Comments on: Turn Your PC into a Mac…

By: TinaMoran

TinaMoran — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:26:42 +0000

nice post for my essay writing

By: ohn

ohn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:19:12 +0000

this great.. i agree for this post.. you great

By: ohn

ohn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:19:12 +0000

this great.. i agree for this post.. you great

By: Jazzfest

Jazzfest — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:28:55 +0000

@curlyjoe:

have you finally managed to fix the driver issue for the network chipset in you nw8240 laptop?

thanks

By: Jazzfest

Jazzfest — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:08:11 +0000

@curlyjoe:

have you finally managed to fix the driver issue for the network chipset in you nw8240 laptop?

thanks

By: Sing

Sing — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:41:56 +0000

I have the same thing, it shows fdisk: 1> instead of fdisk: 0>. Can you tell me how you fix it???

Million thanks.

By: menooB

menooB — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:43:32 +0000

Thanks for the comments powertoola or is it powertyuutr? There is no single solution for creating a Hackintosh because of the myriad of PC hardware out there. I have tried iATKOS and Kalyway among others since Tiger, and so far, iATKOS v1.0ir2 has been the most stable and problem-free 10.5.1 installer on my hardware. iATKOS v1.0ir2 + Kalyway 10.5.2 is best for the 10.5.2 version and iATKOS v1.0ir2 + Mysticus 10.5.3 is the best for 10.5.3. Currently, iATKOS v_4i is working best on my PC than any other installer combinations for 10.5.4.

So, if Kalyway works best for you then good for you. Just don’t trash the other installers as they work great for other people. Best of all, they’re given away for free so why complain?

By: powertoola

powertoola — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:26 +0000

rubbish tutorial

and why partition (journaed)

By: powertoola

powertoola — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:44:24 +0000

i cant get past install it always say error

long live i tried kalyway it is better as powertyuuytr said

By: menooB

menooB — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:43:32 +0000

So, if Kalyway works best for you then good for you. Just don’t trash the other installers as they work great for other people. Best of all, they’re given away for free so why complain?

By: powertyuuytr

powertyuuytr — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:42:44 +0000

kalyway is better iatkos is rubbish with red apple logo

By: powertoola

powertoola — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:45:26 +0000

rubbish tutorial

and why partition (journaed)

By: powertoola

powertoola — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:44:24 +0000

i cant get past install it always say error

long live i tried kalyway it is better as powertyuuytr said

By: powertyuuytr

powertyuuytr — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:42:44 +0000

kalyway is better iatkos is rubbish with red apple logo

By: menooB » Blog Archive » Turn Your PC Into A Mac w/ OS X Leopard 10.5.3

menooB » Blog Archive » Turn Your PC Into A Mac w/ OS X Leopard 10.5.3 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:41:05 +0000

[...] to 10.5. Yes, you only need two files! Burn the iATKOS iso file to a DVD like I mentioned in the post above and remember where you placed the Mysticus file. Install OS X 10.5.1 from iATKOS Install [...]

By: menooB » Blog Archive

menooB » Blog Archive — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:28:50 +0000

By: Turn Your PC into a Mac… « BlackSocks

Turn Your PC into a Mac… « BlackSocks — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:55:14 +0000

[...] reading here. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)A Better Hackintosh: Fixing the Black Spots in [...]

By: laxman

laxman — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:31:32 +0000

when i install iATKOS, i chose all the options you suggested and when the screen say installing mac os x it the progress bar will stop about 1/4 of the way, i let it sit and nothing happens

By: laxman

laxman — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:31:32 +0000

when i install iATKOS, i chose all the options you suggested and when the screen say installing mac os x it the progress bar will stop about 1/4 of the way, i let it sit and nothing happens

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:06:02 +0000

i install iATKOS v1r2
im my dell pc
with intel core 2 duo
4gb ram
But after installing when booting to mac the apple grey logo appears but after that blnk screen comes ! Help?

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:06:02 +0000

i install iATKOS v1r2
im my dell pc
with intel core 2 duo
4gb ram
But after installing when booting to mac the apple grey logo appears but after that blnk screen comes ! Help?

By: preston

preston — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:18:42 +0000

i put the iATKOS disk in and try to boot from it but then i get a bios error or something. wot does this mean and wot will i do to fix it

By: preston

preston — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:18:42 +0000

i put the iATKOS disk in and try to boot from it but then i get a bios error or something. wot does this mean and wot will i do to fix it

By: chickkun

chickkun — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:13 +0000

Keyboard identification loop solution can be found here:
http://osx86leo4all.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc5

I’ve tried this and it works!

1. Disable your network card in your BIOS.
2. Boot using -s flag
3. Type in these commands at the prompt

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/mount -uw /
passwd root ##it will ask you to enter a new password
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
exit

By: chickkun

chickkun — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:30:13 +0000

Keyboard identification loop solution can be found here:
http://osx86leo4all.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc5

I've tried this and it works!

1. Disable your network card in your BIOS.
2. Boot using -s flag
3. Type in these commands at the prompt

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/mount -uw /
passwd root ##it will ask you to enter a new password
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
exit

By: chickkun

chickkun — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:17:50 +0000

@ gsdmstf: I’m having the same keyboard identification loop problem. How did you get past it? Thanks.

By: chickkun

chickkun — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:17:50 +0000

@ gsdmstf: I’m having the same keyboard identification loop problem. How did you get past it? Thanks.

By: Ferg

Ferg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:56:47 +0000

@VitasG – any success? I, too, have an ML3109 and am looking to give this a go…

By: Ferg

Ferg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:56:47 +0000

@VitasG – any success? I, too, have an ML3109 and am looking to give this a go…

By: sarvaten

sarvaten — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:58:28 +0000

Hi guys I get the steps one by one until I get the command:

./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1
umount /Volumes/Leopard
[and it says dd: count: illegal numeric value ]

what do I do next :S

thx in advance

By: sarvaten

sarvaten — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:58:28 +0000

Hi guys I get the steps one by one until I get the command:

./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1
umount /Volumes/Leopard
[and it says dd: count: illegal numeric value ]

what do I do next :S

thx in advance

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:21:05 +0000

Yeah I’m not a *nix guy so I don’t know about the disk un/mounting, but I’m sure there’s a way. Try “man mount” for instructions… q to quit I think.

diskutil list
If you say disk1s2 has iATKOS, then yes I think that’s what you need to use for the bootfix.

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:21:05 +0000

Yeah I’m not a *nix guy so I don’t know about the disk un/mounting, but I’m sure there’s a way. Try “man mount” for instructions… q to quit I think.

diskutil list
If you say disk1s2 has iATKOS, then yes I think that’s what you need to use for the bootfix.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:52:29 +0000

Well reinstalling with just darwinx86 checked didn’t work, but the hfs+ format did for the usb drive. Now I guess I’m stuck not knowing which disk to use. When i run diskutil list i get disk0 being my main hard drive, but nothing about leopard is on it. It says disk1 has stuff on it, specifically disk1s2 is the iatkos install. Should i be using disk1s2 for the bootfix? And when I unmounted disk0, i can no longer access it after i rebooted, is there a way to mount disk0? Thanks for the help.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:52:29 +0000

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:07:17 +0000

@matt – i had that problem too. you have to format your USB stick with HFS+ (MAC journaled) and extract the bootfix files to it. FAT16/32 were not recognized. in the end, i didn’t even have to use that bootfix deal. if you install from the 1.0ir2 DVD, if you choose the Darwin x86 it should just reload and boot up.

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:05:26 +0000

OK I got it running.

In customize:
I left the defaults checked.
I choose Darwin Bootloader x86
I did not choose Darwin EFI or suboptions
I chose the SSE2/SSE3 kernel options
Under System I chose the ApplePMBIOS.kexts nektas or something like that
Under Drivers|Network I chose Wireless Patch

The system installed, rebooted, and booted up and got stuck in the “do you own a mac/xfer your files” loop. There was a simple fix for that… it’s posted on this page:
http://www.freewebs.com/bass-2k7/dualbootiatkosvista.htm

Then I booted up and logged in just fine. Video and sound works. However, I have no network drivers or modem, so I can’t try to get other driver updates to get my hardware working. I tried to reinstall with Broadcom drivers for LAN since my NIC is a broadcom card, but it doesn’t match the chipset in the install. I hoped it would work and it did not.

Any ideas/help getting network capability to work?

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:07:17 +0000

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:05:26 +0000

OK I got it running.

Any ideas/help getting network capability to work?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:17:41 +0000

I get it installed and I go to do the bootfix, but the usb drive doesn’t show up. I tried with two different ones. Its not recognized in diskutil and its not in volumes. I am getting so frustrated, I have no idea what to do. Please help!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:17:41 +0000

By: Spotlight

Spotlight — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:04:57 +0000

@ Ilyace: Can you please post the steps you took? I (and some other people on this page) am having the exact same problems, but I can’t seem to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Spotlight

Spotlight — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:04:57 +0000

@ Ilyace: Can you please post the steps you took? I (and some other people on this page) am having the exact same problems, but I can’t seem to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Vellos

Vellos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:06:46 +0000

If the iATKOS installation fails and you are unable to fix it, download Kalyway. It’s like iATKOS but much more reliable. Only problem is it is about 3.5 Gig. For me, iATKOS would not boot into the installation but Kalyway worked fine.

By: Vellos

Vellos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:06:46 +0000

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:53:51 +0000

OK, I tried chmod 777 on the dd/startupfiletool/bless so that I could run with “./” in front, and when I got to the bless command, I ran into some kind of problem which I don’t understand. Here is the command I entered and the output that followed:

./bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Other partition scheme detected
No auxiliary booter partition required
Returning booter information dictionary:
{type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
0 : {contents = “Auxiliary Partitions”} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ( )}
2: {contents = “Data Partitions”} = {type = immutable, count = 1, values = ( 0 : {contents = “disk0s1″})}
3: {contents = “System Partitions”} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ()}
)}
IOMedia disk0s1 does not have a partition UUID
DADiskRef disk0s1 has Volume UUID C28B1DAD-8F2E-32DC-9EBA-D693D81CE286
IOMedia disk0s1 has path IODeviceTree:/C003@0/C0A9@1F,1/C1E2@0/@0:1
Could not find IODeviceTree:/options

Please help. Thanks.

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:36:27 +0000

@Ilyace

Can you post what options you used? I read your posts and I’m having the exact same problems you had, at the exact same spots. I’ve got the OS installed, but it will not boot from the Darwin Bootloader menu. Thanks for your help.

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:53:51 +0000

OK, I tried chmod 777 on the dd/startupfiletool/bless so that I could run with "./" in front, and when I got to the bless command, I ran into some kind of problem which I don't understand. Here is the command I entered and the output that followed:

./bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Other partition scheme detected
No auxiliary booter partition required
Returning booter information dictionary:
{type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
0 : {contents = "Auxiliary Partitions"} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ( )}
2: {contents = "Data Partitions"} = {type = immutable, count = 1, values = ( 0 : {contents = "disk0s1"})}
3: {contents = "System Partitions"} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ()}
)}
IOMedia disk0s1 does not have a partition UUID
DADiskRef disk0s1 has Volume UUID C28B1DAD-8F2E-32DC-9EBA-D693D81CE286
IOMedia disk0s1 has path IODeviceTree:/C003@0/C0A9@1F,1/C1E2@0/@0:1
Could not find IODeviceTree:/options

Please help. Thanks.

By: curlyjoe

curlyjoe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:36:27 +0000

@Ilyace

By: skron

skron — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:38:41 +0000

Hi! I tried several different keyboards (ps2 and usb) but no luck.Instalation is very simple untill I must enter some letters…Only some special function keys working:audio level adjusting,dvd door opening – but nothing else.No matter what language or keyboard chose from drop-down menu! “AulonAlbania” says:”… I put an adapter, ps2 to usb and everything solved…”
Is there any difference between usb keyboard and ps2 keyboard+usb adapter? Adapter like this:
ONE is hard to find.Installed it on Gigabyte P35,E8200,2Gb,Ati7950…