8 Steps to a 10.5.3 Leo Hackintosh (badaxe2)
A while back I posted the recipe for my Leopard Hackintosh. I've re-done it now to work with OSX v10.5.3.
Components
- Intel D975BX2X2 (Bad Axe2) motherboard
- Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E video card.
- 3GB RAM
- Intel Q6600 CPU
- WD Raptor 150GB 10K RPM HDD
- Pioneer IDE DVD/RW
- Apple Leopard (I purchased this so I wouldn't feel guilty and so I could put the Apple logo sticker on the chassis).
The Steps
1) Burn the Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO. This can be gotten from your favorite bittorrent tracker. I learned the hard way that it's important to A) burn the ISO at 4x and B) take care not to scratch it. Seems the installer isn't very robust when it comes to minor DVD defects. Or, perhaps I was using crappy blanks.
2) Boot from the CD and install. I turned on the machine, slapped the DVD in, and "hit any key" to boot. I used the regular graphics mode without typing any special cmd-line parameters. The boot from Kalyway 10.5.2 is much faster than 10.5.1.
3) When the install gets loaded up go to Disk Utility and create one partition of the whole drive. I'm sure this would work with various partitioning setups but I'm just trying to KISS at this point. Make sure the name of the partition doesn't have any spaces in it. I set mine to MBR.
4) Customize the install. I selected the vanilla kernel which works great with the Bad Axe 2. I also selected the proper Nvidia driver for my video card. There are a lot of other options that I pretty much just left at default, altho I did uncheck the language translations and the French fix.
5) Let the install run and with luck, voila! But you're not done yet.
6) Upgrade to 10.5.3. Boot into the OS and download the Kalyway 10.5.3 update combo. Launch the combo updater and install it, but DO NOT click the restart button when it's done. Instead, run the other "kernel" package. Select the vanilla kernel. When it's done, then it's OK to click Restart in the other window. On boot, hit F8 for startup options and at the prompt type "update -v", hit enter. Watch it boot and you'll be up and running with 10.5.3.
7) But you won't have any sound. So, download this AppleHDA Patcher (courtesy someone a lot smarter than me). Unzip the file, drag the txt file and drop it onto the patcher. After the patch runs and you reboot you'll have sound.
8) The last thing you need to do is get Quartz Extreme working. The 10.5.3 update breaks this for some reason (again, ask someone smarter than me if you're curious why). To do this simply download NVKushInstaller, install it, remove "NVinject.kext" from /system/library/extensions, reboot, hit F8 for startup options, and type "-f -v". When it loads back up you'll have Quartz Extreme.
Caveats
a) Even after installing the audio driver, sound Input doesn't work.
b) Apple Software Update is disabled in Kalyway, so you'll have to manually update things like iLife, etc. Just be careful not to install anything that might effect the kernel (again, if you're wondering what that is, ask someone smarter than me).
I guess the question I have
I guess the question I have is what your motivation is - I wouldn't trust this platform for a production server or workstation. If it's just for the coolness factor then I say sure that sounds like fun. But otherwise not worth the effort at this time.
i concur. presumably you've
i concur.
presumably you've done this because you can and have the time and interest.
so does this guy, who had the time and interest to trick out a fucking coffee machine.
such activities give merit to Kaczynski's manifesto regarding technology and industrial culture.
which is fine if that's what you're into - but now you have an overpriced piece of shit [compared to an elegant macbook IMHO], un-aesthetically pleasing machine running OS X - and you've done it not just once, but TWICE.
plus, you're out how many hours that could've been spent editing articles on wikipedia...it's not as bad as watching tv, a la Gin, Television, and Social Surplus but what did it accomplish?
and if it's so *cool* then why didn't you post some pics?
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I use this platform to edit
I use this platform to edit video and burn DVDs using iLife and FCP, manage/edit photos with iPhoto, audio engineering with Logic and Garage Band, watch movies, surf the web, downloads, even play a few Mac games. It's got dual monitors, firewire, gigabit ethernet, and in general is a fully functional Mac workstation and thanks to Time Machine is backed-up constantly. So, it's not only an interesting hobby but a high-performing Mac for a fraction of the cost.
As a guy who has been using the Mac OS since version 6.x, it's always been a dream of mine to run it on non-Apple hardware. So, that's one dream marked off the list. That's my main motivation. :)
Also, I should add I got software update working with it. Only thing I can't/shouldn't install are OS updates.
questions: - how much is the
questions:
- how much is the true cost of this system build a fraction of the cost of the equivalent OSX system as purchased through normal channels?
- if for some reason your system crashed can you easily mount the backup volume used by Time Machine on another OSX system?
- if enough others did as you did, and installed this sort of setup where OS updates were not able to be installed, do you think there would be some sort of "distributed security hole" opened up due to a large number of unpatched machines out there?
the first point is of course loaded - try to include time used to perform the steps listed. typically when I include time I put it at some arbitrary dollar rate, say $60 / hr.
the second point is from the standpoint of me, a relative n00b when it comes to OSX administration.
obviously the last point will probably be dismissed by most as moot, as there currently aren't a whole lot of botnets targeting the OSX platform. but one thing history does well is make us look like idiots. a very interesting and difficult study would be to see how many N machines out there have to have a remotely exploitable security hole X before something is released into the wild to exploit it.
I think the fraction you're
I think the fraction you're looking for is 1/4. In my case more like 1/8 because all I had to buy was the mobo and CPU.
I haven't tried restoring the time machine backup to another system, but I've restored files from it to another system, including the entire user folder. I've also restored the entire time machine backup to the hackintosh hardware. I save all my uber-important stuff on a separate hard-drive anyway, so if the hackintosh install got hosed and had to be wiped, most I'd lose is my Firefox profile and whatever cruft was on the Desktop.
Yes, if thousands of hackintoshes out there didn't get the latest security updates, they could become a botnet! But I guess for that to be of any significance we'd have to make believe that all the other Macs out there are all up-to-date.
Hackintosh screenshot after
Hackintosh screenshot after Apple Software Update to 10.5.4
k. here's what my lapi
k.
here's what my lapi turned up :
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here's my workstation at the
here's my workstation at the office. Mac Pro w/ 2x dual-core xeons and OS booting off RAID0:
Here's a great DB of all
Here's a great DB of all kinds of xbench scores: http://db.xbench.com/
Thanks to this guide I'm
Thanks to this guide I'm running 10.5.3 on my Hackintosh yay!
So far so good.
If you ever do a tutorial on getting to 10.5.5 please let me know!
Thanks for sharing this!!