Hackintosh

[Kronik]

Hey,

I'm not sure if this is the correct area to post this question, if not I apologize.

I am in the process of setting up my 'Hackintosh' PC to dual boot Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard"

I have been researching this for a few weeks now and from I what I have read, many people have been successful with installing Snow Leopard on PCs that use the same hardware that I have. I can't seem to get it right though. I keep getting errors when installing Snow Leopard.

So basically my question being, is there anyone here that has tried to install Mac OS on a PC and been successful and could maybe assist me?

Thanks in advance

 

[psichron]

Yes, if you are lucky it works the first time. If not, it can take many hours to get the right combination of drivers installed. Do you know where to select the drivers to be installed? You should go through a screen with a lot of checkboxes where you select stuff like the video/audio drivers, kernel, etc.
We've never been able to get sound working 100%, output works but no input.

Here's a quick guide I wrote for our internal wiki:

1. Visit and read the "Getting Started" guides on http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

2. Under "Hardware", check the hardware compatibility list for components under 10.5.6 or your version ( http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6 ), there should be an indication of whether your hardware is supported and which drivers to use.

3. Before installing, make sure your SATA controller is set up in AHCI mode. This might make your windows install unbootable, but it can be fixed. Linux should still work as normal.

4. Boot from the install DVD and use the Disk Utility in the top menu to prepare your drive/partition before starting the install.

5. After selecting the partition to install to, you should get a screen with a large OSX icon with an arrow pointing to a large HDD icon on the right. Bottom left there should be a button "Customize".

6. After clicking "Customize", select the drivers applicable to your system according to the compatibility list on the osx86 wiki. e.g. I chose the following: X11, ideneb essential, ACPI Kext, PS2Fix -> Mouse, JMicronATA, Intel 82566 series (ethernet), NVInject 256, Applications. None of the selectable sound drivers worked for me.

6. Start the install, it should first try to "verify" the installation DVD. Pray.

7. After booting into your new OSX86 environment, google around to resolve any issues. You might have to sacrifice a virgin or two.

Fix USB hotplugging:

Go To http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=117029

Get and install IOUSBFamily344_2.kext.zip

Resolving sound issue:

I eventually managed to fix my sound by installing the latest version of "AppleAzalia", googling for the correct .kext file for my ACL888VC audio driver and then installing it with "Kext Helper" (Which you can install from the "Customize" screen on the iDeneb ISO).

Writing to an NTFS partition:

OSX can only read NTFS partitions, install the NTFS-3G Fuse driver for MAC for write access. Check out http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/