Guide to Installing Mavericks on HP Probook

[RehabMan]

I did check on that, but it's not working. Well, I don't know if this is true. I format the HD in MBR instead of GUID. Don't know if that is matter.

Partition the HD into 2 parttion, 1. Mavericks HD and 2. Local Drive
I check on System info on Mavericks HD, it said dev/disk0s2 and Local Drive is dev/disk0s1

So I went in the installer, and unmount both. Then ran the Terminal command
dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/disk0s2

Finished, boot up, it said no operating system. Don't know, or I could leave it as 1 partition, and deal with it.

Problem is probably that you don't have an active partition in your MBR. Use fdisk to mark your "Mavericks HD" partition as active.

One more problem:

The computer is not sleeping right... When I hit sleep, it turn off, pretending it goes to sleep, then about 5 or 10 second later, it turn back on. My computer is 8470p, don't know if this make a different. On the Probook Install, there is a sleep fix, don't know if I should try this?

As it states in the guide, make sure you have "Wake on LAN" and "Wake on USB" disabled in BIOS.

 

[cybersimo]

Also, you could try the "Fix _WAK Arg0 v1" DSDT patch from this repo: https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch. Use MaciASL to apply to your existing DSDT. Eventually, this DSDT patch will make its way into the ProBook Installer. You can read about what the patch does in the comments.

Just a quick followup on this: After installing that fix, I still haven't experienced hangs on wake up. I will probably do another clean install soon, just to confirm it.

Thanks <3

 

[RehabMan]

Just a quick followup on this: After installing that fix, I still haven't experienced hangs on wake up. I will probably do another clean install soon, just to confirm it.

Thanks <3

Good to hear. That fix is now in the ProBook Installer's (6.1.10) DSDT patcher, so now everyone can benefit.

 

[antonioj07]

Quick question: I have the Atheros AR9285 card installed, and wifi works fine....but, does this card support bluetooth too? If so how do i enable it?

Also, does Airdrop require bluetooth to work?

 

[philip_petev]

Quick question: I have the Atheros AR9285 card installed, and wifi works fine....but, does this card support bluetooth too? If so how do i enable it?

Depends. Most Atheros 9285 based cards have it. If you've used the ProBook Installer after you've made your OS X install (which installs a support kext for Atheros BT), you should have it fully operational. Do you have a BT icon in the System Preferences?

Also, does Airdrop require bluetooth to work?

No.

 

[mjb152]

I'm struggling with point 4. I'm running a 1920x1080 on 10.8.5, all works fine.
I've got a bootable USB stick, just used it to upgrade a desktop (though I created i with laptop support), and it works fine, yesterday I did 5 fresh installs and played with the migration, so I know it works fine.
I followed step 4, downloaded/renamed/copied over the new /Extra/ssdt.aml (157 bytes), and then tried to boot.
I get a corrupted screen, which eventually shows me the installer on the right 1/2 of the screen, but all weird and ghosted.

I booted with -v and saw a message fairly quickly which said "ACPI table not found: DSDT.aml" , then straight after "ACPI table not found: SSDT.aml" , they might not be an issue though, as the SSDT.aml is uppercase, and the file I put in /Extra is lower.

what can I do from here ?

 

[RehabMan]

I'm struggling with point 4. I'm running a 1920x1080 on 10.8.5, all works fine.
I've got a bootable USB stick, just used it to upgrade a desktop (though I created i with laptop support), and it works fine, yesterday I did 5 fresh installs and played with the migration, so I know it works fine.
I followed step 4, downloaded/renamed/copied over the new /Extra/ssdt.aml (157 bytes), and then tried to boot.
I get a corrupted screen, which eventually shows me the installer on the right 1/2 of the screen, but all weird and ghosted.

I booted with -v and saw a message fairly quickly which said "ACPI table not found: DSDT.aml" , then straight after "ACPI table not found: SSDT.aml" , they might not be an issue though, as the SSDT.aml is uppercase, and the file I put in /Extra is lower.

what can I do from here ?

Double check that the file is actually there and the file name is spelled correctly. You placed the SSDT.aml on your USB's /Extra folder, right?

 

[mjb152]

You placed the SSDT.aml on your USB's /Extra folder, right?

maybe step 4 should be amended to say /Extra/SSDT.aml and not /Extra/ssdt.aml ?

now it boots fine and I can read stuff ! thanks for the correction

 

[RehabMan]

maybe step 4 should be amended to say /Extra/SSDT.aml and not /Extra/ssdt.aml ?

now it boots fine and I can read stuff ! thanks for the correction

The file system should be case insensitive, so it doesn't matter.

 

[John V]

I used lower case for "ssdt.aml" and it worked fine.