help dv6t sandy bridge 10.6.7

[ttotto]

Are you using normal Iboot or iboot legacy with the boot flags above?

 

[ninditsu]

Are you using normal Iboot or iboot legacy with the boot flags above?

the latest normal iboot with chimera 1.3

 

[badman1223]

Laptop is in fedex's hands... 5-7 days

 

[ninditsu]

Laptop is in fedex's hands... 5-7 days

sweet, i will finally have someone test installation with me.

 

[tazzix]

I am using an HP DV6-6011TX (Singapore Model) only a bit similar to yours, but posting anyways, it has:

- Core i7 2630QM 2.0 GHz
- 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz
- Intel HD 3000
- ATI HD 6770M (1 GB DDR5)
- RALink Wifi module
- RTL8xxx LAN

- I have a USB Wifi dongle which works albeit being a hassle, but RALink has this weird popup thing and not integrated with the Airport mechanism. Still works.

Installed retail Mac OS X 10.6.3 using iBoot legacy and upgraded to 10.6.7 using combo update, installed bridgeHelper.

When I boot from iBoot:
- Processor 2.0 GHz Unknown (all 8 threads visible and used in Activity Monitor)
- RAM detected as 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
- Graphics stuck at 1024x768x16bit no GPU detected
- No Wifi
- LAN works
- Keyboard / Trackpad / USB working

I tried installing Multibeast with different combinations, the best I got so far is:
- KP (unless I use cpus=1)
- Processor 2.0 GHz Core i7 detected, shows 8 threads, only one utilized in Activity Monitor
- RAM still at 800 GHz DDR2
- Graphics become 1024x768x32bit, both GPUs detected, intel one is active
- No Wifi
- LAN works
- Builtin keyboard / trackpad does not work, usb3 ports crash system, could only use USB mouse.

I will be posting any updates and watching your progress for any pointers. I am planning on trying the legacy kernel, or the early 2011 mac update. I can see what the legacy kernel will do from iboot legacy boots. But hopefully the kexts for ATI will help.

The show stoppers for me are:
- Builtin keyboard has to work
- Resolution of 1366x768 has to be working

It would be nice to be able to use the ATI GPU instead of Intel one but I can live with it, if it helps with battery life.

For the time being using my older laptop which has everything working including sleep to disk, its running Mac OS X for last two years, the machine served me well for over 4 years:
HP DV6000, C2D 1.83 GHz T5600, 3 GB 800 MHz DDR2, Nvidia 7400 Go, D-Link USB Wifi with RALink chipset.

 

[ttotto]

Now are you running the kernel from the latest bridge helper with your i7-2630qm because mine never works it just reboots ofter Darwin begins to load. So I have to use legacy kernel to boot.

 

[ninditsu]

Now are you running the kernel from the latest bridge helper with your i7-2630qm because mine never works it just reboots ofter Darwin begins to load. So I have to use legacy kernel to boot.

i'm using mach_kernel i think.
because i installed os x, and i used multibeast to get iboot functionality (following tonymac's guide) and used chimera bootloader

 

[tazzix]

EUREKAAA!!!

Got mine working as per my liking!

@ninditsu, your specs are identical to mine except that mine has the model number DV6-6011TX (Singapore Model).

I changed to plan-B, to get QE/CI working on Intel HD 3000 (which is built-in to the i7 processor). Reasons being that I have consoles for gaming and the Intel GPU saves battery

Here is what is working:
- Core i7 2630QM detected as 2.0 GHz Unknown Activity Monitor shows all cores and 4 are being used, not sure of hyper threading.
- Intel HD 3000, detected with proper resolution 1366x768x32 with 3D effects, screen brightness controls working
- 4GB RAM detected as 800 MHz DDR2 but seems OK.
- USB 2.0 working fine, 3.0 ports crash and lock the system, not a big deal for now
- Keyboard and touchpad working fine
- Using USB WiFi dongle, my laptop has a RALink 5390 PCIe/m card and RALink is probably the only company giving official Mac drivers so they might be coming soon
- Battery icon showing up in tray and working as expected
- Bluetooth working and toggles using keyboard
- Just installed SleepEnabler kexts not tested, also installed smart sleep for hibernate to disk, also need to test
- Volume keys show change in volume but there is no change and need to use preference pane VoodooHDA for volume control.

Here is what I did:

- iBoot Legacy + SL 10.6.3 retail installation
- iBoot Legacy again for booting first time
- 10.6.7 (universal) update
- BridgeHelper 2.1
- MultiBeast (several tries with different settings, nothing worked)
- Used /Extra folder from iBoot to setup /Extra on HDD
- Overwrote kernel to use 10.7.0 Legacy
- Installed IntelAppleHD.....kext files
- Other kexts for touchpad, voodoobattery, voodooHDA, etc.
- Kyle_C has a boot file for SandyBridge and Intel HD 3000

All in all took a night and a day and a lot of reading on different forums and blogs to get here.

Thanks to all who made this possible !!!

Now going to launch migration assistant and put my older Hackintosh for sale it served me well.

Any questions or anything that can help you are most welcome, its just I seem to be in a different timezone from most people here.

 

[KLN]

Thank you a lot, tazzix.

Today I will try your steps on my dv7-6053er. It almost looks like yours' laptop. The same problem with my ati. But can you please post your boot.plist to examine it.

Once again, thanks a lot for your efforts.

 

[ninditsu]

Tazzix
Do you get qe ci?
A test that I know of is a ripple appears after dropping a widget on the dashboard if qe ci works. Also front row runs as a nuclear option test