Well the Hackintosh project was a success. I now have a working Hackintosh OSx86 10.5.7 running on a Dell Dimension E520. I’ve had it running for about 3 weeks now and not one hiccup so far. The system is very stable. I’ve been able to use it to watch netflix etc. Plex Media Centre is installed and I even have the remote loaded on my iphone so I can use my iphone to change channels/select media.
In addition to this I set the media centre up so I could stream the content to my iphone from anywhere. Pretty Cool, but not for the beginner.
Took me about 20 hours in total and about 15 installs before I found the magic combination of version and boot loader and kernel extensions etc.
OSX86 Tools was a great find. It allowed me to load kernel extensions and add things to the bootup etc.
I ended up using the Chameleon boot loader and once I figured out how to load the system using -v so I could see the errors that were causing it to lock up, I was able to diagnose and fix the bootup issues.
I had an HDMI video card that I wanted to use, but ended up going back to the DVI card that came with the dell (for kernel compatibility reasons) then buying a DVI to HDMI adapter and running the sound from the sound card. (Luckily my TV supported DVI with sound from PCM)
If I get a chance I’ll throw some pictures or video up here.
Cheers,
Wil
