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I never updated the post about my Hackintosh desktop that I built in February 2008.

My motherboard is a DFI LanParty DK-T2RS. I have a Q6600 OC’d to 3.0 GHz with stock fan and an nVidia 8800 GT. I’ve used Kalyway until recently. My buddy boogi told me about the BOOT-132 method. I recently used a retail copy of Mac OS X Leopard to install 10.5.4 on my system using the BOOT-132 method. I used Apple Software Update to upgrade to 10.5.5 flawlessly. The instructions are pretty idiot-proof. Since I already knew the kexts I needed to get everything working, it was a breeze to edit the INITRD.img file with my kexts. But before I set that up, I used the generic iso to boot to the retail copy of Leopard.

I followed this tutorial to integrate EFI strings for my graphics card so I wouldn’t have the need to use NVinject or NVkush and Taruga’s patch for my sound card.

After I got everything running, I used Time Machine to restore my boot drive from the Kalyway install I had been using, including all of my applications. The only application that didn’t work was Toast, so i trashed it and the preferences and reinstalled. After a reboot, Toast was working fine again.

This is definitely not for someone that wants to plug in the computer and run Mac OS X. But if you know a little about computers, and don’t mine taking the time to follow some instructions, it’s easier than ever to install an unmodified version of Mac OS X onto your computer. However, the EFi-X could change all of that.