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Hackintosh on Inspirion 9300?

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clevere1

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Hey all,

I am using MODCD w/retail 10.6.0 DVD to try and convert my Inspirion 9300 to a Hackintosh machine. Everything with the install seems to go ok, up until I go to install the OS on the internal EIDE hard drive as long as I use the legacy kernel. All other kernels stop at one point and nothing happens (I can't remember the point atm) At that point, the installer says "Installing Mac OS X" and just sits there with the spinning barber pole. No Mac drive activity light nothing. I also had a hell of a time partitioning the disk to GUID but I was able to manage it.

I figured that I need some IDE kexts and that I need to load them into my MODCD so they are loaded when it boots darwin and the OS X installer.. But I have no idea how to go about this .. can anyone help?
 
there's a better forum for this where everyone posts how to hackintosh. i'm not sure since its illegal to hackintosh if we can post the link to that forum.

you could google it. it's a very very big website and that's all they do.
 
Emulex said:
there's a better forum for this where everyone posts how to hackintosh. i'm not sure since its illegal to hackintosh if we can post the link to that forum.

you could google it. it's a very very big website and that's all they do.
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As far as I know (and I'm the seniormost mod here), none of the Hackintosh forums are banned here. If anyone has told you differently please drop me a line.
 
I used to own one, with OS X installed. You'll probably have to do a custom kernel.. and.. the only major problem that I had was solved by swapping the Wifi card to the Dell Truemobile 1350. IIRC you can get any Apple supported Broadcom card and pop it in there, and you will have wifi OOTB.
 
i'll tell what you what. I spend days - esp when major upgrades came out - security fixes - and ended up spending say 40 hours on my $100 dell mini - that 40 hours was cash $$ my spare time could have made $$ in that time. So given that macbook's and mac mini's are so cheap (mac mini or macbook with more ram/ssd just costs less). even a crappy macbook $300 core2duo with magic trackpad and external monitor with 4gb of ram and ssd = guaranteed to rock out with no problems. yeah it's cool to make a hackintosh but honestly now that ESXi 5.0 and vmware supports running osx in a VM - it seems like a waste of time. VM's of OSX are legal now. this changes alot. your I7 box can easily outrun an old mac mini in virtualization - and if you bought a mac to play games - lol - you made a big mistake.
 
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