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Lenovo G50-70 Intel Core i7-4510U
Intel HD 4400 (1366x768)
LGA1168 chipset(or that's all cpuz or hwinfo will pull)
conexant audio hd
1TB mech hdd(using shipped drive ATM see below)
Attempting a clover instal(1st time, did a unibeast/chimera desktop early in the year).
So, combining some franken attempt between the Clover Install Mavericks Guide(geared towards HP notebooks) and this:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/laptop-co...just-little-bit-help-needed-7.html#post739947
BIOS set to legacy/legacy first, booting EFI USB stick (prepped on my mbpro mid 2010).
I've left WiFi enabled for now even though it is incompatible as it doesn't appear to be interfering with the install attempts. I'll details blocks later.
Using "novo" button -> boot menu -> EFI (USB Mass Storage device or my clover partitioned usb "stick") will boot me straight through to the installer, provided that one remembers to remove the HPfan hack. From experience it just stalls out if left in(oops). Clover is defaulting to a mbpro 11,2 which seems to be mostly/kind of(?) working so I didn't monkey with that. (I downloaded the clover files from the dropbox link reffed in the HP Mavericks/clover install thread.)
(Just to be clear this is ALL with the stock shipped 1TB mechanical hdd.)
1st attempt: we won't talk about this(see above sentence)
2nd attempt(after more reading): partially follow the g500 guide, removing the additional lenovo_os(d partition(backed up to a network drive first) -> remove that partition, shrink the win8(OS) drive by 450GB(as much as it would allow under windows).
Booted clover based installer -> OS X installer -> Disk Utility fails to partition/format the unused space on the drive. It looks like it's going to work but never seems to actually do anything. (I gave up on this after waiting c. 20m)
3rd attempt: Same as above, but formatted the unused space to "exfat", which Disk Utility happily reformats as MacOS extended, and will proceed to install. (or Phase I by the HP clover/mavericks guide)
Going through the reboot in an attempt to do phase "2" is where I get stuck, and what I am suspecting is that it has to do with the EFI partition(no space probably? right? or maybe back to Disk Utility apparently not being able to partition the drive to begin with?). I let this run for about an 1h and it would proceed through phase "2" "install" about 1/3 of the progress bar and bebop between 20m and 17m until finished, hdd LED was lit up but I couldn't tell if it was actually doing anything.
This is where I'm at ATM, i.e. not very far, so my questions are:
(a) any suggested partitioning to try out with the stock drive and the c. 500GB of free space, i.e. create an unused partition of a few hundred meg or so for EFI? and another exfat for the remaining space so that all Disk utility has to do is format it to allow phase "1" to go and then hope that phase '2" finds and uses the "unused" space for EFI? (I'm just pulling at straws on this, so any help is appreciated...)
or
(b) I think that I've got a 750GB(WD caviar black even maybe 7500k) laying around, so just try swapping out the hdds and start out with a complete blank drive?
The problem with (b) was that I was hoping to "easily" preserve win8 while being able to dual boot clover/OS X Mavericks.
Additionally would 10.10(Yosemite) be a better option to try with this at this point? i.e. is it known if it would supply any "better" support?
Anyways, between having to resetup the clover USB stick several times(seems like the OS X mavericks install partition got corrupted on a couple of early attempts in that it would hang early in booting to installer, not even showing the cycling round segment of lines thing...)
I'm not worried about WiFi yet, but a few years ago I did buy a Zyxel AC1200 adapter which has the same chipset as the edimax AC1200 adapter(might even be identical hw in all respects as even the exteriors other than color are also identical) and so am hoping that the RTL88<whatever it was, I'll look later when we're there> are just generic and will work with either, but I also have a crappier 802.11n adapter that I could also try, but I'm just HOPING to get that far tomorrow, let alone sound, PM(sleep/etc.).
Advice? Ideas? (I also kind of looked at the U430 thread partially, but I can already see that it uses realtek audio instead of conexant so the mobos might not be as close as I had originally hoped, OTOH I think that the G500 mobo is also quite a bit different as well so I'm back to those only being useful as general references...)
[EDIT=12/2/14]
What works so far:
ClovergrowerPro 3033-7(self built, had a problem w/3029 IIRC(FIXME)
Boot native UEFI/safe boot off/wireless left on/"Other OS"/everything else DEFAULT (latest BIOS, # not handy but ends w/28 my original ended w/26 and had almost no options whatsoever and was not playing nice at all)
Aptiofix and uefivarfix worked, plus genericUSB, voodoops2, and whatever one I mention below<FIXME> Rehabs 4400/4600/5000 config.plist
Install OS X 10.10.1, but I see no reason that 10.9.3+ shouldn't work also with the new BIOS and ability to defeat "secure" booting, installed to a BLANK drive. Installing to OEM drive WITH win81 installed will require some extra work. EFI part should already be >100MB so that should be OK, but M$ Reserved part seems to need to be removed o.w. Disk Utility will look like it can format a NTFS/exfat partition but in reality will do NOTHING. (Time, etc. permitting I'll try this later)
ClovergrowerPro 3037(self built) install to install drive
Boot some version of linux and dump dsdt and ssdt tables(7 ssdt tables in my case w/graphics defined in ssdt4), I used acpidump and acpiextract with an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS bootable USB stick(same one that I used to install OS X, just repartitioned and installed Ubuntu, might want to back up your clover config(the clover dir) to make your life easier.
rename dsdt and ssdt[1-7] to dsdt.aml and ssdt[1-7].aml, iasl -da -dl *.aml
open dsdt with MacIasl(using 1.2 ATM) add rehab man's laptop repo<FIXME>, patch whichever store that was<FIXME> with hish patch(just comments them out, nested store 2 locations in DSDT), comment out the other error<FIXME> Compile should be no errors, but some warnings/remarks
Apply GFX0->IGPU patch from rehab's laptop repo to DSDT.dsl, compile should be no errors. Save as .aml
open ssdt4.dsl, apply GFX0-IGPU patch again, and the Brightness fix(haswell), compile, should be no errors. Save as .aml
mount EFI part however you want to.
Copy the patched dsdt.aml and ssdt.aml to /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/ eg. (probably best naming as follows)
cp dsdt.aml /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patch/DSDT.aml
cp ssdt.aml /Volumes//EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patch/SSDT-4.aml
NOTE: dsdt.aml/ssdt.aml will be whatever you named them when you saved as "compiled binary aml"
Edit /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist and set DropOEM to <true>
Install ACPIbacklightfix(rehabman repo) kext however works for you
probably best to unmount EFI just in case but should work just doing a shutdown or restart...
reboot, brightness slider under sys prefs/disp should now work...
...and well that's it for the moment, working on a batt patch and sleep next, sound later as it's less important...
[/EDIT]
Lenovo G50-70 Intel Core i7-4510U
Intel HD 4400 (1366x768)
LGA1168 chipset(or that's all cpuz or hwinfo will pull)
conexant audio hd
1TB mech hdd(using shipped drive ATM see below)
Attempting a clover instal(1st time, did a unibeast/chimera desktop early in the year).
So, combining some franken attempt between the Clover Install Mavericks Guide(geared towards HP notebooks) and this:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/laptop-co...just-little-bit-help-needed-7.html#post739947
BIOS set to legacy/legacy first, booting EFI USB stick (prepped on my mbpro mid 2010).
I've left WiFi enabled for now even though it is incompatible as it doesn't appear to be interfering with the install attempts. I'll details blocks later.
Using "novo" button -> boot menu -> EFI (USB Mass Storage device or my clover partitioned usb "stick") will boot me straight through to the installer, provided that one remembers to remove the HPfan hack. From experience it just stalls out if left in(oops). Clover is defaulting to a mbpro 11,2 which seems to be mostly/kind of(?) working so I didn't monkey with that. (I downloaded the clover files from the dropbox link reffed in the HP Mavericks/clover install thread.)
(Just to be clear this is ALL with the stock shipped 1TB mechanical hdd.)
1st attempt: we won't talk about this(see above sentence)
2nd attempt(after more reading): partially follow the g500 guide, removing the additional lenovo_os(d partition(backed up to a network drive first) -> remove that partition, shrink the win8(OS) drive by 450GB(as much as it would allow under windows).
Booted clover based installer -> OS X installer -> Disk Utility fails to partition/format the unused space on the drive. It looks like it's going to work but never seems to actually do anything. (I gave up on this after waiting c. 20m)
3rd attempt: Same as above, but formatted the unused space to "exfat", which Disk Utility happily reformats as MacOS extended, and will proceed to install. (or Phase I by the HP clover/mavericks guide)
Going through the reboot in an attempt to do phase "2" is where I get stuck, and what I am suspecting is that it has to do with the EFI partition(no space probably? right? or maybe back to Disk Utility apparently not being able to partition the drive to begin with?). I let this run for about an 1h and it would proceed through phase "2" "install" about 1/3 of the progress bar and bebop between 20m and 17m until finished, hdd LED was lit up but I couldn't tell if it was actually doing anything.
This is where I'm at ATM, i.e. not very far, so my questions are:
(a) any suggested partitioning to try out with the stock drive and the c. 500GB of free space, i.e. create an unused partition of a few hundred meg or so for EFI? and another exfat for the remaining space so that all Disk utility has to do is format it to allow phase "1" to go and then hope that phase '2" finds and uses the "unused" space for EFI? (I'm just pulling at straws on this, so any help is appreciated...)
or
(b) I think that I've got a 750GB(WD caviar black even maybe 7500k) laying around, so just try swapping out the hdds and start out with a complete blank drive?
The problem with (b) was that I was hoping to "easily" preserve win8 while being able to dual boot clover/OS X Mavericks.
Additionally would 10.10(Yosemite) be a better option to try with this at this point? i.e. is it known if it would supply any "better" support?
Anyways, between having to resetup the clover USB stick several times(seems like the OS X mavericks install partition got corrupted on a couple of early attempts in that it would hang early in booting to installer, not even showing the cycling round segment of lines thing...)
I'm not worried about WiFi yet, but a few years ago I did buy a Zyxel AC1200 adapter which has the same chipset as the edimax AC1200 adapter(might even be identical hw in all respects as even the exteriors other than color are also identical) and so am hoping that the RTL88<whatever it was, I'll look later when we're there> are just generic and will work with either, but I also have a crappier 802.11n adapter that I could also try, but I'm just HOPING to get that far tomorrow, let alone sound, PM(sleep/etc.).
Advice? Ideas? (I also kind of looked at the U430 thread partially, but I can already see that it uses realtek audio instead of conexant so the mobos might not be as close as I had originally hoped, OTOH I think that the G500 mobo is also quite a bit different as well so I'm back to those only being useful as general references...)
[EDIT=12/2/14]
What works so far:
ClovergrowerPro 3033-7(self built, had a problem w/3029 IIRC(FIXME)
Boot native UEFI/safe boot off/wireless left on/"Other OS"/everything else DEFAULT (latest BIOS, # not handy but ends w/28 my original ended w/26 and had almost no options whatsoever and was not playing nice at all)
Aptiofix and uefivarfix worked, plus genericUSB, voodoops2, and whatever one I mention below<FIXME> Rehabs 4400/4600/5000 config.plist
Install OS X 10.10.1, but I see no reason that 10.9.3+ shouldn't work also with the new BIOS and ability to defeat "secure" booting, installed to a BLANK drive. Installing to OEM drive WITH win81 installed will require some extra work. EFI part should already be >100MB so that should be OK, but M$ Reserved part seems to need to be removed o.w. Disk Utility will look like it can format a NTFS/exfat partition but in reality will do NOTHING. (Time, etc. permitting I'll try this later)
ClovergrowerPro 3037(self built) install to install drive
Boot some version of linux and dump dsdt and ssdt tables(7 ssdt tables in my case w/graphics defined in ssdt4), I used acpidump and acpiextract with an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS bootable USB stick(same one that I used to install OS X, just repartitioned and installed Ubuntu, might want to back up your clover config(the clover dir) to make your life easier.
rename dsdt and ssdt[1-7] to dsdt.aml and ssdt[1-7].aml, iasl -da -dl *.aml
open dsdt with MacIasl(using 1.2 ATM) add rehab man's laptop repo<FIXME>, patch whichever store that was<FIXME> with hish patch(just comments them out, nested store 2 locations in DSDT), comment out the other error<FIXME> Compile should be no errors, but some warnings/remarks
Apply GFX0->IGPU patch from rehab's laptop repo to DSDT.dsl, compile should be no errors. Save as .aml
open ssdt4.dsl, apply GFX0-IGPU patch again, and the Brightness fix(haswell), compile, should be no errors. Save as .aml
mount EFI part however you want to.
Copy the patched dsdt.aml and ssdt.aml to /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched/ eg. (probably best naming as follows)
cp dsdt.aml /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patch/DSDT.aml
cp ssdt.aml /Volumes//EFI/EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patch/SSDT-4.aml
NOTE: dsdt.aml/ssdt.aml will be whatever you named them when you saved as "compiled binary aml"
Edit /EFI/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist and set DropOEM to <true>
Install ACPIbacklightfix(rehabman repo) kext however works for you
probably best to unmount EFI just in case but should work just doing a shutdown or restart...
reboot, brightness slider under sys prefs/disp should now work...
...and well that's it for the moment, working on a batt patch and sleep next, sound later as it's less important...
[/EDIT]