{"id":220,"date":"2011-05-26T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:47:23","slug":"hackintosh-and-plex-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/hackintosh-and-plex-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackintosh and Plex – Follow up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well the Hackintosh project was a success. \u00a0I now have a working Hackintosh OSx86 10.5.7 running on a Dell Dimension E520. \u00a0I’ve had it running for about 3 weeks now and not one hiccup so far. \u00a0The system is very stable. \u00a0I’ve been able to use it to watch netflix etc. \u00a0Plex 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.<\/p>\n

In addition to this I set the media centre up so I could stream the content to my iphone from anywhere. \u00a0Pretty Cool, but not for the beginner.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

OSX86 Tools was a great find. \u00a0It allowed me to load kernel extensions and add things to the bootup etc.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

If I get a chance I’ll throw some pictures or video up here.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

Wil<\/p>\n

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Well the Hackintosh project was a success. \u00a0I now have a working Hackintosh OSx86 10.5.7 running on a Dell Dimension E520. \u00a0I’ve had it running for about 3 weeks now and not one hiccup so far. \u00a0The system is very … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}