Acceleration.

Yes QE/CI works, but sleep and two finger scroll wont work on my dell 1525 lion 10.7.2 for me please help

[Mahesh Kondraju]

@ Toretto

well u can find AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext & AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext in /System/Library/Extensions just delete them and also make sure u delete kernelcache located in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup.

then install my kexts using kextutility.app all done.


@ Goksi

Well i dont think sleep works give it a try using sleepenabler.kext and also use screen sleep solution script check this link http://www.mediafire.com/?kjkdvzy2nnd to enable sleep ( it helps in recovering black screen occurred during sleep) and regarding track pad its very sensitive due to bad kexts well i recommend usb mouse.

[robi62]

As anyone manage to get sleep working on dell1525????

I tried everything but no luck

It works on 10.5.8 no probs at al

Wandering why not working on 10.7.2

[robi62]

Hi I managed to get partially sleep working using nozyczek dsdt .aml;

but only works first time .

If I try again laptop reboots

I edited EHC2 so you don't get message in console when waking up

Here is the dsdt if you want to compare it with yours

 dsdt_v2.aml.zip   9.3K   30 downloads

[Bronxteck]

do a Pmset=0 in terminal and see if it helps waking back up. or adding a password in bios like on the latitudes check wiki for instructions.

[goksi]

Post here if you fix sleep, I have that problem too on 10.7.2, dell1525.

[goksi]

How update to Lion 10.7.3 on dell 1525

[jen]

updated 10.7.3 but QE/CI and video deos not work.

Intel GMA X3100:

  Chipset Model:	GMA X3100
  Type:	GPU
  Bus:	Built-In
  VRAM (Total):	144 MB
  Vendor:	Intel (0x8086)
  Device ID:	0x2a02
  Revision ID:	0x000c
  Displays:
Display:
  Resolution:	1280 x 800
  Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display:	Yes
  Mirror:	Off
  Online:	Yes
  Built-In:	Yes

[deepak]

Hi Every one there ,

Not sure how many of you are still active in this thread. I am trying to set this up but could not even pass through the first step, ie installing the Mac OS X . I got the bootable Retail Mac OS X Lion from piratebay torrent [ iso version]. I burnt in using my previous ideneb version of Leopard and also have another copy burnt using transmac on my windows machine. But both doesnt work for me .

Am not able to get the installer CD load at the boot. After reading the CD for a while the system loads up with windows XP .

Can any one tell what could have gone wrong ?
Do we need any other boot loaded like boot132

Please help.