[roujinz]

OK... I have Snow Leopard installed on my Mini 9 and I am really loving it that I am now thinking that it would be great if I could do the same sort of hack on a desktop system.

I was at Fry's Electronics today and I noticed that they had the Shuttle X27D bare bones system which uses an Intel Atom 330 processor with the Intel 945GC + ICH7 chipset and the Intel GMA950 on board graphic.
Shuttle Global - Home

I know the Mini 9 uses an Atom processor and would like to think that this system would be a feasible candidate to turn into a "hackintosh".

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to install OSX on this system??


Thanks for your help!

[meklort]

It should work but you'll have to make sure the networking and audio works.

[roujinz]

What would be the best approach to installing OSX?

I just finsihed trying to install Snow Leopard using the same USB-HDD that I used to install SL on my Mini 9, but it said:
panic (cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f8066293f): "Unsupported CPU: family = 0x6, model = 0x1c, stepping = 0x2....etc etc
On top of that message is another message that says: You need to restart the computer....etc...


Any thoughts?

[jdcnosse]

You could also get this thing called an efi-x, it plugs into a USB slot on your motherboard, and basically does all the translating and "tricking" the software. I remember an episode of Tekzilla that talked about it.

Revision3 > Tekzilla > Episode 97: Hackintosh Desktop Build, SATA HD Dock reccos, Customize... - Hackintosh, USB access to old hard drives, EFi-X Boot Processing Unit <-- tekzilla episode that I saw.

Run Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux in a generic desktop PC <--That's what it's called.

[roujinz]

Actually... I remembered this really awesome website that helps you find the answer to almost anything... I think it's called GOOGLE!

Yea, my brain finally kicked in very late last night and I did a search and found others had done the very same thing that I was wanting to do. However, you can only do it with Leopard - at least that was the only OSX that I was able to get to work and find tuts on.

I was able to use iPC OSx86 (Leopard 10.5.6) that allows for install on any Intel-chip based system. Yea, its not Snow Leopard, but hey Leopard seems to work pretty well so far.

I do notice a similar staticky kinda sound that others had reported with the Mini9 when upgrading to 10.6.2, but its very faint and acceptable.

I will check out the links you posted above and see if that gives me any better options.

Not too shabby way to get yourself a Mac Desktop system. Less than $400!
And I did it for the shear joy of just being able to do it, aka. I'm a Gerd!

[waldo_pepperjack]

Useless Ninjas shows how to do this with the MSI Wind Nettop.

This now my LeoMediaCenter ... except I have the Dual (rather than single) Atom model ... it plays Netflix & iTunes movie great ... also great for watching streaming TV (from overseas) on ... DVD's as well... attached to a 40 inch Regza LCD, and 5.1 sound.

Actually, 10.5.6 installed just fine using NBI, but the Dual Atom didn't mix well with 10.5.8, so I stayed w/ 10.5.7 (but had to keep the 10.5.6 mach_kernel). There are some issues with hyperthreading/dualcore and the later kernels. Much of this was well documented on the MSI wind forums, but that sight is no longer around and its content was lost.

[roujinz]

Originally Posted by waldo_pepperjack

Actually, 10.5.6 installed just fine using NBI, but the Dual Atom didn't mix well with 10.5.8, so I stayed w/ 10.5.7 (but had to keep the 10.5.6 mach_kernel). There are some issues with hyperthreading/dualcore and the later kernels. Much of this was well documented on the MSI wind forums, but that sight is no longer around and its content was lost.

Now you tell me!!..Ugh! Where were you earlier today when I decided to try to see if updating to 10.5.8 would work....found out the hard way!

So now of course I'm stuck when I boot, it says "missing 2nd CPU".
Do you know of a way to remove the 10.5.8 update so I dont have to go through the trouble of reinstalling??

BTW - I also have the Dual Atom processor, so not sure why it says its missing one!

[ian]

Originally Posted by jdcnosse

You could also get this thing called an efi-x, it plugs into a USB slot on your motherboard, and basically does all the translating and "tricking" the software. I remember an episode of Tekzilla that talked about it.

I've got no experience of efi-x, but I've heard some bad things about it. I don't want to comment, since I've not used the product, but check out this forum ... EFi-Xâ„¢ Users Forums - Powered by vBulletin ... particularly look at the "about this website" page (http://efixusers.com/showthread.php?t=65) and also their "warn the world" forum (http://efixusers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17).