Hackintoshing Asus K55VJ

Cameron Nicholson said:

Hi Guys,

A few months ago I posted a tread regarding hackintoshing a Asus K55VJ, in the end I canned the project due to WiFi issues. I have since worked on getting my WiFi dongle working in Yosemite so I am back at the project. I have been over my previous thread and cannot find any answers to my current issues. I return to this project with some what of a better understanding of hackintoshing but may still require (well I do) some help. This time I promise to attach pictures and as much information as I can every step of the way. So here goes. Creation of the USB Installer:
1. I downloaded Yosemite from the Mac App Store
2. I downloaded Unibest and ran it -
I selected Yosemite and Laptop Support in Unibeast
3. I deleted all NVIDIA Kexts from S/L/E on the Installer
4. I booted the USB on the laptop with boot flags -v and -x and I hang at
"SMC: Successfully initialized"
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5. I then booted with IGPLatformID=0166003 dart=0 -v -x and I hang at
"mcache: 4 CPU(s), 64 bytes CPU cache line size"
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Any suggestions?

Regards and Many Thanks

Cameron

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RehabMan said:

No need to delete any kexts from /S/L/E on the USB. Do not use IGPlatformID unless your goal is to disable graphics (it is broken in Chimera4).

Make sure you created your USB with "Laptop Support" and without "Legacy USB"

Remove /Extra/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext
Add GenericUSBXHCI.kext to /Extra/Extensions on the USB: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Generic-USB3
Update VoodooPS2Controller.kext at /Extra/Extensions on the USB: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller

Boot with flags:
dart=0 nv_disable=1 -v

Post photo if it stops. Be patient. Booting the OS X installer is not quick.

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Cameron Nicholson said:

Ok,

I've hit my next snag. Whenever I boot from the main hard drive half way through loading the kexts the computer restarts. Booting off the USB is fine. The PC has Chameleon.

Things I've tried to fix it.

-Install Chameleon using different methods
-Copied the /Extra folder from the USB to my hard drive /Extra
-Copied S/L/E from my USB to my main drives S/L/E

None of which have fixed the issue.

I will post a video tomorrow / today, my whole house is asleep and don't want to wake them.

Any ideas though?

Cheers

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RehabMan said:

If it is rebooting when loading AppleKextExcludeList.kext, it is a known Chameleon/Chimera problem.

I'm using Clover, so I don't know the details...

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Cameron Nicholson said:

Sorry for the bad photo, but yes that's where it hangs AppleKectExcludeList

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RehabMan said:

If you look at the file, you'll see it consists of a massive list (the file is 1.3MB) of third party/hackintosh kexts. The problem is the size of the file, which seems to trip some bootloaders up.

From what I remember, the solution I read about involved removing the entries in the largest list... OSKextSigExceptionHashList

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Cameron Nicholson said:

I deleted "<key>OSKextSigExceptionHashList</key>" from info.plist. Was that what I was meant to do, because it didn't work.

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RehabMan said:

I think you need to keep the key, but delete all the entries.

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