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By: iAtkos S3 v2 Install issue

iAtkos S3 v2 Install issue — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:26:31 +0000

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Thu, 10 May 2012 11:20:53 +0000

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By: What is the Benefit between Retail and Distros?

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By: digital farmer

digital farmer — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:01:42 +0000

I love this your ‘old’ blog Conti..

I’ll save it in my hard disk and show it to my friends who still insist to use OS X distro(s). I hope you give me permit to do that.

I admit that at first, out of total foolishness, I tried distro.
Lucky me a Mac/Hackintosh hobbyst friend told me not to, and learn retail method instead.
Then (like I told you in the forum) I was ‘fall’ to a “fraud’s website/blog/method”..before I met this your very website/forum/blog/method. :)

Now I admit.. I’m starting not to use your myhack tools anymore. Instead I make my own ‘minimalistic’ installer UFD with the Chameleon, as minimal kext as possible (FakeSMC of course), some plist that I need, and self extracted DSDT. But I still, and will always love and watch and read all your work here, cause I always learn good things here. And I wish you always have the energy to do that for us.

I’m sorry that for many reasons, I still can’t give you any donation as you deserve – I’d like to do it someday soon -
All my respect to you always..I wish you all the best.

By: Hackintosh distro | Keizunet

Hackintosh distro | Keizunet — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:52:41 +0000

[...] Why “OSx86 Distros” are bad. | myHackSep 20, 2009 … #2 – The OSx86 Community does not want to support distros! If you can’t get support from the actual distro developer (most do not support their … [...]

By: initblog

initblog — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:23:40 +0000

Getting Mac OS X Snow Leopard retail to work on VirtualBox…

Hello, lazyweb. Today I shall demonstrate to you how to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto VirtualBox without using a Hackintosh distro (and an installation that will be fully upgradeable to 10.6.3 (and probably 10.6.4)). Big thanks go out to Andrew…

By: Conti

Conti — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:41:28 +0000

tanto: I don’t have that hardware to test with but from what I understand you’ll need to use chocolate kernel option, install 10.6.0, update to 10.6.2, then you can revert to vanilla kernel. The other thing you should pay attention to other than that is the audio chip in your perspective motherboard purchase – ALC889a is most well supported, ALC889 and ALC888 are close second.

By: tanto

tanto — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:51:26 +0000

great stuffs here..anyway, i want to know something. are there already a sample built on i5 + p55 with the release of myHack v1.0 ? am going to build my unit on those hardware, so need to know what brands/types are compatible with vanilla kernel…thanks

By: Conti

Conti — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:08:10 +0000

Joed: Thank you for the comments and for the support! Yes you can update to 10.6.2 if you are running a vanilla install with no concerns. The only potential issue would be if you are using a version of myHack installer prior to RC5. If you are using RC4.1 or earlier you will need to update to RC5 before you run the 10.6.2 combo update to correct a bug in the Sleepenabler.kext used in previous versions of myHack installer but other than that there are no problems. It is my intention to add this information to the main installer guide as soon as I have some time to spare.

Thanks again for the positive response.

By: Joed

Joed — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:30:30 +0000

Conti,

One thing I noticed from distros is that you are pretty much stucked on the distro version as an update can corrupt your system and become non bootable.

I followed the method described on this site and got it working in the 2nd or 3rd attempt. Thanks! Just contributed with a small donation and encouraging others to join.

Only one question… Can I update to 10.6.2 w/o issues or there are risks associated?

BTW, thanks a lot for the effort in putting all this information and utils available to the community. {thumbsup}