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- Jul 25, 2012
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- Motherboard
- Hackintosh
- CPU
- Core 3 (Lynnfield)
- Graphics
- Radeon 5870 Black Edition
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Thanks for the suggestions, all.
Let me just say: thank the gods for spare parts!
I tried every boot flag combination I could think of (-x -v GraphicsEnabler=No PCIRootUID=0) all to no avail. About to give up hope, I remembered that I had an old NVIDIA 8400GS in an old desktop I was preparing to sell. It had been the graphics card in a much older Hackintosh build, so I hoped it would still work for the ML installer.
Lo and behold, it worked like a charm. After the initial installation completed (at the part where it will restart automagically after X seconds), I powered off the system and swapped in the Radeon 6870. Crossing my fingers, I booted the system expecting a kernel panic of some kind. But it worked! Full graphics acceleration support and no kext hacking. I used the latest Multibeast and User DSDT and it works beautifully.
I guess the problem only exists at the initial install screen. If you can use an older (or just different) graphics card to kick off the install, the 6870 works fine after that.
Also of note: I made sure to get ML running on my Hackintosh before I installed it on my work-provided MacBook Pro. Priorities!
Let me just say: thank the gods for spare parts!
I tried every boot flag combination I could think of (-x -v GraphicsEnabler=No PCIRootUID=0) all to no avail. About to give up hope, I remembered that I had an old NVIDIA 8400GS in an old desktop I was preparing to sell. It had been the graphics card in a much older Hackintosh build, so I hoped it would still work for the ML installer.
Lo and behold, it worked like a charm. After the initial installation completed (at the part where it will restart automagically after X seconds), I powered off the system and swapped in the Radeon 6870. Crossing my fingers, I booted the system expecting a kernel panic of some kind. But it worked! Full graphics acceleration support and no kext hacking. I used the latest Multibeast and User DSDT and it works beautifully.
I guess the problem only exists at the initial install screen. If you can use an older (or just different) graphics card to kick off the install, the 6870 works fine after that.
Also of note: I made sure to get ML running on my Hackintosh before I installed it on my work-provided MacBook Pro. Priorities!