Wait until the Chameleon emulator will be started from DVD. Put the DVD with iATKOS installation to drive, save the BIOS settings and exit from BIOS. The first thing you need to do, is to change the boot sequence in the BIOS setup of the computer to the Boot from DVD drive at first place. The list of other web resources you can find at the end of this article. If you don't have any basic knowledge about Hackintosh problematic, study more information about it before you install iATKOS, or other ports. is not responsible for any data lost caused by a unofficial installation of Mac OS X. are unofficial ports of Mac OS X for non-Apple computers and you install them at your own risk. List of Hackintosh compatible PC desktops, laptops and hardware is available on OSX86project Wiki.īe careful, OSX86, Hackintosh, iATKOS etc. It is strongly recommended to install on the separate desktop, or laptop computer without any important data, like in our case we have installed it on an unused Dell Vostro 1500 notebook (Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, GeForce 8600GT, 15,4' LCD 1680x1050). iso file to a DVD disk with any tool available. The most downloaded version is iATKOS L2 with Mac OS X Lion and iATKOS S3 with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.Īfter the download is finished, burn the. IATKOS ISO installation DVD images are available to download on many data sharing servers, or BitTorrent peer to peer network. It is one installation image with Mac OS X installation, including all customized system drivers, various EFI emulators and other tools for successful installation to a PC. IATKOS is fan project based on OSX86 that is developed for users with basic knowledge about computers, but that want to try Mac OS X. How to make your own Hackintosh with iATKOS

However, we have found a much more comfortable to make your own Hackintosh only with a single DVD disk and we will show you how.

To create 'Hackintosh' computer, you will need a bootloader/EFI Emulator, such as Chameleon or Boot 132, retail Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion installation DVD, customized drivers and other utilities. The trick is to emulate Apple Mac EFI and have hardware configuration as much as close as possible to the original Mac. Also Mac OS X operating system was remade to be compatible with Intel platform.Īfter these changes, some enthusiasts started a project called Hackintosh (also known as OSX86) that makes Mac OS X available for non-Apple Intel based or otherwise not supported computers. In 2006 Apple introduced new Mac computer family based on an Intel platform with new EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) architecture. These barriers made it impossible to install Mac OS on PC-compatible computers. For a long time Apple Mac computers used a different architecture than IBM-PC and the core parts of Apple's operating system (System 1, Mac OS Classic etc.) were integrated to Mac's BIOS.

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