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“Tried this distro and got SL succesfully installed on my AMD machine, but having trouble getting my NVidia Geforce 7300GT PCIe 256mb DDR2 card to work. I already tried EFI strings, Natit, CoreVidia 1.1. FWIW, I've got the same problem with …”

“No Hackintosh will be as reliable and easy to use as a true Macintosh. At best, it'll work as well as (or perhaps even better than, in some respects) a real Mac, but there will always be the potential for software upgrades to completely hos…”

“FWIW, the problem is caused by different assumptions by Windows and OS X about the hardware clock (which is distinct from a software clock that the OS maintains once it's booted). Both systems use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC; basically …”

“You will see that neither the name of the EFI-partition is "EFI", nor the type code is "ef00", which is the proper one for a EFI System Partition. And for the correction, you will need two switches : - "c" for changing the partitions name -…”

“The problem is almost certainly that the partition type code for the partition has been changed. You can change it back with any of several utilities. I'm not very familiar with the command-line diskutil program, so I can't help you there. …”

“Then I'm afraid I don't know what's wrong. You could try running it from the Terminal, though; that might produce some helpful text-mode message about why it's failing.”

“I think it was an install-time option, but if you didn't select it, all is not lost: Insert your Hazard DVD, open a Terminal, and type this command: This will copy the package to your desktop. You should then be able to double-click it to i…”

“You posted your initial query yesterday at 5:49 PM (US Eastern time), then started griping about the lack of responses at 8:55 PM the same day, just three hours and six minutes later. The fact is that this is not a tech support line; it's a…”

“MacOS discs often have dual filesystems -- one ISO-9660 and one HFS or HFS+. When you view such a disc in most non-Mac OSes, you'll see the ISO-9660 filesystem, which may give you access to few or none of the HFS/HFS+ files. This certainly …”

“Using dd (or any other byte-for-byte exact copy) has several drawbacks: If the taget disk is smaller than the original, one or more partitions will be truncated, which will be a serious problem. This will also lose the backup partition tabl…”

“The EFI System partition is not normally used by Mac OS, although some boot loaders use it. (IIRC, Boot Think puts its stuff there, but I don't know about others.) I recommend you do four things: Use any reliable OS X backup tool to copy th…”

“I had a similar problem with an upgrade, and as I recall, the solution was to manually switch back to an earlier kernel. If you've got your original kernel handy, you could try that; or you could try one or more third-party kernels until yo…”

“Although AMD systems can run OSx86, generally speaking, you're better off with Intel for Hackintoshing. Apple uses Intel CPUs (and I believe Intel chipsets, although I'm not 100% positive that's true of all Apple's models) in all its post-P…”

“Okay, I've had about all the fun I can stand in trying to get my hackintosh up and running; I've tried a handful of solutions, none of which results in a usable, dual-boot configuration. One thing that HAS worked, though, is Psystar's Rebel…”

“You might want to check your local public library. I seem to recall there were books published on programming the Apple II series in BASIC, so a library might have a copy of such a book. If you can't find something at a library, perhaps som…”

“I don't know of any Windows utilities; however, if you can boot your install disk and open a Terminal, or use the HFS+ support in some Linux emergency disks, you should be able to use the "du" command to see what's using disk space. Use "cd…”

“Your system is recent enough that you'll probably be able to get something to work, at least minimally; however, I'm not familiar enough with your specific hardware to give more specific recommendations. If you don't get more or better repl…”

“You need to be much more specific, since AMD has made CPUs ranging from 386 clones (maybe even earlier) the their latest and greatest, and Compaq has used the "Presario" name for at least a decade (I've got a decade-old Compaq Presario note…”

“I know this is an old thread, but I've a couple of comments: First, Apple's Disk Utility locks out some options if it doesn't see 128MB or more free space after certain partitions. It's conceivable that your NTFS partition didn't have suffi…”

“Try using an fdisk-type tool to change the partition type code. I'm most familiar with Linux fdisk, so I'll describe it in more detail: If necessary, download a Linux emergency system, such as PartedMagic, boot it, and get to a command prom…”

“Is your disk partitioned using the MBR, GPT, or a hybrid scheme? If it's GPT or hybrid, Apple's Disk Utility can resize an HFS partition, although I'm not sure offhand if it can do this for the currently-booted active partition. (You may ne…”

“I'll add this: If the drive has been formatted using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) system, as most modern Mac drives are, then re-using it as a Master Boot Record (MBR) disk can result in a drive with contradictory MBR and GPT partition de…”

“The installer is probably seeing an existing partition table and partition of a type that it doesn't understand. Since you say the disk is empty, I'd first try using the partitioning tool to create entirely new partition(s). If this is to b…”

“What types of disks are you using? Are your OS X boot disk and the problem disk of the same type (SATA, PATA, USB, etc.?) What does the partition table on the problem disk look like? Typing "sudo fdisk /dev/disk1" in a Terminal will show th…”

“I'd try re-installing your boot loader, or installing another one (Chameleon, Boot Think, or maybe even GRUB 2).”

“The method to which you've linked is known to be very dangerous; there are a lot of problem reports, such as yours, from people who've tried this method. The best advice is to not use it. If you need read/write NTFS support, you should inst…”

“There are a couple of issues here. First, you must have free space on the drive to create a new partition. In this context, "free space" means space that's not currently allocated to partitions; you could have hundreds of gigabytes of free …”

“I doubt it. The Itanium 64-bit CPU architecture is entirely different from the x86-64 CPU architecture used by the CPUs Apple uses in its systems. It's just barely conceivable that Itanium could run a purely 32-bit version of OS X, but this…”

“See this thread for further discussion of it.”