Hackintoshing the Nickelodeon Netbook but Everything Goes Wrong...

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Earlier this year, I explored a Nickelodeon-themed netbook. And as some of you pointed out, it's possible to get Mac OS X Snow Leopard running on this thing! However... things didn't go as planned.
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#MichaelMJD #Hackintosh #Nickelodeon

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Hackintoshing a Nickelodeon netbook is the kind of brand new sentence I live to read on MJD.

[@megatronskneecap]

MacOS X NodeonBlob

[@LunaPhoebeQuinn]

Macinhackelodeon

[@omar_ehab]

I still remember the video where you sent something in it

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

@@omar_ehab I got more stuff. But still collecting. Money's tight. Maybe I should make a video of me packing the stuff I want to donate to MJD and encourage donations to me to help with the costs. What do you think?

[@omar_ehab]

@@MarcoGPUtuber that sounds good for a mjd video

[@iiTsFaded_]

Hackintoshing a netbook is the most Michael MJD title I’ve ever seen.

[@BilisNegra]

As pointless as it might sound, it was not that rare back in the day. A different question is if that was a sensible thing to do considering how underpowered those machines are. Early Atoms were such trash...

[@mojave5661]

many people did this, Michael hasn't done anything special. my friend still has Snow Leopard on his 1000HG eee from years ago

[@vojtechtomes6231]

MJD is the type of guy who would install two graphics drivers at once and then be surprised that it does't work.

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

Imagine installing PearOS on this to fit into the Dan Schneider universe.

[@MitsubishiGTO]

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[@servissop151]

@@MitsubishiGTO iFeet

[@a_nicegaming]

@@servissop151iFeet OS

[@WorstEZFNPlayer]

@@servissop151feet booth

[@noobbrainsredyoshi]

@@MitsubishiGTOfeetID lol

[@sammy61187]

It's not an MJD video without some sort of catastrophic failure and that's why we love watching

[@KozmoPoly]

I love the effort you put in this "Everything Goes Wrong" series! It must be hard to come up with new ways of making things go wrong, great video

[@Syreyup]

​@@TheUnrulyEWoosh

[@TheRageLivesOn]

reminds me of Druaga1. hope that dudes doing ok

[@georgeh6856]

Very simple suggestion for getting rid of music ("Staying Alive") when you have no volume control. Plug in external powered speakers, but don't plug in power to them. That will usually redirect the sound to the headphone/speaker jack and shut off the internal speakers.

[@a-miel]

In an ironic twist of fate, you actually inspired me to install unique OSes (mainly Mac OS) on my old devices.

[@a-miel]

also, I've had a netbook with Atom N270 and I think it has GMA 945 graphics

[@Lampe2020]

10:00 In some laptops the built-in keyboard is also communicating with the laptop via USB (same with the trackpad), so when USB is dead those won't work either.

[@johannesviljoen9656]

also, mac doesnt support ps/2 so that could also be it

[@Matthew28845]

@@johannesviljoen9656there are hackintosh drivers for it

[@mattm7220]

@@johannesviljoen9656 Almost certainly was the issue, considering you can see that he never selected the PS/2 drivers

[@HanCurunyr]

When I started watching and by the 5 minute mark, Michael had already booted, formated the drive and installed the OS, I was quite astonished, that not how I expected a MJD video to go, then the PC tried to load the OS, started playing bee gees without video, and now I was feeling at home

[@FehAzeved0]

Lmao

[@jhhoward]

This brings back memories of turning my Eee PC netbook into a Hackintosh. Had to jump through lots of hoops to get all of the hardware working but that was part of the fun! I remember the screen resolution being the most limiting factor but there was a way you could fudge the DPI to scale everything down to fit the windows on screen properly but it had some downsides. I ended up using it with the dock on the side of the screen to maximise screen real estate

[@SonicBoone56]

Holy crap, I had this laptop as a kid. It was absolutely godawful to use and my grandparents had the thing locked down with the parental controls. I couldn't look up anything online without tripping some sort of banned word list. None of the packed in Nickelodeon stuff even worked at all, partially because of the parental controls. I do wonder if the thing would've been better on Linux, probably. Of course, by the time I got into technology, that laptop was long gone.

[@vitamins-and-iron]

clearly the issue here is that your grandparents used the parental controls and not the grandparental controls

[@pajodato5339]

I had one of those with 2 GB of RAM, a SSD, and installed Ubuntu 10.10 i386, and it worked like a charm for like 5 years. It was a nice computer. I miss it dearly!

[@RetroGamerOG_]

You should make a playlist of all of these “everything went wrong” video’s because these are cool

[@ThunderNotebooks]

Can't go a video without something going wrong I really enjoy this content alot.

[@glassfish777]

Those late 2000s early 2010s hackintosh distros always gave me kernel panics and other issues. Patching the retail release was always much better.

[@Betsybabe3218]

This like LTT on good drugs, "hackintoshing a netbook" is a rollercoaster of emotional start to finish! Keep up the funny and great videos

[@jupi_s1mplew1nd]

Michael, your videos never fail to amaze us. Keep it up.

[@pedrojoaquim463]

But the installation of the OS does… sometimes

[@chahinenasreddine]

You are right 👍👍🎉🎉

[@pedrojoaquim463]

@@chahinenasreddine thanks

[@nathanlamaire]

I really love the "But Everything Goes Wrong" series. It's much more entertaining than just install boring OSes and demonstration

[@TurdInternational]

iirc having a custom distro crash, fail and kernel panic, is part of the early hackintosh experience, so this video would have been dishonest without it

[@thomasvlaskampiii6850]

You should make an Everything Goes Wrong playlist so us hardcore MJD fans can watch the entire series to our hearts content

[@_..-.._..-.._]

I’m impressed that so many buttons work and the top task bar shows battery charging etc.

[@JustPyroYT]

I really like the "... But Everything went wrong" Series!

[@aeriumfour6096]

On keyboard and trackpad detection, a lot of systems will use PS2 or I2c for keyboard and trackpad connection as they don't need to be hotpluggable and it saves using the USB serial bus.

[@youraveragejoe23]

didnt know sony made a keyboard for playstation 2

[@adamuk5037]

@@youraveragejoe23 … nope, not gonna rise to it… 😅

[@QuantumScratcher]

@@youraveragejoe23 not that PS2

[@youraveragejoe23]

@@QuantumScratcher it was a joke yall slow your roll

[@Windows2000Professional.s]

​@@youraveragejoe23💀

[@spoopyfxx]

next video: Installing Steam OS on a Nickelodeon Netbook

[@Illusca]

Bringus studios kinda idea

[@netkv]

can it even be ran on 32 bit?

[@jackieburkhart3268]

everyday, mjd does another outrageous thing no one asked for but needed to see anyway. together we can stop this.

[@DJTydalOfficial]

Hands down, macOS Snow Leopard looks right on a netbook. Change my mind, I dare you.

[@MaksZieleniewski]

no

[@BloominFleury29]

Hey, you’ll probably never read this but thanks Michael for everything. Sometimes when im sad I watch you and your voice calms me :)

[@thefunkdroid2777]

That Stayin' Alive cover is Electro Deluxe's! Electro Deluxe is an amazing french funk and acid jazz band, and that cover is awesome.

[@st0nedpenguin]

This is giving me some hefty flashbacks to similar projects over the years. Lord knows how many installs it took to get Windows 10 on a Chromebook.

[@SomeChannelIdk]

For me it took one simple install to get Windows 10 on my Chromebook…

[@kaori.neechan]

Just the hackintosh content i needed before going to sleep. Thank you Michael for this!

[@lachlanwintour8754]

I love how this is Apple software running on a Dell laptop, installed from a HP disk using an LG disk drive 🤣🤣

[@kaitlyn__L]

My first instinct would've been to try the PS/2 driver for the keyboard recognition issue. Edit: though I guess as the function keys later worked it was a USB keyboard internally. Cos that's just part of the USB HID standard. Also it's kind of ironic that you said there's nothing applicable to your situation in the help notes, as on screen in that exact moment was a paragraph saying that if you have trouble booting or kernel panics to reinstall with no extra drivers.

[@MichaelMJD]

The PS/2 driver could've been the issue, but the fact that at 10:15 it recognized input from the keyboard and then stopped working seems to me like its more of a system hang/crash. Also, the paragraph on screen that you're referring to doesn't really say that. It only mentions kernel panics, which I hadn't encountered yet. And plus, the issue wasn't with getting the system to boot up. It was getting through the account creation/registration part of setup after it had already successfully booted up. It also doesn't say to install with no extra drivers... it says to install without any "funny patches/drivers" which seems to indicate extra stuff that isn't necessary for the OS to boot. I only had drivers for system components selected, so I don't see how that's ironic.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@MichaelMJD of course, it could’ve been anything. That’s why I just said it was my first instinct! As to the driver thing, I definitely didn’t expect you to notice it from skimming it, but that’s why I found it “ironic”. (Like, actual Dramatic Irony, not the increasingly-confused popular sense.) Definitely not trying to call you unobservant! I’m pretty sure the guy who made the distro was trying to help, but phrased it so obtusely and with such hyperbole that it didn’t jump out to a regular computer person as relevant. That previous paragraph was how I finished, but I thought it best to place that most important part higher up. So here’s the lengthier explanation: the installer itself was booting and accepting input, so the default no-driver situation clearly worked. Maybe this is just my teen immersion in FOSS bros as much as I hate them, but I saw networking drivers referred to as exotic troublemakers all the time. You selected the bare minimum for a fully functioning system, yes, but then these dudes say bare minimum they mean far less than fully functional. (Just like those Android ROMs which had no sound, networking, camera, etc.) A lot of this stuff back in the day involved deselecting all the custom hardware and then, after the install was done and you’d gotten past account creation, one by one copying over the kexts to the right Library folder and individually testing them. Also the note specifically mentioned not to trust that the hardware identified by the tool will work with the drivers because of subtle chip revisions, so that was two signals to me that the networking drivers (or another non-video, non-sound driver) might’ve been the issue. I haven’t done any of this myself since 08 or 09, but I recall with the non-Apple drivers an issue with one driver could interrupt the entire driver loading process. Which happens after the initial boot, since Mach is a microkernel rather than a monolithic kernel. In obtuse FOSS bro speak, that’s an “incomplete boot” and thus falls under “boot issue”. (I’ve also had similar problems where a Linux install would work with no drivers, but never work with the supposedly-right drivers.) The fact that it kernel panicked right after you installed more (seemingly basic but potentially troublesome) drivers, in an attempt to fix it booting in an unusable state, was just a second layer of dramatic irony after the first from obtuse FOSS bro assumptions. At the end of the day it’s all academic though! Apple’s own installer “just worked” as the hardware was similar enough to an early MacBook or MacBook Air, plus there was that utility designed just for the netbook as opposed to a distro which tried to support a much wider variety of hardware with dubious community drivers. It probably worked better than the janky distro ever would’ve.

[@MichaelMJD]

I really appreciate the info, and thanks for the detailed explanation! I certainly haven't messed around with these Hackintosh distros very much, but I learned from the last video I did that just installing them without going into the customization settings can cause the system to not recognize even some of the most basic hardware. In that video, it didn't detect any network devices, sound didn't work, and the internal DVD drive wasn't recognized at all. I had completely missed the customize button so when it was pointed out to me, I did a followup and went through and was able to get some of the stuff to work. So that's why when I did this video I just immediately went into the customization options to select drivers. In hindsight, I probably should've tried to to a "clean" install without checking any of those boxes and it might have led to better results. Although, this distro had far more things componentized on that screen than the previous one I used (like USB and PS/2) so it might have just led to the same issues. But yeah I'm glad that I got the regular install disc to work in the end! Also, I see what you mean about it being ironic, heh.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@MichaelMJD for sure networking, sound, DVD, Bluetooth, etc all would not have worked at first. I’m not sure if you could access the kexts directly from the DVD or if you would’ve needed to download some long-defunct Megaupload archive from the forum. A lot of this stuff involved hella long forum threads telling you exactly what can and can’t be “safely” ticked in customisations for each model of computer, and what was best to save for a manual kext install later. Anyone who asked about issues like in this video were treated very rudely if they missed anything non-obvious in a 100-page discussion; which is exactly why I stopped bothering with that stuff around 09. It took all the fun right out of it. Part of me does also wonder if the first distro could’ve been booted into Single User Mode to delete some troublesome kexts, that was sometimes an advanced tactic in lieu of constant reinstalls, but either way it’s very user unfriendly even with all the forum resources (which might not exist anymore). Not to mention it could’ve absolutely been some deeper issue instead. I definitely agree that itemising so many drivers with little to no explanation is an issue with iATK, it really shoots the entire idea of a pre-made, ready-to-go Hackintosh resource in its proverbial feet. There was imo no reason to have default-off for drivers OSX would normally have, but this distro did it. And if that community was anything like the ones I participated in, anyone who complained when they inevitably had problems was called a noob or lazy 🙄 It’s exactly the kind of thing which happened really frequently with those forum-committee led distros. Usually one influential person needed it to provide a fix but everyone else should (un)tick it (and there were dozens of such situations), or the author just decided “full control” was preferable over ease of install. To the detriment of everyone. I also didn’t touch Linux/BSD between 2009 and 2015-6, because it could be even worse. (It’s often sadly still like that about software you compile yourself.) Only after I had friends who knew things rather than relying on forums/IRC servers (now subreddits and Discord servers I guess) did I feel comfortable getting back into that realm. And by then my interest in Hackintosh stuff was absent. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify by the way, I’ve been trying not to front-load and overburden my comments so they’re easier to read, but sometimes there’s a missing/implied aspect of my own context which turned out to have been important.

[@pieseu2048]

my favourite part of these videos is you always expecting it will go well and then everything goes haywire 2 minutes later

[@mafia2boy33]

I remember getting this issue while hackintoshing an old Dell laptop, I'm not sure what exactly is the issue, but I think it might be some security measure put in place by Apple to stop people using Hackintosh or some crap like that, with OS X Maverick I never came across this issue

[@TheAppleFreak]

God, the Dell Mini 10v. Used one of those with OS X 10.6.8 for years. Once you get it set up properly (it needed a patched kernel to re-add 32-bit only support), it was rock solid and genuinely was one of the best Macs I've ever used.

[@antonisautos8704]

The classic... hackintoshing gotta love it. I love the premise of putting software on hardware a company doesn't want you to install it on. I enjoy the challenge of getting it to work.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

It’s amazing how you got better results with stock OSX than the fancy custom image

[@Jdbye]

I'm thinking the USB patches may not be needed on that machine and they actually broke USB support when you checked them. Considering it works with a mostly stock OSX which presumably doesn't have those patches.

[@bennewnham3502]

lol a kernel panic, NEVER saw it coming! 😂

[@random_kid-gj2bw]

Theres something i love with with the crash handler that plays stayin' alive

[@DCRofoJR]

I'm watching this on the exact same laptop, it was given to me as a hackintosh somewhere around a decade ago and since then I have installed void linux i686. I'm even watching this directly on the KZbin website with chromium!

[@mal0gen]

Is it usable?

[@DCRofoJR]

@@mal0gen it functions far better than I expected it to. It takes a while to load web pages and can only really playback video that is at or below 360p without stuttering, at least when steaming it from the internet. The UI is snappy aside from when loading from the internet or disk where it will take a couple seconds as I still have yet to install an SSD. It can barely emulate Super Mario 64, just not at a very comfortable speed. I've used it to be on an audio only Discord call for a couple minutes and I was told it sounded better than on my phone (video froze the the browser and possibly even the entire system, iirc). It's mostly just useful for light web browsing, media playback, and anything lightweight and/or terminal based. I use lxqt themed exactly like lubuntu and while logged in it uses very little RAM (I believe it uses something like 180 MiB, iirc)

[@erice123]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I remember my countless reinstalls on an ASUS 1201N

[@Odd-Bike]

10:56 sometimes laptops utilize usb interfaces for the trackpad, and keyboard, so that could be why

[@deltara2106]

Selecting the PS/2 driver might have fixed the built-in keyboard and trackpad as laptops even now still use PS/2 internally for those.

[@LeftyPem]

Did this with mine not long after buying it. Still have the better touchpad to install in the Dell packaging. I love having this and still use it as a network monitor. Also looks boss with a Ghostbusters logo decal on the top.

[@sebastienmaza4757]

This brings a lot of nostalgia. I remember having one when it was just coming out and installing leopard on it. Worked night and day to get it working perfectly. It was working very well though!

[@majesticgrey]

Hey Micheal, if you ever do this again, you should dump the extra apps they added (or if they're already dumped, dont!" Overall, great video.

[@MetallicBlade]

I really think the netbook would look a lot more Nickelodeon themed if it was in orange instead of the white and silver chosen color.

[@carterlee12]

Always great to watch, MJD! I am forever glad you initially popped up in the algorithim

[@blu_subwoofer6714]

13:54 in Mac OS X 10.6, also known as snow leopard, Apple added Spanish to the error screen. And in 10.7 resume was actually integrated into the kernel panic

[@Linus7671]

Did you copy that from Computer Clan's video about Mac crash screens?

[@blu_subwoofer6714]

@@Linus7671 …………….yes…..?

[@Linus7671]

@@blu_subwoofer6714 I knew it.

[@Linus7671]

@@blu_subwoofer6714 I knew it 😁

[@rebootcomputa]

Damn this takes me back to when i was in Uni in 2009 and I was rocking a hackintosh Laptop and Snow Leopard, got into it so much I started moddifing patches and drivers for the x86 and Kexts community :D also verbose mode is your friend and patching after installing too

[@SixSilverStones]

Playing The Bee Gees on startup is something I’ve never heard of before Lmao

[@sethseth6ify]

TOO MUCH BEE GEES!!! - Cosmo (Fairly Odd Parents, Nickelodeon)

[@gustavobrito1372]

Really liked the video! Was expecting some web browsing in the end 😅 congrats! Hackintoshing is not easy 😂

[@xlarch]

7:43 The Stayin' Alive cover was literally... Stayin' Alive

[@TheRealRuddRants]

Splatbook as I like to call it. (shhh. Don't tell the inkling kids.)

[@apprenticerocker9885]

Ngyes!

[@skirshta8439]

What's going on babe you've barely touched your Hackintosh Nickalodeon Netbook

[@livefreeprintguns]

iATKOS... that brings back some memories lol.

[@maxtech66999]

3:23 welcome to the at&t lol

[@RTP-2007]

Congratulations you entered Dan Schneider world

[@bellowick]

Wouldn't be a hackintosh project without every possible thing going wrong.

[@morganpg]

You know its a mjd video when the computer goes "Ah Ah Ah Ah, stayin alive, stayin alive"

[@user-xp1xp4mj5f]

i love how iconic michael makes these videos because he never fails to make them iconic

[@alexismavromatidis1664]

In the netbook era, I did tried hackintosh on my netbook. There was a whole community behind it. I remember the name of the os was iaktos. I had asked Santa for an external dvdrom so I can experiment with it. Although I was able to install it, Wi-Fi card and Ethernet never worked so I had to revert back to windows. It was a wild ride.

[@Imnotrealyouneedtowakeup]

finally one of the "but everything goes wrong" videos has a good ending

[@atracamoniusvlogs]

Mjd's traveled to al arabexpo computing 2023-24

[@eziekelgimarino]

13:54 The Kernel Panic Stops you

[@CorruptedSystem32]

"Those are build numbers, I wonder what happens if I choose both?" My brain: "My dude those are addresses you just botched the graphics"

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

It wouldn’t be a MJD video if something doesn’t go wrong

[@Allthephones]

this cover is staying alive

[@andrewgoss1682]

Mac n cheese: Hot Michael MJD video: Loaded My life: absolute fucking wreck

[@ivanchootaking]

Everything goes wrong? Yes a classic is back

[@basilchapmanlft]

Guess the Mac wasn’t “stayin alive” yeah I’ll go sort myself out

[@JordanRatcliff]

I have so many random iAtkos discs in a binder in the closet. Those were the days.

[@Redmage913]

18:25 I’m wondering if the newer OS X version you originally used formatted the drive in GPT format, which that BIOS doesn’t support booting from? If that’s the case, Snow Leopard formatted it as MBR instead, so the machine was able boot from it. If not, disregard :)

[@MichaelMJD]

I had it formatted as MBR, so it had to be something else.

[@RandomBSOD]

iatkos, Netkas, idenev .... oh boy,.... so many memories (I still have all my burn dvd from each of those distros) 😅

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

I did my my first hackintosh installation using iATKOS 5i and iATKOS S3 v2 back in 2011. The days when the vanilla mach_kernel didn't work so you had to use a patched kernel... 😂

[@binary8717]

Ahhhh...... Everything going wrong classic MJD

[@MajorMacGyver]

God I remember the iAtkos headaches very well. Never got their AIO running. Forced me to use the Tonymac tools haha

[@jamesread11]

1min 10 on an atom with spinny hdd is impressive in my mind

[@thebuccaneersden]

It worked in the end! Hurrah!

[@swr8bit]

for built-in keyboard you first had to check the boxe for PS/2, because of that kbd phisically connected to PS/2 port

[@ollieduracell]

Everything goes wrong. Because of course it did 😂 nice one Michael, as always!

[@mvevitsis]

I think this guy is secretly Krazy Ken

[@Bernardoskau]

12:24 i read "Windows" instead of Window and i jumpscared

[@airhead0523]

I remember when my middle school won those in a contest, they were so slow

[@floams]

hackintoshing feels like a very powerful word

[@atarixle]

I recently installed Snow Leopard twice. Once I needed a 64 Bit Snow Leopard installation which I did on a MacBook2,1. The second installation was on a 32 Bit MacBook1,1 with broken screen, which I bought me on ebay. Upgraded with spare parts of an also defunct MacBook3,1 this is my 11th working MacBook now.

[@aeriumfour6096]

Please do a video going to the Genius bar and asking for help with your 14 year old Nickelodeon netbook running Mac OS X. I just really wanna see their faces.

[@harveylong5878]

going to a Crapple store with a 14 day old iPhone Ultra Premium Titanium Steve Jobs Limited Edition would get you funny looks. you arent a true Crapple fanboi/sheeple unless you have the latest Crapple whatever

[@skenum]

...: Dad, can i check my Whyville avatar? Lindsey is waiting me at the beach. Daaad?! Daaad:

[@TutorialNerdzzz]

For 10.6 use osx mod CD and a vanilla snow Leopard CD it's the best of the best I have the iso of the mod CD still around if you need it

[@alanharkleroad4376]

Of course things have to wrong, it's Michael MJD

[@DJTydalOfficial]

OS X Snow Leopard looks amazing on a netbook (I’m being deadass honest).

[@nd1r.]

i would gladly install arch linux on one of these

[@JamesnLollify]

This is something I'd never expected

[@Devtest1565]

Of course mjd hackintosh everything

[@emmabentley7945]

I installed on this machine back in the day, the keyboard and track pad is ps2 so you need to use that driver in iatkos ❤

[@jack-the-threader]

that netbook is not stayin' alive, stayin' alive,

[@_smerte42]

21:24 nice credit card info