Hackintosh.

[Simon Preston]

Who else has given this a go?
I remembered I had the Kalway 10.5.2 iso lying around so decided to try it out. Found a 5 year old old Hitachi hard drive and happen to have the Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo that it loves. So I read up on installing it, burnt the ISO, popped it in the drive and voila! I now have a dual boot Mac/Win7 machine. Even on the old drive it runs nice and smooth, although start up takes a bit longer and apps initially are slow to start but once loaded run like a dream.
Next step is to use one of those loaders that fool the Retail OS into thinking it's booting from a Mac rather than using a hacked kernel (which makes updating hard). So Snow Leopard is next up.

[PROG]

Re: Hackintosh.

you make it sound like it's easy, lol. it was a long process for me...looking for drivers and manually installing it. coming from someone who never messed with a mac was a bitch! but i do now have a toshiba laptop with kalyway installed. everything works fine. very usefull for my iphone apps.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Hackintosh.

To be honest, for me it was very easy! Just had to switch AHCI on in my BIOS settings (which also required a Win7 registry edit) and change some settings on the MacOS install. Apart from that it was pretty much plain sailing. Like I said, I'm lucky enough to have one of the motherboards that just work.

[floridaorange]

Re: Hackintosh.

http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/showthread.php?81872-The-Hackintosh

[Simon Preston]

Re: Hackintosh.

Ah yes, had forgotten about that thread.

[PROG]

Re: Hackintosh.

what mother board is this? might consider dual booting on my pc

[ganjamo]

Re: Hackintosh.

Im downloading the iso in order to make a virtual machine. We'll see how it goes.

check it out:

http://lifehacker.com/5583650/run-mac-os-x-in-virtualbox-on-windows

[PROG]

Re: Hackintosh.

i got virtualbox running snow leopard! suppose to be better than vmware too.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Hackintosh.

I've used an Asus P5W DH Premium. However it seems a lot of boards released these days have varying degrees of success. I've now installed 10.6.2 onto my machine but have no wireless drivers for it. Everything else works though.

[dusk]

Re: Hackintosh.

Im downloading the iso in order to make a virtual machine. We'll see how it goes.

check it out:
http://lifehacker.com/5583650/run-ma...box-on-windows

How did you get on with the project mate?

[Simon Preston]

Re: Hackintosh.

Don't suppose anyone's tried installing Snow Leopard to a laptop have they? Installed it to mine this evening using the vanilla retail CD and iBoot (along with Multi Beast to add a loader at the front) bu the trackpad and keyboard won't work - oddly they do in safe mode.


EDIT: Got it working myself using the VoodooPS2Trackpad Kext. Took a few attempts to do it but got there in the end. Now have a fully working none-hacked 10.6.4 install on my 17" Laptop. Awesome!

[picklemonkey]

Re: Hackintosh.

I just installed Snow Leopard in VirtualBox on my Ubuntu desktop via this article. It worked exactly as described

http://www.sysprobs.com/install-mac-snow-leopard-1063-oracle-virtualbox-32-apple-intel-pc

[Simon Preston]

Re: Hackintosh.

I've installed mine straight to its own partition, comes up with a windows bootloader that pops up for 5 seconds so I can switch to that or it will go into Windows 7 as normal. A neat party trick for when round mates houses (especially ones that seem to think that Macs are some superbreed of hardware and PC's can't run as good as them)

[feather]

Re: Hackintosh.

Does Hackintosh install on any hardware now?

[i!!ustrious]

Re: Hackintosh.

idunno man. haven't been familiarized with macs since the early 90's <-- is that shiznit backward compatible nowadays?


a few heads i know pulled this off in class last year for a demo. was pretty sick.