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[MacOS] HowTo Update to MacOS X 10.5.2

Update: 02.07.2008 Update 10.5.4 is out now, read our notes here.
Update: 01.06.2008 Update 10.5.3 is out now, read our instructions here.

Abstract

As most of you know Netkas is constantly working on the EFI Emulation for standard PC-Bios based motherboards. As of now you can even use the Software Update (auto-update feature) included in Tiger or Leopard. Means: no hassle with kernel panics whatsoever – assumed you have a system which is close to Apple hardware (like Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Chipset onboard)… But with revision 10.5.2 a minor issue occurred.

In short: don’t use auto update. Although Netkas released a tutorial which discribes a workaround I would encourage you to wait for a working solution. Chances are very high you screw up your system nevertheless – like a friend of mine did. Wait a solution will be posted here within the next few days… *erm* it took a little longer and it has been written for update 10.5.3 rather than 10.5.2 but the steps and the approach is almost the same – see here

[MacOS] Rechner mit ATI x1650 Radeon Karten

update: don’t use it. It seems only applicable to 10.5.1 !!!

english:

As many guys of you know the “Apple Mac OS X” can be installed on normal PCs. No matter if they are AMD or INTEL based. Of course best results will be obtained by using hardware that is “close to Mac”, like INTEL MoBo’s and Core2Duo CPUs. By taking this into account it is possible to build a low priced “Mac Pro like” system.

Main problem was the support for different graphic cards. But until now even ATI chipsets are supported by the community (sadly not by Apple themselves). Even the ATI Radeon x1650 card with device id 0x71c6 will work when you follow a tutorial written here

german

Schon kurz nach der Transition von Motorola/IBM Power PC CPUs auf Intel CPUs wurde bekannt, dass man mit einigem technischen Verstand OS X Tiger auch auf standard PCs zum Laufen bekommt, sofern die Hardware ähnlich der Referenzhardware von Apple ist. Ausgestattet mit einer Tiger oder Leopard Lizenz ist dies sogar vollkommen legal. Man hat eben nur zuweilen ein wenig Arbeit bei Aktualisierungen, kann sich so aber ein Mac Pro ähnliches Gerät erheblich günstiger selbst zusammenbauen…

Für die unterschiedlichsten Grafikkarten gibt es mittlerweile Unterstützung und auch für die lange als problematisch eingestufte Karten mit ATI x1650 Chipsätzen. Man schaue mal hier, es findet sich eine hervorragende Anleitung für diese ATI Karten mit der Device ID 0x71c6.

Enjoy…