Drivers For Iatkos S3
Motherboard (the most important part) should be compatible for booting iATKOS S3 DVD and installing natively. 2- This DVD includes Apple's Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.3 (10D573) installation, some basic drivers and x86 patches. 3- Make sure that the md5 checksum of your iATKOS iso image matches the one posted on our website. According to the very useful iATKOS S3 Readme, with this iATKOS S3 release (designed for Non-Apple x86 Intel CPU computers), you can choose MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (Guid Partition Table) via partitioning options, and says that it boots into 64bit mode by default, but that if you select the 32bit package or any of the 32bit-only driver(s.
Hello everyone! I want to share my experience, as a complete noob in the topic, installing OS X Snow Leopard on an old Commodore netbook I had lying around. I had to install Snow Leopard because it was almost guaranteed to work (and the latest version this computer's capable of running is Lion, because it's only got a 32-bit processor).
Specs
Spec-wise, this thing's pretty lame, and it's barely capable of running Facebook, but it seemed like an interesting experiment.
Intel Atom N270 (1,6 GHz, single-core, 32-bit only)
2 GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM
Samsung HM250HI (250 GB) Hard drive
Intel GMA 950 Graphics
Realtek RTL8187SE WiFi
And not a lot more to it, really…
Drivers For Iatkos S30
Installation
The installation was pretty straight-forward. I used iAtkos S3 v2, for which I had to create a USB drive (using TransMac on Windows, since I don't have a real Mac or another hackintosh). I also had to create a Chameleon USB drive, because the iAtkos one simply wouldn't boot.
I was getting a kernel panic before I could get to the installation screen, something related to AppleEFINVRAM.kext, so I decided to delete the kept from the USB drive and cross my fingers, and the thing worked!
I booted with the flags
After partitioning the drive accordingly, here are the packages I chose:
Bootloader:
Chameleon v2 RC5
Bootloader options:
32-bit boot
Legacy logo (although this doesn't really make a difference, it's just a matter of personal preference)
Patches:
'/Extra' directory
fakesmc
Disabler
RTC
EVO Reboot
Modified kernels:
Atom Kernel
Drivers:
Intel SATA/IDE
Voodoo HDA
Battery
EFI String
GMA 950 27AE (check system info to see if you have to install this or the other kext)
RTL8187SE (32-bit)
Iatkos S3 V2
First boot
Almost everything worked out of the box, except for the built-in keyboard and touchpad, which I had to manually install from iAtkos' USB drive using Kext Wizard. Rebuild cache, restart, and you're golden. VoodooHDA settings would reset after rebooting, but this is easy to fix with a bit of help from Google.
Conclusion
I only did this as an experiment, but I have to say I wasn't expecting this old netbook to perform so well with OS X. I thought it would be choppy at best, considering that's mostly how it worked with Windows, but this thing flies!
I haven't tested Ethernet because I don't really use it, and I can't comment on battery life because the battery is shot.
I've been using this machine for about a week, and it's remarkably stable. However, one thing I have found is that many newer apps will not work unless they include a 32-bit version. You'll have to use older versions of things like µtorrent or Chrome (Firefox still works, though). In addition to that, the computer does run a little bit hot, but I'm hoping it'll be an easy fix once I can connect to a decent WiFi network. Other than that, it's pretty much perfect.
Is it worth installing SL nowadays? I'd have to say it really depends on what you want your hack for. For me, I think it is.
I might try to install Lion on it later on, and maybe build a proper El Capitan hackintosh in the future, but for now, if anyone has any questions, PM me and I'll answer as soon as possible!
Edit: forgot to include sleep doesn't work, but there's probably an easy fix somewhere. Just have to look for it.