How to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your AMD system OSXLatitude. Installing OS X on a normal desktop computer has been exclusive to Intel based systems for a long time. Since the release of the first AMD kernel for Mac OS X 1. AMD users have been trying to Hackintosh their computers too. Things got easier when Mac OS X 1. AMD developer Nawcom released AMD kernels and his Mod. CD. This whole guide is based on his work, so were very happy that he did all this work just for us, AMD users What youll need A Gigabyte AMD 8. X maximum or n. Force motherboard, ASUS AMD 7. X maximum or n. Force motherboard. An emptyharddisk, the used filesystem does not matter at the moment. File transfers have never been faster than they are today. But to move data between devices can still seem slow and inconvenient. We have you covered with solutions. MacOS m k o s previously Mac OS X and later OS X is the current series of Unixbased graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple. A retail Snow Leopard DVDAn empty cd or DVDPatience Whats in my pc Before proceeding with this guide, please make sure you have collected all of your systems hardware information. The Windows application CPU Z can help you with this. This guide is seperated in two different methods, one for AMD chipsets and one for Nforce based chipsets. Follow the method optimized for your system. Please read the guide in advance If you encounter anything unfamiliar or see something you dont quite understand, feel free to ask in the forums. Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10. Mac OS X now named macOS, Apples desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. One of my favorite psychological tricks comes from a novella by comedian Steve Martin, Shopgirl. Its a guide to telling lies. There are three essential qualities. Update 2 If you are looking for a guide to Dual Boot Windows Vista and Mac OSX Leopard, please follow this guide Hack Attack Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista. Okay, lets talk about a very serious topic bath mats. Is there a right and wrong way to use themThe installation. Configuring the BIOSThe first thing youll need to do is to adjust some settings in your motherboard BIOS. To access yours, press the key that corresponds to the BIOS settings when you power on the system. This is mostly something like F1. Delete key DEL. The good thing here is that most AMD and Nforce BIOSs are similar but not always the same. Thats why we cant tell the exact naming of some things, but we can tell you what to look for. Here is a list of things you should adjust to make your hardware Hackintosh ready Change the SATA mode to AHCI. By default, it is configured as IDE, so youll need to change it to AHCI. Dont change this when you have a working Windows installation, it will break it Configure standby mode to S3. Some manufacturers already have this mode as default. If this is not the case, change it to S3 or S3 STR. Adjust Boot Device Order parameters. The first steps in installing OS X on your machine require booting from a cd. Make sure your optical drive is set as the first boot device. The second item in the order should be the hard drive where you are going to install OS X on. Getting to the installer and preparing your hard drive. The first thing youll need to do is downloading and burning Nawcoms Mod. CD onto an empty cd. You can download the. When the burning has been finished, reboot your computer and let it boot from it. When it is booted, follow these steps to iniate the installation If everything went well, you should be greeted with the bootloader. Now, swap your Mod. CD with your retail. Snow. Leopard copy. Give it some time to read the disc and press F5. When the icon saying Install Snow Leopard appears, press your Enter key. Some text will appear, Wait until the line Press any key to continue appears. Press any key to continue. For a period of time, the only thing youll see is a bunch of white text scrolling down on a black background. This is the retail DVD trying to boot the installer. This could take a while and dont panic when it seems stuck. After a while, the installer should come up. You may press Continue. Accept the license and click the button Utilities found in the menubar. A drop down list will appear. One of the options there is Disk Utility. Click on it and the window will appear. We can manage and format our hard disks with this tool. On the left side, youll see all of your hard drivers. Select the one where OS X will be installed on and click on the Format button. Select Mac OS X Formatted Journaled as filesystem and give it a pretty name. Customizing your installation. We are getting closer to actually installing OS X. What we need to do now is to select the right kexts for your chipset. Pay attention now, because this is where the guide will be divided in two. One for each type of chipset, AMD and Nforce. A dialog will appear where you can select where you want to install Snow Leopard onto. In the bottom left corner is a button called Customize. Click it. A list box will show up. Click the arrow next to Custom options. Youll need to select certain things here, which are different for each chipset. Follow the steps for your chipset. AMD chipset. Select the following options Legacy Kernel. Apple. ATIATAVoodoo. HDANetworking shouldve been detected automatically and donotselect. Graphics. Enabler and Sleepenabler Nforce chipset. Select the following options Legacy Kernel. Apple. NForce. ATAVoodoo. HDANetworking shouldve been detected automatically and do not select Graphics. Enabler and Sleepenabler The actual installation. When all options are selected, we can proceed to the installation. Press OK on the list box and click Install. Installation can take up to 2. If it seems stuck after a couple of minutes, move the mouse and in most cases it will work again. Post installation. Hooray You are getting closer and closer to have a working AMD Hackintosh Youll just need to follow these last steps to make your installation boot on its own, and make it safe for updates that will be installed in the future. When the installation is done, the system will reboot itself. Swap your retail Snow Leopard copy back for the Mod. CD. Let it boot until you reach the bootloader. Select your own Snow Leopard partition here with the direction keys and press Enter when you have selected it. Have patience here as the firstboot always takesalotoftime. Probably will take between five and ten minutes. When booted, fill in the forms given by OS X. This can be a bit sluggish, thats because the graphics card is not yet installed. Now we need to install a bootloader, so that our system can boot on its own. Something like Chameleonv. The one well be using can be installed with my. Hack, that could be found here. Dungeon Sweet Dungeon Pre Hacked Commando. Inside my. Hack is always the newest Chameleon, that is tested and verified by Conti. Extract the file using the built in unarchiver. Youll end up with a. You can execute it by double clicking on it. Follow the steps given in the installer and finish installation. Reboot your system and eject the Mod. CD. Your Hackintosh can now boot on its own. If everything went well, you should be greeted with the OS X desktop. There are still a few things missing, including graphics acceleration. Well fix that in the next chapter. Some graphics acceleration for you, sir Graphics acceleration is absolutely needed for having the perfect OS X experience. Without it, everything will be pretty sluggish and slow, and certain applications wont even work. This is one of the reasons why it is necessary to have read this guide before doing the actual installation. However Nowadays, most modern graphics cards are supported due to the updates Chameleon has got in the recent years. The following steps can be applied to most graphics cards if it does not work out for you, let us know in the forums That way we can search a solution for you Graphics. Enabler is an automatic graphics card injector built into your Chameleon bootloader. It has got more compatible with different cards over the years, so chances are high it will work with your system too Most cards from Nvidia from the 7xxx series all the way to the modern 5xx cards although not always stableModern cards from AMD HD5xxx to HD6xxx are out of the box, older cards are trial and error.