Georgi’s Blog

OS X on Geodar

I’ve had few ideas of selling Geodar and buying a mac Mini, but I remembered how last year I found about the os x 86 project. It did not support my hardware at that time, so few days ago I decided to check it where it stands right now. The guys haven’t waste their time. For 10.4.6, the list of supported hardware is quite big. My mother board was now supported, and the biggest problem - SATA drives - was solved. I cleaned up 40 gigs right away, deleted the partition, created a new one and marked it as Active ( bootable ). Than I rebooted and started the OS X installation from the DVD. Before the installation, I had to create the actual HFS+ Journaled file system on my partition using Disk Utility from the menu on the top. The installation was quick and painless. I added an entry in lilo.conf for OS X and rebooted. Everything worked as they have written on their web page. Even fast! After few commands in the Terminal, I had 1280х1024х32 resolution and all was fine. The next step was to find a network board that works with this os X (VIA Velocity is not supported yet ). I bought one for $15 and I think it will turn out that I have a working OS X on my desktop! And if that is not cool… I have to fix the network problem only and I’m in business. Everything works very fast, for example Safari loads with half a jump (compared to about 6 jumps on my iBook ) Thank you very much OS X 86 guys, keep up the good work…