My Hackintosh rig has been running OS X Leopard for a couple of years, I did not take the time and the risk attempting to do a Snow Leopard install as I clearly know how much of a hassle it would have been.
I earned a week of extra days off recently, having the latest version of iATKOS L2 (Lion 10.7.2) release handy, I bit the bullet and wiped my boot partition to rebuild my rig from ground up. Although I knew it will not be easy, I wasn't really expecting that much amount of work to be honest. But as it turned out, the outcome was satisfactory, and I am now having the privilege to work on a modern Mac-clone that runs like a breeze.
Unlike Leopard, Lion is now running a 64 bit kernel, which rendered all my previous drivers outdated and non-working, among these it was the Realtek 8139 ethernet card and my ATI Radeon HD2400 Pro that were most vital, without a properly configured display and internet connection, everything else is crap. After several days of handwork and frustration, I solved these problems by buying new hardware, namely a HK$169 USB-to-Ethernet adapter that is based on the Axis AX88178, the same chipset Apple used in its USB-Ethernet dongle. 64-bit 10.7 driver can be found here:
http://www.asix.com.tw/.
For display card, I was clearly out of luck so I didn't waste (too much) time digging into forums for solutions, I went ahead and bought the cheapest Nvidia GF100 Fermi-based display card available in the market, a Galaxy GT 520, for HK$385. The combined effort of installing Chimera 2.0 boot loader, Multibeast 4.2 for Lion (choosing the 64-bit Apple Boot Logo that fixes the need to input "npci=0x2000" argument each time I boot, and GF100 OpenCL enabler), GTX5xx Enabler from the download section of
osx86.net, as well as the latest CUDA driver directly from Nvidia, have resulted in an OpenCL compatible hackintosh that allows me to run even Final Cut Pro X!
More updates later.
