Install xp. Clean install OS X Mavericks.

Install OS X

So, the flash drive with the Clover bootloader is loaded, the top partitions are found with the Mac OS X installer on the USB flash drive, a small partition in FAT32 with Clover, then the hidden partition with the Windows bootloader, the Boot Manager and the system itself.

1 - choose it with the mouse or the down arrow on the keyboard Options  (Settings)

2 - On line Boot args  (Download Options) click Enter to change it, and next to kext-dev-mode = 1 append  -v npci = 0x2000 and again Enter. Use of this argument ( -v erbose) allows you to display information about the boot system on the monitor.

List of disks with partitions and dismounting (unmounting) an EFI partition

Still, the command line can be a little scary, so there is a simple EFI Mounter v2 program. Guess how to work with her?

Let's go back to the Clover installation - run the coveted .pkg file:

a) In the introduction there is information about the developers, by the way, the guys from Russia, version and so on played a significant role. Continue

b) Many letters, I hope you already know what is going on? If not yet, in order to have at least a general idea I strongly recommend to go once or twice in the manual. We continue.

c) Push Tune and select the Clover installation on the EFI partition

d) Upon successful completion of the installation, go on a flash drive  from CLOVER  choose a file with settings config.plistfolder kexts  with "drivers", as well as a folder with themes themes, the latter is not at all mandatory, but it will allow you to avoid another edit of the settings file. Copy these folders to our EFI section in EFI \\ Clover

End) We take out the flash drive, boot from the hard drive.

Detailed video on installing and configuring Clover to your hard disk

Clover Configur ator.app is used for editing.

One moment CsmVideoDxe-64 serves to increase the expansion in Clover, so that when loading an apple it was like on a real poppy, but because of this function, sometimes the poppy is not loaded and you have to reload one and sometimes several times. So with this function it is worth being careful if you see that the computer does not often load the system, go to the EFI partition and delete this script. Or reinstall Clover without a tick, copying your config.plist

the Internet

I have a Realtek RTL8111 network card (you can find out on the Yandex Market on the motherboard or run AIDA64, even in trial version). Typing in Google query Realtek RTL8111 os x  or Realtek RTL8111 os x kext  already on the first page there were positive results! But as practice has shown, they also had to pick up. If there were no problems with the Internet, then I was busy with sound for a long time. Under the link you can download already selected cakes for a network card - Realtek RTL8111sound and - Realtek ALC888

If it doesn’t work either way, you can try a different box or put the same one, but in a different way.

Naturally there is another option  with a separate network adapter  PCI Express interface, which will work without the slightest interference with the system, TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 for wireless data transmission in the 2.4 - 5 GHz range according to the 802.11n standard, for a more sophisticated 802.11ac you will need the TP-LINK Archer T8E AC1750. There are options and cheaper with minimal assault on the wireless IO80211Family.kext TP-LINK TL-WN781ND, be careful we need the first version on the Atheros AR9285 chipset with FCC ID: TE7WN781N  on the radiator, the second run will not succeed (Atheros AR9485 with FCC ID: TE7WN781NDV2). Or, say, TP-LINK TL-WN881ND.

The system sees it as AirPort Extreme:

Concerning wireless usb adapters it also depends on the Ralink, MediaTek, Realtek or Atheros chipset. See what is used in the desired adapter and google on request with the addition of "OS X". For example, fit: D-Link DWA-125 (starting revision A1 from Ralink RT3070 to D1 with Realtek RTL8188ETV) or ASUS USB-N13 (A1-B1). You will need to install additional drivers manufactured by chipset manufacturers, you can get them at the office. sites or forums.

Last thingbecause there are USB-To-Ethernet adapters. For example, D-Link DUB-E100 + of course, additional installation of drivers is required.

Sound

It is possible to master AppleHDA subtleties for a long time and to the deaf or install VoodooHDA, get a working sound and decide where to develop further.

a) So download  and unpacking  VoodooHDA (). From the first installation, I always had the sound, I had to re-configure it all the time until I picked up a real working version, when all the settings are saved, so that you don’t steam with it like I did - I put the last one that I picked up completely working version. This comprehensive package will install the VodooHDA.kext in / System / Library / Extensions, also necessary for its operation AppleHDADisabler.kext disables the built-in AppleHDA sound and a convenient control panel for the new sound VoodooHdaSettingsLoader in the Program directory.

b) Continue -> To install, will be installed on the current system partition.

c) Enter the password, restart and "voila".

After that, I advise you to download the latest version and install it using a kekstevoy utility; The sound will improve, and the main thing is that the settings will still be saved. Settings will be enough to fix the first time after the reboot, in the future they will not have to touch.

To view or change the audio output sourceopen Utilities  in the folder with Programs  (or through Lounge padlocated in the Dock folder Other) choose Audio MIDI Setup. My sound is fed to HDMI, but you can also choose a jack for speakers / headphones on the motherboard. Through the socket of the motherboard and headphones works fine, but you have to manually switch.

Or you can buy for a slightly different amount of “out-of-the-box” sound from Creative, the Sound Blaster Play line of cards. There are many solutions, different degrees of sophistication and everything depends on your needs and desires.

Do not despair of your struggle and do not give up! You will surely succeed - after all, thousands of people around the world have already organized a working space for themselves on Mac OS, not overpaying for hardware and a trademark.

Finally installed, everything works fine. We relaxed, moved away from the computer, and he fell asleep - pulling the mouse - zero, pressing on the keyboard is zero. The only solution in this situation is a reboot. Many recommend to go into the settings and stupidly turn off the sleep of the computer, we will not become like them and decide this question to use a full-fledged poppy. not some kind of breed!

Sleep problem solving

You need to open a terminal window and enter, you can directly copy and paste in order not to type with your fingers.

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

After entering in the terminal

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

You need to click apply, in the window you will be prompted to enter an administrator password like this.

When you enter your password, then in the field there is nothing that will not be displayed, that is, the input will occur in the blind. After you have entered the password again, click apply.

Now you can check the current state of the mode for pm, for this enter the command

sudo pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

and click apply must see.

The order means we reboot and check the dream. :)

Unable to verify this instance of the installation program os x mavericks

With this message all face. who tries to install OS X Mavericks after removing it from the App Store.

There are many different answers on the Internet, such as:

• Check out disk utility  and click to fix the disk;
• The image is hacked by hackers and TP.
• Write a flash drive on another PC

The problem is that when installing Mac OS X, on your PC, you get an error, although the installation flash drive itself is done correctly ... Some people advise you to make the flash drive again on another PC, but this is not at all necessary!

The point is this:

Apple keeps track of the date of the recorded image on the flash drive, and if the date does not match the software limitations, we see the message as a result. We rush to look for other images and as a result we get the same result.

The solution is quite simple:

Through the top menu in the installer window go to Utilities -\u003e Terminal

And type in the terminal:

For OS X Mavericks

date 0706202713

which corresponds to July 6, 2013, 20:27.

For el capitan

date 0406200015

which corresponds to April 6, 2015, 20:00.

After you set the correct date, exit the terminal!

After a reboot, this message will no longer appear.

Important! After installing the system, enter the date and time settings and set the correct date - without this you will not be able to log in to the App Store and connect to Icloud - this is the first thing I encountered, I think other programs will also be buggy!

Mac OS X ORIGINAL (Retail 10.5.0)!

Hello everybody.

Many thanks to everyone who reads my blog, and who finds it interesting. Very pleased to be read.

Introduction

There are judgments that if your motherboard supports the native core of the axis (Mac OS X), then you can put it. This is not about hackintosh. This is what we will look at today by my example.

Many thanks to osikog (torrents.ru) and vlzhukov (forum.usemac.ru) for their invaluable help.

What was in theory has become a reality. I am now writing this note from under Mac OS X ORIGINAL (Retail 10.5.0 + Apple Software Update 10.5.5) now I have a real axis.

Getting to action.

What we need:

1 free flash drive of any raziera, up to 64 megs (it will be bootable)

2 a lot of free time

3 boot loader (external)

4 loader (internal)

5 1 HDD with GUID markup (not put on the MBR, you can not even try) what GUID and MBR can be found here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record (MBR) and here - http: // ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Section_GUID (GUID) paired with vents it does not work

6 right hands and desire

7 image Mac OS is desirable not on disk, but as a separate image file (.dmg .toast)

8 installed somewhere vindovz (2000, XP, viiiiiiiista)

9 hakintosh which is 100% placed on your computer (drivers are not required)

All the below described actions I did on my computer and all the drivers are suitable for me, if you have another hardware you may need to download driver images for your hardware here http://forum.insanelymac.com/ (search on boot 132):

motherboard: ASUS P5K-E WiFi / AP (Intel High Definition Audio ADI1989B \\ USB \\ LAN Marvell Yukon 88E8056 \\ Realtek RTL8187B WiFi)

cPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400

broom: HDD Samsung SATA2 320GB

video: nVidia GeForce  8800 GT 512Mb MSI

drive unit: ASUS DRW-2014L1T Sata

So.

Begin.

So that it was clear though what we will do, I will try to explain a little (I don’t understand much myself)

It’s just that many factors interfere with the axis, one of them is the preloading of drivers and system identifiers. I think I speak correctly. And then I understand something, but I can not say. In short, all this does not need to know. Getting started.

1 You will need the syslinux-3.71 zip archive which you can download here http://depositfiles.com/files/8386903. Next we need a couple more files and an image. You can take them here http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/8387261. Further. We load into the vents, the first and the last time, insert the USB flash drive, memorize its letter - this is important, it will be needed later.

Push start - run - enter - cmd - enter - further in the com window. lines write the following commands: ( pre-format the flash drive in FAT32 and copy the contents of syslinux-3.71. zip to the root of the C: drive and rename the syslinux-3.71 folder to syslinux)

syslinux.exe -ma K: where K: is the letter of the flash drive (I just have this letter, and you may be different)

This command copies one idlinux.sys file to the USB flash drive and makes the USB flash drive bootable. If everything is gut, then you will see a line like this:

c: \\ syslinux \\ win32\u003e

Next, open the archive number 2. There we see INITRD.IMG and the archive BOOTER.zip. We unpack the archive in the same folder and we have 5 files (INITRD.IMG, syslinux.cfg, boot, mboot.c32, syslinux.sys) necessary for normal boot. Copy them to the root of the flash drive. Voila flash drive ready. You can check her work just in case.

Select a disk after booting from a flash drive.

This is done by entering the disk number (81, 82, 83, etc.). 80 is the flash drive itself. Exit to the number entry menu via the ESC key.

So, the flash drive is ready. We have 6 files on it that are responsible for the full download. But one file differs from others in that it is very interesting to us. Namely, it contains drivers for the subsequent installation of the axis. His name INITRD.IMG. Inside it are important files. Directly in this image are the cakes for my iron.   For another iron they need to be collected. There is a program iDMG MAC OS X with which you can create .DMG  images, and they then pereyenovyvayutsya in .Img. Ie you can eat your cupcakes and make your ownINITRD.IMG or surf the net in search of the desired image.

Partishen Map GUIDselects the optical button in the utility disk during the breakdown of the broom into partitions.

• 1 section for the main axis can be called Mac 60gb
  
• 2 section for the data, namely, it will later be put the original axisData 210gb
  
• 3 section for temporary hackintosh Hack30GB

All sections are edited in HFS + journaled with the erase button

The layout of the guid is interesting. We read the wiki and are not surprised that the working space of the broom is less than its nominal size. After all the changes.

So with a broom figured out. This is all set up during the installation of the hack. Next, put the hack in section 3. We take our image with the original axis and expand it to the root of 2 sections. The function to restore to disk utilities. There everything is done with a dragen drop. In the "what" field we drag our image, and in the "where" field we drag our Data section (on the left side of the utility disk) and click the restore button. We wait. It took me about 13 minutes like that. Everything. In this uncomplicated way we made a place from where we will put the axis.

We insert a flash drive and with God

After unfolding the image we reboot the computer and boot from the flash drive. Enter the number of the disk. And then choose our section Data  for download and inter. You can also enter a key   -v  to see the boot process. If everything is good then we saw a menu with a choice of language. It is very good.

I had at least some possible difficulties at this stage.

Because of my card 8800Gt I did not see this menu. Instead, I saw volpaper "space" and the mouse that was spinning. The conclusion is that I had to pull out my card and insert the 7600Gt. It turns out the axis does not know 8800GT in version 10.5.0. And she does not want to be friends with her under any circumstances. The axis will be friends with my card at 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 exactly, but in other versions I have not tried it.

So here. changing the map to 7600Gt I started next. Choose a language. What they want is all in the distribution. We choose firewood on the printer and where to put the axis. In our case, this is our section number 1 Mac. After 5-10 minutes, you will see a message that everything has risen and everything is gut. Installation from a broom is much faster than from a disk. Do not be surprised. So the installer offers us to reboot, which we do, but we boot again from the flash drive. Now the flash drive replaces the bootloader. This is due to the fact that in real Macs the bootloader is embedded in the motherboard or in the ROM (Permanently Storage Device like BIOS) on some kind of motherboard or something else. In principle, everything. We got the original axis. Which works on your computer. This gives you the opportunity to update it from the off. site.

Install Internal Loader

here you can go in 2 ways

1 if you boot from a flash drive is not broke, then you can leave everything. The only thing is to shorten the time of reading the INITRD.IMG file by reassembling it using the program iDMG MAC OS X.

2 can install internal bootloader Chameleon DFE for Hard Disk.  You can get it here http://depositfiles.com/files/8388004. In the archive there is a bootloader that you need to install in the section Mac, as well as there is a folderINITRD. There is a folder in it EXTRAand vney Extensions. When you start the installation of the bootloader, you will see 4 icons on a black background: read, install the bootloader itself, the plate icon, and the folder is blue. Here it also interests us. BEFORE INSTALLING THE DOWNLOADER IT IS NECESSARY TO COPY THE CONTENT OF THE EXTRA FOLDER (THIS FOLDERExtensions ) TO THE BLUE FOLDER BY THE DRAGEN-DROP METHOD.Only then install the bootloader in our section. Then test. Ie take out the flash drive and reboot. If all is well, then the axis will boot. In folder The INITRD archive contains drivers for my mother and system.

Well, that's all. We got a working axis. Now you can download updates. Install the driver. There is an excellent program for setting up the system and installing firewood - OSX86Tools.

Hakintosh that we set can not be deleted. May be useful.

I found it useful. We recall the problem with the map.

I'll tell you how I solved the problem. I downloaded the update, installed it. turned off the computer, inserted the card. booted in safe mode  (-x) installed the card with OSX86Toolsby the method of adding strings. Voila everything works.

Thanks to all.

Why should I install Mac OS Ⅹ?

Experts point out a number of advantages of Mac OS Ⅹ:

• This system is not subject to virus attacks due to the rare use of system bugs by hackers.


• Thanks to the TimeMachine feature here is available to create backups  system.


• On Mac OS: work games developed for Windows, as well as windows programs via Apple BootCamp, Crossover.


• The system functions without rebooting for quite a long time.


• In Mac OS, several processes can operate at once, without degrading the overall system performance.


• Apple offers a variety of interesting applications for Mac OS

Can I install Mac OS Ⅹ on a regular computer?

For those who do not stop the fact that installing Mac OS X on a regular computer is very difficult, we note some nuances. In particular, such a procedure can be done only on a PC, where there are components compatible with such an operating system.

For example, processors and chipsets from intel, and video cards from NVidia. At the same time the lion's share peripheral devices  will not work. As practice shows, Mac OS Ⅹ is installed normally on a PC with a processor that supports SSE3, a Quartz Extreme video card, Quartz 2d, Core Image, GL.

In order to properly install Mac OS X, NTFS partitions will have to be converted to FAT32. Otherwise, there is a great risk of an error when creating a new partition, as a result of which the file system will no longer be read normally.

How to install Mac OS обычный on a regular PC?

For those who are not familiar with Mac OS X, the easiest way is to install versions 10.4.6 or 10.4.7, since there are almost no problems with their installation. Finding such software on the Internet is easy. Most often, Mac OS X can be downloaded online in ISO or DMG format. In the first case, the image is simply written to disk, in the second, we first convert it using the DMG2ISO program to the ISO format, and then copy it to the media.

Install Mac OS X in stages:

1. After we insert the disk into the drive and reboot the computer, press the F8 key. After a few seconds, enter the Y character, which allows you to enter the text mode of the installation. Pressing other keys will redirect to the graphics mode, the functionality of which is lower.


2. If the error “system config file‘ /com.apple.Boot.plist ’not found” pops up, it means that there is some inconsistency between the distribution of the operating system. Therefore, you will have to look for another option.


3. If the “Still waiting for root device” error appears, the reason for the unsuccessful installation is hidden in the incompatibility of hardware to specific requirements for Mac OS.


4. With a normal process, the screen takes on a blue color. After selecting the language, format the partition in which the Mac OS X operating system will be installed. It should correspond to Mac OS Extended journaled.


5. In cases where Disk Utility is unable to format this area in HFS, we use the acronym. For this purpose, we set the manual mode in Acronis Disk Director Suite, after which we create the necessary area in FAT32 format. Using the context menu, we correct the type of the new section by setting here the value 0xAFh. The message about possible data loss is ignored.


6. Next, agree with the license, select the installation section and the components of interest. It is important to select those patches that are consistent with the system. Moreover, they must be adapted either to SSE2 or to SSE3.


7. We carry out the process itself mac installation  OS X and restart the computer.


8. If the installation of the operating system is successful, you can start working with it. If the “b0 error” error occurs, load the disk from the Hiren’s boot, then use the Acronis Disk Director program, activate the partition with Mac OS X. Restart the computer again.

Valery Kosikhin, _3dnews.ru

As you know, at the moment Apple computers are made up of the same components as the PC. So, on the last installation of Mac OS is also possible. How to do this - read this news.

Installing Mac OS X on a PC

Introduction

“Hakintosh” is an ironic name for Mac OS X, installed not on an Apple computer, but on a regular PC. This phenomenon became possible when the company from Cupertino in 2005 began migrating its machines from the PowerPC platform to x86 and Maki was equipped with the same Intel processors and chipsets used in personal computers. Since the time of the first modest victories, the so-called OSx86 project has turned from entertainment of a handful of enthusiasts into a mass movement with a growing user base. Today, when Apple officially released new version  your OS, Lion, it's time to tell about Hakintosh to everyone who doesn't have a Mac, but there is an interest in Mac OS X and a desire to experiment.

Help excellent professionals and enthusiasts for operating system  Mac OS can be obtained if desired at http://www.cyberforum.ru/mac-os/.

The first questions that a person asks when he sees the Mac OS on a PC: “Is it difficult to install?” And “Does everything work normally?”. The answer to both is negative. The installation is now simplified to the extreme, so you can play with Mac OS X on almost any modern computerBut full functionality is not available to everyone - a fair share of users either do not have hardware acceleration of graphics, or a network, sound, or something else falls off.
Hakintosh also has big problems with sleep mode. All these difficulties can be overcome, but you will probably have to spend several sleepless nights. In general, the situation completely copies what was happening with the desktop Linux distributions a few years ago. However, this is a very flattering comparison for the hacking community, as well as for Apple itself: despite the fact that no one ever prepared Mac OS X to work with non-native hardware, things could be much worse. Yes, some pieces of iron will never run on Mac OS, others will require dances with a tambourine for this. But at the same time, a huge fleet of components either works “out of the box” or starts up after easy manipulations. And software for Mac OS is installed and works in all cases in the same way as on the real Mac. It turns out that he is not so scary, this Hakintosh.

If there is no difference, then why pay more? Or is there?

So, if a small offense does not bother you, and technical difficulties only cause a healthy excitement, we will try to install Mac OS X on the PC together. In the article we describe two easy ways  installing the previous, but still popular version of the OS, Snow Leopard (10.6), and one way for new items, Lion (10.7). Putting Leopard (10.5), and even more so Tiger (10.4) makes no sense anymore. If you like the result, then these instructions will be the starting point for self-development of Hakintosh. The last section provides links to popular resources of the OSx86 community, where you can learn from the experience of other users and find solutions for specific problems.

Preparing Hakintosh

Actually, why Mac OS X can't just work on a PC and how to overcome these obstacles? The number one reason is that in “Macs” not a good old BIOS, but EFI is used as an interlayer between the OS and the hardware firmware, and in order for the Mac OS to start, EFI is emulated at the level of a special “hacker” bootloader (by the way , this achievement we owe to the Russian hacker under the nickname Netkas). The most popular and rapidly developing loader today is Chameleon and its derivatives, for example Chimera.

The second reason: in Mac OS X there is a cachet (from kernel extension - kernel extension, remember this term) called Dont Steal Mac OS X. It is required to decrypt the applications that make up what the user looks like the operating system (Dock, Finder, loginwindow, SystemUIServer and others), based on the keys to the SMC chip, which is only on real Macs. Well, if "there are no legs, then there are no cartoons." The FakeSMC Kext comes to the rescue, which successfully emulates the SMC Device, for which, again, thanks to Netkas. Special bootloader and FakeSMC.kext is all you need to boot Mac OS X, if the computer is not very different from the real Macs by hardware.

And this is precisely the third reason. For unsupported hardware, there are no drivers for Mac OS X, or there are built-in drivers, but the system cannot use them because it does not recognize hardware with unfamiliar identifiers.

The hardware requirements for Hakintosha are the same - you need a processor with support for SSE2 instructions, best of all - Intel Core 2 Duo and later. AMD users will have to replace the OS kernel with a “hacked” version, as a result - there will be problems with updating the system from the Apple server. The same goes for netbooks on the Atom platform. It is highly desirable to support the AHCI mode from the SATA controller. To install Mac OS X Lion, you need 2 GB of RAM, and one is enough for Snow Leopard. The first rule for the selection of iron: the more the computer looks like a real "Macs", the less problems. The second rule: the newest and most advanced devices may not work in spite of any efforts, because hardware support depends primarily on Mac OS itself (hard-core hardware drivers are not written for Hakintosh), and Apple has nowhere to hurry. Evaluate the chances of success will help the site wiki.osx86project.org, which contains HLC (Hardware Compatibility Lists) for different versions of Mac OS X.

For installation, it is best to use a separate drive with SATA interface, and turn off the disk with Windows, out of harm's way. If it is not scary to conduct experiments on a single HDD with a working OS, then you will have to create on it new section  with the help of some disk utility (for pure Mac OS X 10 GB is enough). Just keep in mind that during the installation, the Hackintosh bootloader will be recorded on the HDD, and then you can get into Windows only through it. Nothing threatens the available data, but backup also does not hurt. The disk must be connected to the port of the south bridge of the motherboard, the SATA controller in the BIOS must be set to AHCI mode. It is recommended to remove overclocking, remove all expansion cards, except graphic adapter  in the upper PCI-E slot, disable peripherals, in addition to the keyboard and mouse, reduce the RAM size to 4 GB (if installed more). If the installation with minimal functionality is successful, then all this can be returned step by step. Too many conditions? Then you can practice in virtual machine. There are even ready-made images for various hypervisors on the Web, although their use in creating Hakintosh will not bring them.

We warn readers: although “Hakintosh” is a completely harmless entertainment that will not break a computer and is unlikely to spoil any data, all manipulations described in the article are done at your own peril and risk. In addition, you need to be with the computer on you and know what the bootloader is, the OS kernel and the layout of the hard disk.

Installing Snow Leopard with iATKOS 10.6.3 v2

The easiest and most versatile option is to install Mac OS X with a specially modified distribution. Since the release of Snow Leopard, such hacker builds have given way to a more elegant solution — installing from a copy of a company disk using a separate boot CD, and this is written below. But without assembly can not do CPU users from AMD or Intel Atom, because The original Mac OS X kernel (which our English-speaking friends call the vanilla kernel) only supports Intel processors with Core architecture and older, and the assembly allows you to immediately select the "patched" version during the installation process. And after you entered the world of Hakintosh with the help of the assembly and gained knowledge, you can make a clean installation, the components of which you fully control.

iATKOS 10.6.3 v2 is one of the latest released builds, and despite the rather old version of the OS (Snow Leopard has already been updated to 10.6.8), all the “hacker” software on it is quite modern. After downloading the image (we will not tell you where it is from), write it on a blank. Boot from the iATKOS disk and wait for the hacker boot loader to work and the OS to start.

This process takes a few minutes, but if it suddenly drags on beyond reasonable limits or gives an error message, it means that something went wrong.

In this case, you need to boot from the DVD again, but on the bootloader screen with the green chameleon, press F8, select optical disk, type "-x" and press Enter. This is the so-called safe mode, but if you are not lucky with it, then you need to boot with the argument "-v", which will allow you to monitor the boot log. At the moment where the process got stuck or the phrase Kernel Panic appeared, you can take a photo of the screen and then, in a relaxed atmosphere, try to understand what is happening with the help of thematic sites, Google and tips of experienced “hackers”.

The appearance of the window with the choice of language indicates that the download was successful and your system is able to run Mac OS X. We recommend that you choose the language of Shakespeare whenever possible, since most of the instructions and analysis of problems on the Internet are written in it.

Scroll through the installer pages until a disk selection window appears.

Open the Utilities section of the menu and start Disk Utility. If you gave a blank disk for “Hakintosh”, then with the help of this program you need to “split it” (the Partition tab). For installation in a partition next to Windows, the partition is simply formatted in file system  HFS + (Erase tab). For reliability, it is better to choose the HFS + Journaled option, and most users will not need the Case Sensitive option.

After the HDD is ready for installation, disk utility  you can close and specify a partition in the installer window. And now the crucial point is the choice of drivers and settings, which allows Mac OS X to fully work on your hardware. The list opens with the Customize button. All users are advised to look in the Bootloader branch and select the Chameleon v2 RC5 option instead of the option marked by default. Owners of processors AMD, and also Intel Atom should select the modified kernel in section Patches, Modified Kernels.

You should not choose any "drivers" for the graphics adapter in the Drivers section, VGA. It is better to put a checkbox in front of the Graphics Enabler option in the Bootloader Options section - in this case, the bootloader itself will try to activate hardware acceleration. Be that as it may, in the 2D mode, the OS almost always boots, and if the Graphics Enabler method did not work, then you can try your luck with individual “drivers”. By the way, these are not drivers, but only injectors that allow drivers built into Mac OS X to work with unfamiliar video cards, and therefore they are quoted.

Select the appropriate package for network card in the section Drivers, Network - there is a good collection. For a laptop, the contents of the section Drivers, Laptop Hardware are useful. You can take any driver energy-saving functions of the CPU from the section Drivers, Main Hardware, CPU Power Management. The native extension of the kernel, called AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext, which carries this function, is prudently blocked in the assembly, because it is suitable only for Intel processors, and even then not for everyone, and in case of errors does not allow the system to boot.

Do not mark the Sleep Enabler in the Patches section - if you need a sleep mode, then after updating the OS this extension will still have to be replaced.

The Language Translations section is included in iATKOS from the official distribution kit and contains OS interface localization packages, including Russian.

It is advisable to write a list of options that you have chosen, in case the freshly installed OS does not start and you have to find the culprit. When the choice is made, you can click OK and then Install. Go!

At the end of the installation, the computer will go to reboot. You can remove the iATKOS disk and boot up from the hard disk we used to roll out Mac OS X. While the Chameleon bootloader counts down the seconds before the OS starts up, you can press any key and see the list of partitions from which the download is available. If Windows was already on the hard drive, then it starts from the service partition called System Reserved, or directly from its root partition, if the service partition is missing for some reason.

But we can't wait to see Mac OS, right? In this case, just wait, and if the options were set correctly during the installation, a registration window will appear on the screen, and if the Graphics Enabler option worked, then a welcome video will be shown.

What to do if the OS is stuck in the boot phase or gave an error message? The first tip in this case is to boot up with a log viewer. To do this, you need to stop the bootloader while it is counting down the time until the OS starts, select the partition with it, enter the argument “-v” and press Enter. The messages on the screen will find the component causing the crash. Then you can try to boot in safe mode with the argument "-x", and if it succeeds, then it is likely that the case is in some kind of kexte - the driver or device injector that you noted in the Customize menu of the installation disk, and you need to replace it. How to work with cakes, described in a special section of the article.

Installing Snow Leopard with a proprietary distribution

“Hakintosh” can be created with the help of the “native” image of Snow Leopard, which you can even buy to calm your conscience. In this case, all the software that makes Mac OS X compatible with a PC is written to a separate disk. But this method is only suitable for owners of Intel CPUs, since and the distribution disk, and a copy of the OS that will be installed from it, use the original kernel without AMD support. In addition, the unmodified installer of Snow Leopard will not allow the system to roll onto the hard drive, broken using the MBR, and supports only the GUID markup scheme. Therefore, the disk with the MBR will have to repartition.

If Windows is already there and you are not ready to say goodbye to the most popular operating system, then there is no obvious solution: using Disk Utility, first partition the disk with the GUID, create your own partition for the "windows" and install Windows, and then in the second section - Snow Leopard. The key word here is Disk Utiliy. This program, which, as you already know, is launched from the Mac OS X installation disc, creates hybrid markup with synchronized GUID and MBR. A MBR is required to install Windows.

The creator of the iBoot drive, which we will use for a “clean” installation, also warns that for Mac OS X you need to take a partition with a minimum volume of 1 TB. Those interested can see the original manual on the page. However, when preparing this article, the OS was perfectly installed and started up with a 20-gigabyte hard drive.

So first we need an image boot disk  iBoot and MultiBeast driver package - the latest versions of both are posted on the tonymacx86 website (registration is required for downloading). Write the ISO image of iBoot on the disc and boot from it. When a window appears with the choice of partition to boot, you need to replace the iBoot in the drive with the “native” distribution with Mac OS X, press F5, select the DVD and press Enter.

The further procedure is completely analogous to what is written about the iATKOS build, only there are no “left” drivers in the Customize menu, only the standard Snow Leopard packages - interface localization, fonts, etc.

That's just after the installation is complete, boot directly from the hard disk does not work, because a copy of the OS is pristine clean and is no different from what is on real Macs. Therefore, you need to boot from the iBoot disk again and select the partition from Snow Leopad.

If an error occurs, you already know what to do: we boot with the argument “-v” and perform diagnostics, then we try to start the OS in safe mode with the argument “-x”. The tonymacx86 site also recommends the argument PCIRootUID = 1, which can be combined with “-x” and “-v”.

If Mac OS X showed a registration window, then it's time to accustom it to the PC. You need to run MultiBeast from the archive that we downloaded in advance, and scroll through all the installer pages up to the component selection menu. Here, all users should check the EasyBeast Install item - which sets the installation of a minimum set of cakes. To enable support for specific equipment, it is worth looking in separate branches of the list and choosing the necessary extensions. At the end of the procedure, the computer will be rebooted, and you can safely boot from the HDD.

In addition to the boxes, the Chimera boot loader is installed on the disk, and if Windows was previously installed, then it is loaded by selecting the appropriate partition.

Install lion

That's the most delicious - the latest version of Mac OS X. For now, only Intel users can evaluate it. At the time of this writing, Apple has not yet laid out the sources of the Lion core, which means there are no modified cores either. But most of the cases written for Snow Leopard work with Lion.

To install "Lion" we need a working Snow Leopard version not lower than 10.6.6, a free partition on the 5 GB hard disk for placing the installer files, the Lion distribution kit (available for $ 29.99 on the App Store and you know where for free) xMove utility and the familiar MultiBeast package.

The Install Mac OS X Lion program runs directly from under a running operating system, and you need to select the one from which Snow Leopard is launched as the installation partition, which will not affect the OS in any way. After the files are copied, you can agree to reboot and go back to Snow Leopard.

Now it's xMove utility. After launching it, you need to mark an empty partition, which we prepared in advance for Lion, and xMove will transfer there files unpacked by Install Mac OS X Lion. If Snow Leopard is installed using the iBoot + MultiBeast method, then it’s enough to boot from the hard disk and in the Chimera boot menu choose the partition with “Leo”. If iATKOS or another solution was used for the installation, but the bootloader and the cakes are also not the first freshness, then you will have to boot from the iBoot disk. The further procedure completely repeats the process of installing Snow Leopard from a proprietary distribution kit. And as a goal, you can choose a partition with an already running Mac OS X, and then it will be painlessly updated.

Installing and removing cases

How to remove a problem driver, injector or add support for devices that did not start after the initial installation? The cache for kernels (kernel extensions) on Mac OS X is the directory / System / Library / Extensions, and they are loaded from the single cache at /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext, where the OS is puts only the necessary extensions. But modern Hackintosh loaders (already familiar to us Chameleon and Chimera) can download additional cakes from the / Extra / Extensions directory, and their small cache /Extra/Extensions.mkext is formed from them. In MultiBeast and iATKOS, this scheme is used, only in the latter case the / Extra directory is hidden. Display hidden files  included with the command in the terminal.

Defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder

To install many cases, just copy them to / Extra / Extensions. But some of them will not be able to resolve dependencies (in the cache /S/L/C/c/S/Extensions.mlext there are no necessary extensions), and you will have to create a single cache from all “native” and “third-party” extensions in the / Extra directory, which the OS can not alter. This is produced by the following command:

Sudo kextcache -m /Extra/Extensions.mkext - / System / Library / Extensions / Extra / Extensions

Before these files in / Extra / Extensions, you must assign the necessary permissions. Commands:
  sudo chown -R 0: 0 / Extra / Extensions sudo chmod -R 755 / Extra / Extensions

And one more nuance: if even with the correct permissions the kexte did not enter the cache and does not load, you need to open it using the Show Package Contents option in context menu file and view the Info.plist file in the Contents directory. This is an xml file, and at the end, before the closing tags, there should be the following entry:

OSBundleRequired Root

Otherwise, it must be added or changed.

Mac OS X 10.7 is a bit different. Lion uses a different cache format - prelinked kernel. By default, Chameleon does not read it and scans the entire contents of the / Extra / Extensions directory, which slows down the download. The only thing that can be done so far is to create a shared cache in the /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup system directory. Command:

Sudo kextcache -c /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache -v -t -K / mach_kernel - / System / Library / Extensions / Extra / Extensions

And in order for the boot loader to hook up a kernelcache, you need to use the “UseKernelCache = Yes” argument when starting. But unlike the contents of / Extra, this file is subject to the operating system, and from time to time it will update it, forgetting, of course, about our “hacker” extensions. The solution to the problem is to move the cakes from / Extra to the / System / Library / Extensions directory and set the necessary permissions with the commands:

Sudo chown -R 0: 0 / System / Library / Extensions sudo chmod -R 755 / System / Library / Extensions

OS update

Hakintosh can be updated from an Apple server using the integrated software update utility. But at the same time, you need to be prepared for the fact that any cakes after the update will stop working or start to cause failures and have to find a replacement for them. Fortunately, the developers of popular extensions quickly respond to the release of new versions of Mac OS X. In addition, after the update, you need to rebuild the cache of catexes, preloading the system with the argument “-f”. Users of AMD processors, before upgrading the OS, should make sure that a new version of the modified kernel has appeared, or you can leave the old one.

Bootloader configuration

The Chameleon loader or its analogs are managed by the com.apple.boot.plist file in the / Extra folder. It can be modified manually, but there is also a special utility with gUI  - Lizard, which can be downloaded from the page. It is desirable to include the screen resolution in the configuration, the arguments for the load (for example, the above-mentioned “UseKernelCache = Yes”), and the owners of the “non-standard” processors - the name of the modified kernel file. In iATKOS, this is a custom file (look, it lies in the root partition of the disk). Also check off Graphics Injection if this option helped you turn on 3D acceleration.

The 32bit Compatibility Mode option will force the kernel to boot in 32-bit mode, which may be necessary for some cases. At the same time, support for large amounts of RAM remains, and applications can operate in 64-bit mode regardless of the kernel. Similar argument command line  - "-x32".

The argument list may also contain special options for individual cakes.

The program automatically opens the /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist file, and in case of absence will create it when trying to save changes. This is exactly what will happen with iATKOS, since This default build stores the bootloader configuration in the system file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist of the same name. This is not correct, so it's best to clean up after creating a file in / Extra. system file, leaving only those lines that are shown in the screenshot.

Another Lizard feature is editing the /Extra/SMBIOS.plist file. It contains information about the computer model and the hardware installed and helps to represent the computer as some kind of Macintosh in the System Information program.

Apple Peripherals

A question that worries many people, but I don’t want to spend money on the experiment: do the Mac devices and Apple Cinema Display, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad work with Hakintosh? So, the monitor is compatible with any video card equipped with DisplayPort (the DP Mini is suitable or a full-length version of the port with an adapter), and the light sensor also works, and the brightness adjustment in System Preferences. For a mouse and a touchpad, a Bluetooth USB adapter is needed - some work out of the box without any additional casestas, and the connection process is again no different from the one on real Macs.

Free swimming

Now that you can change the cakes and configure the bootloader, the Hakintosh configuration is completely in your hands. After the initial installation of Mac OS X, there are probably some “rough spots” left: something either does not work or it does not work well. Knowledge of the web resources on OSx86 will help bring the system to mind.

Well structured forum with a friendly public. There is a Russian-language section;

The above mentioned encyclopedia with a compatible iron database;

Site with installation guides and useful links;
manuals and software for Hakintosh;

a forum similar to InsanelyMac contains more in-depth technical information on some issues;

base
original and third-party cakes for Mac OS X.