When i try to run the bootcamp assistant, it tells me to update my firmware. Ive seen some people using bootcamp on other hackintosh's though. im using the jas 10.4.8 intel/amd sse2/3 release...if i update firmware is it going to destroy my installation?

Please... turn on your brain! You are on a regular PC hardware. You do not need Bootcamp. The only reason Mac-users need Bootcamp is running other OSes on their machines than Mac OS X.

He probably wants it so he can use Parallels with the Boot Camp option. He probably doesn't know how to edit the image and such.

There is still no reason, because parallels is looking for a special emulated part of the partition scheme on real macs with other partition schemes than we have on our hackintoshes. So there will never be a direct support for hackintosh hd´s, unless parallels writes that support. If he wanted to run parallels with "bootcamp feature" then I am sure, the search function would have led him to this thread :-)

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...20&start=20

Oh, I never said he was thinking straight, I was just thinking of why he might ask that question

i just wanted to use the partition resizing util

Gparted works well for resizing, just make sure Journaling is off and backup your data before doing anything drastic.

Do that by entering this in the terminal (if it is the root partition):


If it is not root partition, use this:

Replacing *PartitionName* with the name of your partition.

Shutdown, boot to Gparted LiveCD, resize as you wish.

Now enter this in terminal to re-enable Journaling:

Or, if it is not root partition: