I managed to install Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an AMD Athlon X2 system after little trouble. I’ll post the procedure to make sure if I have to do it again I can easily refer and someone trying to do the same can save the trouble. This will be composed of a series of posts, a post per step.
A friendly community focused on the development and support for AMD CPUs on OS X. Quick Navigation. Home Forums Contact us. For example I built a slightly more powerful AMD machine on 400 dollars and if I went Intel it wouldn't have been so strong. But in Hackintosh sense, intel is WAY easier to setup as opposed to AMD, but there are tutorials galore for AMD. Ps, don't use Tony Mac )if you did), they are shit. Im using AMD Athlon 2600+ 512 RAM Nvidia 6700 graphicard. Can I run MAC OSX tiger on my PC?? IS my PC compactable? I heard my processor is SSE1 and the OS will run only on SSE2 is it true?? Niresh Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 AMD and Intel Supported Helps you to install OS X Mavericks Hackintosh By niresh who build this hackintosh. AMD Athlon II AMD.
In the mean time find out the specifications of your box. I’m using GIGABYTE GAPM61SME-S2 motherboard with AMD Athlon X2 CPU. If your specifications are just like mine go ahead and download all the files listed bellow, otherwise download 1-3 and then look for kexts for your motherboard.
System specification
- AMD Athlon X2 2800
- nVidia GeForce 6100/nForce 405 chipset
- 1 x 2 GB of DDR2 DIMM
- On board ethernet (nForce 10/1oo Mbit)
- Realtek ALC883 CODEC chip
- SATA HDD (nForce sata controller)
- USB Mouse
- USB Keyboard
- DVD Drive
Downloads
- iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 DVD (Google and find out, you will have to download via Bit torrent)
- Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update (http://keti.ws/95282)
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update (http://keti.ws/95283)
- nForceLAN (http://keti.ws/94281)
- AppleNForceATA (http://keti.ws/95281)
Steps
- Patch the iPC DVD image (Otherwise the DVD will never boot)
- Install Mac OS X 10.5.6
- Remove all Intel kexts (Improves the boot time)
- Install Mac OS X 10.5.7 update
- Install Mac OS X 10.5.8 update
Await step 1, Patching the iPC DVD image tomorrow.
I wanted to try my hand on iPhone development. That can only be done on a Mac. So, I installed it on my AMD Athlon x2 computer. I tried many distros, retail EmpireEFI, iDeneb, Hazard. These are supposed to support AMD x86 architecture, but they don’t.
The only distro that actually supports AMD is “SNOWLEO MAC Snow Leopard OSX86_64” iso.
Yeah, it’s 10.6 but don’t worry we’ll upgrade it to 10.6.6.
Help Needed: I forgot to take the screenshots when I did this. If you are doing this, can you post some screenshots? (Comment)
Note: SATA hard drive is a must.
1) Download Snowleo’s iso. Burn it using ImgBurn.
2) You’ll have to move the DVD drive to a higher priority. This can be done in the BIOS (Press Delete as soon as the computer boots up). Also, set the SATA Hard Drive to AHCI mode.
3) Insert your disc and restart. Your disc should boot up.
4) Now, you’ll have to install your Mac distro in an OSX journal’ed partition. To do that, Go to Utilities –> Disk Utilities. Select a partition other than your Windows 7 partition. Erase it (Obviously, Data in it will be washed away).
Format it to “OSX journaled”. Not the case sensitive one.
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/4/126427752/909248688.jpg)
5) After that, go back to the setup. Click on the Hard drive. Don’t press “next”. Yet.
6) Click on “Customize”. Make sure these are checked.
These are the settings that worked for my 785g AMD hardware (mostly will work for you as well, unless you have extra addon cards). If they don’t try other combinations. Googling might help.
1. Mac OSX 10.6 (Obviously)
2. Use the Azaila audio
3. ATi_init (If you have an nVidia video card, try nVidia)
4. Chamelion RC5
5. AMD Patch
6. Chocolate Kernel
7. FakeSMC
8. Platform UUID
9. Apple driver for the rt8169 (LAN)
10. legacy apple piixata
Leave everything as it is.
7) Click on Next. The installation should be completed in a few minutes.
8) Reboot and you should be booting into Mac OSX. You ask me, where’s your Windows 7?
Rebuilding the Windows 7 MBR (Master Boot Record)
1) Now, boot with your Windows 7 Installation disc.
2) As the setup starts, click on “Repair my computer”
3) Click on “Repair Boot Problems” or
If you are a little bit geeky, Click on “Command Prompt”
Type in “fixmbr”
4) Restart and you should be able to boot into Windows 7.
Dual booting in Harmony
1) Install a Nice program called EasyBCD on your Windows Installation.
Amd Mac Os Drivers
2) Click on “Add New Entry”. Choose the “Mac” tab and select the MBR mode.
Now, you’ll have a perfectly functional Dual boot Windows 7 + Mac OS X 10.6 system.
Upgrading to 10.6.6 or 10.6.7
Mac Os On Amd Pc
1) Install the 10.6.6 or 10.6.7 combo update either by Googling or Click on the “About this Mac” icon.
2) Don’t restart. Go to http://nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.6/Kernels/
Install Mac Os On Amd
Here install the 10.6.0 legacy kernel if you have updated to 10.6.6 or
if you have installed the 10.6.7 update, installed 10.7.0 legacy kernel.
Amd Mac Os X
3) If you want a better update, similar instructions should follow.