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Cant Boot installer [Newbie][Unibeast][HD4000]

So I have read as many stickys as I have found (may have missed some, sorry if I have)
First time trying a hackintosh and I understand its gunna be a challenge and just wanted to see if it would work.

Specs : Asus Vivibook S400CA
Grahics: Integrated Hd Graphics 4000 (1366x768)
Cpu: i7-3517U
ram: 4gb
A full report of the computer Specs are compiled into a text file and is downloadable here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fst64p77a85mzpl/ASUS S400CA.txt?dl=0
If anyone wants to know how to do this just ask :)

So first of all if any of those three mean it cant run OS X then please tell me, its not important that it runs os x its just my hobby to mess about with computers..

So I borrowed someone elses pc to download Yosemite off the app store and used unibeast to make a usb installer, and then put multibeast on the usb (dragged it on), was following this guide:
http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh-o-5841604
note, fairly certain I enabled laptop support, but willing to redo it if anyone thinks I missed it :)

So I took a lot of pictures, I think its just easier to upload it at once as an archive so here are some pictures of my bios settings and boot codes i have tried (of course with images of the results to the boot codes):https://www.dropbox.com/s/0c9hhyrvck7myo4/ForumPost tonymacx86.rar?dl=0

Thank you in advance :) Sorry if I missed something and posted in the wrong section or missed something I wasn't meant to do.

almost forgot, this is the normal boot, waited 10 minutes :p
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So I have read as many stickys as I have found (may have missed some, sorry if I have)
First time trying a hackintosh and I understand its gunna be a challenge and just wanted to see if it would work.

Specs : Asus Vivibook S400CA
Grahics: Integrated Hd Graphics 4000 (1366x768)
Cpu: i7-3517U
ram: 4gb
A full report of the computer Specs are compiled into a text file and is downloadable here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fst64p77a85mzpl/ASUS S400CA.txt?dl=0
If anyone wants to know how to do this just ask :)

So first of all if any of those three mean it cant run OS X then please tell me, its not important that it runs os x its just my hobby to mess about with computers..

So I borrowed someone elses pc to download Yosemite off the app store and used unibeast to make a usb installer, and then put multibeast on the usb (dragged it on), was following this guide:
http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh-o-5841604
note, fairly certain I enabled laptop support, but willing to redo it if anyone thinks I missed it :)

So I took a lot of pictures, I think its just easier to upload it at once as an archive so here are some pictures of my bios settings and boot codes i have tried (of course with images of the results to the boot codes):https://www.dropbox.com/s/0c9hhyrvck7myo4/ForumPost tonymacx86.rar?dl=0

Thank you in advance :) Sorry if I missed something and posted in the wrong section or missed something I wasn't meant to do.

almost forgot, this is the normal boot, waited 10 minutes :p
View attachment 120724

Follow the Clover guide here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...oting-os-x-installer-laptops-clover-uefi.html
 
irl do this when i am next free, i will google to check, but if i remember correctly from my old linux days, clover is a bootloader right, the pretty one? (they probably all are now)

Please read the link before asking questions...
 
ok so i have got the installer booted using clover usb.

So i made some unpartitioned space on my HDD in windows, went into the disk utility within the installer and tried to make a HFS+ partition out of it, it sticks at "Preparing to partition disk"

I was able to stick my external hardrive in and partition it into a mess happily, but the internal, nope.

Is this because (well at least i thought) a single disk cant have more than 4 primary partitions. If so i would have to remove the recovery partition :/

or is it simply something I need to patch or a kext.
Sorry this is not in the topic of this thread, I did try googling it and all that came up was that it was moving all of the randomly arranged data, but i thought this only happens when shrinking partitions

Heres a screenshot of the windows view of my drive(yes im trying to install windows and mac together). If thats the problem please say:)Capture.PNG
 
ok so i have got the installer booted using clover usb.

So i made some unpartitioned space on my HDD in windows, went into the disk utility within the installer and tried to make a HFS+ partition out of it, it sticks at "Preparing to partition disk"

I was able to stick my external hardrive in and partition it into a mess happily, but the internal, nope.

Is this because (well at least i thought) a single disk cant have more than 4 primary partitions. If so i would have to remove the recovery partition :/

or is it simply something I need to patch or a kext.
Sorry this is not in the topic of this thread, I did try googling it and all that came up was that it was moving all of the randomly arranged data, but i thought this only happens when shrinking partitions

Heres a screenshot of the windows view of my drive(yes im trying to install windows and mac together). If thats the problem please say:)View attachment 121108

How is your copy of Windows installed? (legacy or UEFI?)

If UEFI...

OS X is not well behaved with disks partitioned by other than OS X Disk Utility, but there are things you can check/do.

See this thread: http://www.tonymacx86.com/multi-booting/133940-mavericks-windows-8-same-drive-without-erasing.html

If legacy, you need to re-partition and reinstall Windows.
 
right so i read the guide, thanks.

from what i understand i need to increase my efi partition from 100mb to 300+mb,
going to try and remove the first partition (recovery), then make another efi there, delete the old efi and then extend :)

thanks man

edit: i dont know how to find out if its legacy or uefi (its brought used and he said it had factory settings on it( i did have the windows setup screen so i reckon maybe still oem)

As it has an 100mb efi partition and the Partition table is GUID (or whatever the non MBR is, i forgot) i will assume its efi and am doing the above

Edit; Urm it worked but it my EFI partition is in the middle of my Disk, damn, im gunna now repeat to move it to the start lol
 
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edit: i dont know how to find out if its legacy or uefi (its brought used and he said it had factory settings on it( i did have the windows setup screen so i reckon maybe still oem)

Boot Windows, run MSINFO32.EXE, and check "BIOS Mode".
 
yeah this is annoying, i could leave it but theres an efi partition in the middle of my drive, there is free space at the start, but it automatically goes after C: lol

unless anyone has a quick fix i will leave it, if i decide i really like yosemite i will restore the windows image i made and do some mass googling or just see if moving it in an ubuntu live cd will work. but i cba now.
Capture.PNG
 
did not work :(

used a placeholder ntfs partition and it cant delete it

so this empty space, tried to make hfs+ there, same thing ("preparing to create partition")
getting to a point where i may just open the laptop, replace the HDD and install happily on an old drive

edit: i dont think the install detects the efi partition...
did a verify disk and it says Error:the disk does not contain an EFI...

Ideas welcomee
 
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