209 Responses to “Howto: Build a Mac OS X x86 machine to run OS X natively”

1. michael says:

   10/31/2007 at 1:57 pm

   Hey i have a pavillion dv6000 series laptop

   I have downloaded the image and booted it up, but when i boot it loads ther apple screen with the apple logo and the spinning circle, but then it goes to a blue screen with a cursor that wont move in the top left corner, it never moves of this screen even when the dvd drive seems to be trying.

   1GB RAM
   2.0GHZ AMD Turion 64 mobile Processor with SSES-3
   256MB Video RAM, Nvideo 6500 ( or close to)
   80GB hardrive

   IT JUST WONT MOVE OF THE SCREEN, TOOK ME 2 WEEKS TO FIND AND DOWNLOAD AND THIS HAPPENDS!

   if it helps i am also running vista ulitmate, would it boot better if i had XP running???

   please help, i have tried everyhting and i have no idea!!!!!

   MIKE XXX
2. Bad Karma says:

   11/13/2007 at 6:00 pm

   OK, I must say that the people here who are bashing the Mac hardware have obviously never used it. I put OS X86 on a Compac Presario after upgrading the mother board to a NVidia 1600, processor to a AMD 64×2, and the video card to a Radion 1650x, I also brought the RAM up to 2 Gig. The reason I tried was because after upgrading the PC the recovery disks wouldn’t work, and I have an extra copy of Tiger I’m not using after upgrading my Mac to Leopard so I didn’t feel bad about “stealing” the OS. After a week long fight I finally got it running acceptable but nowhere close to how well my MacBook runs it. On a side note, using BootCamp the MacBook even runs Vista better then my sisters brand new AlienWare notebook which reports it has “better” hardware then my Mac. And to XEF6HATER the reason there are no viruses for Mac and Linux is because of a superior Kernel, I would figure with all the MS loving Mac haters like yourself out there someone would have written a Mac virus by now to put us Mac users in our place, but the only time I’ve ever heard of someone getting a virus on a Mac was when they were running Windows.
3. roflstockings says:

   12/2/2007 at 10:43 am

   ok first off

   cmon , look were not lookin for another mac vs pc arguement

   theyr both different types of computer
   and iv been on most operating systems at the moment i prefer vista but im tryin 2 put mac on so i can properly look , iv been on macs before and theyr not better or worse than windows theyr different

   AND

   no i dont want to go and buy a mac , iv already got close to 5 grand worth of computer sitting right next to me, i dont need more lol

   and now to wat i wanted 2 kno

   iv decided 2 make yet another computer.. my 6th

   nd im already running boots of vista , xp , kubuntu for fun and i was thinkin bout runnin osx off my old disk wen i get my nu 1tb XD

   neway these will be the system specs , are there any imediate compatiblity issues
   :
   AMD X2 AM2 Dual Core 4200
   1024Mb 667Mhz PC5400 240pin DDR2
   PCI Express
   nVidia 6100 Graphics
   300gb

   audio – Integrated, 5.1 channel (Realtek)
   LAN – Integrated Fast Ethernet (10/100) (Marvell)

   processor –
   Interface Type AM2
   Clock Speed 2 x 2.0Ghz
   Cache Level 2 Size 2 x 512k

   cheers , just send us an email at “feck.u@hotmail.co.uk”
4. Efren Lugo says:

   3/2/2008 at 4:23 pm

   For those whit a Integrated Intel Extreme 3D Graphics (82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller) you need to define in the BIOS at leat 8MB Video Memory.

   Some Dell computers requiere the BIOS Upgrade from DELL to show this option.

   I had installed MAC OS X86 JaS on DELL GX60, with the integrated video. The problem that cause the grayscale at setup is the video allocated memory by default is assigned 1MB so 700KB are asigned to video during setup causing the grayscale. After changing the BIOS to 8MB Video Shared Memory you should get at leat 7MB for video during setup, so all would be normal.

   The problem i notice is that 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller may not use more than 8MB of shared memory because is the maximum you can select from the BIOS in DELLGX60 so you may notice some buggy video on fullscreen MACOSX86. The effects and other features looks fine under 8MB.

   Regards!
5. Jamie says:

   3/10/2008 at 2:13 pm

   I have it running natively on a Gateway mx6629 laptop. Running a Pentium M, 1.86 GHz, 2Gb DDR2 @ 667 MHz… graphics and speed are flawless, as well as sound. Broadom Wirelss Doesn’t work, neither does Marvel/Yukon 10/100/1000 Ethernet. So… no internet :(. But, other than the fact that it can’t resolute beyond 1024×768, it looks great. Any ideas on the networking issues??? Thanks.
6. Vista User says:

   7/4/2008 at 10:32 am

   Why the hell would anyone want to run a crappy mac OS anyway?
7. Maikiro says:

   10/7/2008 at 1:39 pm

   Using Ubuntu Live CD I follow all the instructions and when I put the following in:

   dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/sda

   I get permission denied can anyone please help
8. Maikiro says:

   10/8/2008 at 7:53 am

   Using Ubuntu Live CD I follow all the instructions and when I put the following in:

   dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/sda

   I get permission denied can anyone please help.
   Problem sorted, in terminal type sudo -i and this gives you admin access on live cd and then the above command line works fine.

   The problem I am having now is Network Card and my Wireless card.
   Where could I find a driver list to use with Mac OS X and Samsung NP-R70.
9. John Nave says:

   10/14/2008 at 3:29 pm

   I have a 1975 Ford Pinto. Can I run OSX86 on it?

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