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10.6.5 update safe for hackintosh?

upgrade to 10.6.5

I have a hackintosh running on a pc with a gigabyte motherboard and a nvidia graphics card. I have done "nothing" to the computer other than using iboot to boot the computer since I find the fixes to modifying the bios very confusing. I have 2 hard drives in the computer. One runs xp home the other snow leopard.

I have to go into the bios every time I want to run xp to turn off ahdc because when that's on, my DVD drive doesn't work and then when I go back to the mac side obviously I have to turn that back on so back to the bios again.

I have installed no kexts in the computer and the install was from a standard snow leopard image i have on a usb hard drive partition. I have had very few problems with the installation until I upgraded to 10.6.5. When I did that I lost all usb connectivity to my computer and since I don't have a time machine backup of the computer yet I had to backup the data and re install and keep the machine at 10.6.3.

Are there workarounds so I can update the drivers for my motherboard so in case at some point I have to update to 10.6.5? Also, is there anyone who explains simply, remembering we're not all programmers here, to use a program like chameleon to let me run the computer without having idisk in the DVD drive all the time.

I'm not new to the mac (1988 mac plus memories) or the pc going back to windows 95 so I guess I'm not a newbie.


Greg
 
No problems with mine. Running on a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L. Removed Sleepenabler before update and added the 10.6.5 Sleepenabler after rebooting.
 
skydogsound said:
I have a hackintosh running on a pc with a gigabyte motherboard and a nvidia graphics card. I have done "nothing" to the computer other than using iboot to boot the computer since I find the fixes to modifying the bios very confusing. I have 2 hard drives in the computer. One runs xp home the other snow leopard.

I have to go into the bios every time I want to run xp to turn off ahdc because when that's on, my DVD drive doesn't work and then when I go back to the mac side obviously I have to turn that back on so back to the bios again.
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The DVD drive should work with the AHCI mode enabled if you follow this guide for the enabling of it after windows install.

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

I have installed no kexts in the computer and the install was from a standard snow leopard image i have on a usb hard drive partition. I have had very few problems with the installation until I upgraded to 10.6.5. When I did that I lost all usb connectivity to my computer and since I don't have a time machine backup of the computer yet I had to backup the data and re install and keep the machine at 10.6.3.
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Real easy solution for you since you have external hard drive copy your install to it using the diskutil program. You choose the restore option using your install as the source the external as the destination then install the boot loader on it. You then boot off of the external when any upgrades are available to test them for problems/apply fixes to problems if they exist which you can then duplicate on your main install having never risked screwing it up. Now never have done this on a drive that is partitioned MBR only the GUID that Apple uses but it works well doing this. BTW you should tell us the hardware involved we are not mind readers here.

Are there workarounds so I can update the drivers for my motherboard so in case at some point I have to update to 10.6.5? Also, is there anyone who explains simply, remembering we're not all programmers here, to use a program like chameleon to let me run the computer without having idisk in the DVD drive all the time.
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If you have the Chameleon installer .pkg then it installs just like any other OS X .pkg file. Namely you double click on it select the destination to install too (ie. your install or external install if doing testing) choose your customizations if you wish then it asks for your password and you are done after it installs itself. When you re/boot next time you should have the Chameleon boot loader used after you select the hard disk containing your install as your boot source. You can also install from the Terminal.app as root user if you so wish the instructions for this are in the README contained in the tarball archive you would have downloaded instead of the installer package.
 
Airport card not installed

Hi,

I ran into this issue after updating to OSX10.6.5 as well as Airport Basestation Utility to 5.5.1.

My other partition is still running well on OSX10.6.2 with the airport card still alive & kicking on V5.4.2 of Airport Utilities.

I tried installing the airport utilities V5.4.2 again on my first partition after dumping the V5.5.1. But it still show 'AirPort Card Not Installed'.

What can I do to solve this problem.

Thanks.
 
What sort of card are you using? And for that matter, what motherboard? Anything "special" about your system (third-party kernel etc)? You haven't given us much to go on...
 
EX58-UD3R, i7 with 9800GT. Lost on-board audio when updating, but installing the latest Kakewalk (3.0) sorted that out. Sleep now works too, although I did get a kernel panic after the last (3rd or 4th) sleep - the first KP since I built the machine 3 months ago.

I've got ProTools HD2 (PCI) in there so it could be card related - I don't think they like sleep. I know I don't get much sleep when I use them...
 
I was under the impression that MacRumors did not support Hackitosh machines.
If you want a Mac, don't be tight fisted go spend your money.
 
richthomas said:
yep, if you are using the vanilla kernel and arent replacing Apple's kexts, but using separate functionality kexts such as fakesmc, ethernet kexts, audio kexts, IOBlockStorageInjector etc then everything should be fine.

except some audio chips will not work after the update and you will have to rollback AppleHDA.
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Rolling back AppleHDA doesn't always work, though. I had to resort to VoodooHDA before sound would work again.

simie said:
I was under the impression that MacRumors did not support Hackitosh machines.
If you want a Mac, don't be tight fisted go spend your money.
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Try assuming less and your posts might be worth reading. Not everyone wants a Mac. Sometimes just OSX. Money doesn't always have anything to do with it

Since I run Windows on my Macs, it's only fair that my Winboxes run OSX in return. That way they can all suffer equally.
 
simie said:
If you want a Mac, don't be tight fisted go spend your money.
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thank you for the PSA :rolleyes:
Tight fisted has nothing to do with it Rather being a good steward of my money does.

I spend < 1,000 bucks and I got a machine that's along the lines of a MacPro which sells for 2,500. You want to spend 2,500 - 5,000 for a Mac Pro, that's your business. Don't knock my choice to spend a lot less then that.
 
The DVD drive should work with the AHCI mode enabled if you follow this guide for the enabling of it after windows install.

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831


that link sent me to nowhereville.

I eventually found a program (Intel-Matrix-Storage-Manager) with this name IATA89ENU.exe

http://www.download3k.com/Install-Intel-Matrix-Storage-Manager.html

this thing worked and all I had to do was install it and it saw the DVD drive.

I'm not a genius I don't have much success when I have to go to unix. I'm a mac guy not a programmer



As far as chameleon I get errors when I try to install it. I've got to the site but it's versions of snow leopard install packages are tar files. I can't use those again I'm not a go into terminal guy. Since every install I've found of chameleon gives me errors i'm not sure what to do next.

I'm running 10.6.3 I'm not going to go to 10.6.4 for now till I create a time machine backup of the os install.

If anyone has a clue how to install chameleon please let me know.
 
skydogsound said:
As far as chameleon I get errors when I try to install it. I've got to the site but it's versions of snow leopard install packages are tar files. I can't use those again I'm not a go into terminal guy. Since every install I've found of chameleon gives me errors i'm not sure what to do next.

I'm running 10.6.3 I'm not going to go to 10.6.4 for now till I create a time machine backup of the os install.

If anyone has a clue how to install chameleon please let me know.
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The instructions to install are contained in the README file in the docs folder for a normal install they are as follows.

Code: 
                        Installation
                        ============
  
  Normal Install (non-RAID):
  --------------------------
  
  Suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk0s2
  
   - Install boot0 to the MBR:
   		sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0
  
   - Install boot1h to the partition's bootsector:
  		sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2
  
   - Install boot to the partition's root directory:
  		sudo cp boot /
  
  No need to use startupfiletool anymore!

So you just need to know what your disk is by using the diskutil command you can find it.

Code: 
MacUser2525s-Mac-Pro:~ MacUser2525$ diskutil list

/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *40.0 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Snow                    39.7 GB    disk1s2

Looking at the output of mine here you see that it is disk1 so I need to adapt the commands to my situation. Firstly you need to be in the proper directory in Terminal so with Finder open and in the top level Chameleon directory so you see the docs, i386.. directories you type in the letters cd in Terminal then drag the i386 directory from Finder to the Terminal window to get the proper path hit the enter key and you will changed to that directory in Terminal. Once here then you issue the commands listed above.

Code: 
sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk1
sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s2
sudo cp boot /

After the first command it will ask you for the password you have set on install then it executes the command installing the boot0 for you. After the second and third commands it should not ask for the password just issue the commands once done you have a basic Chameleon installed on your hard drive, you would of course not use the commands I have adapted to my situation above you would use it for your drives location.
 
I've updated my Hackintosh from MAC OS 10.6.2 to 10.6.5. Automatically.

And I've got a problem: cannot connect to the Internet, I think that there is some issues with network card (Ethernet), because I have message that my Ethernet cable is not connected. Though until then it worked without any problem, and now working good under the Windows XP.

May be you have some thoughts, how can I fix this problem?
I'll be very grateful.

About my technical staff:
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-ES2l iG41 S775
Netcard is integrated in motherboard.

I'm a newbie in MAC.
 
The little C2D G31M-ES2L hackintosh I built for my younger brother upgraded from 10.6.0 to 10.6.5 in a single step without even so much as a sneeze. Runs beautifully.
 
Nikolay said:
I've updated my Hackintosh from MAC OS 10.6.2 to 10.6.5. Automatically.

And I've got a problem: cannot connect to the Internet, I think that there is some issues with network card (Ethernet), because I have message that my Ethernet cable is not connected. Though until then it worked without any problem, and now working good under the Windows XP.

May be you have some thoughts, how can I fix this problem?
I'll be very grateful.

About my technical staff:
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-ES2l iG41 S775
Netcard is integrated in motherboard.

I'm a newbie in MAC.
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You do not mention the revision of the board depending on that you have either the D or E version of the 8111 nic. So search on the file RealtekRTL81xx-0_0_67+.pkg download then run the installer .pkg. It will remove any previous conflicting methods of getting the nic running then install the driver by lnx2mac for it.
 
MacUser2525 said:
You do not mention the revision of the board depending on that you have either the D or E version of the 8111 nic. So search on the file RealtekRTL81xx-0_0_67+.pkg download then run the installer .pkg. It will remove any previous conflicting methods of getting the nic running then install the driver by lnx2mac for it.
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Thanks! It's working ))
I've installed RealtekRTL81xx-0_0_67+.pkg and everything's become OK
 
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