My hackintosh is a success.

I started using the Mac OS X on my PC about half a year ago, I used iDeneb 1.4 as it made installing OS X on my PC extremely easy, simple and quick. By quick I mean, I would insert iDeneb into my drive and some 20 minutes later I would have a fully working, fully functional copy of the Mac OS X (10.5.6 at the time) on my PC with all the drivers and everything set up. 10 second boot times, outstanding performance and outstanding array of extremely useful mac-only apps made using XP a sad joke.

I was happy with it, updated to 10.5.7 and 10.5.8 without any major issues.

Then came the Snow Leopard, the update seemed really time worthy, however initially I thought that it would be impossible for me to install it as there were no clear guides and it the OS threw up kernel panics after I did it. I have to be truthful and admit right here, that without the help of my new friend “flames”, I would still be using the Leopard. He guided me through the process and I just want to say a big thank you to him right now!

Everything I have is fine tuned for my system and me providing my dsdt file would be useless to you, the only things I can provide are the kexts that I have in my extras folder (no custom kexts should be installed via the kext helper, if you want future updates to work).

Tips: use netkas PC EFI 10.1, chameleon 2 RC1 (RC2 causes more kernel panics) and the kext utility after the install to fix the kernel panics (all attached).

What I am attaching: the apps listed above and the kexts required to fix all the bugs that will come up during your install of a retail Leo. These kexts do not interact with your graphics card or your sound chip, these things should be written in via dsdt (or strings at the very least).

After you’ve installed Snow Leo, patched DSDT, edited the com.apple.Boot.plist, smbios.plist, you’re ready to add the finishing touches. Place the kexts into the /Volumes/<name of your partition>/Extra/Extensions folder. Open up  the PlatformUUID.kext using the show package contents, find the Info.plist, paste in your UUI where appropriate, save, close. Then fix the permissions and the group settings using:

sudo chown -R root:wheel /Volumes/<name of your partition>/Extra
sudo chmod -R 644 /Volumes/<name of your partition>/Extra

Reboot and you’re ready to go. If you get the kernel panics, launch the kext utility, it will fix all the permissions and the kernel panics should go away.

Hope this was helpful.

The files: download.