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After A Few Weeks With My Hackintosh

I’ve been running my hackintosh (osx86) computer for a few weeks now and I am very happy with the switch. I really do prefer OSX over XP and even over Ubuntu to an extent. There are however a few problems with my install that need to be rectified before I can consider it a 100% success.

The first major issue that I ran into was with USB devices. The problem I was having was that USB drives (iPod, external disk, etc) would not mount unless they were plugged in before the OS booted. This was solved by downloading and installing usb_fix_1.3.mpkg.zip. The problem is due to a difference between the kernel version (9.2.0) and the system.kext version (9.2.2). After the reboot everything worked.

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It’s Alive!

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I put my hackintosh box together last night and it works perfectly!

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I’d tried it in the past on an older desktop and a new hp laptop with no real success. The hp dv 2000 could run it - but only from an external hard drive and at a max resolution of 1024×768. I put together a new system yesterday based on some recommendations found on the internet and so far everything is running perfectly.

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