Hello Mac Community;
I am new to this form as you all know... I have been working on building my first hackintosh for about a month... and with much trial and error (thanks to everyone), I was able to successfully create my first triple boot system. My specs are as follows:
AMD Phenom II X4 945
8GB OCZ Blade 1066Mhz (only able to use 4gb with maxmem=4096 in the Kernel Flag)
All SATA HDD's and Optical Drives using AHCI (No IDE)
XFX 750a Sli Mobo
Partitioned my C:\ using a Seagate 500GB Sata drive. 300gb for Windows and 100gb each for Snow and Linux.
I previously had Windows 7 installed... then used gparted to allocate free space for 2 additional partitions for OSx86 and Linux. I originally had iAtkos on the second partition and used these instructions (
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=201330) to install Snow on an External USB drive. Once the install was successful and I was able to boot to Snow, I then installed iAtkos to the external drive and put Snow on the second partition along with Windows 7 in the first partition and Linux in the 3rd partition. And everything works great. Of course I had to repair the MBR for Windows but that was easy.
I am using Chameleon RC3 with Fakesmc.kext (2.5), mach_kernel.test7 from Modbin. I of course added the additional kexts and EFI strings needed for sound, video, and networking... and everything booted without any hiccups.
NOTE:
If anyone has any advice as to what I need to do to run Snow with 8 gigs of RAM, that would be great. As that is the only limitation at this point that I am facing. I think it has something to do with the ATA kexts that are loading during normal boot i.e. JmicronATA.kext etc. Funny thing is I can boot into safe mode without any flags and get all 8 gigs to show up... but when I boot into normal mode, without flags, the system does the fsck_hfs check and then automatically shutsdown. I proceed to add the maxmem=4096 flag and that is the only way the Snow install will boot.
Oh and BTW, I also have a problem (as many do I'm sure) with the Silverlight plugin for Netflix. I can install without modification to the package installer but still get the N8152 error code. I have done everything I could to the SMbios.plist to edit it to be as close to what I think is a real mac. If anyone has an SMbios.plist that I could use for an AMD Phenom II X4 processor that works with Silverlight, I would be very grateful. I use no smbios injectors or anything other than the original AppleSmbios.plist that is in the S/L/E folder. I load the SMbios.plist from the root Extra folder. Thank you everyone. And please let me know if I can be of some help.
Best Regards.