x5315 makes it sound so easy, that I thought I’d attempt it myself. I have an old laptop, which only has a Pentium M - which doesn’t have SSE3. However I was assured that’s not a problem; “There’s kernels for that” I was told. So what the hell, I had nothing to lose.

It booted fine, positive looking white text started scrolling across the screen, which is better than what I got in a KVM when I was mucking about with it. However it got up to a point (something about the RTL8139 Ethernet driver) and would freeze with no obvious error message. I tried various different kernels (several are available on the Kalyway disc, which is what I was using), and various boot options, but the best I could do was boot into single user mode (-s on the boot command line) and get a sh prompt, not very useful.

So unfortunately, it looks like Mac OSX on my laptop is not to be, though I haven’t explored all possibilities (iAktos, or other disc images, for starters).

Just for fun, I put the disc in Aya, my gaming rig, to see if I could get any further. Aya is an AMD-based rig, however the processor (an X2 4800+) does have SSE3 instructions. This time I was much more successful (relatively speaking), as I could get the start of a graphical installation. However I would get up to a ‘Welcome, Kalyway installer etc. etc.’ screen, and although everything was fine, it just wouldn’t let me click continue. No idea why, but couldn’t find a solution (to be fair, I didn’t try very hard, I was getting bored of perpetual reboot cycles selecting boot options). Again, I tried a couple of different kernels (the modbin one failed to even boot) but to no avail.

So overall, I wasn’t very successful. I bet however that I’d have more success in C-Cube, as that is an Intel-based rig. However I don’t have the disk space, or need, to Hackintosh it, as it’s running Linux