Dell XPS 12 (9Q33) OS X Mavericks Instillation

[RehabMan]

Well, since it is happening to your Sony as well it may be something that will start popping up more and more with the new Haswell chipset in laptops. Hopefully this means someone will find a fix or solution to it soon.

It has been reported that using Clover or Enoch bootloaders fix this issue. Give it a try and report back.

 

[dumdidum]

thanks for this tip - enoch worked like a charm .
it is now much closer to a working system
clover failed on first try - but i did not spent to much time with it.
because of the needed "-x" kernel option to boot the system i removed the Intel Graphics drivers and leave only the IntelFramebuffer.
got anyone a hd4400 working on 10.9

 

[RehabMan]

thanks for this tip - enoch worked like a charm .
it is now much closer to a working system
clover failed on first try - but i did not spent to much time with it.
because of the needed "-x" kernel option to boot the system i removed the Intel Graphics drivers and leave only the IntelFramebuffer.
got anyone a hd4400 working on 10.9

hd4400 should work. The drivers native to OS X have its ID. You will need to find the ig-platform-id that works. See: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288241-intel-hd4000-inject-aaplig-platform-id/

Now I'm going to have to compare Enoch to Chameleon trunk to see what is different...

 

[donradii]

thanks for this tip - enoch worked like a charm .
it is now much closer to a working system
clover failed on first try - but i did not spent to much time with it.
because of the needed "-x" kernel option to boot the system i removed the Intel Graphics drivers and leave only the IntelFramebuffer.
got anyone a hd4400 working on 10.9

what options did you use in enoch?

 

[dumdidum]

nothing special - pure boot the fresh created usb drive without any options.

now i search for the IntelAzulFB

- no luck on that testet 0-15 without success boot hang after bluetooh load

 

[RehabMan]

nothing special - pure boot the fresh created usb drive without any options.

now i search for the IntelAzulFB

- no luck on that testet 0-15 without success boot hang after bluetooh load

Are you using GraphicsEnabler=Y in conjunction with IntelAzulFB? IntelAzulFB has no effect without GraphicsEnabler=Y.

 

[donradii]

nothing special - pure boot the fresh created usb drive without any options.

now i search for the IntelAzulFB

- no luck on that testet 0-15 without success boot hang after bluetooh load

What BIOS settings do you have set up?

 

[fernando9876]

Hello everyone,

I was trying to install Mavericks in my XPS 12 9q23. I shrinked down 30GB my Windows 8 partition to fit OSX and then booted the Unibeast USB with -x -PCIRootUID=1 flags.
It boots fine but when I try to format the partition to HFS+ it gets stuck in "preparing to format partition...". If I use the erase tab it replies "MediaKit reports not enough free space in partition", so I booted to my Ubuntu and formatted it to hfs+ using gparted + hfsprogs, then booted again from the USB. Now the installer recognizes the partition as mac os extended (journaled) but it shows "OS X can not start up from this disk"

My SSD is set to GUID partition table and has the following partitions:

1 - 30 MB NTFS - Windows Bootloader
2 - 30 GB ext4 - Ubuntu
3 - 50 GB NTFS - Windows
4 - 30 GB hfs+ - The one intended for OSX
5 - 4GB swap - Linux Swap memory

I've read somewhere that Disk Utility does not get along well with partitions generated by other programs, but there is no way I'm erasing my whole SSD, at least not for now.
So question is, can I get to install OSX on my SSD (or really anywhere, I just want to test it out but VMs are so slow) without wiping my already installed OSs?

 

[RehabMan]

Hello everyone,

I was trying to install Mavericks in my XPS 12 9q23. I shrinked down 30GB my Windows 8 partition to fit OSX and then booted the Unibeast USB with -x -PCIRootUID=1 flags.
It boots fine but when I try to format the partition to HFS+ it gets stuck in "preparing to format partition...". If I use the erase tab it replies "MediaKit reports not enough free space in partition", so I booted to my Ubuntu and formatted it to hfs+ using gparted + hfsprogs, then booted again from the USB. Now the installer recognizes the partition as mac os extended (journaled) but it shows "OS X can not start up from this disk"

My SSD is set to GUID partition table and has the following partitions:

1 - 30 MB NTFS - Windows Bootloader
2 - 30 GB ext4 - Ubuntu
3 - 50 GB NTFS - Windows
4 - 30 GB hfs+ - The one intended for OSX
5 - 4GB swap - Linux Swap memory

I've read somewhere that Disk Utility does not get along well with partitions generated by other programs, but there is no way I'm erasing my whole SSD, at least not for now.
So question is, can I get to install OSX on my SSD (or really anywhere, I just want to test it out but VMs are so slow) without wiping my already installed OSs?

Remove your HDD/SSD. Put it in a safe place. Install a different HDD/SSD to experiment with OS X. That's the only way.

 

[donradii]

nothing special - pure boot the fresh created usb drive without any options.

now i search for the IntelAzulFB

- no luck on that testet 0-15 without success boot hang after bluetooh load

Also, did you install enoch on the same USB drive as the OSX installer? If you did, did you create a fat32 partition and a partition for the installer?