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Finally people!
iBoot and Snow Leopard found each other and are now living in the alter ego of my HTPC.
This Mac Pro wannabe is fully functional, thank God.
oops all comments gone, fiddling to much with Aperture software which is new to me
sorry for your comments
my sister again is not happy with my last photo and the avatar so there, I played bit with the lights and took few shots with the iBoot, darken left collar, shorten my hair lol, so lets wait and see if this one will pass. I think my sister think I'm still 21 when I have left the home, now I'm just regular everyday guy but she keeps idealising me but than nobody can say my sister does not love me :)
I'm finally running again.
I've been working with ^Andy^ over at www.insanelymac.com to try and get his new bugfix package working on my setup. It resolves the issue with DVD Player & Geekbench crashing. (Also possibly source games failure to launch.)
I've tried about a dozen iBoot + Retail Snow Leopard installs and couldn't make it work properly. (Always got garbled screens at boot and still couldn't load the apps anyways.)
I decided it wasn't worth the headache anymore and went back to a basic iATKOS S3 V2 install and ^Andy^'s ATI kexts and I'm running like I always was.
The wallpaper is hacked up from here: astronomia.udea.edu.co/HubbleSite/hubblesite.php-web.php?...
I still think Hubble Deep Space images make the best multi-monitor wallpapers.
OS: OS X 10.6.3 Retail Disc - $27.98
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - $138.99
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache - $274.99
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS7000C-ALCU - $22.99
Graphics: EVGA 512-P3-1140-TR GeForce GTS 250 512MB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 - $119.99
Memory: Crucial 4GB kit (2GBx2) DDR2 PC2-6400 4-4-4-12 Unbuffered NON-ECC DDR2-800 2.0V - $87.99
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s - $59.99
Network: TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR 10/ 100/ 1000/ 2000Mbps PCI Copper Gigabit Network Adapter - $13.99
Optical: Samsung DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223L LightScribe Support - $26.99
Case: Antec Three Hundred - $49.99
Power Supply: Antec TP-550 550W - $89.99
Total: $913.88 excluding tax and shipping
Hackintosh Project: Complete
Finally got around to building the Faux-Mac, or as others are calling it, the Hackintosh. In the last few years, much has changed in the initial installation of the Mac OS. While there were many coding updates (i.e. kexts) that needed to be made, currently the process is so streamlined, that even a bumbling technodummy should be able to succeed in building their own Hack.
In comparison to "legit" Macs, the money saved makes the DIY project a formidable option, for you can build a "top of the line" Hack for under 1k. What does "top of the line" mean you ask, well, the Hackintosh would probably rival the top of the line G5.
The preferred method a couple of years ago was using the Lifehacker installation, which was, in it's time, extremely easy and straightforward...though it only worked, for the most part, on one specific Gigabyte motherboard. Currently, the famed method is using the Cartri Mac Edition Bios method. It's actually a pretty brilliant method and does away with a lot of the post installation modifications. It uses a bios flash that allows the end user to install a retail version of OS X...albeit with a custom made bootloader. It's what I used with this install and you can be up and running in a little over an hour.
Questions? Feel free....
Added 11/16/2010: Lifehacker has a new method of installation out. Using iBoot, Multibeast and the retail OS X installation disc.
Check it, here.
Klappt grundsätzlich. Sogar alle 4 Kerne werden erkannt...Aber beim Einspielen des ComboUpdates zu 10.6.5 gibt's gegen Ende eine kernel panic. Schade!
I ran out of space on my old 500 GB HDD and upgraded to a 1 TB. Since I was too stupid to figure out how to setup the booting stuff after cloning my old drive, I just ended up reinstalling and using the migration assistant to move my old profile onto the freshly installed system.
In any case, the system achieved an Xbench score 239.37, which is pretty good. It "feels snappier," but that's not a terribly useful measure either.
Round 1 / Round 2 / Round 3
Results: 212.83 / 170.22 / 239.37
CPU: 193.00 / 138.00 / 215.88
Thread Test: 647.21 / 374.19 / 668.48
Memory Test: 362.74 / 297.31 / 363.58
Quartz Graphics: 283.41 / 202.18 / 311.04
OpenGL Graphics: 121.33 / 150.89 / 239.43
User Interface: 407.05 / 273.84 / 388.12
Disk Test: 108.93 / 79.26 / 96.19
Here's the parts list, etc., again:
Parts list (the hard drive has been upgraded since this list was assembled): secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishList...
CPU: Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD3L
Memory: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ
Video Card: EVGA 01G-P3-N959-TR GeForce 9500 GT 1GB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB
Installed per: tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-...
Audio fixed by installing the pair of KEXT's here: www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=p...
USB/iPhone sync issue fixed by upgrading motherboard BIOS: www.gigabyte.us/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?Produ...
It took a while, but I finally got it. I used a combination of applications for Windows and Mac.
Essentially, the steps for iPhone 3GS are:
1. Create a custom firmware (CFW) with: iPad baseband 06.15.00, hacktivation, jailbreak. I used sn0wbreeze 2.8 for Windows. (If you have iPhone 4, I think the same applications named below will work with iPhone 4, but ignore anything I say about the baseband.)
2. Put the iPhone in "pwned DFU mode" and use iTunes to load the CFW. The iPhone will attempt to restart but will never finish. (pwned DFU mode is different than regular DFU mode. It must be in pwned DFU mode to accept CFWs.)
3. Since iOS 5.0.1 is an "untethered jailbreak", you must boot with a program every time. So I used redsn0w 0.9.9b9 to do this, but for some reason it won't actually restart the phone. So then I use iBoot while the phone is still in a "receptive" mode.
4. Once it turns on, go through the setup process. You can restore from a backup via iTunes if you want (I did).
5. Go to Cydia and download ultrasn0w after adding the repository repo666.ultrasn0w.com. Install ultrasn0w and let the phone attempt to reboot (go back to setup 3, then to step 6).
6. Insert your SIM card and wait for the iPhone to find your new carrier!
The background photo is kind of dumb, it's the Eco Park parking garage on Kinzie and Clark Streets in River North, Chicago. The wind turbines make probably 10 revolutions a year.
I used iBoot ATI-5xxx-3 along with 2.3.0 Multibeast to get osx running.
Hardware -
* GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0 FA
* GIGABYTE GV-R577UD-1GD Radeon HD 5770 1GB
* 4GB RAM
* CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W
* Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield 2.8GHz
* Cooler Master Hyper N520
* LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer Black SATA Model iHAS424-98
* 2 x WesternDigital TB Hard Drives
* Case : Antec Three Hundred Tower
My new Hackintosh, slightly crippled as it wont booth without the iBoot CD. Oh well, it'll do. Split down the middle, will have Windows 7 on Partition 2 at some point so I am not so buggered when it comes to doing 3d work :E
So yeah, OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on a PC ... yum!
iH8Sn0w has released iFaith 1.2.2, an update to his tool that dumps the SHSH Blobs of your current firmware, even if Apple is no longer signing that version.
Changelog:
- Added iPod Touch 2G Dumping capability (MC-Model users recommened)
- IPSW Creation for iPod Touch 2G is still a work in progress.
- Fixed exe compression issues (resulting in many DFU loops on IPSW creation).
- Fixed any Windows XP issues.
- Detects if the user inputs a decimal ECID when checking for available blobs.
Devices Supported:
iPhone 3G[S]
iPhone 4
iPod Touch 3G
iPod Touch 4
iPad 1G
Apple TV 2
Developer Notes:
When I released iFaith v1.0, you probably noticed that the dumping was way faster than v1.1 and v1.2. In 1.1, I specifically made it dump slower since there seemed to be a swarm of users that got into a DFU Loop. I initially thought that this was because USB was not able to keep up with the dump.
So I released 1.1 about a month later which integrated SHA-1 verification and slower dumping to ensure that what was being dumped over USB was what was on the device and what iFaith was receiving. I thought this would resolve the issue but it doesn't seem to have. So, I later came to notice that the exe compression/encryption on iFaith was causing some read/write issues with IO on the pc side.
When I sent mostwanted a beta build via Twitter, he did indeed say that it was successful. The build I had sent him was just a rebuild of v1.1 without any compression or encryption. It is available here
I still see people complaining though that their getting DFU loops. The reason you'd be getting a DFU loop is that LLB and/or iBoot's SHSH Blobs were not properly dumped or written. Frankly, if you got a corrupt blob. Its virtually impossible to fix. Not until someone were to get a hold of Apple's SHSH signing keys. Which would make this app totally useless.
As of now, I'm sorry if your device is in a loop and you don't have any SHSH saved via TinyUmbrella or Cydia. Lets hope that v1.2.2 is the golden version. If you dumped blobs using v1.0 or v1.1 and got a DFU loop when building the ipsw with v1.2.2, then your blobs are useless pretty much. There isn't any other way I can put it.
At least I'm not hiding in the shadows pretending I'm not hearing this.
Yours truly,
~iH8sn0w