A Core i7 Hackintosh Help

[A hackintosh pro]

I just got a new HP e9280t. It may seem like some sort of off-the-shelve cheap PC and I may seem like some newbie knowing nothing about this stuff but you are equally wrong on both cases.

 

Anyways, I thought that I could boot vanilla because of the core i7 (which mac uses i7 again?) but like you probably were in the last paragraph, I was wrong.

 

Now, I want to know how to install Snow Leopard onto this thing, without wiping the first hard drive. In the guide at the Genius bar of Snow Leopard on the Gigabyte X58, it seems as though you must have two hard drives with one having leopard installed. The computer has only two HD bays, and I can't wipe the data off the first HD, so would two partitions on the second HD be sufficient? I'm betting that that guide would work for me. I'm currently downloading kalyway 10.5.2 to do the guide with, and if anybody posts here, great, if no one does, well, I'll post back with my Kalyway progress. I'm also DLing Snow Leopard.dmg for the instructions.

 

Getting to the point, I have an X58 chipset and a core i7 processor. Most guides have GIGABYTE mobos, but mine is a Pegatron mobo, with core i7 950.

 

BTW, I have Snow Leopard by Hazard, but it won't boot. Any boot parameters for a core i7?</div> I have only been able to boot into iDeneb, and that's leopard.

[mANAB]

I just got a new HP e9280t. It may seem like some sort of off-the-shelve cheap PC and I may seem like some newbie knowing nothing about this stuff but you are equally wrong on both cases.

 

Anyways, I thought that I could boot vanilla because of the core i7 (which mac uses i7 again?) but like you probably were in the last paragraph, I was wrong.

 

Now, I want to know how to install Snow Leopard onto this thing, without wiping the first hard drive. In the guide at the Genius bar of Snow Leopard on the Gigabyte X58, it seems as though you must have two hard drives with one having leopard installed. The computer has only two HD bays, and I can't wipe the data off the first HD, so would two partitions on the second HD be sufficient? I'm betting that that guide would work for me. I'm currently downloading kalyway 10.5.2 to do the guide with, and if anybody posts here, great, if no one does, well, I'll post back with my Kalyway progress. I'm also DLing Snow Leopard.dmg for the instructions.

 

Getting to the point, I have an X58 chipset and a core i7 processor. Most guides have GIGABYTE mobos, but mine is a Pegatron mobo, with core i7 950.

 

BTW, I have Snow Leopard by Hazard, but it won't boot. Any boot parameters for a core i7?</div> I have only been able to boot into iDeneb, and that's leopard.

 

 

it doesnt matter which board u r having.. i think so... to boot on i7 why don't you try busratio=20 cpus=1, cause i was able to boot into it.. but it is damn slow..... still i wasn't succesfull installin it, a error occurse at instalation saying "nothing to install pls restart"... if u get suucesfull... just remind me.....

[backinmac]

I just got a new HP e9280t. It may seem like some sort of off-the-shelve cheap PC and I may seem like some newbie knowing nothing about this stuff but you are equally wrong on both cases.

 

Anyways, I thought that I could boot vanilla because of the core i7 (which mac uses i7 again?) but like you probably were in the last paragraph, I was wrong.

 

Now, I want to know how to install Snow Leopard onto this thing, without wiping the first hard drive. In the guide at the Genius bar of Snow Leopard on the Gigabyte X58, it seems as though you must have two hard drives with one having leopard installed. The computer has only two HD bays, and I can't wipe the data off the first HD, so would two partitions on the second HD be sufficient? I'm betting that that guide would work for me. I'm currently downloading kalyway 10.5.2 to do the guide with, and if anybody posts here, great, if no one does, well, I'll post back with my Kalyway progress. I'm also DLing Snow Leopard.dmg for the instructions.

 

Getting to the point, I have an X58 chipset and a core i7 processor. Most guides have GIGABYTE mobos, but mine is a Pegatron mobo, with core i7 950.

 

BTW, I have Snow Leopard by Hazard, but it won't boot. Any boot parameters for a core i7?</div> I have only been able to boot into iDeneb, and that's leopard.

Actually, I think it is important to have a Gigabyte mobo. Also, I read somewhere that because Apple is shipping the new iMacs with i7's support IS built in to 10.6.2 discs which Apple is now selling on their website. Or, you can check the "usual places".

 

EDIT: I'd check up on the 10.6.2 disc. I'm not sure if it is or not. It's worth checking.