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Turn Your PC into a Mac…

Started by menoob · 10 months ago

I mean, Hackintosh!




Hackintosh - A Personal Computer that is running a patched Intel Mac OS X operating system; also called OSx86; or an ugly PC trying to look and behave like a Mac.
So I have a Hackintosh…one that I created almost a year ago. It runs an OSx86 ... Continue reading »

72 comments

  • Smith

    1 year ago

    Hi, i installed iATKOS and it working great but Leopard doesn't know my "Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet". how can i make it work? Thanks for ur giude.
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    Congratulations Smith!

    To make your network card work, you need to add the device ID to your AppleYukon2.kext. My Yukon ID is 88E8056 so if you have a different ID just make the adjustment.

    Ok, first browse through your directory and make sure you have the same path as this:

    /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist

    There may be some slight difference so check first and make the necessary change if needed.

    Now open Terminal and type the following (texts after the arrow are comments):

    cd /System/Library/Extensions <-- changes directory

    sudo nano IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist <-- edits file

    (find and change: Yukon-88E8053)
    (to: Yukon-88E8056) <-- change "53" to "56"

    (find and change: Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8053)
    (to: Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8056) <-- change "53" to "56"

    (find and change: 0x436211AB)
    (to: 0x436411AB) <-- change "62" to "64"

    (press Control-O) <-- saves changes
    (press Enter) <-- accepts saving to existing file
    (press Control-X) <-- exits nano

    sudo chown -R root:wheel IONetworkingFamily.kext <-- repairs permissions
    cd /System/Library <-- changes directories
    sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache <-- rebuilds kextcache on reboot
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  • AulonAlbania

    1 year ago

    Hey! Thanks man! Great job! :-)

    Need your help. I'm having kinda problem here, my system is not recognizing the keyboard. It's PS2, no Caps Lock neither Num Lock Led switching. :-(

    Can you help me?
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  • AulonAlbania

    1 year ago

    I found it! I put an adapter, ps2 to usb and everything solved! Thanks anyway!
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  • Ben

    1 year ago

    Good stuff,
    I haven't done it yet but it looks great, my friend wants to turn his new sony vaio into a mac so this should be the trick
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    Thanks AulonAlbania. I'm glad everything is now working for you. Enjoy your hackintosh!
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    Thanks Ben. Please tell me how it turns out.
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  • Smith

    1 year ago

    Hi ,
    i checked , Info.plist file is empty. there is nothing inside it. another thing is my Ethernet card is same as you. what do u suggest me.
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  • Smith

    1 year ago

    what about if u give me the Info.plist file. what do u think?
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    Hi Smith,

    Please check again your directory and filename. Try "AppleYukon2.kext" instead of "AppleYukon.kext".
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  • vitasg

    1 year ago

    I am trying to change the SATA settings on my harddrive to AHCI. In most computers this is no problem: simply go into the bios page at startup and alter the drive’s settings. However, on lower-end laptops such as mine, the Gateway ML3109, their BIOS pages frequently do not allow, or even display, an option to tweak this setting.

    What to do? The ML3109 has a Phoenix BIOS and I downloaded the Phoenix Bios Editor 4.2, which allows, I think, editing the BIOS page to make certain functions like modifying the SATA mode appear as an option. But I don't know how to do this. Are there any other work arounds? Does the boot patch resolve this issue. As it is, I can't get past the Darwin boot sequence. Thank you!
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  • Smith

    1 year ago

    Yea, u are right it's on AppleYukon2.kext. but i did every step that you told, me but still not working.
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @ vitasg

    Why don't you try the boot patch first. You probably do not need to assign AHCI.
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @ Smith

    Perhaps you missed something? It works for me. :-)
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  • vitasg

    1 year ago

    @blacksocks. Thanks I'll try the bootpatch, but I thought that could only be done once leopard had already installed. I mean cant get into Terminal until that it has already installed.
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  • Smith

    1 year ago

    Thank u very much blacksocks. i hope i will find it in other site.
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  • dock

    1 year ago

    System Profiler or Disk Utility does not recognise my Sata Drives (no volume found). I am running a Dell Dimension 9150. Anybody know how to fix this?
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @ dock

    Check your BIOS and see if you have SATA set to AHCI.
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  • raine

    1 year ago

    hey, i was really amazed by your work.
    but can i install it with my laptop?
    here's the specs:
    Pentium 4 1.8
    504MB System Memory
    14.1" Screen
    1400x1280 SCRN Resolution
    with DVD/CD-R combo drive

    also if it'll work on my PC:
    Pentium D 2.66
    512MB System memory
    18x LG DVD-RW
    17" Monitor
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  • Vellos

    1 year ago

    I can't get the installation to work. It won't get past the gray apple logo with the spinning thing, nothing happens, it just keeps spinning. If i try rd=disk0s1 in that pre boot thing (as suggested by another website) when it reaches the apple logo it tells me to restart. Anyone know what's wrong?
    My hardware:
    Asus p5k-e-wifi AP
    intel core 2 duo 2.4ghz
    8800gts 512mb Asus
    Asus sata dvd drive
    Maxtor IDE HDD
    2G kinston ram

    By the way, nice tutorial. Much better than others.
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Hey, I burned the iso, then i booted my pc into it, but i can't get past the grey screen with the apple logo on it. The screen flashes really fast and then my pc reboots. Help?
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  • Jeff

    1 year ago

    Everything is going fine except the bootfix step.

    When I run "diskutil list" I can see the USB drive and it is named appropriately:

    /dev/disk2
    #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
    0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.9 Gi disk2
    1: DOS_FAT_32 1.9 Gi disk2s1

    However, it is not showing up in Volumes nor can I browse to it:

    -bash-3.2# cd /Volumes/123/files/bootfix
    -bash: cd /Volumes/123/files/bootfix: No such file or directory

    -bash-3.2# cd /Volumes
    -bash-3.2# ls
    .Trashes ._.Trashes Leopard iATKOS v.1.0i

    Any ideas on what is going wrong here? I'v tried it with the USB drive formatted as both FAT and FAT32. Is there some Vista plugin or something I can get to format it HFS? Will that make any difference?

    TIA
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  • Jeff

    1 year ago

    I missed the 123 there in the output of the diskutil list. It was infact named correct however in the actual output.

    I was able to find all the files (dd/bless/startupfiletool) already in the system. Executing them seems to have been successful and without error. However it still will not boot. I get an apple screen with a frozen progress circle below it. A cursor appears for a bit, changes to a colorful spinning cursor then goes away. There is hard drive activity up till this point then it goes away.
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Never mind, I fixed the issue i had earlier by applying the r2 ppf patch to the iso. Now everything works great, except for the fact that when i get to disk utility, my hard drive is not recognized. I have a Seagate 250gb sata hdd. What can i do to fix this?
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @raine

    I've heard of people successfully installing Leopard on a Pentium 4 as long as it supports SSE2 or SSE3. EFI only supports Core2Duo though.
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @Vellos

    Did you exactly follow the steps in the Bootfix patch?
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @ilyace

    Make sure SATA is set to AHCI in BIOS.
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @jeff

    I'm not sure what's wrong. If you followed the steps exactly, it should work as it did on mine and others who did the same thing.
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    @ blacksocks

    I have no AHCI option in my bios. I have the 650i Ultra motherboard btw. Anything else?
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  • Vellos

    1 year ago

    @ blacksocks

    This happens before it installs leopard, when i boot off the dvd for the first time.
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Ok, I installed a patch i found and it now disk utility recognizes my hard drive! I went on ahead and followed the steps, and I'm now installing, hopefully everything will work. Great guide by the way!
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Everything works up to the bootfix patch part. On step 7 it when i type in ./dd(etc...) it says permmission to dd is denied
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Never mind fixed that...lol i keep fixing my own mistakes.
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Alright, now i followed every step correctly, and i did the bootfix patch. Then i restart my pc with the dvd still inside, and i wait for the countdown. When it gets to 0, it shows me my two partitions, the Leopard one, and an XP one i made. I highlight the Leopard partition, and i press enter, but it does nothing. I've even tried doing -v, or -v -x, or ?, but it just flashes and the same screen comes back on. How can i fix this? I've been trying to get Leopard to work for days now.
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  • cervus

    1 year ago

    @jeff,


    Im having the exact problem, cannot access the USB drive for bootfix, it is not showing up in Volumes nor can I browse to it, but I can see the drive on diskutil, how did you solve this?
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @ilyace

    I'm not sure what's causing your boot problem. You can try -r -x or cpus=1. Make sure your partition is MBR not GUID. You can also try different options in the Customize of the installation disc. I did that myself several times until I found what works for my PC.
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    Here is what I think is the problem: When I do the bootfix patch, The first thing I do (After finding what partition/hdd #) is to type this in: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0...Now on your example, from then on, it is supposed to say fdisk: 0>...but mine says fdisk: 1>...I think this could be the problem. Do you know how to fix it?
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  • Sing

    1 month ago

    I have the same thing, it shows fdisk: 1> instead of fdisk: 0>. Can you tell me how you fix it???

    Million thanks.
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  • rabalder1

    1 year ago

    I have a marvell yukon 88e8055 card and cant find what key that card has, any one who knows ?
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  • Ilyace

    1 year ago

    I tried out some different options, and it worked!!! I am very happy and thank you for a great guide! Now can you help me get my 8800GTS 512 (G92) working? Thanks.
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  • w00t

    1 year ago

    Marvel Yukon-88E8036 for me.
    ID 4351
    I tried to edit the Info.plist file but I can't modify it. I copy/pasted the exact line you said above but it doesn't do anything. If I open it in textedit I can't save it either.
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  • blacksocks

    1 year ago

    @w00t

    You need to use the Terminal app and not open it in Finder.
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  • gsdmstf

    1 year ago

    After a successful install I get stuck identifying the keyboard i.e. it seems to see the keyboard correctly by pressing the keys to the left and the right of the shift key but after the last "continue" it sits there for a while and goes back to keyboard cannot be identified. Any ideas?

    Thank you,
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  • gsdmstf

    1 year ago

    got it passed keyboard. How about Ethernet and nVidia 7600 drivers in this distribution. I have the ASUS M2N4-SLI and can';t seem to get Ethernet, sound and a display resolution greater than 1024x768 going. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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  • Simon

    1 year ago

    Thanks for this great how-to. You're the only one that seems to provide any help for someone who wanted to upgrade to the r2 version...

    I've got OS X installed and it seems to work alright... But I've got 2 minor problems.

    The first... I used EasyBCD to setup the boot.ini so that it would prompt me to select either Vista or Mac when the laptop was booting up... It setup everything itself, but seems to work. When I select Mac OS X, it loads the bootloader, but then just sits at "boot:" and that's all...

    Second is that when I log in and start setting up the settings... I get past the language, US, etc... But then when I select the setting that I don't want to transfer any documents over... It sits and spins the little swirly cursor for anywhere from 30-60 seconds, then quits and goes back to the first screen...

    If I select another option, it moves on, but I don't have any documents to transfer over... Any fix for this? How do I get past it?
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    In the "iATKOS Leopard installation" section I get to step 14 and it looks like it's going to install, but then it only gets to about 2-3% and then it freezes. I suspect this must have something to do with the options I selected in step 13. I don't have DuoCore machine, and I don't know if my processor supports SEE2/SEE3 (how can I determine this). I also don't know if it's important to have an exact match on the Display, NIC, or Wireless drivers. I have a Compaq nw8240 laptop with a 2GHz cpu and 1G of RAM.

    Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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  • Simon

    1 year ago

    Update on my situation... I got past the second problem. I was able to get the settings all finished and was able to mess around a bit. Still need to figure out the problem with the booting... I tried the bootfix you posted, except my flash drive isn't recognized... Maybe I'll try it now that I'm in OSX and see if that'll fix the problem

    @curlyjoe - How long did you wait at the 2-3%? Mine seemed to hang up for a few minutes at the same spot, but then jumped a good 15% right away and then continued on... I'd just let it sit for a bit to see if that helps.
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    After reboot I got the blinking cursor. I followed the bootfix patch instructions. Then I rebooted. I get a screen from Darwin asking me for boot options. It shows "hd (0,1) Leopard" and I type in "-v" but nothing happens. The screen blinks very briefly and I get back to the same prompt. The system will not boot. Any ideas? Thanks again in advance for any help you can provide.

    @Simon - You were right. Note to self: be more patient while installing.
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  • skron

    1 year ago

    Hi! I tried several different keyboards (ps2 and usb) but no luck.Instalation is very simple untill I must enter some letters...Only some special function keys working:audio level adjusting,dvd door opening - but nothing else.No matter what language or keyboard chose from drop-down menu! "AulonAlbania" says:"... I put an adapter, ps2 to usb and everything solved..."
    Is there any difference between usb keyboard and ps2 keyboard+usb adapter? Adapter like this:
    ONE is hard to find.Installed it on Gigabyte P35,E8200,2Gb,Ati7950...
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    @Ilyace

    Can you post what options you used? I read your posts and I'm having the exact same problems you had, at the exact same spots. I've got the OS installed, but it will not boot from the Darwin Bootloader menu. Thanks for your help.
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    OK, I tried chmod 777 on the dd/startupfiletool/bless so that I could run with "./" in front, and when I got to the bless command, I ran into some kind of problem which I don't understand. Here is the command I entered and the output that followed:

    ./bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose
    EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
    Other partition scheme detected
    No auxiliary booter partition required
    Returning booter information dictionary:
    {type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
    0 : {contents = "Auxiliary Partitions"} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ( )}
    2: {contents = "Data Partitions"} = {type = immutable, count = 1, values = ( 0 : {contents = "disk0s1"})}
    3: {contents = "System Partitions"} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ()}
    )}
    IOMedia disk0s1 does not have a partition UUID
    DADiskRef disk0s1 has Volume UUID C28B1DAD-8F2E-32DC-9EBA-D693D81CE286
    IOMedia disk0s1 has path IODeviceTree:/C003@0/C0A9@1F,1/C1E2@0/@0:1
    Could not find IODeviceTree:/options

    Please help. Thanks.
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  • Vellos

    1 year ago

    If the iATKOS installation fails and you are unable to fix it, download Kalyway. It's like iATKOS but much more reliable. Only problem is it is about 3.5 Gig. For me, iATKOS would not boot into the installation but Kalyway worked fine.
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  • Spotlight

    1 year ago

    @ Ilyace: Can you please post the steps you took? I (and some other people on this page) am having the exact same problems, but I can't seem to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Matt

    1 year ago

    I get it installed and I go to do the bootfix, but the usb drive doesn't show up. I tried with two different ones. Its not recognized in diskutil and its not in volumes. I am getting so frustrated, I have no idea what to do. Please help!
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    OK I got it running.

    In customize:
    I left the defaults checked.
    I choose Darwin Bootloader x86
    I did not choose Darwin EFI or suboptions
    I chose the SSE2/SSE3 kernel options
    Under System I chose the ApplePMBIOS.kexts nektas or something like that
    Under Drivers|Network I chose Wireless Patch

    The system installed, rebooted, and booted up and got stuck in the "do you own a mac/xfer your files" loop. There was a simple fix for that... it's posted on this page:
    http://www.freewebs.com/bass-2k7/dualbootiatkos...

    Then I booted up and logged in just fine. Video and sound works. However, I have no network drivers or modem, so I can't try to get other driver updates to get my hardware working. I tried to reinstall with Broadcom drivers for LAN since my NIC is a broadcom card, but it doesn't match the chipset in the install. I hoped it would work and it did not.

    Any ideas/help getting network capability to work?
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    @matt - i had that problem too. you have to format your USB stick with HFS+ (MAC journaled) and extract the bootfix files to it. FAT16/32 were not recognized. in the end, i didn't even have to use that bootfix deal. if you install from the 1.0ir2 DVD, if you choose the Darwin x86 it should just reload and boot up.
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  • Matt

    1 year ago

    Well reinstalling with just darwinx86 checked didn't work, but the hfs+ format did for the usb drive. Now I guess I'm stuck not knowing which disk to use. When i run diskutil list i get disk0 being my main hard drive, but nothing about leopard is on it. It says disk1 has stuff on it, specifically disk1s2 is the iatkos install. Should i be using disk1s2 for the bootfix? And when I unmounted disk0, i can no longer access it after i rebooted, is there a way to mount disk0? Thanks for the help.
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  • curlyjoe

    1 year ago

    Yeah I'm not a *nix guy so I don't know about the disk un/mounting, but I'm sure there's a way. Try "man mount" for instructions... q to quit I think.

    diskutil list
    If you say disk1s2 has iATKOS, then yes I think that's what you need to use for the bootfix.
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  • sarvaten

    1 year ago

    Hi guys I get the steps one by one until I get the command:

    ./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1
    umount /Volumes/Leopard
    [and it says dd: count: illegal numeric value ]

    what do I do next :S

    thx in advance
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  • Ferg

    1 year ago

    @VitasG - any success? I, too, have an ML3109 and am looking to give this a go...
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  • chickkun

    1 year ago

    @ gsdmstf: I'm having the same keyboard identification loop problem. How did you get past it? Thanks.
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  • chickkun

    1 year ago

    Keyboard identification loop solution can be found here:
    http://osx86leo4all.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc5

    I've tried this and it works!

    1. Disable your network card in your BIOS.
    2. Boot using -s flag
    3. Type in these commands at the prompt

    /sbin/fsck -fy
    /sbin/mount -uw /
    /sbin/mount -uw /
    passwd root ##it will ask you to enter a new password
    touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
    exit
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  • preston

    1 year ago

    i put the iATKOS disk in and try to boot from it but then i get a bios error or something. wot does this mean and wot will i do to fix it
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  • Anirudh

    1 year ago

    i install iATKOS v1r2
    im my dell pc
    with intel core 2 duo
    4gb ram
    But after installing when booting to mac the apple grey logo appears but after that blnk screen comes ! Help?
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  • laxman

    1 year ago

    when i install iATKOS, i chose all the options you suggested and when the screen say installing mac os x it the progress bar will stop about 1/4 of the way, i let it sit and nothing happens
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  • powertyuuytr

    11 months ago

    kalyway is better iatkos is rubbish with red apple logo
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  • powertoola

    11 months ago

    i cant get past install it always say error


    long live i tried kalyway it is better as powertyuuytr said
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  • powertoola

    11 months ago

    rubbish tutorial


    and why partition (journaed)
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  • menooB

    11 months ago

    Thanks for the comments powertoola or is it powertyuutr? There is no single solution for creating a Hackintosh because of the myriad of PC hardware out there. I have tried iATKOS and Kalyway among others since Tiger, and so far, iATKOS v1.0ir2 has been the most stable and problem-free 10.5.1 installer on my hardware. iATKOS v1.0ir2 + Kalyway 10.5.2 is best for the 10.5.2 version and iATKOS v1.0ir2 + Mysticus 10.5.3 is the best for 10.5.3. Currently, iATKOS v_4i is working best on my PC than any other installer combinations for 10.5.4.

    So, if Kalyway works best for you then good for you. Just don't trash the other installers as they work great for other people. Best of all, they're given away for free so why complain?
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  • Jazzfest

    1 month ago

    @curlyjoe:

    have you finally managed to fix the driver issue for the network chipset in you nw8240 laptop?

    thanks
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  • Jazzfest

    1 month ago

    @curlyjoe:

    have you finally managed to fix the driver issue for the network chipset in you nw8240 laptop?

    thanks
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  • ohn

    2 weeks ago

    this great.. i agree for this post.. you great
    reply

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