StrokeMidnight Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I really want to make a Hackintosh, but I'm not too great on programming. I had this idea though. As of now I have an iMac from 2006. It's old and I can't run it that well, but I can do a few things on it (I'm on it now). If I bought a hard drive, put it in my iMac and then installed Leopard on it could I then put it inside the PC and have it work right away? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 no way try one of the tutorials Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfouline Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 wait. woulda he just be able to put that in the pc. install a bootloader. put the necseray kexts to make it boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Yeah that's what I was thinking. If I just installed a bootloader and the kexts I thought I could get it to boot. I didn't think it would just work XD. But I mean if I do everything on the Mac, kexts, bootloader, etc that means I don't risk anything on the PC either right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Yeah that's what I was thinking. If I just installed a bootloader and the kexts I thought I could get it to boot. I didn't think it would just work XD. But I mean if I do everything on the Mac, kexts, bootloader, etc that means I don't risk anything on the PC either right? Perhaps this would work if the iMac was originally booted with a retail version of OSX. That worked with my MacPro's. But if the iMac was installed with just the iMac's re-install disks, there will probably be a lot of stuff missing that could cause a kernel failure et al. That being said, it certainly can hurt to try it with a boot-132 disk or a Chameleon USB disk. If he/she isn't too familiar with OSX either on the iMac or a hack, I would not mess with trying to load the boot info onto the EFI partition of the hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Perhaps this would work if the iMac was originally booted with a retail version of OSX. That worked with my MacPro's. But if the iMac was installed with just the iMac's re-install disks, there will probably be a lot of stuff missing that could cause a kernel failure et al. That being said, it certainly can hurt to try it with a boot-132 disk or a Chameleon USB disk. If he/she isn't too familiar with OSX either on the iMac or a hack, I would not mess with trying to load the boot info onto the EFI partition of the hard drive. I'm pretty familiar with OS X. It's been my main OS since 2006. What I was thinking was that I could buy a new hard drive and buy a retail version of OS X. Then I would take out the hard drive I'm using on the iMac now, put in a new hard drive and install OS X on that from the retail copy. Then I'd take that hard drive and put it into my new PC I'm building. I thought that could help solve formatting issues. While I'm here can anyone tell me if this is a good hackintosh build? Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel Core i7 920 Processor 9GB RAM (3GB Crucial and 6GB Patriot) XFX GeForce 9800GTX+ (2) Western Digital Caviar 500 GB Drives (one to install OS X on and one to install Vista on. I want to dual boot) Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Drive Coolermaster 500W Power Supply Coolermaster Centurion 534 Case Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 It's definately possible. Once the harddrive is in the PC you would need to add the kexts for your system. Or if you are running AMD some more patches. If a distro has the stuff for it you can make the changes by yourself to make it work. iPoco Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Well I've heard that in order to get all 8 cores of the Core i7 working I need to do a retail OS X install. Is that right? And it will work on my hardware right? (listed above) Also, where do I get the kexts? EDIT: Just curious, if I bought an EFI-X would it basically guarantee OS X will install easily? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I thought the i7 had four cores but 8 threads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i7 The kexts you can get from one of the boot132 threads probably. You would have to extract the but they are there. Incase you don't know boot132 is for booting a retail Leopard disk which explains why you would find the necessary kexts there. With the hardware I recommend searching. Someone else has probably at one point tried the same hardware as you. If not there are a few i7 threads around which will probably list which components they used. iPoco EDIT: I think this might be what you're looking for http://osx86.tistory.com/54 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Yeah it has 4 cores and 8 threads, but in activity monitor it will read as 8 apparently. I found a thread about installing OS X on the motherboard I have, but I'm so confused. I've never tried programming and I don't know whether I install the kexts first or if I install Leopard first. Same with chameleon. Do I install Leopard or Chameleon first? And how do I get the leopard installer to start? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Dude this is pretty easy stuff. Here's what you could try to start off. 1. Get SLIMBUILD 2. Download all the kexts files you need for your mobo. Get them from THIS SITE this is the link from ipoco. 3. Create your own boot cd with slimbuild gui. It's very easy to do. You just add the kext files you want and then click "build CD" Once done burn the iso it created. 4. Now you need a retail copy of Leopard. Once you have that all you need to do is put that boot cd in and boot it up, once done take cd out and put in the retail Leopard disc, wait for the dvd led to stop blinking and then follow the instructions on the screen. It should start booting that retail copy of Leopard. 5. Once install is done you still won't be able to boot yet. To boot into Leopard install you will need to boot once again will that boot cd you made. Once it boots you will choose your hard drive where Leopard is installed and it will then start booting. Once you go through the setup process you can then install Chameleon RC1. From that point on you will not need the cd to boot from. You must also make sure you add the kexts from that boot cd to the chameleon extras folder. Good luck, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 Dude this is pretty easy stuff. Here's what you could try to start off. 1. Get SLIMBUILD 2. Download all the kexts files you need for your mobo. Get them from THIS SITE this is the link from ipoco. 3. Create your own boot cd with slimbuild gui. It's very easy to do. You just add the kext files you want and then click "build CD" Once done burn the iso it created. 4. Now you need a retail copy of Leopard. Once you have that all you need to do is put that boot cd in and boot it up, once done take cd out and put in the retail Leopard disc, wait for the dvd led to stop blinking and then follow the instructions on the screen. It should start booting that retail copy of Leopard. 5. Once install is done you still won't be able to boot yet. To boot into Leopard install you will need to boot once again will that boot cd you made. Once it boots you will choose your hard drive where Leopard is installed and it will then start booting. Once you go through the setup process you can then install Chameleon RC1. From that point on you will not need the cd to boot from. You must also make sure you add the kexts from that boot cd to the chameleon extras folder. Good luck, Chevy Ahhh ok thanks a lot! That really helped. I'm not really a computer person so all this easy stuff seems tough to me. I'm really a Mac user who likes to make music and movies and can't afford a Mac Pro, so I need to hackintosh . I really hope this works . Now I just need a good tutorial on how to build it, I can find that myself though. EDIT: The first link doesn't work. Is this what you are referring to? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=129834 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Yes it's what I was referring to. There is a very popular dude on these forums who built a frontend gui for slimbuild. I guess outside links are not allowed, so if you google pcwiz you will find it. The building part is very easy to do. Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1202933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Ah thanks for saving my fingers a little work. Never really a fan of GUI tools its more fun to go and do it without all of the 1 click processes but I guess it simplifies the process. iPoco Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1203205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 According to the Slimbuild with GUI website I need Leopard 10.5 to run it. So I make the boot CD on my Mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1203453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 According to the Slimbuild with GUI website I need Leopard 10.5 to run it. So I make the boot CD on my Mac? You can do no problem. iPoco Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1203475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 So any luck? How's it going? Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1206741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrokeMidnight Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 Right now the parts are on order. The CPU, RAM, keyboard, free gifts from the video card (Call of Duty 5 and World of Warcraft, oddly the card is coming Friday ) and Vista got here today. I'm getting excited . I'm worrying a little about the video card though. The EVGA 9800GTX+ with 512MB RAM is compatible correct? I know the 9800GTX is, but wasn't so sure about the GTX+. Here it is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130456 The computer should be built by Friday or Saturday, Leopard installed around Wednesday because I still have to order it. Can I buy it in a store? I'll keep you updated . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1206903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noNix Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 I have built 2 hackintoshes from my 2006 iMac. I used the iMac to do an install onto an external SATA disk in a USB -> SATA drive dock, using the 10.5.0 retail disk that I already owned, then updated the drive with the combo update to 10.5.7 and updated safari iTunes etc. Then used UInstaller to install EFI, kexts, etc onto the drive. Once evrything was on the drive, transfered it over to the PC, checked the BIOS settings and then booted first time to the Mac desktop. On my first build GA-G31-ES2L I then re-applied the UInstaller to fix display resolutions. You might also want to check out these install guides that are almost as easy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175307-install-leopard-on-mac-then-put-the-hard-drive-in-a-pc/#findComment-1206960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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