Looking for Older Empire EFI (Request)
It seems that rapidshare has deleted all of my Empire EFI iso. I know I’ve should have made up a backup of it,- the good news is that I did but the bad news is that my hard disk crashed.
I am looking for someone who is willing to upload Empire EFI. I would be very thankful if someone who did that.
Thank You
PS – Working on newer and better builds for AMD and especially for the new Core i-series
Knowledge beyond boundaries
Posted by Pradeesh in Hackintosh on February 22nd, 2010
My message for today is that how Internet changes and how dynamic people are. For instance , I did a search of empire EFI on youtube. To my surprise a lot of great videos on how to do installation. As folks do me , I am all about sharing
I am impressed on how people improvise and provide video tutorials in many languages. For instance this one is German
I like this creative guy who took a step further on making this video
These are just some of the videos that i would like to say that this is what one of the purposes of the internet. Someone has posted something in this case me and how people take it a step further giving folks visual tutorial. I’m impressed .Even if I were to make one , I do admit that its not going to be as good as those video producers. I’ve to learn a thing or two. If you’ve few tips or if you want me to start doing video tutorials , just drop a comment. I would love to hear your thoughts !
There is even one guy who has posted a lot of hackint0sh tutorials , http://www.youtube.com/user/sn0le
Creating a Recovery USB Drive for OSX86 Snow Leopard
Posted by Pradeesh in Computers and Technology, Hackintosh, Tutorials on February 13th, 2010
If you are using Snow Leopard which is installed via Empire EFI or various other of methods. You’ll be certainly messing with kexts , dsdt and everything that has to go in making a potion. Yes , brother – I hear ya . But what if something goes wrong and poof all of a sudden your working hackint0sh has turned into a piece of junk. Obviously some of us would restore it via Time Machine , others would simply format and re-install. But what if you want to have something like how Windows System Restore works. It takes a snapshot of your system and bam if anything screws up , you can restore your PC back. Well with my newest method on how to recover your system you should be able to recover your system (as in get it to boot) under these situations/senarios :-
- After applying system updates (i.e MacOSX 10.6 to MacOSX 10.6.2)
- Messed up dsdt
- Installed a problematic kext which causes kernel panic before starting
- Your pet tiger deleted your entire Extensions folder
This is what exactly my guide is going to teach you on how to build a USB Recovery solution which contains working copy of your Extensions folder and Extras to get your OSX up and running just in case if your Extensions (or kext installation is f****ed up big time or if any Apple update did break something. You can easily revert things back and most importantly it gives you 85% chance of getting back to your working OSX environment without losing your files , and other important data. Shall we get started.
Downloading Themes for Chameleon (myhack)
Posted by Pradeesh in Hackintosh, Tutorials on February 10th, 2010
A lot of people are getting sick with the default myHack theme or Chameleon theme and some have searched across the Internet to find theme so that they can customise their appearance of their boot loader. I admit , we humans like to dress ourselves just to impress on others. lets face it , you are not going to just wear an underwear for your first date. What would your future wife would think about you ?
Empire EFI V1.085 R2 is out
Posted by Pradeesh in Hackintosh on February 7th, 2010
The newest version of Empire EFI is out . This time , I’ll be tackling on certain motherboards and graphics card incompatibility issues. For instance , a lot of folks have complained about Intel onboard graphics and Empire EFI which results in a black screen , nvidia gtx 2xx users and black screen issue , Core i3-M , Core i5-M and new Core ix users and not to mention AMD Users. In a jiffy here are the new goodies :-
- New Chameleon RC3 + PC_EFI 10.6 boot loader with customised patches such as automatic EDID injection , GMA injector and improved nvidia injector (its bsically the same as my customised PC_EFI 10.6 which you can download it from here)
- Added support for AMD SB780 and SB7xx Motherboard series
- Removed some conflicting kext which causes kernel panics on certain motherboard (this includes sound and power management kext). Sound may not work out of the box !
You can read more about the new changes and download these new versions by clicking this link. Oh yeah , just to add that I may no longer able to release Empire EFI due to the time constrain and not to mention some of my work goes unappreciated . I’ll try my best to keep it up to date but don’t worry much about it. The main reason why you need Empire EFI or any boot-132 discs is just to install OSX. Once you’ve it installed , you can pretty much tweak and update and do whatever you wish. Its just that simple.
Want to express your thoughts , feel free to post em here. Yes I do read every single comment and I take note of it
Cheers !
PC_EFI 10.6 + some goodies
Posted by Pradeesh in Hackintosh on February 5th, 2010
As we all do know that netkas has recently released his version of PC_EFI 10.6 (its basically Chameleon RC3 + netkas’ modifications). But then it lacked of some of the key stuff that I always wanted. The reason why I prefer PC_EFI 10.5 is that I can use it to boot 64-bit kernel on my PC. It does not work with Chameleon RC4 for an odd reason. What I’ve done is that I’ve taken the very best of patches made by rek and put it up together.
Basically it includes whatever netkas has added into PC_EFI 10.6 + couple of goodies such as :-
- Meklorts GMA EDID patch (it kinda works on some graphics card as well for native EDID detection)
- 18seven’s Mac Like keys (+ modified by me) – Basically now you could hold ‘3′ and ‘2′ together and it boots into 32-bit. Alt + V into verbose. Basically it gives you the Mac-like feeling instead of typing out ‘-v’ and other stuff out
- Rekursor’s restart fix and other goodies (i can’t recall what other fixes that he added , basically I’ve backported few of his fixes from rev 56) . It includes UUID fix , Reboot fix (now you can reboot without the need of additional kexts such as openHaltRestarter.kext)
Its suitable for those who are using ATI Radeon 4xxx series card as Chameleon RC4 does not really work with Radeon cards , but at the same time those who want to have what Chameleon RC4 has to offer and not to mention the newest and greatest stuff. Its fused together to bring out the best what netkas has to offer and not to mention other great guys such as Rekursor has to offer
You may download the source code here and the binaries from here as well. If you are wondering how to install , kindly follow this guide (just scroll down and read on how to install Chameleon manually) . I don’t include any installers and such as I am not a fan of installers. Its best to learn how to DIY yourself.
Looking for something related to OSX86 ?
If you’re looking for something OSX86 related. Feel free to hit on OSX86/Hackint0sh tab/page and you’ll be presented of all my guides , tutorials , kext download and not to mention EmpireEFI. It makes it a lot easier on what you’re looking for. I’ve few ideas up my mind on how it should work
The reason is because is that sometimes we can’t find the right things via google if we don’t have the right keyword or if you aren’t sure of the exact keyword. I just hope that it helps someone out here.
Fixing Time Sync issue with OSX/Windows & Linux
Most of us do dual boots with our hackintosh. Windows and OSX , but one thing we realise is that when you fire up Windows. You realise the the clock is out of sync and you decide to let windows automatically sync with time servers and then it gets fixed. You said that it could be a mistake and you carried on with your work . The following day when you boot up to OSX , you’ve noticed something odd – the clock is out of sync. Its like a demon that is changing time. You decide to fix it up the same way and so the cycle continues. You’ve tried everything that you could to get these two OSes clock to work in harmony. Well , fear not – Today , I’ll show you couple of ways to fix this issue. From the straight forward method to the complicated method. For each methods , I’ve described here – there are both advantages and disadvantages. Don’t worry , I’ll list them all. If you’re curious why time gets out of sync , then stick around and read the whole thing
(more after the jump)
Some News on OSX 10.6.3 and other things
Posted by Pradeesh in Computers and Technology on January 27th, 2010
This is another quickie. I would like to say the following things on 10.6.3 . These information were based on beta testing. Things may change in the future build
- New Graphics Drivers for ATI and nVidia , but again no sign of ATI 5xxx series support (aka DX11). Frame buffer seems to be improved. Netkas can give a better comment on this as I am on the graphics guy
- There is no longer any 64-bit support for Intel Graphics driver , it seems that Apple has removed support for 64-bit Intel graphics driver. For those who are using Intel onboard graphics and 64-bit Snow Leopard , you’ll have to revert to 32-bit kernel or place the old kexts in your EFI partition
- No support for Intel Core i3 and Core i5 (32nm processors) (not the 45nm ones) , aka the ones which do have an onboard GPU. Again things may change if apple start using them in their macbook line up or mac mini
- New Broadcom drivers – (Final 802.11n ? I am not sure about this more needs to be done)
- No support for Atom (I guess its goodbye to Atom forever , Apple did not add it back)
Secondly , I am busy with Chameleon and as well as my real life too. If you’re wondering what I’m up to. Currently I am trying to help the great guys at chameleon. zef is a humble ,down to earth guy. I like his motto of uniting developers together , I hope it becomes a reality. Oh here is new chameleon repo. You can download em and compile it yourself. New unseen stuff including native reboot (without any kext) and other cool fixes 
