HOWTO: Leo4All V3 and V4 - The SSE2 Intel Guide

[PGHammer]

Okay; some of you have been looking with covetous eyes at what the people with more advanced Core2Duos and other SSE3 processor-based Hackintoshes have been doing. Well, with some advanced preparation, those of us with SSE2 need not be left out, either.

 

Other than the CPU (which, in this giude, is any Intel or AMD CPU that supports at least SSE2) the other requirements are similar to those for SSE3-based Hackintoshes. While Kalyway's 10.5.2 *can* be used with SSE2, I prefer Leo4All (especially the V4 leaked version, which I'm entering this from).

 

To put together a solid *working* SSE2 setup (single target partition that uses the whole drive, and, of course, the MBR booting method, which is the only one supported for SSE2), here's what *must* be checked (and what should be skipped).

 

Translations: check *only* what's necessary (if you're going to be working only in one language, uncheck the Translations box)

Graphics: check what matches your graphics chipset (caveat: if you have a non-PnP monitor, leave this entire area unchecked and stick to the default 1024x768)

Audio: In most cases, you would check either AC97 or Azalia (unless you are well aware your onboard audio matches one of the other choices shown). If you're unsure, check AC97.

Network: Again, check only what matches your hardware (onboard Intel gigabit Ethernet and PRO1000GT copper gigabit Ethernet NIC owners should NOT panic; the driver for this hardware is installed by default; if you are in this category, skip this section)

EFI/Non-EFI: These settings must *exactly match* (in short, the same checkboxes must be marked); what you want to check are SMBIOS, ACPI, and the Netkas-modified 9.2.0 kernel. For ACPI, you want the original 1.0.3 (again, both the EFI and non-EFI checkboxes for this must be checked).

Applications/Utilities: To be safe, check them all (it saves hunting them down later, especially Stuffit Expander; what WinRAR or WinZip is to Windows, SIT/SEA format is to the Mac world, and has been true since well before OS X), even better, they aren't very large at all.

Non-EFI Boot: I don't know of any SSE2-based PCs that support EFI, so the three checkboxes here *must* be checked.

 

Now sit back and relax (grab a cold bottle of water or other beverage; the install takes about an hour).