Hi! I just built my first hackintosh. My powermac g5 was starting to act up, line audio blew now all you hear is leakage.. low signal... I had three random kernel panics so I did a restore from a known good backup.. still random panics. I dug further and it was ram errors. I tested the ram in another system and the ram is fine so.. the system is dying. I took an HP Quad core pavillion m9040n and built a kick ass system out of it. Thanks to all the hardwork the hackintosh community has done and also to Empire EFI, and Chameleon 2. It did not take long to get everything working! I copied all my raw video that I've captures, my Arduino projects.. tested with my camera and camcorder, ran 3d games all night in demo mode to burn it in. All I have to say is wow.

Now that being said, now that I have a working system I'm looking for a backup/cloning utility. I used carbon copy but I quickly learned that I had to hack the bootloader all over again. This wasn't a problem for me now since I created my original image on a 160gb usb drive. I booted from that and reran that hack. It would be cool if we had a hackintosh cloning utility. like carbon copy cloner but automagicaly installs the hackintosh boot loader. Next it would be cool to have a emergency rescue disk. For now I have to put my hackintosh 160GB usb drive in a safe place LOL. are there tools to cook down an install to a minimal image ? Then all I would need to do is buy a flash thumb drive, I'll install the rescue image on that.

Again.. awesome job man.

Here's a quick video I made of the system. I did it to test my camcorder with Pavilion running Snow Leapord and iMovie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-tTsU0f2-s

You can keep a copy of your working Chameleon configuration on a USB flash drive. If you have a large flash drive you could also add the Snow Leopard install DVD to it. Then you could use this drive to either boot an existing Snow Leopard installation or boot into the installer on the drive itself.

My first choice for a guaranteed full backup up is HDClone (I believe they are up to version 3.9 now). It is a bootable CD that will basically clone one hard drive to another. I have used this to backup a triple booting PC that have multiple file systems from Windows (FAT32 and NTFS), Linux (EXT2/3,Swap) and OSX. It works well because it does a byte by byte copy. Works best if Hard drives are identical size. No need for re-installing boot loaders etc.

I am going to try and switch to Acronis True Image because I would like to have an "image file" which I can store a few copies of on single hard drive as opposed to keeping an entire hard drive for each back up, but have not completed my testing yet.

Please !!
would you share your
DSDT or list the kext files you are using with your HP m9040n I have been trying for weeks and not being able to work

Thanks in advance

Hi,

I have a HP Pavilion m9300t Quad Core and would love to know how you got your setup working (as far as I can tell it should be very similar to mine). Any chance you have some good instructions you can share?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.