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The Merged Hackintosh Thread

What describes you?

  • No way would I build a hackintosh

    Votes: 349 23.0%

  • I'd consider it if Apple doesn't provide a new Mini or headless iMac in the next three months

    Votes: 185 12.2%

  • I'm considering it right now

    Votes: 578 38.2%

  • I already built one

    Votes: 403 26.6%
  • Total voters
    1,515
i got my hackintosh i7 to run lion gm yesterday :) everything runs perfectly .i'm tempted to update to sandy bridge but i'll wait it out.
 
biostar bios settings to boot mac

I just built a new computer because my macbook pro died recently. I would like to try booting from my macbooks hard drive.

I have iboot and can get to where the white screen with the apple logo appears and then my system crashes and reboots.

I believe I need to adjust bios settings or I need a new bootloader.
Please help!

MB: biostar a880gu3
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 840
RAM: 8GB
HDD:WD 2TB, Fujitsu 120GB
OS: WinXP, OS X 10.6
 
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I believe Mac OS X only supports Intel processors, not AMD.
 
lordknikon said:
I believe I need to adjust bios settings or I need a new bootloader.
Please help!

MB: biostar a880gu3
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 840
RAM: 8GB
HDD:WD 2TB, Fujitsu 120GB
OS: WinXP, OS X 10.6
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Here's the guide I followed. It has very specific instructions for what to do in BIOS ... but for a mobo that is very much not yours. If that IS your problem, maybe you can adapt a solution from there?

Nobody pretends that hackintoshing will work on every combination of components, though. And If you look here, you'll see that Tony says flatly that "AMD processors are not supported" for his iBoot&MultiBeast method.

I don't think you'll have the easiest time of it, but good luck!
 
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Goodbye Snow Leopard, hello Lion :D

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Actually installed the GM successfully on my hack just after it came out, but waited on confirmation that it's the same build no. as the release version before I replaced Snow Leopard.

I made a bootable Lion installer using this guide (Step 2) but used netkas' Lion boot file instead of iBoot and my Extra folder from my Snow Leopard install with "-usecache" boot plist flag added.

To make sound work with my 889a I had to rollback AppleHDA to 10.6.7 or earlier and to get sleep working I had to apply this patch to the AppleRTC kext.
 
I'm having a bit of trouble here. I used this guide and made the bootable USB stick. Then I used Windows to make an iBoot CD. Booted iBoot, selected the Lion USB stick, then I just got a screen with an Apple logo. No options, menu bar, buttons, etc. As if it were just stuck there.

Then I tried a restart and did the same thing. This time the Apple logo screen flashed and made my computer reboot.

Did I do something wrong here? Is there an easier way to go about this?

I have Lion on my Macbook and Windows on my PC, so this will be a new hackintosh installation on the PC.
 
Im not sure as i used Chameleon and not that iBoot. This is what I did after creating the installer disk

- Place Netkas' Lion boot file http://netkas.org/?p=745 (option-click 'pcefi') in the root of the installer
- Put an Extra folder in the root with a boot and smbios plist, a DSDT for your system and your extensions and kext cache
- Add "-usecache" boot flag to your boot plist and any other flag you need
- Place FakeSMC in System Extensions, rebuild the kext cache and put in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup
- Reboot into the installer & install
- Reboot into the installer again and boot into Lion, then install FakeSMC, your boot and Extra and any other extensions you need
 
richard.mac said:
Im not sure as i used Chameleon and not that iBoot. This is what I did after creating the installer disk

- Place Netkas' Lion boot file http://netkas.org/?p=745 (option-click 'pcefi') in the root of the installer
- Put an Extra folder in the root with a boot and smbios plist, a DSDT for your system and your extensions and kext cache
- Add "-usecache" boot flag to your boot plist and any other flag you need
- Place FakeSMC in System Extensions, rebuild the kext cache and put in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup
- Reboot into the installer & install
- Reboot into the installer again and boot into Lion, then install FakeSMC, your boot and Extra and any other extensions you need
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Thanks, I'll try that method. I'm not entirely sure about step 1, how to go about that, but I can mess around with it a bit.

I actually did go back and use Chameleon but had problems after the install. Lion ran horribly slow, as in the mouse pointer would lag. Then, upon reboot after i installed Chameleon and all, I got a kernel panic.
 
What the? i sent you this reply, but it was in another thread :confused: maybe a mistake by me or a forum bug. sorry, here it is..

ProwlingTiger said:
Thanks, I'll try that method. I'm not entirely sure about step 1, how to go about that, but I can mess around with it a bit.

I actually did go back and use Chameleon but had problems after the install. Lion ran horribly slow, as in the mouse pointer would lag. Then, upon reboot after i installed Chameleon and all, I got a kernel panic.
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Sent you the PM reply, looks like you know how to use Chameleon. Slowness of the mouse and then panicking could be graphics problems, check for tips on your graphics for Snow Leopard, like graphics enabler or a kext.
 
Lion Hackintosh from Scrath - Easy? Worth It??

Hi!

I'm a long time lurker, but first time poster!

I got a lower end Mac late last year so I could try my hand at a spot of iOS programming and I'm quite enjoying the experience :)

Unfortunately it was a bit of a Friday-afternooner and is about to head back to Apple for its second repair inside 9 months. Needless to say I am not that impressed with Apple's quality control, although that is a side issue.

I seem to be a bit cursed at the moment. Yesterday my backup development PC finally gave up the ghost - in fairness it had been living on borrowed time for a while. To cut a rapidly lengthening story short, I am currently awaited delivery of an Asus EFI motherboard and a Core i5 processor (plus oodles of DDR3 RAM - can't believe how cheap it is at the moment :) ).

The question is this: is it possible to have a bash at a Hackintosh with a Lion DVD made from an App Store download, or does one need to do Snow Leopard first and upgrade?

Subsidiary questions include:

1) Having looked around a bit, the info I can find about Hackintoshes seems to be based on Gigabyte mobos. The features I need for the PC side of things necessitated an Asus one - will that make it harder/impossible?

2) Is there a really simple tutorial/walk-through that is highly regarded out there? I am not really very knowledgeable about Macs (yet!)...

3) It would be really helpful to have a back up Mac development machine given how unreliable my Mac has proved to be. Will XCode run ok on a Hackintosh?

4) Is it worth the hassle? Or will I end up expending a lot of time and effort on a project that ends up being unstable?

Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions!

Cheers,

Dave
 
1. Harder, possibly. Impossible, no.

2. Not really because it depends on the exact model of your motherboard and other parts. The procedure depends on the parts.

3. Should run fine.

4. Again, depends on the specs. Some Hacks are as stable as real Mac but some are the opposite.

Take a look at InsanelyMac and TonyMacx86, they specialize on Hacks and will be able to help you.
 
Thanks Hellhammer!

Sounds like it's worth giving it a go!

I'll check out the sited you suggested - appreciated!

Dave
 
The hardware you pick for you Hackintosh will dictate how easy or hard it is to get everything running (and to keep it running). Make your purchase decisions carefully.

I'd say the hardest part of a Perfect Hackintosh is making a custom DSDT. Although with new EFI boards, you might not need that?

You have quite a bit of research to do if you want everything to go perfectly. You can just 'wing' it, but it won't be as stable or rewarding. :)

See:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/
http://www.kexts.com/
http://www.insanelymac.com/
http://wiki.osx86project.org/
http://www.hackint0sh.org/
http://lnx2mac.blogspot.com/
http://www.netkas.org/
http://www.lifehacker.com/ (While not a Hackintosh site, they do have quite a few guides)
 
aaronw1986 said:
You can't call it a mac. It just runs OS X against the EULA. Why would you post that here? Are you looking to get flamed?
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I know this is an old post, but I think it’s less likely that he’d get flamed for that comment now, specifically because the Mac Mini no longer has a CTO GPU option and the new Mac Pro has a non-upgradeable GPU which is made for design instead of gaming. Besides, it’s perfectly legal to make a Hackintosh as long as you have a legitimate Mac and as long as you don’t distribute OS X to anyone, particularly anyone who does’t have a Mac. No, I haven’t built one. Though, I’m considering building one in a year or two.
 
jblagden said:
I know this is an old post, but I think it’s less likely that he’d get flamed for that comment now, specifically because the Mac Mini no longer has a CTO GPU option and the new Mac Pro has a non-upgradeable GPU which is made for design instead of gaming. Besides, it’s perfectly legal to make a Hackintosh as long as you have a legitimate Mac and as long as you don’t distribute OS X to anyone, particularly anyone who does’t have a Mac. No, I haven’t built one. Though, I’m considering building one in a year or two.
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Holy mother of the Necromancer, you dug deep to find this one.
Just a minor nitpick: I think you'll find that it's not legal, it's just that no-one will enforce the(ir) law upon someone who does it the way you describe. If Apple didn't put their logo on it, you're technically not allowed to run OS X on it.
 
Mikael H said:
Holy mother of the Necromancer, you dug deep to find this one.
Just a minor nitpick: I think you'll find that it's not legal, it's just that no-one will enforce the(ir) law upon someone who does it the way you describe. If Apple didn't put their logo on it, you're technically not allowed to run OS X on it.
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Really? I thought it was illegal, but then I found this: http://lowendmac.com/2009/is-making-your-own-hackintosh-legal/

This would be much easier if Apple simply made a midrange tower. Then people who want to build Hackintoshes could get what they want without dealing with issues of legality and stability. It’s rather strange that Apple made it easier to install OS X on Hackintoshes shortly after making the 2013 Mac Pro ill-suited for gaming.
 
What I always wondered about... what if a company, say Dell, just accidentally happened to produce laptops and desktops that would run Mac OS? You know, just by accident pick the right parts and put them together. And then ten or twenty people would go into forums like this to mention how they used a Dell XYZ 123 to install El Capitan and how great it works without any alterations. I don't think Apple would be able to stop that, would they?
 
navaira said:
What I always wondered about... what if a company, say Dell, just accidentally happened to produce laptops and desktops that would run Mac OS? You know, just by accident pick the right parts and put them together. And then ten or twenty people would go into forums like this to mention how they used a Dell XYZ 123 to install El Capitan and how great it works without any alterations. I don't think Apple would be able to stop that, would they?
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Not really possible the installer checks for a model identification so the machine would have to identify itself as a Mac which would give Apple grounds for their lawsuit. Now making machine with compatible hardware and letting people do their own thing with it no problem there Quo did that with a motherboard.
 
But when you make a Hackintosh yourself, and use Clover or whatever other means there are, your machine doesn't identify as a Mac either. I don't mean that Dell XYZ 123 would allow you to simply install Mac OS X from a USB stick, but that you could use Clover or other solution to install it and not have problems such as "everything works except sleep, trackpad, wi-fi, Bluetooth and keyboard" as most laptops seem to be.
 
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