My First Hackintosh working!

Finally I got my hackintosh working!

I was planning to have a PC at home. Usually I would install Linux on it, but I really love MacOS after using it for a year on my white macbook. I'd love to buy a real Mac but it way too expensive for me now.

After did a short research, I decided to go with following PC configuration:

ASUS P5LD2-X/GBL
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Elixir 2 GB DDR2 PC2-6400
Seagate 80 GB SATA
LG DVD Writer
BenQ T52WA LCD Display

My plan was I'm going to install using original Leopard Retail DVD, but I misplaced the disc somewhere. Fortunately, I found Leo4All v2 DVD on local store.

The Leo4All installation process was pretty straight forward. After installation, I found that the audio volume icon was missing, display set incorrectly and network card detected but not working.

Audio fix was easy, just download AzaliaAudio.pkg and installing the package will fix audio problem. But only rear panel working, front panel out channel is mute.

ASUS specification said that the network card was PCIe Gigabyte LAN but actually the chipset is Realtek RTL8111C. The great thing is the Mac driver provided by Realtek themselves! You can find here.

The display was a little bit tricky. As suggested by many thread on insanelymac.com, I tried to use Nvidia Universal Installer that you can find on internet. Here is the catch, after I installed the package, my PS2 mouse and keyboard freezing!

After many trials and errors, I think I can summarize the step to make those works below:

Boot to single mode by giving -s argument to Darwin prompt. Sometime this does not work, but since my ethernet card is working, I can log in remotely through ssh from my macbook.
Do these command

mount -uw /

mkdir /GeForce-backup

mv /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce* /GeForce-backup

mv /GeForce-backup/GeForce.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

mv /GeForce-backup/GeForce7xxxGLDriver.bundle \
/System/Library/Extensions/

reboot

Add display device to Boot.plist using EFIStudio. You may add other parameter as well. My configuration look like below:

The device-properties is an encoded format of this configuration. Don't worry, EFIStudio will do this for you :)

Now you can see all available display mode for your monitor.

Here is my system profile screenshots:

On the other hand, Leo4All already includes Azalia and NVIDIA drivers. You might try to select customize installation when installing Leo4All and select Azalia and Nvidia package from list of installed packages. I did not really notice that.