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Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | Add comment | Viewed: 1369 times |
Snow Leopard 10.6.4 update just came out for some security reasons and the Tonymac86 already has a guide to install retail Snow Leopard 10.6.3 including upgrade. So I tried it and it worked well with our MSI X58 Platinum i7 920 + EVGA 8400GS. This is the procedure following the guide on that website. Things that are needed to install. This is the easiest way without downloading any distro or borrow a working mac computer... existing system + $29 SL10.6.3 + $30.00 8400 GS graphic card that supports all QE_CI_CL, full functional fast system with updated OS.
1. Snow Leopard retail $29 10.6.3 disk.
2. iBoot_support.iso cd from Tonymac86 website (download and burn to a cd, I use Imgburn).
3. Evga GeForce 8400 GS or Zotac 8400 GS 512Mb PCIe x16.
4. 1 Hard drive for this Snow Leopard OS.
5. Downloaded 10.6.4 update combo from Apple (above link).
6. USB mouse (needed) and key board (extra) if you have PS2 mouse and keyboard already in case the kexts are not loaded correctly.
Boot from the iBoot_supported cd, hit F11 to select the first boot device or select from the bios.
After loading the iBoot_supported cd, when the iBoot screen shows up, eject the cd and place the...
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Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | Add comment | Viewed: 1693 times |
So, when we want to dual boot windows & mac OS x, the way I preferred to do it is to load windows first, use windows partition to create 2 partitions, a bigger partition is for windows NTFS and only 100-200GB for Mac OSX because Mac OS can transfer files from/to NTFS and not the other way around. If 1TB hard drive, I would use 800GB for windows & 200GB for MacOSx.
After windows installation is done or if we already have windows installed already, then use storage management in windows vista or 7 to shrink the disk about 200GB and make it active and even format it (ntfs or fat32 doesn't really matter). I'll post the screenshots of how to do this if I can find them.
Download EasyBCD1.7.2 to make a boot menu for this windows os first. I found it easier to fix the boot sector after the Mac OS installation. Assuming everything went fine with the MAC OS X installation, when we reboot, either the screen is black with a dos cursor or a black screen with windows warning that can't find boot records. Either way, we need the windows install disk (assuming we have an installation disk...
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Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | 1 Comment | Viewed: 1869 times |
If the video card has QE/CI/CL turned on correctly, all these things will work.
Screenshot will take pictures and put on the Desktop, if NOT, nothing.
Screen Recording in Quicktime will work without error OSStatus -182 (in 10.6.3 only)
FrontRow will work without just a black screen.
VLC player will play movies without a black screen with audio only.
iMovie will execute without any problem.
Video with everything working on 10.6.3
Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | Add comment | Viewed: 1871 times |
Finally, I can use the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 that I bought from Amazon. The only problem that I couldn't get it to work with QE/CI/CL is the graphic card. Bought a $33.00 GeForce 8400 GS and everything works perfectly on VGA but NOT on DVI using ATY_init.kext. In order to get the DVI to display we need to install a patched NVInject.kext and ATY_init.kext. The combo kexts for this video card. Later I found a cheaper card EVGA GeForce 8400 GS for $15 after rebate and works great too.
There are tons of ways to install Snow Leopard, but none of them is o
n the retail 10.6.3. The bottom line is that we need a working OS X, use that to install the vanilla kernel from the disk itself. The only thing we need is to show all hidden files and access the OSinstall.mpkg and install it from there. This original OSinstall.mpkg only installs on GUID partition which is not dual bootable. If we need to dual boot, we have to get a patched OSinstall.mpkg and OSinstall to do it. The installation is painless, no patching required since we have the DSDT.aml from the old OS X and all the kexts...
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Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | 1 Comment | Viewed: 1832 times |
When Gateway id5822u laptop went on sale for $399, I got one for my wife to use. It has great specs for the money, the I3 & I5 are available now for about $300.00 more which I don't really need. Core 2 duo T6500 @2.1Ghz, 4Gb DDR3, 500Gb hard drive, LED screen, 15.6" wide screen, eSata, webcam, microphone, sd/mmc, multi DVD drive, HDMI output, 1366x768 resolution... Anyhow, I try to install dual boot with windows 7 & mac os x just for experimenting.
SET SATA in BIOS to AHCI, it seems to work better for dual boot using EasyBCD1.7.2
Hit F2 to get into bios to set 1st boot to CD/DVD
Partition the 500Gb to 405GB + 50Gb (11Gb was reserved for restoration from Gateway). Install Windows 7 on 405Gb partition. Set both partitions as primary and format them.
The dvd drive doesn't read dvd very well, but I got it down, it takes too long to spin and read. I had to wait until it finish spinning before I start installing the iDeneb 1.6 distro.
At the welcome screen, click utilities and select disk utilities
Erase 100gb partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Customizing the installation:
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1. Default Chameleon 2.
2. Kernel Qoopz9.8.
3. AHCI fix + ICH fix
4....
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Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | Add comment | Viewed: 1797 times |
So, after we installed the OS X, we need the boot flag of CPUS=1 or CPUS=2 to actually boot into the OS without Kernel Panic. We need to patch the DSDT. There are so many ways and programs that people used on the internet that work. I followed this way and it worked for me.
DSDT_Patcher1.0.1e needed.
DSDT Patcher Gui needed.
Place both of the unzipped folders on the Desktop. Follow the instructions here.
When it's done, just exit.
cd Desktop/DSDT_Patcher1.0.1e
Open DSDT_Patcher1.0.1e folder and click the DSDT_Patcher icon, a terminal will open, just follow the picture, click any key, then select 0 for Darwin and hit enter.
nano Debug/dsdt.dsl
Delete all the Alias lines
Ctrl+o to save, enter to save the file, Ctrl+x to close nano.
Run the Patcher.
./DSDT\ Patcher Debug/dsdt.dsl
Run again until the file dsdt.dsl doesn't exist anymore.
./DSDT\ Patcher /Debug/dsdt.dsl
copy dsdt.aml to /DSDT.aml, "cp dsdt.aml /DSDT.aml"
We may have to use "sudo cp dsdt.aml /DSDT.aml" and enter password if needed.
Reboot and we don't ever have to type cpus=1 any more and all the cores will be enabled.
Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | 1 Comment | Viewed: 1922 times |
Since many of my friends who don't work for big corporations use Apple computers, I think it's time for me to try a new OS. I'm not the kind of guy just go out and buy a over priced MAC just to try it out. Yes, $29 for a retail Leopard 10.6.3 which I can't use for now since it's too new for my hackintosh (non-mac hardware running mac osx). If with the specs of my computer, Apple would charge at least $2k for it. I don't even know if they build Intel I7 yet, the last time I looked, it was still core 2 duo which I used 2 years ago. Yes, they don't need the best hardware because they have the best OS for their system. Well, now I know why macs are so expensive.
I made an experiment: Leopard OS X on my i7 and all I can say is WOW!!!
It's very fast and has very nice features even running at 32 bit.
The graphics is running at 1920x1080 on my ACER 24" LCD. The $15 airlink101 150n AWLH6070 is downloading @ 2.5Mbs which I have never seen my windows did that. All the browsers are blazing fast because...
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Category: OSX86 | Posted by: ltooz | Add comment | Viewed: 2420 times |
I'm doing some research to install Mac OS on PC hardware. I like to learn a new exciting operating system, this one may well be the dominating OS in the future, especially for $29 to try.
Click here for video installation
Well, I tried over the weekends and nothing worked. I have 3 PCs, 1 with Gigabyte MA690G-S2H and 1 with i7 920. I'm trying it on the netbook acer oa751h and it hangs at the install. Need to read more and do more research. It's extremely blurry on the Internet about this thing. Instead of bookmarking, I put the link that I read on here for easy access.
darwin boot loader options
solve waiting for root device
what to do when hackintosh keep rebooting after installation
How to install Kext
Have some laughs on youtube about anti-PC
Have some laughs on anti-mac
Got my Snow Leopard in 5 days from Amazon
So it wasn't 10.6-10.6.2 which they have patches to run on the internet. I had to use some other distro to install the older version and hope the new 10.6.3 patch will come soon.
We need iDeneb 1.6 & iAtkos v7 distro combined to get it working.
My MSI X58 Platinum i7 920 is not supported anywhere on the internet...
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