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Hey guy... how'd you manage to get About this Mac working on your Hackintosh without having loginwindow crash?

 

I have about this mac working with no crash on 10.5.4 :) All I really did was use the vanilla SMBIOS 10.5.4 along with the AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext by Chun-Nan, and then I also installed AppleACPIPlatform.kext from karaakeha1's installer guide thread to fix Restart issues, but that's about it. I think what you need is the vanilla SMBIOS and SMBIOSEFI.kext :) Hope that helps...

 

Karvastor,

 

I do remember that I had GIMP working on 10.3.2, no problems at all. All you really need is X11...

I have about this mac working with no crash on 10.5.4 :) All I really did was use the vanilla SMBIOS 10.5.4 along with the AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext by Chun-Nan, and then I also installed AppleACPIPlatform.kext from karaakeha1's installer guide thread to fix Restart issues, but that's about it. I think what you need is the vanilla SMBIOS and SMBIOSEFI.kext :) Hope that helps...

Tell me, pcwiz.. do you have a Pentium 4 or early Celeron D that you have tested this method out on? I have tried just about every SMBIOS out there and nothing has worked to date. I'm pretty sure its a cpuid issue that nobody has bothered to patch in loginwindow...

No, don't have any P4s or Celeron's, I do have a Pentium D machine but I only ran 10.4.10 on that one...Have you tried AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext in combination with the vanilla AppleSMBIOS.kext? Dunno if you have to patch cpuids or anything but its worth a try...

 

EDIT: Also, are you saying that it NEVER worked in Leopard for you or is it just 10.5.4? If it worked in an earlier version I guess you could try copying over loginwindow.app to 10.5.4.

No, don't have any P4s or Celeron's, I do have a Pentium D machine but I only ran 10.4.10 on that one...Have you tried AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext in combination with the vanilla AppleSMBIOS.kext? Dunno if you have to patch cpuids or anything but its worth a try...

 

EDIT: Also, are you saying that it NEVER worked in Leopard for you or is it just 10.5.4? If it worked in an earlier version I guess you could try copying over loginwindow.app to 10.5.4.

I thought so. I'm pretty sure its a Prescott issue... and yes I've tried the SMBIOSEFI{censored}TYCRAP.kext and all that fun stuff...

 

Yes, About This Mac has never worked for me on Leopard....

I thought so. I'm pretty sure its a Prescott issue... and yes I've tried the SMBIOSEFI{censored}TYCRAP.kext and all that fun stuff...

 

Yes, About This Mac has never worked for me on Leopard....

 

Hey,

I use Netkas's SMBIOS with Chameleon or PC_EFIv8 Bootloader.

I must install an EFI bootloader to correct the crash issues I found With logonwinow app .

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