Hackintosh

[dipzy]

Hi guys, ive always wanted to get a imac but they cost too much. I soon realised that you could run mac osx on non apple hardware.

Now this is something that interested me because i always wanted to own and use a mac plus also its only £26 for the OS.

I did some research and found that people were running snow leopard on core i7 systems with processors such as i7 920, 930 980X etc and it worked fine for them.

This would be really save me alot of money.

So i have now bought a the snow leopard OS from an apple store.

I tried to load it up using a bootloader but it never worked.

Here's what i get:

http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/9089/dsc01201p.jpg

My system specs are:

Intel core i7 920

Asus rampage II extreme

6GB Dominator GT

1TB Black caviar

160GB for programs

!60GB (empty)

I want to install snow leopard on the empty 160GB drive.

Can help on how to do this?

Thanks

 

[Grizzly]

I think hardware compatibility with OSX is so specific that you're motherboard might not be compatible but other motherboards with the same chipset would be.

Little read of this makes me think you need a specific boot disc depending on you're motherboard. Have you done this or are you using a different method.

 

[dipzy]

I think hardware compatibility with OSX is so specific that you're motherboard might not be compatible but other motherboards with the same chipset would be.

Little read of this makes me think you need a specific boot disc depending on you're motherboard. Have you done this or are you using a different method.

im using a bootloader called iboot and then i replace the disk with the os x disk and hit enter.

It is supposed to bring up the setup page for snow leopard but instead i get that screen.

Ive even seen people using asus x58 boards aswell

 

[dipzy]

i now get a massage that says "still waiting for root device"

 

[Grizzly]

i now get a massage that says "still waiting for root device"

You may be better off asking on a different site, I haven't heard many people mention or show a vast knowledge of hackintoshing on OC3D before.

 

[marsey99]

i thought p35 boards were best for hackintosh systems?

edit

p45 msi boards are the most compatible so ive been told.

 

[stevebarnes15]

I had it running on mine,and although i eventually got it installed,hardware support is very limited,and couldnt use my lappies wifi.

i used iatkos with chameleon boot,to get mine going.And a little tip,burn your disk at 4x.

My lappy is a celeron dual,and worked perfect.(apart form wifi)

 

[dipzy]

I had it running on mine,and although i eventually got it installed,hardware support is very limited,and couldnt use my lappies wifi.

i used iatkos with chameleon boot,to get mine going.Ans a little tip,burn your disk at 4x.

My lappy is a celeron dual,and worked perfect.(apart form wifi)

thanks for the reply, i'll try with iatkos and seen what happens. I also have a celeron dual core laptop so i might try it on their aswell.

 

[ruthless_villain]

isnt this a little bit illegal? It is against the EULA to run OSX on non-apple branded hardware

 

[I Hunta x]

isnt this a little bit illegal? It is against the EULA to run OSX on non-apple branded hardware

Nope as long as you dont distribute the software you can do what you want to it, thats why apple got told to stop going after people who were jail breaking there phones iirc, once you have payed for it you can modify it all you want as long as you dont distribute any software that you have made changes to, making guides and sharing the programs to do it is also fine.

Back on topic tho, the closest setup ive seen to yours was either a rampage 2 extreme or a x58 sabertooth, both worked fairly well after a little playing.

More info can be found about setups people have had it working at osx86project.org, regarding getting it all up and running most boards/graphics cards even hard drives sometimes need different ways round to get everything working

Personally ive had the most recent version of leopard (1.4) working on my current machine with relatively little effort from the disk that came with a mac mini i had, also managed to get snow leopard 10.6.3 running in a vmware with 0 problems from retail disk, untill... i managed to change the language to russian (with a us keyboard layout thanks to VMware

) then i just gave up with it as i couldnt work out how to swap it back to english.

4ghz mac

with minimal ram allocation heh.

 

[dipzy]

Nope as long as you dont distribute the software you can do what you want to it, thats why apple got told to stop going after people who were jail breaking there phones iirc, once you have payed for it you can modify it all you want as long as you dont distribute any software that you have made changes to, making guides and sharing the programs to do it is also fine.

Back on topic tho, the closest setup ive seen to yours was either a rampage 2 extreme or a x58 sabertooth, both worked fairly well after a little playing.

More info can be found about setups people have had it working at osx86project.org, regarding getting it all up and running most boards/graphics cards even hard drives sometimes need different ways round to get everything working

Personally ive had the most recent version of leopard (1.4) working on my current machine with relatively little effort from the disk that came with a mac mini i had, also managed to get snow leopard 10.6.3 running in a vmware with 0 problems from retail disk, untill... i managed to change the language to russian (with a us keyboard layout thanks to VMware

) then i just gave up with it as i couldnt work out how to swap it back to english.

4ghz mac

with minimal ram allocation heh.

Thanks for the reply, i'll check out the site you mentioned and also try vmware.

 

[Jamzieth]

I was messing around and came across hackintosh software called kalyway. It seems to work well with pretty much everything as well. I installed it on my laptop with it's amd processor and apart from a few little things it works fine.

Now it is an old software so it only goes up to 10.5.2 but i've read lots tutorials on how you can update it to the new stuff on intel systems.

You should look into it. I can't though because of the whole amd thing but i'm happy with 10.5.2. Everything works on it XD

 

[dipzy]

I was messing around and came across hackintosh software called kalyway. It seems to work well with pretty much everything as well. I installed it on my laptop with it's amd processor and apart from a few little things it works fine.

Now it is an old software so it only goes up to 10.5.2 but i've read lots tutorials on how you can update it to the new stuff on intel systems.

You should look into it. I can't though because of the whole amd thing but i'm happy with 10.5.2. Everything works on it XD

I'll look into it, might try to update it to OSX lion

 

[dipzy]

I was messing around and came across hackintosh software called kalyway. It seems to work well with pretty much everything as well. I installed it on my laptop with it's amd processor and apart from a few little things it works fine.

Now it is an old software so it only goes up to 10.5.2 but i've read lots tutorials on how you can update it to the new stuff on intel systems.

You should look into it. I can't though because of the whole amd thing but i'm happy with 10.5.2. Everything works on it XD

I'll look into it, might try to update it to OSX lion

 

[Jamzieth]

WOW double post much XD

 

[allen]

dont get me started on hackintosh i have wasted many days trying to get my pc to work with this i managed to get it to boot to the os then it had no sound or internet and i couldnt find any drivers anywhere for it so after about a week i gave up

 

[dipzy]

dont get me started on hackintosh i have wasted many days trying to get my pc to work with this i managed to get it to boot to the os then it had no sound or internet and i couldnt find any drivers anywhere for it so after about a week i gave up

i too have tried many times, but i'm still looking to perfect it, i read that many people have been at for months and their still tweaking their system to get it right. I enjoy learning new stuff, and in a few weeks time, i might try to get lion running if i can