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Hi All,

here my first HOW-TO : How to install mac os X under a bare PC :

Step 1 : Follow this guide here :

• Don’t pick up any VGA card (it might cause blue screen),

• Neither pick ACPI Driver, it works without it and it cause me trouble with my graphic card.
• Pick Voodoo kernel 9.5.0, the one suggested could make vmware to crash.

Step 2 : reboot and type “busratio=20 -x -v” when the chameleon appears

You should be able to boot without any vga card kernel extension set

You might be able to found pkg files corresponding to your graphical card and you can install them afterwards (works for me with ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCIe, here is the link you should use)

Modify the file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>custom</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>busratio=20</string>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

If you see only one CPU on the Monitor, it’s normal, it doesn’t manage correctly yet core i7, you could verify using the About mac to verify the number of processor

Warning : DON’T Update to 10.5.8.

** Update : If like me, VMWare fusion is making a “kernel panic”, try to install generic voodoo kernel found here.

Source :

- http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t172097.html

- http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=107526&pid=1226120&mode=threaded&start=2000#entry1226120

- http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/