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Well I saw DigitalDJ’s patch on enabling CPUID that injects the value to the system thinking that it has a real Intel processor and not an unknown processor. Apart from that I’ve included the proper hibernation fix which DigitalDJ missed out in this RC3 and as well as ripped off Chameleons GUI and instead made the boot loader to use text instead of GUI (kinda old school) (But don’t worry , two versions are compiled , and the source is included as well – so you can just have a look at it). The boot file contains :-

• The goodies from Chameleon RC3
• netkas’ PC_EFI 10.3 (including native ATI Injection and other improvements) d
• DigitalDJ’s CPUID Injection (Kudos dude)
• Hibernation Fix Properly (DigitalDJ missed out a {} )

more after the jump

Its almost as same as compiled version by DigitalDJ but I did not compile netkas’ old patch to enable legacy CD/DVD ATA (which I don’t think its needed)  to work with it as I don’t think many of us would want that. I’ll be explaining about on the changes later. Plus I would like to add that I take no credit for it. I just compiled em up and put em together. Now for the downloads. There are in two flavours , one is with GUI and the other one is without.

Download without GUI

Download with GUI

Source

What’s the difference , well with GUI. You can use Chameleon themes and skins. without GUI just uses the plain old boring text boot loader. I prefer the latter then the former but then most of us would have their own opinions on it . Its your call anyway.

Installation

All you have to do is replace the boot file which is located in your Macintosh HD. If you’re using an EFI partition, then do follow this guide on how to mount EFI partition and have it replaced that. If you’re using EFI Partition/GUID ,I am quite sure you’re able to figure that out. Nevertheless the instructions

Fire up Terminal and type

sudo mv /boot /boot_backup

Then drag and drop boot which you have downloaded to the root of your Macintosh HD. Voila. Just reboot and it should work. If it doesn’t then be do make sure you have a USB stick or some sort for you to boot to your system or MacDrive to swap the boot files. You should have some kind of backup plan

As for CPUID patching , you’ll first need to read my guide on how SMBIOS.plist works here . In your SMBIOS , add the follow lines

<key>SMcputype</key>

<string> 1281</string>

There are currently three known values for it :-

1281 – Quad-Core Intel Xeon
769 – Intel Core 2 Duo
257 – Intel Core 2 Solo

You may ask why there is not for AMD , Intel Quad Core , Pentium D , Pentium M , Intel Atom. The reason is simple , Apple only includes list of CPUIDs which they officially support (aka which they officially run on mac). So if you have a quad core , you would go with Quad-Core Intel Xeon. This applies to i7. iF you have an Athlon X2 , then go with Intel Core 2 Duo

For Intel i7 users and i5 users alike. You can change Bus Speed into Interconnect speed so that your system profiler looks something like this

System Profiler on an Intel i7 Hackint0sh (thanks aschar for the picture)

by adding

<key>SMbusspeed</key>

<string>4800</string>

If you want legacy support and such , check out the original version here

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