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Old 11-16-2009, 08:10 PM
Imkantus Imkantus is offline
 
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Originally Posted by newbie2mac View Post
Or am I living in a dream world?
This is what many people promise themself from using a prepatched distro...
But it many cases using the prepatched systems default settings doesn't even let OSX boot up for them.
What distros do is to offer a number of packages within customized Setup options, that contain patched stuff, additional kernel extensions, bootloader, etc - http://i41.tinypic.com/r8cl1k.jpg this is for example the list of packages included in iAtkos v7 - you know what you need to select to have a working configuration? I guess you don't.

The way OSx86 work is simple, most of us use a bootloader that emulates the EFI Firmware & number of Kernel Extensions - patched default ones and additional ones, that are used for various purposes to make OS X boot on your Hardware - those of us who don't have a Intel Core- or -Nehalem even use a patched Kernel, as the default one (usually called Vanilla) doesn't work for them.
Newer bootloaders even allow to inject values to the systems default Kernel Extensions, so that you no longer need to edit them. This is also possible by using a patched DSDT table, but thats advanced stuff.

If you build such a system configuration yourself you will learn how this works, what will make it much easier for you to find a solution if you run into problems.
When using a disto you might not know about all modifications done and how they work, so this wouldn't be such easy to use.

If you want a system that runs OS X without grobing your system, getting a Mac is the best way.

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