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If you're interested in running Mac OS X, but you don't want to pay ridiculous prices for a normal Mac, then a Hackintosh just might be for you. In this guide, I'll show you how to install Mountain Lion on your PC with the iAtkos distro. Distros are pirated copies of Mac OS X that have been modified to work with a PC. If you don't have any qualms with the legal issues regarding distros, they're actually the most convenient way to set up a Hackintosh.
Thanks to for providing the original instructions. An existing Windows computer/Mac/Hackintosh: This is the computer where you will download and set up iAtkos. Either Windows or Mac OS X will work.
If you're using a Windows computer, it needs to have a DVD/Bluray burner (just about every DVD/Bluray drive nowadays can act as a burner, too). A Hackintosh-compatible computer with 10 GB+ of free space: This is the computer where you will install OS X Mountain Lion.
It can be the same computer as the one mentioned in the previous point. If your computer already has Mac OS X Lion installed, iAtkos will just update Lion to Mountain Lion normally, without deleting any of your apps or files.
However, not every computer will work with Mac OS X. Be sure to read the Hackintosh compatibility guide (will be posted soon) very carefully, to check whether or not your computer qualifies. Also, OS X Mountain Lion takes up about 10 GB of space on its initial installation, so the computer where you install Mac OS X must have at least 10 GB of space in its hard drive. However, that's only the bare minimum; if you plan to install Mac OS X for day-to-day use, I recommend allocating at least 50 GB of space. It's preferred that you use a completely empty hard drive for this, but if your computer already has Windows installed on your hard drive, be sure to create an appropriate hard disk partition for OS X Mountain Lion beforehand (by following Step 1 of my guide to MBR partitions) (will be posted soon).
iAtkos ML2 (Free): iAtkos is by far the most popular distro of OS X Mountain Lion. I won't go into details, but you can download it from just about any bittorrent website (it's about 5 GB in size). The standard method of installing Mountain Lion on a PC requires you to modify a retail copy of OS X Mountain Lion with Unibeast, but iAtkos already does all of this for you. In this guide, you will write iAtkos onto a USB drive or DVD, and boot your computer from iAtkos to install Mac OS X. This guide describes how to install iAtkos ML2. You can also use iAtkos ML3, an updated version that only works with motherboards with UEFI (a guide regarding motherboards with UEFI will be posted soon).
If you're not sure which version to use, just use ML2. A dual-layer DVD, Bluray disc, or empty USB drive (8 GB or larger): If you are setting up iAtkos from Windows, you have to write iAtkos onto a dual-layer DVD or Bluray disc (normal DVDs don't work because iAtkos is slightly too large). However, if you're setting up iAtkos from Mac OS X, you can use a 8 GB or larger USB drive instead of a dual-layer DVD. You will need to erase all of the files on your USB drive beforehand, so make sure to back up its contents first.
You can reuse this USB drive for normal stuff after you finish installing Mountain Lion. You cannot write iAtkos onto a USB drive from a Windows computer. If you really want to use a USB drive from Windows, install Mountain Lion on a virtual machine (a newer guide for this will be posted soon) and set up an iAtkos USB drive on there instead. Be sure to install the to view USB drives from your virtual machine. ($48, 2-week free trial): If you're using a Windows computer to set up iAtkos, you need to use TransMac to write ('burn') the iAtkos disk image file onto your dual-layer DVD or Bluray disc.
You don't actually need to purchase TransMac; the free trial works fine. ($40, 2-week free trial): If you're using a Mac to set up iAtkos, you need to use Carbon Copy Cloner to write the iAtkos disk image file onto your USB drive. You don't need to actually purchase Carbon Copy Cloner; the free trial works fine.
(Free): Multibeast is a collection of kext files (will be mentioned later) that your Hackintosh will need to run properly, after the initial installation. If you're using a Mac to set up iAtkos, you will also need Multibeast before the initial installation. Be sure to download the newest version 5 of Multibeast, not the older versions 3 or 4 (which are for Snow Leopard and Lion, respectively). Follow this step if you're setting up iAtkos on a Mac or existing Hackintosh. Plug your USB drive into Mac OS X, and open Disk Utility (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder). Select the USB drive in the sidebar of Disk Utility, go to the 'Partition' tab of Disk Utility, and create a new partition layout with 1 partition.
Set the format to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'. Name the new partition whatever you want. Click the 'Options' button before applying your new partition layout. It should be set to 'Master Boot Record' by default.
Keep it that way. Then click 'Apply' (this step is shown in the first picture). Open your downloaded iAtkos disk image by double-clicking it; this file will probably be named 'iATKOSML2.dmg'. Then, start Carbon Copy Cloner, and set the iAtkos disk image as the 'Source' and your USB drive as the 'Destination'. In the second picture, my USB drive is named 'Whatever'.
This will write all of the contents of the iAtkos disk image onto your USB drive. This will take 15 minutes to an hour, depending on the quality of your USB drive (this step is shown in the second picture). Once Carbon Copy Cloner is done, your USB drive will contain a fully-functional OS X Mountain Lion installer. However, it's still unbootable on PCs. To fix this, open Multibeast and select the USB drive as the installation location. Select Drivers & Bootloaders - Bootloaders - Chimera, and run the Multibeast installer (this step is shown in the third picture). NOTE: If Multibeast doesn't give you the chance to choose the installation location, click past the pages in Multibeast, until you reach the page with the 'Change Install Location' button.
Follow this step if you're setting up iAtkos on Windows. Insert your dual-layer DVD into Windows, and open TransMac. Click File - Open Disk Image. In the Windows Explorer window that pops up, select your downloaded iAtkos disk image; this file will probably be named 'iATKOSML2.dmg' (this step is shown in the first picture).
Your iAtkos disk image will pop up in the left sidebar of the TransMac window. Right-click on it, and click 'Burn to CD/DVD'.
Then burn the disk image (this step is shown in the second picture). This process may take up to an hour (or more, depending on the speed of your DVD burner). Once TransMac finishes, you will have a fully bootable DVD version of the iAtkos Mountain Lion installer. I covered these steps in my Snow Leopard guide (which will be posted soon), but they're worth mentioning again: - Unplug all USB-connected devices from your computer before you begin the setup (except your keyboard and mouse). A faulty external USB hard drive can cause your Hackintosh bootloader to give you EBIOS errors on startup. Open up your computer and unplug any extra internal hard drives that your computer has, besides the hard drive that you're installing OS X on.
(Just unplug the hard drive SATA cables from your motherboard.) - If possible, connect your monitor to the DVI port of your computer's graphics. The Mac OS X installer sometimes has problems with HDMI and VGA. NOTE: If you're installing Mac OS X on a computer that already has Windows installed, you may have to enable AHCI for Windows (I will post a guide for this soon) beforehand. Otherwise, Windows won't boot afterwards.
Also, after installing Mac OS X, you should also sync your clock on Windows with Mac OS X (I will make a guide for this soon). The BIOS is basically a settings page for your motherboard. To enter the BIOS on my own computer's Gigabyte P67A-D3-B3 motherboard, I have to press the delete key when it boots (before the operating system starts). Different manufacturers set different keys for opening the BIOS. The initial screen is shown in the first picture. NOTE: If you have a newer Gigabyte motherboard that uses the UEFI interface instead of BIOS, check out my guide for setting up the UEFI instead (I will post a guide about motherboards with UEFI soon).
If your Hackintosh already has Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion installed, the only thing you'll need to change in the BIOS is the 'Boot Device', so that the iAtkos installer has highest priority. If your Hackintosh doesn't have Snow Leopard or Lion installed yet, you have to change a few extra BIOS settings. Before starting, reset all of your BIOS settings to their factory defaults.
On Gigabyte motherboards, you can reset your BIOS settings to their default by selecting 'Load Optimized Defaults' on the main page of the BIOS. Once your BIOS is running on its defaults, you need to change these three settings: Boot Device - If you're using an iAtkos USB drive, change the boot device of your computer so that 'USB-HDD' is first. If you're using an iAtkos DVD, change 'CDROM' to first. You need to do this for iAtkos to work.
After you finish installing Mac OS X, you should change this setting back to default, so that 'Hard Disk' is the first boot device (this optional, but it will speed up your boot times) (this step is shown in the second picture). HPET - Change this to 64-bit (this step is shown in the third picture). SATA Control Mode (your BIOS might call this a different name) - This will probably already be set to 'SATA', 'IDE', or 'RAID'. Change it to 'AHCI'. Mac OS X only works with AHCI (this step is shown in the fourth picture).
Keep in mind that the BIOS on most motherboards do not support using a mouse, so you'll probably have to navigate through the BIOS with the arrow keys on your keyboard. Press 'Enter' to change a selected option in the BIOS. On my Gigabyte motherboard, I have to press F10 to save my changes. Plug your iAtkos USB drive into a USB 2.0 port on your computer (USB 3.0 doesn't always work), or insert your iAtkos DVD into your DVD drive. Restart your computer. If things go well, your computer will boot into iAtkos instead of booting from your normal hard disk. You will then be able to view the iAtkos menu (this step is shown in the first picture).
If you do not manage to reach the iAtkos menu, check your motherboard's BIOS settings to make sure that the changes you made in Step 5 were properly applied. If they were, but you still cannot boot from iAtkos, go back to Step 2 (if Mac), Step 3 (if Windows) of this guide and try again with a different USB drive or DVD.
At the iAtkos menu, select the name of your iAtkos USB drive/DVD, by using the left/right arrow keys on your keyboard, and then press the enter key (or return key) to start the OS X Mountain Lion installer (this step is shown in the second picture). In the worst case scenarios, instead of loading the Mac OS X installer, you may end up at a dark gray screen that tells you to restart your computer (a kernel panic), or you may end up with a small crossed-out sign (a loading error). If you get a kernel panic/loading error (or if the Mac OS X installer simply won't start within 10 minutes), you'll need to enter some boot flags. To enter boot flags, manually restart your computer by pressing your computer's power button. Then, once you've booted back into the iAtkos menu, try typing any necessary boot flags (I will post a guide about boot flags) before pressing the enter/return key. Check out this list of common boot flags (will be posted soon) for reference ( PCIRootUID=0 and -x are two popular boot flags). Once you've entered the OS X Mountain Lion installer, you will come up to a page that asks you for a 'destination' for your Mountain Lion installation (this step is shown in the first picture).
If you're installing Mountain Lion on a computer that has never been turned into a Hackintosh before (i.e. Doesn't already have Snow Leopard or Lion installed), the hard drive selection box will be blank. We'll have to fix that.
To do this, start up Disk Utility, which is located under the Utilities menu in the top bar (this step is shown in the second picture). You need to use Disk Utility to erase a hard drive partition so that OS X Mountain Lion can install itself on it. In the sidebar of Disk Utility, choose the hard drive partition where you want Mountain Lion installed, and erase it by using the 'Erase' tab. You can also just erase the entire hard drive (this is the preferred solution if you don't plan to dual-boot Windows and Mac OS X from the same hard drive).
In the screenshot below, my hard drive partition is called 'disk0s2', while my entire hard drive is called '21.47 GB VBOX HARDDRIVE' (this step is shown in the third picture). When erasing, the format should be set to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'.
You can also partition the hard disk by using Disk Utility's Partition tab. NOTES: - Mac OS X cannot boot from a partition that's larger than 1 TB in size, so if you have a 2 TB hard drive, you will have to partition it. Unlike the default OS X Mountain Lion installer, the iAtkos version of the Mountain Lion installer works with MBR partitions (I will post a guide about MBR partitions soon) by default. If your hard disk uses the MBR partition scheme, iAtkos will install itself onto there without the need for prior modifications. The iAtkos version of the Mountain Lion installer also works with software RAID 0 arrays by default. If you want to set up your Hackintosh's hard disks in a RAID 0 array, simply create an array by using the Disk Utility app inside the iAtkos installer (see Step 1 of our RAID 0 guide).
IAtkos will install itself onto there without the need for Steps 2-5 of our RAID 0 guide (I will post a guide about RAID soon). On the installation page for Mac OSX, the hard disk/disk partition should now be showing up. Select it, and then click the 'Customize' button on the bottom left. This is where using a distro becomes really useful: iAtkos allows you to install extra Hackintosh drivers and kexts (I will post a guide about kexts soon), straight from the Mac OS X Lion installer.
The 'Customize' page essentially does the same thing as Multibeast (I will post a guide about the use of Multibeast soon), though the layout (and most of the names of the options) are different (this step is shown in the fourth picture). However, choosing the right options from this page can be really tricky, so unless you're absolutely certain about which drivers and kexts you need to install for your computer, I don't recommend installing too much stuff from here.
The default selection will enable Mac OS X to boot from the hard drive without any assistance; it may also enable sound and ethernet in OS X. For most computers, that will be enough (at least for the initial installation). If you wish to install more, refer to my guide to Multibeast (I will post a guide about the use of Multibeast soon). Otherwise, you can figure out the rest in Step 6, where you'll actually set up your Hackintosh with Multibeast. After you're done with the 'Customize' page, install Mountain Lion. This will take at least 30 minutes (this step is shown in the fifth picture). Once the installation finishes, remove your iAtkos USB drive/DVD, and restart.
At the boot screen, you'll see an icon for the hard drive where you installed Mountain Lion. Select it (use the arrow keys on your computer) and press 'Enter'. Mountain Lion will boot. Mission accomplished! The sixth picture shows the final screen. Once again, if you get a kernel panic/loading error when you try to boot your new Mountain Lion installation (or if the installation simply won't start within 10 minutes), you'll need to enter some boot flags. To enter boot flags, manually restart your computer by pressing your computer's power button.
Then, once you've booted back into the iAtkos menu, try type any necessary boot flags (I will post a guide about boot flags soon) before pressing the enter/return key. Check out this list of common boot flags (I will post this list soon) for reference ( PCIRootUID=0 and -x are two popular boot flags). Multibeast is a collection of kext files that you'll need to install for your Hackintoshes to have sound, internet, a high resolution screen, and more. Different Hackintosh builds require different Multibeast setups, though most setups are very similar. Find out what Multibeast options you need to install (I will post a guide about Multibeast options soon). If you have a Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3 motherboard like me, check out my own Multibeast setup (which I will post soon). If you're just updating your Hackintosh from Mac OS X Lion, you don't have to reinstall UserDSDT, Easybeast, or Chimera in Multibeast after installing OS X Mountain Lion.
Mac OS X treats Mountain Lion as just another update- this generally means that the only things you have to reinstall in Multibeast are audio kexts and ethernet kexts. You might also have to reinstall miscellaneous kexts, such as TRIM Enabler (for SSDs) (I will post a guide about all what you need to know about SSDs for Hackintoshing soon). To run Multibeast in OS X Mountain Lion, you have to go the 'Security' section of System Preferences in Mac OS X, go to the 'General' section, and check 'Anywhere' in the 'Allow applications' section. After running Multibeast, you'll also probably want to change your BIOS settings back to normal (from Step 5). Once that's done with, you should be running a fully functional copy of OS X Mountain Lion on your PC.
If you plan on updating Mac OS X in the future, check out my guide to updating your Hackintosh (I will post this guide soon). Hi, I have been trying to load iATKOS onto a GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 mother board with 16GB of RAM and an Intel Core i7 CPU. My board is slightly different than the one in your instructions. I am making up the iATKOS Usb on a 27 inch iMac running Mavericks OS X. I am getting through to the 'boot:' level where it says Press enter to start up Darwin/x86.
I do that and get the following error message. 'Can't find /machkernel. Press a key to continue.' When you press any key to continue it takes me back to the boot: Any ideas what I should do or what i have done wrong? Hi, Well this could be caused by several reasons. I will give you some instructions to follow and you should try some of them and see which one fixes this problem. My first suggestion is to go back to Step 2 of this guide and try again with a different USB drive and make sure you follow its step correctly.
If this doesn't work, then this might be a caused by a kernal panic, in this case, you'll need to enter some boot flags, try first typing machkernel while booting, if it doesn't work, try booting with -x, -x boots into safe mode so we can then know what's the problem. My second suggestion is your motherboard.
My instructions are for BIOS motherboards, is your motherboard using the UEFI interface? If yes, tell me, so I can send you instructions for it. My third suggestion, actually it's a just a note, Mac OS X cannot boot from a partition that's larger than 1 TB in size, so if you have a 2 TB hard drive, you will have to partition it. I mentioned that in the instructions if you read it all beforehand. Also, what graphics card do you use? As AMD needs specific boot flags to boot, but my greatest certainty is that it will work if you booted with the machkernel boot flag, just start typing when booting and it should work. That's all what I have in my mind, try them, if it works or if it does not, please tell me.
Hackintosh running OS X YosemiteA Hackintosh (a of 'Hack' and '), is a computer that runs on a device not authorized by, or one that no longer receives official software updates. 'Hackintoshing' began as a result of, away from. Since 2005, Mac computers use the same as other computer manufacturers, maintaining. Hackintosh laptops are sometimes referred to as 'Hackbooks'.Apple's for macOS only permits the software's use on computers that are 'Apple-branded.' However, because modern Macintosh computers use, there are few limitations keeping the software from running on other types of Intel-based PCs. Notably, companies such as have attempted to release products using macOS on non-Apple machines, though many Hackintosh systems are designed solely by macOS enthusiasts of various hacking forums and communities.
While the methods Apple uses to prevent macOS from being installed on non-Apple hardware are protected from commercial circumvention in the by the (DMCA), specific changes to the law regarding the concept of have placed circumvention methods like these into a. This section contains. The purpose of Wikipedia is to present facts, not to train. Please help either by rewriting the how-to content or by it to,. ( September 2015)Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' On June 6, 2005, Apple announced their plans to switch to processors at their and released a Developer Transition Kit to selected developers at a cost of $999 (equivalent to $1,280 in 2018). Efforts immediately began to attempt to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, but developers quickly found themselves with an error message saying that the PC hardware configurations were not supported.On January 10, 2006, Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.4 with the first generation of Intel-based Macs, the iMac and the MacBook Pro.
These machines used (EFI) platform firmware instead of the older style found on most x86 motherboards at the time. On February 14, 2006, an initial 'hack' of Mac OS X v10.4.4 was released on the Internet by a programmer with the pseudonym crg92.
Within hours Apple released the 10.4.5 update, which was patched again by the same author within two weeks. On April 3, 2006 Apple released their 10.4.6 update and again patches were released within two weeks that allowed users to install most of this update on non-Apple computers, although this did not include the updated kernel in 10.4.6. In June, the hackers released the 10.4.7 Mac OS X update for non-Apple computers using the 10.4.4 kernel.Up to the release of the 10.4.8 update, all OSx86 patches used the 10.4.4 kernel with the rest of the operating system at version 10.4.8. However, the newer frameworks relied on the newer kernels and this led to users of 10.4.8 encountering many problems. Apple also started making more use of instructions on their hardware making it even more difficult for users with CPUs supporting only SSE2 (such as older ) to get a fully compatible system running. To solve this problem, hackers from the community released kernels where those instructions were emulated with equivalents, although this produced a performance penalty.Throughout the years, many 'distros' were released for download over the Internet. These distros were copies of the Mac OS X installer disc modified to include additional components necessary to make the OS run on the non-Apple hardware.
A prominent member of the community, JaS, released many distros of Mac OS X Tiger containing patched kernels. Some other popular distros are iATKOS, Kalyway, iPC, iDeneb, and Niresh. Distros have fallen out of favour as the OSx86 community grew, as new bootloaders were developed that made it possible to use actual copies of the OS X Installer.Mac OS X v10.5 'Leopard'. Mac OS X v10.5 installing on a laptop computer.As early as Mac OS X v10.5 build 9A466 the community has maintained a version of Leopard that can run on non-Apple hardware.
A hacker by the handle of BrazilMac created one of the earliest patching processes that made it convenient for users to install Mac OS X onto 3rd party hardware by using a legally obtained, retail version of Apple Mac OS X. This simplification made the BrazilMac patch and its later revisions quickly the most popular choice for many distros. Five of the most popular builds go by the name JaS, Kalyway, iATKOS, iPC and iDeneb - although more recently these builds are on the way out as the Boot-132 method (described below) gains popularity. However, all of these compilations rely on the work of kernel hackers made by Lorem (build 9A466), SynthetiX (builds 9A499, 9A527 and 9A559), ToH (builds 9A581, 9B13 and 9B18) and more recently a group calling themselves StageXNU (now called Voodoo) (Darwin 9.4.0). Their contributions trickled down into the various Mac OSx86 installers, readily available on the Internet.
They continue to be refined and updated builds released, not just to maintain compatibility with Apple releases but an ever-increasing number of third-party components. The OSx86 community has been quick to make the necessary modifications to enable Apple's latest releases to run on non-Apple hardware. Within hours of Leopard's release, an AMD/Intel SSE2/3 Kernel Patcher was created that removed the requirement from an original untouched machkernel file, a core component of the Mac OS.Mac OS X v10.6 'Snow Leopard' When 'Snow Leopard' was released, Russian hacker netkas created a version of Chameleon that can boot Mac OS X v10.6. The main problem was that many people were forced to modify DSDT or use kexts due to some specific issues. As soon as possible modbin and dmitrik released test versions of kernel that allow to boot Snow Leopard on AMD machines.
Stable XNU kernels for v10.6 were released by Qoopz and Pcj. There are some popular builds based on Retail by the name Universal (Intel only), Hazard, and iAtkos. Since v10.6.2 Nawcom, Qoopz, and Andy Vandijck have been working on Legacy kernel for unsupported CPUs.Mac OS X v10.7 'Lion' When Apple released the Developer Preview 1, a Russian Hackintosh developer usr-sse2 was the first who created a method to install Lion.
The method consists of deploying Mac OS X v10.7 image on a flash drive, and booting from it via XPC UEFI Bootloader (See below). After some changes were made to the Chameleon source code, it became possible to boot Lion with an updated version of Chameleon. After a while Dmitrik also known as Bronzovka had luck with creating a kernel that supported AMD systems; after a few months (10.7.3 V2 With AMD Support) and iAtkos L2 (10.7.2 Only Intel) were released.OS X v10.8 'Mountain Lion' Shortly after the release of Developer Preview 1, some unknown developers managed to install this version of OS X to their PC by using a modified version of the Chameleon Bootloader.
This version was released via the main project starting at version r1997 to the general public. Due to the problems sourced during the Lion eraother ways of installing and required patches were never made public, which leaves the scene in an unknown state towards Mountain Lion. Since the retail release of Mountain Lion several users have reported successful setups using installers purchased from the, along with updated versions of Chameleon and other tools including distros.Niresh's Distro (10.8 Intel only) was first released and then was updated to 10.8.2 (With AMD and Intel) and 10.8.5 (With UEFI Support, AMD and Intel Support) versions; iAtkos ML2 was released after Niresh's Release. OS X v10.9 'Mavericks' Multiple new kernels for Hackintosh 10.9 are in the works, although there still are minor issues with most of them.
Most of these kernels aim to allow users to run Mavericks on AMD and older Intel CPUs, which lack certain instruction sets of the latest Intel CPUs. Significant efforts have been made to emulate instruction sets like, which are not present on AMD K10-based CPUs, and older Intel CPUs, like the Intel Core Duo.AMD's latest CPUs, from the ' architecture onwards, contain almost all the latest instruction sets, and hence, some kernels with full support have also been released. After two months, Niresh's Distro was released for Mavericks, which supports AMD CPUs and latest Intel CPUs.
It also has a custom kernel that allows Intel Atom processors to boot into Mavericks. Niresh's was the only free distro that was released for Mavericks, since the iAtkos Team decided to release their Mavericks distro for specific hardware on donation basis. OS X v10.10 'Yosemite' After the initial release of OS X Yosemite 10.10 BETA, various developers took on the role of updating their bootloaders for the system.
Members of OSx86 forum Insanelymac set to update the EFI Bootloader Chameleon for this new OS release. Some time later, Niresh (an independent OSx86 developer) released a standalone tool known as Yosemite Zone, which would automatically install the new OS and other various features on a non-Apple device with minimal input. This method consisted of an OS X 10.10 DMG onto a USB flash drive with MacPwn Vanilla Installation. Unibeast was updated to support Yosemite, and a distribution of Yosemite Zone was released with AMD processor support.A vanilla installation of Yosemite is possible via Insanelymac's Pandora Box Beta 2.0 and UniBeast. This type installation uses as few kexts (drivers) as possible in addition to using an unaltered version of the OS X installation app, and is preferred over distributions.
OS X El Capitan (10.11.0-10.11.6) Both Clover and Chameleon were updated to be compatible with. Unibeast and MacPwn were updated to support El Capitan as well, since El Capitan, Unibeast (and Multibeast) use the Clover bootloader instead of Chimera (a Chameleon-based bootloader).macOS Sierra (10.12.0-10.12.3) Clover and Chameleon were updated to be compatible with. UniBeast, Pandora Box and MacPwn were updated to support it and a distribution of Sierra Zone (10.12.3) was released with AMD processor support.macOS High Sierra (10.13-10.13.6) Clover, MacPwn and UniBeast were updated to support it. A distro of High Sierra Zone by Hackintosh Zone (10.13) was released with AMD Processor support including Ryzen CPUs.macOS Mojave (10.14) Clover was updated to support Mojave with revision 4514. UniBeast also received Mojave support for -based machines.
Legal issues and Apple objections.Apple does not authorize the use of Mac OS X on any x86 PC other than the ones it has developed itself. The company used technical means (although not the, or TPM, as has been widely mis-reported ), to tie Mac OS to the systems it distributed to developers after announcing its switch to Intel's chips.The macOS forbids installations of macOS on a 'non-Apple-branded computer'. On July 3, 2008, Apple filed a lawsuit against for violating this restriction, among other claims. Apple claimed Psystar 'violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by dodging copy-protection technologies Apple uses to protect Mac OS X.' Apple employs technological protection measures that effectively control access to Apple's copyrighted works. Specifically, Apple charged Psystar with acquiring or creating code that 'avoids, bypasses, removes, descrambles, decrypts, deactivates or impairs a technological protection measure without Apple's authority for the purpose of gaining unauthorized access to Apple's copyrighted works.'
This brief revealed that Apple considers the methods that it uses to prevent macOS from being installed on non-Apple hardware to be protected by the (DMCA).On November 13, 2009, the court granted Apple's motion for summary judgment and found Apple's copyrights were violated as well as the DMCA when Psystar installed Apple's operating system on non-Apple computers. A hearing on remedies was set for December 14.On January 14, 2009, the Gadget Lab site of Wired Magazine posted a video tutorial for installing Mac OS X on an MSI Wind netbook, but removed it following a complaint from Apple. Textual instructions remain, but include an EULA violation disclaimer.On May 15, 2012, the case vs. Finally ended. The court ruled that Psystar had 'violated Apple's exclusive reproduction right, distribution right, and right to create derivative works,' putting an end to the case.Hacking approaches Kernel hacks When copies of Mac OS X Tiger started running on non-Apple hardware, it was found that some processors were unable to run the OS., a binary translator that made it possible to run PowerPC programs on Intel processors, (and later the kernel itself) required the support of the instruction set. To circumvent this, programmers in the community released patched kernels, which included support for emulating SSE3 instructions using equivalents. In October 2005, Apple released update 10.4.3 to developers that required microprocessor support; however, patches were released to circumvent this as well.
Patched kernels were also later released that supported AMD processors.When Mac OS X Leopard released on October 26, 2007, patches were created to remove the requirement from the kernel. Efforts were also made to emulate the instruction set for processors that did not support it. The kernel used by OS X Mavericks made use of SSSE3 instructions, requiring those patches.Boot loaders and emulators EFI emulation (EFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. Since this method generally does not require copying or modification of macOS, it is considered to be the legal way of installing macOS on non-Apple computers (despite being untested in courts).
In early November 2007, a group of hackers (fronted by a Russian hacker known as Netkas), using an already modified Boot-132 source root from David Elliot (also known as dfe), developed a method of emulating an EFI environment using a specially modified Darwin bootloader. In practical terms, this meant that regular PCs meeting a minimum set of hardware requirements could now be 'seen' as real Macintosh computers by the OS, allowing the use of unmodified, 'stock' Apple kernels (as long as the CPU supports it) and thus giving a more transparent and reliable operation. Several methods for real world deployment of this innovative solution have arisen around the Internet.
An explanation of this achievement along with a usage guide was provided by the website DigitMemo.com.True EFI emulation was a highly sought after asset for the OSx86 community. Previous efforts based upon Apple's open source Darwin Project and Hackintosh gurus allowed users to use macOS on normal PCs, with patched kernels/kernel modules that simply bypassed EFI.
Using the EFI patch, a Hackintosh could boot off ' (unmodified) macOS kernels and use vanilla kernel extensions. This not only allowed the system to be compatible with future system updates, but also offered increased stability. This method also circumvents one aspect of Apple's End User License Agreement, which states that the modification of non-Open Source components of the OS is forbidden.In mid-2008, a new commercial product, EFi-X, was released that claims to allow full, simple booting off official Leopard install disks, and a subsequent install, without any patching required, but this is possibly a repackaging of Boot-132 technology in a -attached device. Is another commercial product that also seems to use Open Source software.It was thought that Windows 7's support of EFI would result in PC motherboards replacing BIOS with EFI. MSI announced the Efinity mainboard in early 2008. As of 2011, EFI-based computers have entered the market, however none can natively boot Mac OS X due to the lack of a driver in the EFI implementation.Boot-132 Boot-132 is a bootloader provided by Apple for loading the XNU kernel.
In mid-2008, a new modified BOOT-132 came on to the scene. This method allows users to conduct the Leopard-based OSx86 installation using a stock, retail-purchased copy of Mac OS X Leopard and eradicates the necessity of a hacked installation like JaS or Kalyway (mentioned previously). The Boot-132 bootloader essentially preloads an environment on the system from which Leopard can boot and operate.
The bootloader stores the necessary files (kext files) in a.img collection or simply a folder. The luxury of this new installation method includes the ability to boot and install from a retail Leopard DVD and update straight from Apple without breaking the DMCA. The only possible problem here is that it breaks the macOS EULA.The bootloader behaves like the kernel: one can use an mboot-compatible (a patched was used for the hack) bootloader that tells boot-dfe about the.img file (the or, as it's known by Linux users), and boot-dfe will then use the kexts (or mkext) from it. This new boot-dfe has been tested with the retail Leopard DVD, and it can boot, install, run Leopard without having to build a modified DVD.Chameleon Since the early developer builds of Mac OS X v10.6, members of the OSx86 community had been booting the new operating system using yet another bootloader called PC EFI provided by Russian hacker Netkas or the bootloader of the Voodoo team's Chameleon. Chameleon is based on David Elliot's Boot-132.
The bootloader supports ACPI, SMBIOS, graphics, ethernet, and some other injections. It allows to boot up macOS on non-Macintosh hardware. Chameleon supports a lot of AMD as well as Nvidia graphics cards. There are a lot of branches of it by different developers. Chameleon is currently in the 2.1 development state.Clover.
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( February 2018) FakeEFI was invented by David Elliot many years ago and operates on the assumption that EFI already did its work. It leaves activity traces (boot-args and tables tree) and EfiRuntime routines in a simple form in memory and starts the kernel machkernel.RealEFI theoretically should be flashed instead of the BIOS but alternatively a loadable EFI can be used for those with a BIOS motherboard.
This system was invented by Intel and is currently in active open source development at. The bootloader is named DUET and it is capable of loading EFI but it is not designed to load Mac OS X, so, one more step was needed, adapt DUET to the requirements of Mac OS X. Also, newer motherboards already contain EFI but it is not suitable for running a Macintosh.Beginning in March 2011, Slice discussed his idea with other community members, resulting in the development of a bootloader that can do both: emulate an EFI firmware of one's choice or use a Real UEFI firmware to boot Mac OS X.Live DVD In March 2007, the OSx86 community made some significant progress with the development of a. The Live DVD allows booting to a working system with Mac OS X v10.4.8.On January 2, 2009, InsanelyMac's Live DVD team published a new method by which a Mac OS X v10.5.x Live DVD could be produced, allowing users to boot a fully working macOS desktop from a DVD or USB flash drive. The method was more reliable than previous methods because it manipulated Apple's existing Netboot and Imageboot functionalities and behaved as if the system were running off a network disk. It was easier to produce; requiring only a single script to be added to an existing installation.
Distributions of the live DVD have been made since its inception. Since then, it is notable that this method has been shown to work on normal Apple Mac hardware.Virtual machine It is also possible to run macOS as a inside other operating systems installed on standard PC hardware, by using software such as (though this is not officially supported by Oracle ). Likewise, it is also possible to conveniently install macOS on Windows and Linux versions of software through the use of patches, even though the company states it is only officially supported for VMware running on Apple-labeled computers according to Apple's licensing policies. See also. About clones and emulators of various Macintosh models.
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