Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Snow Leopard is the latest version of OSX available. I can't remember much of my Hackintosh sources. You can also install OSX on a USB drive and boot from it, apparently.
Registered Member #2236 Joined: [ 19:30 ] [ 15 Jun 2009 ]
Depends how easy you want to do it, it's fairly easy depending on what method you use. Latest is Snow Leopard yes, but Leopard works just as well. Wouldn't recomend doing it via VMware unless you cant dualboot.
So there seems to be so many options out there for this. and its bending my brain.
I have a new setup - corei7, nvidia sli. I have found guides that seem to fit this setup but maybe not for leopard.. whats the difference? anything worth worrying about?
also is it pretty easy to upgrade to leopard once i have my hackintosh running?
Registered Member #2236 Joined: [ 19:30 ] [ 15 Jun 2009 ]
First option you could try is to install a unmodded version of OSX.
You'll have to downlaod empire EFI http://prasys.co.cc/2009/10/empire-efi/ and burn it to a cd, when thats done you boot from it, eject the cd when it tells you to and insert the osx disc. It should then start up the installer and will then let you install, but you'll have to format the harddrive you're thinking about using to GUID and HFS + (Journaled). At the end of the installation you'll probably get a warning telling you that the install went wrong, but it didnt.
You should be able to boot osx now (you might need to boot from the empire EFI disc).
You might have problems with your graphicscard, wireless, soundcard depending on what kind of hardware you have, but there are patched .kext's and injectors that can help you with that.
There are also several different patched Leopard and Snow Leopard to pick between. If that doesnt work you can always try a patched version of OSX from iPC, iDeneb, Hazard, etc. They usually have loads of patched .kext's and injectors and is the easiest way to get a hackintosh without having to buy any sort of efi module, though the only way to update OSX then is to download patched updates. You won't need empire efi or anything else to boot a patched osx disc.
Another option if you dont want to play arround much with the OSX kernel is EFI-X, a internal bootable usb thingy, if your hardware is on their supported list then that is the easiest way to install osx on your pc, but also the most expensive seeing as you have to buy the EFI-X module. It's loaded with all the patches for the hardware on their supported list and is constantly updated. It allows you to update OSX via software update without having to fiddle arround with things. EFI-X 1.1 supports Snow Leopard and Leopard while EFI-X 1.01 only supports Leopard.
Using / Buying hardware that's close to the hardware you can get on macs gives you the least hassle with hardware compatibility.
Registered Member #2236 Joined: [ 19:30 ] [ 15 Jun 2009 ]
press F8 in darwin bootloader and write -V then press enter, if it still doesnt boot and shows "Still waiting for root device" you might have to try another patched osx disc.