HP tx2000Z OS X86 Leopard 10.5.2 First MAC TABLET !

Update::::4/16/08

Since Iv posted this, its gotten quite a few views (more than I expected), so I feel their is a good deal of interest in people doing this mod themselves. It gotten alot easier since I first did itso here are the simplified instructions (faily tx2000z specific):

1)Make a partition ~10gb
2) Restart computer with LEO4ALL DVD, so much easier than the zepherous DVD for the tx series.
3) Press f9 to boot from cd, choose boot from cd
4)It will start to load and then stop, slide the power button once or twice, it will continue.
5)When you get into the install screen, go to disk utility (somewhere at the top) and choose your 10gb partition and erase it and change it to a journaled partition.
6)Exit that and continue with install, choose correct partition but go to settings/options.
7)Choose AMD patcher and anything else you think will work (nothing else really worked for me).
8)install.
9)Pretty good chance it wont boot when you restart. You need to insert your windows recovery cd and fix the boot order. You may have to go to command line and make your first windows partition active using disk part (google for instructions)to be able to fix the boot order.
9)reboot and you can choose to boot into windows or NST MAC of something like that. Windows should work and choosing mac and the the second or third partition option on the next screen should boot you into mac.****

**** You may have trouble setting mac up. This at least means your close. If it goes into a setup loop, just type "Graphics Mode"="640x480x32". It should change the resolution and bypass the setup screen. You only have to do that once and it auto setsup and root account.

You're done.
Ryan

This too me forever to get running. As alot of people know, a few gurus have been working hard to get Leopard running on regular PCs. You usually have to have special hardware (like specific motherboards etc). However after many many hours of work I got it to run on the super propriatary HP TX2000Z. It is HPs new tablet, and it makes it the first tablet MAC that Iv seen anywhere!!!!

I followed the Nihilist guide (which looks to have been taken down). I installed to my desktop which was much easier (becuase its custom built with hardware that is compatible). After you do one or two of these installs then you may try one on a brand name laptop. All laptopo are different too, some much easier and other impossible. Anyway whats different from this pc from you average laptop install is the following:

1) You need to press f9 in bios startup to choose boot from cd everytime you startup from the install iso.

2) I had to use the zepheryth (spelling?) ISO becuase this was a AMD install which is a modified kalyway disk. You may have to try several time to get a working install because there are several configs to choose from. Make sure you install darwin boot loader if vista is already installed.

3) When the disk is first booting (after you told the bios to boot from cd), you MAY need to slide the power button on the laptop over to get it reading from the disk. Its weird but is a sata pata hdd controller issue. Im not sure why it works, i figured it out on accident becuase i was giving up and trying to turn my laptop off.

3) Once everything is installed you may have to lower the resolution the first time to get the OS X to boot because this will disable the setup mode. You have to disable setup to avoid 'transferring from tiger' unless you have an old tiger setup readliy available. NOTE: i also had to command line it to think the install was already completed. I had to google for instructions on how to do this, was tough to find.

Anyway all of this is from memory from a month ago, good luck. Let me know if you get it working! Also...sadly my install stopped working when i tried to Nject drivers for nvidea. Dont do that unless you know more than i did about it! Dont have the patientce to get it working again.

Ryan

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Tags:

• Tablet
• MAC
• Leopard
• TX2000z
• HP
• OSX86

[neelmehta]

how did u fix the resolution problem.. mines stuck at 1024x768??

[kingryan04]

Yeah, there are some guys that tried to fix this way back, not sure if they ever figured it out. I never did and had to take the partition off the laptop eventually. Definitely a proof of concept type of project. But with the new touch screen tablets coming out, thats going to be the way to go with tablet osx

[olfrygt2007]

That was all totaly sarcastic. -.-

[solariumdelarium]

stupid its an hp!

[Richilede]

works fine pen pressure?

[Dec986]

thanks man hopefully this will work for me as well

[jorge4celmono]

@solariumdelarium uhm yeah dude the title says it

[117pillager]

a hackintosh? u know Jobs is gonna kill u? Right?

[robertomarx]

@kingryan04 Hi!

Just bought an TX2500, do you recommend Mac OS or Windows 7. I MUST have the ATI 3200 Working, the wacom pressure working and audio and wirelles working.

Its possible to make it work with Mac Os?

[tsm124]

um this is not the first sry to burst your bubble the shuttle x50 has both touch and pen and both can draw on the screen 

[cooperminehart]

Hello i installed Ipc 10.5.6 and everything works except i cant figure out how to calibrate the touchscreen, and it wont boot without the CD in the drive but I'm really only worried about the touchscreen calibration.

[AlexosMusic]

Sweet dude! On my laptop ive installed leo4all succesful but is stops booting last line says HFS: created HFBT on (hard drive name) and than it does nothing and the hdd light keeps turned on...

So thats pretty gay do you know what it means?

[trekmanx]

Hi, I cant install it on my lap. mine is tx2500z. I slide the power butoon but not works.

stucks and I slide 3 times and nothing happens

[archhangell]

well done bro!!!