Lenovo B590 Mavericks

[rojocapo]

Hi guys,

I bought a B590 a couple of weeks ago nd I am trying to get Mavericks 10.9.3 on it.
i3 3120, HM77 chipset, 8GB RAM, HD4000, 512GB SSD and 750 GB 7200 HDD.
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel Centrino 6300 wifi which I will replace with an Atheros chip I have.

Screen is 1366x768 15.6" crap, but I work at home office most of the time. HDMI is connected to a 22" Full HD monitor. I have a USB Microsoft keyboard and USB mouse.
Fingerprint scanner works fine in Windows 8.1, but I assume it's useless in OSX.

So anyways, I downloaded the Mavericks 10.9.3 full installer from the Mac Store and did the usual Unibeast creation. Selected 10.9 and Laptop support which ran fine.

Now when I try to install from my USB drive, I never reach the OSX welcome screen where you choose the language. The video blacks out and HDMI doesn't work correctly. Tried without HDMI too. I tried GraphicsEnabler=No IGPEnabler=Yes -v -f. The screen scrolls with large 80x24 text verbosing boot messages and then switches to a higher resolution text mode. Then it goes totally black and I can't see any more text. The laptop is booting because I can ping it from my smartphone. Video is just not working correctly. Can someone help?

Thanks in advance,
Rojocapo

 

[RehabMan]

Hi,

Bought a B590 a couple of weeks ago.
i3 3120, 8GB, HD4000, 512GB SSD and 750 GB 7200 HDD.
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel Centro 6300 wifi which I will replace with an Atheros chip I have.
Screen is 1366x768 15.6" crap, but I work at home office most of the time. HDMI is connected to a 22" Full HD monitor. I have a USB Microsoft keyboard and USB mouse.
Fingerprint scanner works fine in Windows 8.1, but I assume it's useless in OSX.

So anyways, I downloaded the Mavericks installer from the Mac Store and did the usual Unibeast creating. Selected 10.9 and Laptop support which ran fine.

Now when I try to install from my USB drive, I never reach the OSX installation screen. The video blacks out and HDMI doesn't work correctly. Tried without HDMI too. I tried GraphicsEnabler=No IGPEnabler=Yes -v -f. The screen scrolls with large 80x24 text verbosing boot messages and then switches to a higher resolution text mode. Then it goes totally black and I can't see any more text. The laptop is booting because I can ping it from my smartphone. Video is just not working correctly. Can someone help?

Thanks in advance,
Rojocapo

Use boot flags:
IGPlatformID=01660003 dart=0 -v

 

[rojocapo]

Use boot flags:
IGPlatformID=01660003 dart=0 -v

Thanks, those boot flags worked. Now my problem is that the installer doesn't like my MBR partitioned disks. Any way to get around that without repartitioning?

 

[RehabMan]

... Now my problem is that the installer doesn't like my MBR partitioned disks. Any way to get around that without repartitioning?

No. The OS X installer requires GPT partitioned disks.

 

[rojocapo]

No. The OS X installer requires GPT partitioned disks.

Then it's time to delete the garbage off the 750GB disk, make a backup, repartition, format and restore backup.

 

[RehabMan]

Then it's time to delete the garbage off the 750GB disk, make a backup, repartition, format and restore backup.

You will probably end up needing to re-install Windows, so plan for that ...

 

[rojocapo]

You will probably end up needing to re-install Windows, so plan for that ...

Got triple boot sort of working.

Disk 1: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD with Windows 8.1 Pro
Disk 2: OSX 10.9.3 and Ubuntu 14.04 x64 LTS

Fortunately I did not have to reinstall Windows.

Now I have two more problems to get basic boot working:
1) I can only boot OSX from the Unibeast pendrive. I tried installing Chimera 3.0.1 to the OSX partition but I don't get a graphical GUI with an option to select the boot partition and parameters.
2) How do I make IGPlatforms parameters stick so I don't have to type them in. What do I have to add to /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist?

Thanks
Axel

 

[RehabMan]

Got triple boot sort of working.

Disk 1: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD with Windows 8.1 Pro
Disk 2: OSX 10.9.3 and Ubuntu 14.04 x64 LTS

Fortunately I did not have to reinstall Windows.

Now I have two more problems to get basic boot working:
1) I can only boot OSX from the Unibeast pendrive. I tried installing Chimera 3.0.1 to the OSX partition but I don't get a graphical GUI with an option to select the boot partition and parameters.

Use Multibeast first (DSDT Free). Then install Chimera v3 over top.

2) How do I make IGPlatforms parameters stick so I don't have to type them in. What do I have to add to /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist?

It is a bootloader flag, so:

<key>IGPlatformID</key>
<string>01660003</string>
<key>IGPEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>

dart is a kernel flag, so:

<key>Kernel Flags<key>
<string>dart=0</string>

 

[rojocapo]

Use Multibeast first (DSDT Free). Then install Chimera v3 over top.

Didn't work. GRUB is the main boot loader on disk1. On boot I am choosing Mac OS X 64 bit. When I hit enter, I don't see the Chimera icons, it goes straight to text mode trying to boot OSX which fails. Seems like it's totally skipping Chimera.

It is a bootloader flag, so:

<key>IGPlatformID</key>
<string>01660003</string>
<key>IGPEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>

dart is a kernel flag, so:

<key>Kernel Flags<key>
<string>dart=0</string>

The flags are sticky now, thanks.

 

[RehabMan]

Didn't work. GRUB is the main boot loader on disk1. On boot I am choosing Mac OS X 64 bit. When I hit enter, I don't see the Chimera icons, it goes straight to text mode trying to boot OSX which fails. Seems like it's totally skipping Chimera.

Without knowing what you have in your /Extra folder, no ideas...