I finally upgraded my ‘Hackintosh’ (my PC with OS X on it) to 10.4.9! Yay!

I’ve been dreading doing it, because I knew I would have problems, and yes, I did have many problems. Mainly problems with the USB driver, but it’s now all resolved and working better than ever! By better than ever, I mean it’s faster too because of the new kernel!

The update I used was JaS 10.4.9 Intel SSE3(only) update. After I installed the update (just by using Installer.app), I did get an error saying it couldn’t complete; that was bad. I also couldn’t launch any other applications after applying the update. But after a restart, I got an error saying it couldn’t load the AppleUSBUHCI kernel extension. I’m assuming this is because I updated to the latest kernel, and they were no longer compatible (lucky my HD Audio driver still worked!). So, for a while, I had no mouse, no keyboard, no flash drive to fix the problem, so all I could do was watch it boot up. To fix this, I updated the IOUSBFamily kernel extension (apparently, the AppleUSBUHCI kext was a plugin for that). I found this, actually, at Apple’s website here, and installed the NON -log version. That fixed the problem and now I have a once again fully functional OSX partition.

*sigh* Now I just need wait until Leopard comes out before I’ll have to do all this stuff again.