Lagerstatten Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hi Everyone, I have my hackintosh running smoothly with Kalyway 10.5.1 then Kalyway 10.5.2 Combo update. However during the installation we were required to name the hard drive anything that didn't have spaces or special characters. eg. leopard, leo, osx, etc But we weren't able to name it "Macintosh HD" like how it normally is on a legit Apple computer. So now that I have everything up and running and my HD is named "leopard", can I now rename it to "Macintosh HD"??? Will this mess up the install (eg, not able to boot afterwards?) Any info would be great, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakemon Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I renamed mine from Leo during install, to Macintosh HD after, and all is still well here.. I used a GUID partition scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrystopher Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 You can rename it. I`ve renamed mine too from Leopard to Macintosh HD and works fine. I`m here. MBR partition scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakemon Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Whats the deal with installing with a Space? why doesn't that work, but you can rename it later down the line? i don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagerstatten Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Works like a charm! Thanks everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audio01 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hi, The problem is with the Kalyway installer. In the bootloader install script (I guess) he forgot to use quotes, so non-standard chars can't be used when installing. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizbot Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Perfectly safe. It's likely there was a permissions error if the finder wouldn't rename it before. I'd recommend against the space. A version of iTunes many years ago corrupted drives that used a space in the name, so it might be a potential programming error. That, and the Oxford911 Firewire chipset issue are the only issues I can remember that caused loss of data like that from Apple. This was OS X.1 era, so it's not a current issue, just something to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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