- Joined
- Aug 20, 2011
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- ASUS Rampage Gene II [Lion 7.3], ASUS P8Z68 V Pro Gen3 [Lion 7.3]
- CPU
- Intel i7 920, Intel i7 2600k
- Graphics
- ASUS GTX 470 1286mb, Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti 1028mb
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
I used the TonyMac iBoot + MultiBeast method to install Snow Leopard 10.6.3, and then TonyMac's xMove + MultiBeast to install Lion 10.7 onto an ASUS K53E Laptop [Sandy Bridge 2410 w/ HD 3000]. Booted straight into SL installer with iBoot Legacy and proceeded to create partitions for Windows, Snow Leopard, Lion Installer, and Lion [wanted a clean install of Lion].
It installed SL straight, no KP's and no boot flags required.
-Mounted Lion DMG in SL, used xMove to move it to the Lion Installer partition, and made sure I was running the latest Chimera 1.5.4. I didn't update SL at all since I wasn't keeping it.
-Rebooted, booted Lion Installer thru Chimera and installed Lion without any kernal flags.
-Booted into the new Lion install, KP'd, and rebooted.
-Booted back into the Lion Installer and reinstalled Lion onto the Lion partition again.
-Rebooted, and managed to boot into Lion with boot flags -f -v.
Screen ratio was off and HD 3000 recognized with 64mb VRAM.
-Proceeded to do my MultiBeast installs [EasyBeast].
-Installed Chimera again, upgraded Chimera to 1.5.4.
-Trackpad and keyboard worked fine with VoodooPS2 kext.
-VoodooHDA gave the feedback loop, fixed with changing the iGain, iMix, and adding Mic to the info.plist.
-Replaced wifi card [Intel Centrino N 1030 wireless half-height mini PCIe--couldn't get this card to work nor could find anything to get it to work] with an Atheros 9285 and installed the kexts for the Atheros. Worked!
-Installed kext for Atheros 8151 for the ethernet. Worked!
-Repaired permissions with MultiBeast. Repaired permissions with Disk Utility.
-Rebooted without any bootflags [except for the plist boot flags of arch=i386 and pcirootuid=1].
Lion recognized the 384mb on the HD 3000 and corrected the screen ratio and resolution.
-Webcam seems to work out of box w/ FaceTime
-Lid sleep seems to work, display turns off and HD light stops flashing, can't hear anything, but I am just unsure . . . opening up lid and hitting keypad or key brings display back up relatively quickly
-New problem: USB ports wouldn't work. Deleted the AppleHPET.kext, repaired permissions, and rebooted. USB working again.
-Shutdown doesn't work--goes into black screen and stays on, have to manually shut off
I do get incessant KP's during boot [anywhere between 1 to 10] when booting with no special boot flags into Lion citing the kext com.Apple.iokit.iographicsfamily occasionally and most of the time, citing the AudioAUUC kext when I do -v to find out why the KP's. Then sometimes, Lion will boot 10 times in a row with no issues. I've deleted the extensions.mkext in E/E and the kext.cache in S/L/C startup. Seemed to help but hasn't solved it. Am I missing something simple here?
I also basically can't boot Lion unless the laptop is plugged in. If it is unplugged, it KP's with the above issues. I haven't deleted the Intelpowermanagement kext but nullintelpowermanagement kext is in my E/E. This have anything to do with my power cord issue?
My other problem is I made a mistake in my zeal to install Lion that I forgot to install Windows partition first. I installed Windows afterwards by booting up with an install disc and reformatted the FAT32 partition I created earlier into NTFS and installed without any issues and of course, Windows became the active partition. I couldn't set Lion as active thru Windows, and I made a dunderhead move and deleted my SL install which had my Chimera bootloader on it. So I back-pedaled and used iBoot to run my SL install disc, and through Terminal, I manually added the Chimera boot loader to the Lion install using fdisk.
Well, this of course corrupted my Windows boot loader. Chimera booted fine and launched Lion fine, but when I tried to launch my Windows partition, it gave me an error citing that too many hardware changes / software changes and a certain device couldn't be written to. I ran my Windows installer disc, and ran repairs and it detected the faulty / corrupt boot issue. I tried letting it do its thing, and it just kept looking for issues for 20 min. I rebooted, back into repairs, and manually did the bootrec.exe /bootmbr and /bootfix commands. Rebooted and Windows was able to boot again, but Chimera wasn't loading. So I keep getting stuck into this cycle as I reinstall Windows, and no more Chimera even after I marked OS X Lion as active with fdisk in Terminal and marking as active. Is Chimera being overwritten by Windows?
Is this is simple as getting Windows to load properly, then using iBoot and SL install disc and using Terminal to mark the Lion partition as active so it'll see the Chimera boot loader? Or trying iBoot to get into Lion and reinstalling Chimera through the partition again, so that it does its thing and doesn't overwrite the Windows bootloader?
Or should I just start over by using the Lion installer partition to erase / format / partition the drives, install Windows normally, then boot back into iBoot, install Lion through Lion installer, boot into Lion, install EasyBeast--upgrade to Chimera?
I've read a ton where installing OS X first isn't an issue, then installing Windows, and maybe using the chain0 and/or tboot but has anybody had success with this? Launching Windows repair and using the automatic startup repair tool fixes it and everything should be fine, but it just loads forever doing nothing that I can tell.
I personally wanted to keep things as close to TonyMac's method since his has been the most reliable and stable to date.
I've done a successful hackintosh using iBoot + MultiBeast on a build that has:
* ASUS Rampage Gene II mobo
* Intel i7 920
* PNY Nvidia GTX 260
Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 no issues upgrading, and Windows 7 Ultimate. Chimera 1.5.4 running, no issues. Boots great into either partition.
Also managed to install Lion and Windows 7 onto a Samsung RF711 Sandy Bridge, but the Broadcom wifi/bluetooth on the laptop won't work no matter what, and oddly enough the trackpad won't work at all--no matter how many different trackpad kexts I tried after the voodooPS2 didn't work for the trackpad [keyboard worked though]. I'll post soon my trials and tribulations with this laptop when I get a little further with it.
Can anybody help me with the above issues, since maybe some fresh eyes and minds can detect a solution, which is probably right in front of me. Sometimes you get mired so deep into a hackintosh, it consumes you and your sanity and rationale become distant relatives.
Sorry for the long post. I hope people will avoid some of the pitfalls that have befallen me for this build when they read this. I will update as I make progress. Thanks again to everybody here on the forum--this is LITERALLY what the internet is all about. Sharing of information and we all benefit. Everybody remember to donate SOMETHING to TonyMac and the gang for all they do. If everybody gave just $1 . . . anyway, I'm not affiliated with them! A virtual pat on the back doesn't keep their pink boy landlords well-fed and put gas in their yachts.
If you want a successful hackintosh, follow TonyMac's method TO-A-TEE! The one time I don't, and you see what happens?!
It installed SL straight, no KP's and no boot flags required.
-Mounted Lion DMG in SL, used xMove to move it to the Lion Installer partition, and made sure I was running the latest Chimera 1.5.4. I didn't update SL at all since I wasn't keeping it.
-Rebooted, booted Lion Installer thru Chimera and installed Lion without any kernal flags.
-Booted into the new Lion install, KP'd, and rebooted.
-Booted back into the Lion Installer and reinstalled Lion onto the Lion partition again.
-Rebooted, and managed to boot into Lion with boot flags -f -v.
Screen ratio was off and HD 3000 recognized with 64mb VRAM.
-Proceeded to do my MultiBeast installs [EasyBeast].
-Installed Chimera again, upgraded Chimera to 1.5.4.
-Trackpad and keyboard worked fine with VoodooPS2 kext.
-VoodooHDA gave the feedback loop, fixed with changing the iGain, iMix, and adding Mic to the info.plist.
-Replaced wifi card [Intel Centrino N 1030 wireless half-height mini PCIe--couldn't get this card to work nor could find anything to get it to work] with an Atheros 9285 and installed the kexts for the Atheros. Worked!
-Installed kext for Atheros 8151 for the ethernet. Worked!
-Repaired permissions with MultiBeast. Repaired permissions with Disk Utility.
-Rebooted without any bootflags [except for the plist boot flags of arch=i386 and pcirootuid=1].
Lion recognized the 384mb on the HD 3000 and corrected the screen ratio and resolution.
-Webcam seems to work out of box w/ FaceTime
-Lid sleep seems to work, display turns off and HD light stops flashing, can't hear anything, but I am just unsure . . . opening up lid and hitting keypad or key brings display back up relatively quickly
-New problem: USB ports wouldn't work. Deleted the AppleHPET.kext, repaired permissions, and rebooted. USB working again.
-Shutdown doesn't work--goes into black screen and stays on, have to manually shut off
I do get incessant KP's during boot [anywhere between 1 to 10] when booting with no special boot flags into Lion citing the kext com.Apple.iokit.iographicsfamily occasionally and most of the time, citing the AudioAUUC kext when I do -v to find out why the KP's. Then sometimes, Lion will boot 10 times in a row with no issues. I've deleted the extensions.mkext in E/E and the kext.cache in S/L/C startup. Seemed to help but hasn't solved it. Am I missing something simple here?
I also basically can't boot Lion unless the laptop is plugged in. If it is unplugged, it KP's with the above issues. I haven't deleted the Intelpowermanagement kext but nullintelpowermanagement kext is in my E/E. This have anything to do with my power cord issue?
My other problem is I made a mistake in my zeal to install Lion that I forgot to install Windows partition first. I installed Windows afterwards by booting up with an install disc and reformatted the FAT32 partition I created earlier into NTFS and installed without any issues and of course, Windows became the active partition. I couldn't set Lion as active thru Windows, and I made a dunderhead move and deleted my SL install which had my Chimera bootloader on it. So I back-pedaled and used iBoot to run my SL install disc, and through Terminal, I manually added the Chimera boot loader to the Lion install using fdisk.
Well, this of course corrupted my Windows boot loader. Chimera booted fine and launched Lion fine, but when I tried to launch my Windows partition, it gave me an error citing that too many hardware changes / software changes and a certain device couldn't be written to. I ran my Windows installer disc, and ran repairs and it detected the faulty / corrupt boot issue. I tried letting it do its thing, and it just kept looking for issues for 20 min. I rebooted, back into repairs, and manually did the bootrec.exe /bootmbr and /bootfix commands. Rebooted and Windows was able to boot again, but Chimera wasn't loading. So I keep getting stuck into this cycle as I reinstall Windows, and no more Chimera even after I marked OS X Lion as active with fdisk in Terminal and marking as active. Is Chimera being overwritten by Windows?
Is this is simple as getting Windows to load properly, then using iBoot and SL install disc and using Terminal to mark the Lion partition as active so it'll see the Chimera boot loader? Or trying iBoot to get into Lion and reinstalling Chimera through the partition again, so that it does its thing and doesn't overwrite the Windows bootloader?
Or should I just start over by using the Lion installer partition to erase / format / partition the drives, install Windows normally, then boot back into iBoot, install Lion through Lion installer, boot into Lion, install EasyBeast--upgrade to Chimera?
I've read a ton where installing OS X first isn't an issue, then installing Windows, and maybe using the chain0 and/or tboot but has anybody had success with this? Launching Windows repair and using the automatic startup repair tool fixes it and everything should be fine, but it just loads forever doing nothing that I can tell.
I personally wanted to keep things as close to TonyMac's method since his has been the most reliable and stable to date.
I've done a successful hackintosh using iBoot + MultiBeast on a build that has:
* ASUS Rampage Gene II mobo
* Intel i7 920
* PNY Nvidia GTX 260
Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 no issues upgrading, and Windows 7 Ultimate. Chimera 1.5.4 running, no issues. Boots great into either partition.
Also managed to install Lion and Windows 7 onto a Samsung RF711 Sandy Bridge, but the Broadcom wifi/bluetooth on the laptop won't work no matter what, and oddly enough the trackpad won't work at all--no matter how many different trackpad kexts I tried after the voodooPS2 didn't work for the trackpad [keyboard worked though]. I'll post soon my trials and tribulations with this laptop when I get a little further with it.
Can anybody help me with the above issues, since maybe some fresh eyes and minds can detect a solution, which is probably right in front of me. Sometimes you get mired so deep into a hackintosh, it consumes you and your sanity and rationale become distant relatives.
Sorry for the long post. I hope people will avoid some of the pitfalls that have befallen me for this build when they read this. I will update as I make progress. Thanks again to everybody here on the forum--this is LITERALLY what the internet is all about. Sharing of information and we all benefit. Everybody remember to donate SOMETHING to TonyMac and the gang for all they do. If everybody gave just $1 . . . anyway, I'm not affiliated with them! A virtual pat on the back doesn't keep their pink boy landlords well-fed and put gas in their yachts.
If you want a successful hackintosh, follow TonyMac's method TO-A-TEE! The one time I don't, and you see what happens?!