Knowledge: Getting Familiar With Kexts and Your Hackintosh
Posted in Knowledge on June 15th, 2009 by Genaro Bonilla – 3 CommentsThe following was all written by FreeBurma one of our very knowledgeable commenters and someone I’ve been working with to bring you guys a perfect retail install which will be unveiled in the coming month. It will be important to know all of this stuff if you would like to persue the Boot-132 method because it is not for the inexperienced user. With that said I would highly recommend reading this series to get in touch with your inner geek and for nothing more for some knowledge on what you are doing. Although the reading may seem daunting FreeBurma has actually done an excellent job of making a very complex concept easy to understand. Happy Readings!
Please comment on if any of these if they helped you and on what you would like to read more of!
It’s incredible that we can have the “it just works” simplicity of MAC OS X on our Dell laptops. Inspiron 1525 guides like the ones found here make every effort to provide an approachable, non-intimidating, method for installation and maintenance. Other sources of information, like certain famous forums and wikis can be frustrating at best and send all but the most persistent running for the nearest Windows or Ubuntu disc.
It is impossible to list all of the software that make a Hackintosh possible and the developers who put tremendous time and effort into them. The boot loaders, drivers, bios emulators, utilities and the rest are improving all the time, getting us closer to the ultimate goal of a clean, vanilla, updatable and easy install.
Unavoidably, these tools and guides can obscure what is going on; what is removed, replace or copied; leaving the user with an incomplete understanding of what has been installed, removed, or modified. When things go wrong users don’t have the ability to recover and continue from a known working configuration. Additionally, distributions such as iPC install modified software and add components without the user being directly aware of what’s been changed from a generic system and leave your system littered with .orig folders. To get the most from your system, enjoy stress free updates, and keep things running smoothly you need some skills and the willingness to take on tasks that Apple never intended to be part of the customer experience.
