@Voyn1x

What you need: Your Retail DVD of Leopard. A blank CD for the Boot CD. A computer to burn an ISO. A hard drive for installation. Benefits of a retail installation against prepatched versions (iPC, iAtkos, iDeneb, Kalyway, JaS etc): Full…

Here you will find some solutions to the common "Still waiting for root device" issue which has been compiled from information in the osx86project wiki. If anyone has managed to solve it another way, please post it here. :) Solution 1 -…

[float=right] Uneasy Silence has just reported that it successfully installed Leopard on Dell's $450 (€335) Mini 9. "I’m a huge fan of ultra portables! They are small, light and just powerful enough to do what you need to get done. Sure I…

[float=right]macrumors.com, May 08, 2009: MacRumors has learned that Apple's Boot Camp utility under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include Windows HFS+ drivers, which will allow Windows installations to read Mac OS X HFS+ formatted…

[float=right] Netkas has just released a new version of PC_EFI with full support for Snow Leopard. As it's now based on Chameleon 2.0 code, it also shares features such as GUI booting and smbios patching. Patches added: Emulating 64-bit…

[float=right] Some new features from the next version of Chameleon have been previewed on the Chameleon blog: "Finally, we’re getting there. I have no doubts about the most demanding feature is should be a graphical user interface for the…

[float=right] [AppleInsider] In spite of an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, clone Mac maker Psystar Monday announced plans to license its virtualization technology for Mac OS X to third-party hardware vendors. The new Psystar OEM…

[float=right] Tom's Hardware, September 8, 2009: "There comes a time in history when dirty secrets will reveal themselves. This happens to be the situation with a little known company called Art Studios Entertainment Media, or ASEM for…

I know this issue has affected many members here, i'm glad to report it seems to have been solved at last. Obviously post any driver feedback in the original thread. Basically, the problem is when you have more than 3 gb of ram (some says…

My RTL8139 card bit the dust this past weekend so I have been stuck without a working ethernet card. I had been using the RTL8139 because the built-in network adapter is a nForce 590i MCP55. The MCP55 ethernet adapter has up until now not…

[float=right] Apple has released 10.6.1, the first update for Snow Leopard. Mac OS X 10.6.1, a recommended update for all Mac OS X 10.6 users, contains general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security…

blog.wired.com , December 12, 2008: [float=right] Just hours after announcing plans to sell a high-end Mac clone, niche electronics reseller EFI-X changed course in order to avoid a nasty legal confrontation with Apple. "We certainly don't…

This tutorial is great for keeping your desktop tidy by unmounting drives you don't need regular access to. For example this could be your Windows drive, Tiger partition etc. I thought this could be added to the wiki, i'm sure others would…

[float=right] Chameleon 2.0 has recently been updated to RC3. "This RC3 build is a small update to RC2, but we’re providing the long-awaited proper Snow Leopard extensions loading and a few fixes like 1TB+ disk addressing support. There…

Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/ Find Software Update in the list. Backup the application to an external drive and eject the drive - I only did this because I wasn't sure how to break the symbolic link (a restart may work though I…

Here's a quick guide on how to apply a PPF patch. Download a PPF Patch. Download PPF-O-Matic v3.0, extract and run it. Find your ISO File. Then browse for the PPF file you want to use to patch. Then press apply. Congratulations, you've…

[float=right] tuaw.com, April 27, 2009: "A tweet this afternoon pointed me to a post by Dave "MacSparky" Sparks titled The Netbook Experiment, in which he talked about his disappointment with a Dell mini 9 netbook. Since I was about to…

I found out this morning that I could get my hack to startup at a set time from full power off by setting the schedule within Energy Saver. I'm sure I tried this before in the past and it didn't work. Maybe it's something to do with the…

Thought this would be a great way for us to discover other 'must have' apps. What apps/games would you recommend to others? This is what I have currently installed on my iPhone: Apps Manifesto - A great RSS feed reader Shazaam - For…

[float=right] MacRumors has uncovered some interesting information regarding Snow Leopard's target release date. "Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation…

[float=right] Hot on the heels of PC_EFI v10, version 2 of BootThink, the OS X bootloader from China, has been released. New features include: Support for installation under windows Ability to update Extensions.mkext within windows Ability…

From website home page: 09 June 2008 EFiX is the best solution for installing and using Mac OS X on your PC. It allows its user to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD without having to worry about patches, replacing files and…

WARNING. Installing this on top of your current install will make a new administrator account and demote your current admin account to standard. Also all of your users docks will be reset to the server default. Make sure you backup your…

As the thread title says really, thought it would be interesting to share the first websites we visit each day. I'll start (no particular order) InfiniteMac (of course) BBC news Digg Engadget Eurogamer MacThemes InsanelyMac NetTuts Neowin…

Looks like the UI will translate well after all, hope to see more soon : Detailed status on the mac build can be found here

Only difference being that dsdt.aml is now no longer needed to boot. Just a small fix for booting system without DSDT.aml system was stalling on motherboards like gigabyte, where bootloader fails to find pointer to acpi 2.0 table, fixed.…

Great illustration dealing with the current state of the web, loving the Firefox image! 0at .org/summer-2008.html (Found via Digg)

[float=right] Made out of 2,588 Lego bricks, the Mac Pro was designed in Lego Digital Designer 2.0 for the MacMod Challenge 2008. The Hackintosh is a plain PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz CPU running Mac OS X, while the Mac Mini is a…

This is a post to hopefully help someone trying to install osx86 on a SSE2 processor. After one long month of trying to fix various issues with my system such as the dvd player crashing instantly, Quicktime crashing playing divx movies,…

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“I'll just be a little bit off topic here but your answers are going to be important. I hope it is ok. Do you experience VERY SLOW boot from USB in G31m-ES2L rev 1.x? I boot from Snow Leopard USB installer and it takes 12 minutes to see the …”

“You replace the contents. The EFI partition method is explained in my old guide for Leopard. Scroll down to Step 6 - just make sure you replace the 'boot' file with PC_EFI_v10.”

“During the eternal quest to reduce the amount of kexts used, i've managed to combine both legacy audio kexts into one”

“To fix your reboot problem you'll need to install OpenHaltRestart out of Extra.zip. The dsdt.aml file within the zip has patches which will allow you to boot without IntelCPUPMDisabler and makes TimeMachine work along with removing the uuid…”

“@ Voynix and others who tried this guide, does your auto sleep work on 10.5.7? on my end AUTO SLEEP doesnt work, sleep works fine using the apple menu + sleep but the time sleep using system preference doesnt seem to work. i have the same b…”

“Great guide. Thanks for this. I have only one small problem, With you Usb kext my usb don't work. Not a problem as they work if i remove it but without the awake function of course.. Ah, the included IOUSBFamily.kext is for 10.5.7. If you u…”

“Thanks for posting this fix! (Y) I played with my DSDT for weeks trying to solve this problem. Up to now i've been using Slices modified IOUSBFamily as a work around.”

“64 bit is application based so kext will not effect the boot up 64 bit only turns on if the app needs it Hmm, after investigating further you are right (at least for Leopard, see my previous post), but according to Mysticus C over on Insane…”

“From what i understand that is the case. If you think that's bad then wait for Snow Leopard: : In most cases Leopard can use the same drivers as Tiger. If there is a limitation, it usually stems from interaction with other kexts and bundles…”

“Everythings going fine, but can't boot into 64bits, it locks when loading AppleNForceATA kext. From a post I read earlier on InsanelyMac, this is because AppleNForceATA is based on AppleVIAATA which is a 32bit based kext. This is also the r…”

“Delete NVinject and try and create an EFI string using the wizard in OSx86 Tools for your card. It might take a little trial and error but it should work.”

“I'm running retail on a C2D. Most Gigabyte Intel based boards are pretty compatible, the best advice I can give you is to find a mobo that looks good and fits your budget, then search here and insanelymac for other peoples experiences using…”

“Installing When you get to the install screen, follow the onscreen instructions until you get to the window asking you to select a drive. From the top menu bar, click utilities, then Disk Utility. Assuming you want to use the whole drive fo…”

“Fantastic news, i've been looking forward to this for a while :”

“This fix incorporated into the kernel is only aimed at K8 socket AMD owners. If you are experiencing problems you should fill out the beta test report and post it on Google Code.”

“This is now fixed as of Voodoo beta 2 One question though: would people prefer to have it as a kext or in-kernel as it is now? This is fantastic news, huge thanks to the XNU team for solving this at last! : Is there any benefit to having th…”

“Guys we have found out some important information regarding the timing issue. The P-state and C-state changes can affect the TSC and can result in TSC drift amongst the processor cores. The drift occurs only when the operating system uses T…”

“Firefox contains a couple of cpuids. If you patch it with Marvins the crashes stop”

“My system was installed originally on a single core processor. A couple of months later I went and replaced it with a dual core X2 so i'm not that dissimilar from you. The mouse is not the cause since it works fine running on one core. It's…”

“To the people who say they have no problems, how long on average do you leave your hack on without rebooting. Many of these issues don't appear until long period of uptime has passed. Also if any apps quit on you during this time with a div…”

“The more AMD users recognise this is problem the quicker we can find a solution. I know Jas might be looking into it, I wonder if the great Zephyroth has any input/suggestions?”

“Zeph 10.5.2 Rev 1 upgraded to 10.5.3 using ASU. Also using an EFI gfx string, MacNub's AppleSMBIOS27, Modbin 9.3.0 kernel and 9.3.0 system.kext”

“Thought i'd chime in with my results. I have found it certainly a lot more stable, going at least 15hrs without issues - where previously it would only manage 3hrs tops before an app would quit. I also haven't experienced the jumpy mouse si…”

“I can't believe it, light at the end of the tunnel at last! Must say I've never heard of these flags until now. Clawhammer, If this works you're a star... * Adds kernel flags and restarts hack *”

“No these are the errors I get normally when running both cores - basically there was no change after making the amends to the com.apple.boot.plist and bios. I really think changing my mobo is the only solution for the time being (or stickin…”

“Right, this morning(7hrs ago) I disabled the spread spectrum in my bios and booted with the -legacy flag. To test I opened Firefox, every CS3 application and started playing a 4.3gb wmv-hd file. I've just got home and all apps had quit on m…”

“[cite] StealthMode:With idlehalt=0 and cpus=1 I am still having the mouse stuttering bug, more so when Transmission is checking data on an existing torrent. Large file transfers seem to be smoother though.. Still, the mouse movement still s…”

“mines the Rev 1, onboard lan is disabled... In theory most of the options you've suggested shouldn't make a difference if they're enabled or not since the machine is fine running cpus=1. I'll give disabling the spread spectrum a go to see i…”

“after a bit of research (ie. Google), it seems there's no way to disable Cool'n'Quiet on my mobo @ Rogue, do you have an option for CnQ in yours, If so is it enabled?”

“nope socket 939... Cool'n'Quiet not sure if i have an option for that, i'll have a look”

“That's really good news! Rogue, after reading that pdf you linked, this would also explain those strange time correction entries in the console when running both cores. eg. 3/18/08 8:41:32 AM mDNSResponder[17] mDNSPlatformRawTime went backw…”

“to add, when using cpus=1 my system was up for 2 weeks with no reboots or errors of any kind.”

“@naquadda , I'll be able to give my bios settings tomorrow, i'm away from my hack until then @Puttabong , Try running some heavy filters in photoshop, or do something cpu intensive. The problem doesn't normally appear until at least 10hrs+ …”

“[cite] naquaada:Have you tested the keyboard mouse? Go in System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Mouse and switch on the keyboard mouse. Now you should be able to control the pointer with the numpad keys. Have you a function 'USB Legacy …”

“I thought IDLEHALT=0 had cured it for me initially, but after working for a period of time in photoshop the jumpy mouse came back unfortunately It only seems to delay the problem.”

“@Puttabong, yeah i've thought about it - i'm hoping it might of fixed itself after updating to 10.5.3. I haven't got around to trying it again without CPUS=1 yet. I'll report back when I have.”

“I've reverted to using CPUS=1 until a proper fix has been found Stability is more important to me than performance. Nothing worse than an app quitting and losing work!”

“After a lot of searching, i have discovered that Apple ensures that all memory modules meet their timing requirements by not POSTing if incompatible memory is installed in the system and that it is very important that Mac users should only …”

“Well i've found out what the -10810 error is. It happens when you have runaway spawn processes. Apparently its often caused by having SMB sharing on, i've turned that off for testing now. Fingers crossed, not sure if this is related to the …”

“I'm another one suffering from these issues. I think it's possibly connected to having multiple cores. I found this thread on Insanelymac about X2 users, not sure if its still valid for leopard. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showto…”