Hackintosh

[TheOldPeculiar]

Hi all,
I have been told you folk are very nice, very helpful and very knowlegeable, so I've signed up to find some help.:help:

I have a HP Compaq 6710b laptop and would like to try running ios on it. I have looked at so many different forums now that I don't know if I am coming or going anymore:wooha:. They all seem to say the same thing, yet different. If you know what I mean. Anyway, I'm going to ask for your help in starting from scratch right through to the end .

Please can you tell me how it is done. I have snow leopard and various startup discs, but have never been able to get it to load. What do I need first?

 

[salaxi54]

This being your first post, i'd like to welcome you to our forum.
I know you posted at General Chat, but this place is mainly "all things Amiga" and all else comes afterwards..
Not saying you won't get any help, but my belief is that very few users here have been involved in a Hackintosh project..
I've been through the task, but there have been so many OS updates since, i can't bother following it any more.. Nearly every new version of MacOS seems to need a different treatment, and of course it all depends on your specific platform!
Good luck on this one.

 

[TheOldPeculiar]

Hi Salaxi54,
Thank you for your warm welcome to the site. I understand everything you are saying. My frustration is of the same. Every different version of IOS and every different PC the process changes. It's too confusing.

Thanks again and sorry it's nothing to do with Amiga's.

 

[cosmicfrog]

iPC OSx86 Universal 10.5.6 PPF5 Final Releas

seems to support your laptop

dose your dvd boot ??

 

[Harrison]

.. this place is mainly "all things Amiga" and all else comes afterwards..

That is definitely not true. Although we do have Ami in our site name, Amibay is a completely cross platform retro trading site, not one mainly aimed at the Amiga. It is only due to our name that this misunderstanding continues to crop up, and also because we do have a lot of the Amiga community here.

Ami- was actually part of the site name in reflection of it being an unofficial successor to Amibench, nothing more.

@TheOldPeculiar

Welcome to Amibay and good luck with your Hackintoch project. It is something I've thought about doing in the past too, but have also been put off by the complexity of it and the fact different procedures have been needed depending on the hardware used.

I do however know of a few people who have successfully got OSX running on their PCs.

BTW, did you mean OSX rather than iOS? I didn't think Apple's mobile OS, iOS, could be run on a PC, other than via the iOS developers emulator that is available... and is restrictive in its functionality.

 

[salaxi54]

.. this place is mainly "all things Amiga" and all else comes afterwards..

That is definitely not true. Although we do have Ami in our site name, Amibay is a completely cross platform retro trading site, not one mainly aimed at the Amiga. It is only due to our name that this misunderstanding continues to crop up, and also because we do have a lot of the Amiga community here.

Ami- was actually part of the site name in reflection of it being an unofficial successor to Amibench, nothing more.

I know it sounded kinda weird, not my intention! But the percentage of people involved in Hackintosh projects here is very limited from what i've seen. Of course there's coverage of "all things computer/game/what-have-you" and i did mention he would get help from users..
Anyway, from personal experience, the biggest (?) resource site concerning Hackintoshes i've seen is insanelymac. They've a few guides and a bounch of HCL's (Hardware compatibility lists) for every flavor of OS X.
Here's an interesting thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=76288
This takes you from an early Leo version (10.5.2) up to Snow (10.6.3) but it appears there's a lot of patching involved...

@TheOldPeculiar: Good luck with the installation mate!

 

[TheOldPeculiar]

.. this place is mainly "all things Amiga" and all else comes afterwards..

BTW, did you mean OSX rather than iOS? I didn't think Apple's mobile OS, iOS, could be run on a PC, other than via the iOS developers emulator that is available... and is restrictive in its functionality.

My goodness, I don't believe it. What a plonker I am oh:. You are right it's meant to be OSX, but I think everyone gets my drift.

 

[mjnurney]

www.insanelymac.com

this is the place i got most of my info for my hackintosh last year ....great guides and very helpful

 

[TheOldPeculiar]

iPC OSx86 Universal 10.5.6 PPF5 Final Releas

seems to support your laptop

dose your dvd boot ??

Hi Cosmicfrog,

Well that's the thing. The standard OSX doesn't boot which is why I need one of the many boot discs like Iboot. They fool the system into thinking it's a MAC and allows it to boot. When I then place Snow Leopard in the drive, it will continue but stops. The screen may even go blank, but if I plug into an external monitor I see an Apple Logo. It won't go any further than that though. I sort of feel that one of these boot loaders needs to be tailored to my hardware or at least use the basics of my hardware. Then once it's installed, I add the additional hardware via some other software. I can't remember the name.

So, it's confusing and I take my hat off to anyone who has done it successfully. I also beg them for their knowledge to helping me succeed.

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Hi Salaxi,
I went through the guides on insanelymac which is how I managed to get part way there, yet totally lost.

I'll let you know if I get any further.