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OS X 10.5.8 on the EeePC 1000H

I had a spare HDD lying around, and was bored, so I decided to throw it in my EeePC and try to install OS X.

Well, to be honest, I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I finally broke down and bought the Asus External DVD drive to facilitate the install.

For the most part, I followed this install guide and used iDeneb’s ISO (Which I won’t link to, since installing OS X is technically illegal on non-apple hardware. My install was obviously just for scientific purposes and will be destroyed immediately. Yeah.), but I have a few things to add.

First, my EeePC 1000H running Asus BIOS 2204 would not allow me to install the modded bios, no matter which install method I used. I tried using Asus Update. I tried using EasyFlash. I tried using AFUDOS. Nothing would allow me to install the modded bios. I either got “Not a valid boot block” or “Too old or incompatible”. I finally stumbled across a fix when I decided to see if I could downgrade to factory bios 1902 (Select Eee Family, then EeePC, then 1000H/XP) and to my amazement it let me downgrade. After downgrading I was able to flash the modded bios with no issues.

Having worked that out, I put the iDeneb disk in the DVD drive, restarted, and tapped ESC while it was booting to get the boot menu. I picked USB DVD, hit enter, and got the bootloader. (Sorry about the quality, cell phone pic)

I followed the guide mentioned above, and in a few minutes the installer was running.

I went through the initial setup, installed the kexts provided in the guide, and had 10.5.5 running on my EeePC. But being a nerd, I had to go and fuck with it, so I downloaded the iDeneb Combo Upgrade kit for 10.5.8 and ran it. It got me up and running on 10.5.8 without any issues at all.

As it sits now, my EeePC cold boots to OS X desktop in right over a minute.