install snow leopard on thinkpad x201

from:   http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t219737.html

UPDATE:

I managed to install Snow Leopard on my Lenovo ThinkPad X201.
The key is to use a real physical DVD-Drive and not a USB Stick.

Here is what I did:

1. Downloaded Empire EFI R2 ( see -> http://prasys.co.cc/2010/02/empire-efi-v1-085-r2-is-out/. This is only the News. The Download itself resides here -> http://prasys.co.cc/2010/01/empire-efi-v-1-085-is-out/ . I chose the one with Core i7M-Support)
and burned the BootCD.iso to a CD-RW. 

2. Burned the Retail Image of SL 10.6.3 on a DL DVD.

3. Booted the CD-RW and replaced it with the SL Retail on request by the bootloader.

4. Installed SL

Well, it installed without a problem (the failure message at the end of the installation is normal)
but now I can not boot the installed system without a CD. It hangs right after the Grey Apple Bootscreen appears and once again I can not see where exactly the problem is, because in verbose mode the Screen turns black after 5-6 lines of console text.

UPDATE: Finally I managed to get Snow Leopard running on my ThinkPad. The Key was to use the very latest kernel after 10.6.3 installation, which is capable of working with i5 and i7 CPUs.

So, boot with Empire EFI, install OSX Retail, then reboot and use Empire EFI one again to boot the retail installation. 
As a post-installation tool you need to use "MultiBeast" from tonymacx86's blog on blogspot.
Choose EasyBeast to install, plus the kexts for PCs without patched DSTD, plus the Kernel 10.3.1 from Advanced Options. After a few minutes you should be able to boot SL from HDD.

Then the fun-part begins. Find kexts for WiFi, Lan, etc. etc.