The Hackintosh Guide, Part 5. Installing OSX on the PC.

Part 5 of my Hackintosh guide.

NOTE: This guide is specific to the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Motherboard!!!!

In this part I'll show you how I installed OSX on the Custom i7 PC.
This may not be the best way to do it, or the easiest.
But this is how I got it to work, without too much hazzle.

I used Empire EFI 1.08 to install OSX.
http://www.mediafire.com/?m5g14umln2w

Also, there is a special version of 1.08, with support for ATI 48xx and Nvidia GTX2xx:
http://www.mediafire.com/?olzzmy0m0kc

The ZIP contains 3 different ISO's.
I used the one called "EmpireEFI_V108.iso"
Just burn the ISO to a CD, and you have a Boot-CD for installing OSX.
I used Nero Burning ROM in Windows to burn the ISO.

Step by step:
- Set 1st Boot device to CD-ROM (in BIOS).
- Set SATA-controller to AHCI (in BIOS).
- Enable USB-keyboard function (in BIOS).
- Save BIOS settings and reboot.
- Boot the PC with Empire EFI Boot-CD.
- Replace Empire EFI Boot-CD when prompted.
- Open Disk Utility.
- Partition HDD. Make sure you use MacOS Extended (Journaled) filesystem.
- Also make sure that the partition table is GUID!!
- When drive is partitioned, close Disk Utility.
- Continue Installation.
- Choose which drive you want to install OSX on.
- Install (or customize the install first).
- When install is done, reboot.
- Boot with Empire EFI Boot-CD again.
- Enter tons of information about yourself.
- When OSX is done loading, run myHack (On the Empire EFI Boot-CD).
- Reboot after myHack is installed.

Your Hackintosh is now almost done.
The rest is explained in Part 6.

PS:
This video shows you how to install OSX Snow Leopard on a single HDD. Everything on that HDD will be deleted when you partition/format the drive in Disk Utility.
If you try to install OSX on a drive that already has Windows on it, that will not be a good thing.
If you need Windows, the simplest way to have dualboot is to have Windows on one HDD and OSX on another HDD.
To have OSX and Windows on the same HDD, but different partitions it is a whole lot more work.

If you have 2 drives, both Windows and OSX will show up when the Bootloader is loading. And you will be able to choose which OS you want to boot with.

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[chnx84]

Myhack is for letting the system load by itself without the cd then? cause ive seen tutorials on how to install a clean version of osx with it too in another partition. Im very confused, thanks a lot!

[sn0le]

@chnx84:

Myhack installs the bootloader (Chameleon) and some other vital things to be able to boot the computer without the Empire EFI CD.

[eagl02]

I have an issue after I install mac os on another hdd. I used the iBoot and Multibeast and I have a UD5 mobo. and have 4gigs of ram to install mac os x 10.6.8 and everything goes fine until i restart and not using the iBoot and takes me to a Grub command line. Also I had Fedora 14 installed on the drive but now its all Mac OS X. help please.. Thanks

[AirbenderG]

i didn't see it either =D

[rvreijsen1]

Dear Snole,

i followed your nr.5 very carefully, but after the succesful installation it appears that at restart (with the EE disk loaded) the installed SL shows to be not-bootable (repeatedly).

Strange enough, an earlier attempt some time ago worked well.

Do you have a suggestion?

Thanks and regards, Rein

[chnx84]

@sn0le thanks man, i finally finished it this week! cheers

[TheiPodTouchTips]

Goto porn is not on this list :D lol

I you do that you should have a good graphics card

[TheFeedbacker]

When I've got 20 minutes left, my PC shuts down, reboots and hang up and it shows "Verifying DMI Pool DATA .........................."

Has sb a solution?

Thank you :)