Inches away from a successful Mountain Lion install.

[wclaus1]

Inches away from a successful Mountain Lion install. (Z77N-WiFi)

Hello,
I am new to the process and am following these very helpful instructions (from the customac 2012 build).
http://www.tonymacx86.com/61-unibea...orted-intel-based-pc/comments14.html#comments

Motherboard: GA-Z77N-WIFI
CPU: Core i3-3225
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP (1 of the 2 4GB sticks is installed at the moment)
UniBeast (Apple OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion from the App store) on a USB stick

I have gone through the entire installation without a hitch until the very end when MultiBeast finishes and re-boots.
I set MultiBeast up as: DSDT-Free Installation, ALC892 Audio, and Realtek Gigabit Ethernet.
Once the system reboots, I have a garbled grey screen.

I am using the DVI port and have no problems until the final reboot.
I didn't see anything in MultiBeast about using the on-board Intel graphics.
Am I missing something?

Please help out a noob, I feel like I am just inches away from a successful Mountain Lion install.

Thanks very much.
(sorry for the poor quality cell phone pics, the first one is the screen that I get now once the system boots.)

 

[rlf156]

Boot -x using your Unibeast USB drive to your OSX partition. Fire up Multibeast and install the Mac mini System Definition found in:

Customization -> System Definition -> Mac mini

 

[wclaus1]

Thanks for your quick reply.
I gave it a try, but still have the same result.

Boot -x using your Unibeast USB drive to your OSX partition. Fire up Multibeast and install the Mac mini System Definition found in:

Customization -> System Definition -> Mac mini

 

[Asus-Freak]

Is GPU memory set to 64MB in the bios?

 

[wclaus1]

Yes, Internal Graphics Memory Size is 64M
and I have tried Init First Display to both Auto and IGFX.
also tried Internal Graphics to both Enabled and Auto.

Should I change the Internal Graphics Memory Size?
Thanks.

Is GPU memory set to 64MB in the bios?

 

[wclaus1]

Okay, not sure what did what, but I added the second stick of RAM back in, increased the video RAM size, and maybe messed with some other BIOS settings and now I can boot in safe mode -X, but still not without it.
The system now shows as a Mac mini - mid 2011 with 8GB memory and Intel HD Graphics 4000 512MB.

I still can't do a regular boot (scrambled video screen) and in safe mode videos (like youtube) won't play or are all jumpy.
The rest of the screen graphics look okay.
Do I need to edit my own DSDT and can someone give me tips on how to do that?
Thanks.

 

[Asus-Freak]

This is an extremely simple installation...Try this:

Reset the bios to factory default and don't change anything.
Boot to your Unibeast drive and follow the Unibeast instructions.
Run Multibeast with the following options. Reboot and you're done.

 

[jdfwarrior]

Was there ever a successful fix for this issue? I am experiencing the exact same issue. I have a Z77 with an i7 3770k. I run through the install fine, reboot, get into OSX, run multi beast using the settings kduvernay recommended and have the exact same issue.

wclaus1, did you ever figure this out?

EDIT:
Nevermind, I solved mine a few minutes after I posted this. Mine was an issue of using a DVI to VGA converter to plug into a monitor. It apparently doesnt like that I changed to DVI and its working perfect now.

 

[worf2]

hi,
i read about your garbled hd4000 video problem. did you fix it already?
i had the same problem on my ga-z77n-wifi. i fixed it selecting 96 mb video ram in the bios.
as described here: http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2946
after that it worked.


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wolfgang