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I've been going through a frustrating re-install of my hackintosh. Long story short, I had a perfectly setup dual-boot of windows 7, and OS X 10.8.5 and messed it all up. So I'm back to the tedious re-installs..
Fortunately I had my resources saved from the last hackintosh install. The two main guides I used to make my hackintosh are:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-bu...-3770k-16gb-ram-gtx-670-ft03-os-x-10-8-a.html
and
http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...5870-working-ivy-bridge-power-management.html
Along with this for my 1tb drive:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/25-boot0-error-official-guide.html
So, as far as files go, I got my unibeast drive ready with the basic 10.8 mountain lion, and multi-beast on my external drive along with an additional little driver called 'HoRNDIS' (see here: http://joshuawise.com/horndis).
**The Install**
After getting OS X 10.8 and multi-beast drivers installed and getting everything working correctly, I then go about updating the OS. Note: I did not make a updated mountain lion unibeast drive is because after installing an updated version of os x, it only wants to boot in safe-mode unless your running the bare-bone 10.8.0 version, or have the correct multi-beast drivers already installed. And because I'm stuck booting in safe mode with the updated versions of ML, I cannot mount my external hard drive to retrieve the multi-beast installation file.
I do not have ethernet internet or a ML compatible wifi adapter to connect to the internet. Last time I ran into this problem, I came across HoRNDIS. HoRNDIS is a driver that allows me to tether my phone's wireless connection on OS X, similar to how you can tether with Windows. This allows me to get the software updates from apple. Once its finished updating, I would just re-install the already-copied multi-beast drivers in safe mode, and viola a fully updated 10.8.5 mountain lion hackintosh.
**The Problem**
BUT now HoRNDIS doesn't want to work! I know that sounds like a software issue rather than an OS issue but it worked for me last time. Its supposed to act as a driver, not like software or a program. Usually, in the system preferences=>networking panel, it'd show "android" right below the ethernet connection, whether its connected or not. But its just blank, like its not even installed. I checked the system/library/extensions for the kext and its definitely there, but not really doing anything. To double check it is the OS and not the driver, I installed a program called easy tether. Easy tether allows you to tether your phone to your mac but with limits unless you decide on buying it. And unfortunately one of those limits is connecting to the apple servers, so I dont even usually use it. But for the sake of troubleshooting, I installed it because it acts in the same way by adding a network configuration in the list of networks (right underneath 'ethernet'). But even easytether won't add a network configuration.i dont really know what to do because I need that HoRNDIS driver working to restore functionality to the OS X, and can't update the OS without it. I need help troubleshooting this driver problem!!!
PS I do not think its a conflict with the multi-beast drivers because I tried installing the two tethering programs before and after installing multibeast, and neither worked.
Fortunately I had my resources saved from the last hackintosh install. The two main guides I used to make my hackintosh are:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-bu...-3770k-16gb-ram-gtx-670-ft03-os-x-10-8-a.html
and
http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...5870-working-ivy-bridge-power-management.html
Along with this for my 1tb drive:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/25-boot0-error-official-guide.html
So, as far as files go, I got my unibeast drive ready with the basic 10.8 mountain lion, and multi-beast on my external drive along with an additional little driver called 'HoRNDIS' (see here: http://joshuawise.com/horndis).
**The Install**
After getting OS X 10.8 and multi-beast drivers installed and getting everything working correctly, I then go about updating the OS. Note: I did not make a updated mountain lion unibeast drive is because after installing an updated version of os x, it only wants to boot in safe-mode unless your running the bare-bone 10.8.0 version, or have the correct multi-beast drivers already installed. And because I'm stuck booting in safe mode with the updated versions of ML, I cannot mount my external hard drive to retrieve the multi-beast installation file.
I do not have ethernet internet or a ML compatible wifi adapter to connect to the internet. Last time I ran into this problem, I came across HoRNDIS. HoRNDIS is a driver that allows me to tether my phone's wireless connection on OS X, similar to how you can tether with Windows. This allows me to get the software updates from apple. Once its finished updating, I would just re-install the already-copied multi-beast drivers in safe mode, and viola a fully updated 10.8.5 mountain lion hackintosh.
**The Problem**
BUT now HoRNDIS doesn't want to work! I know that sounds like a software issue rather than an OS issue but it worked for me last time. Its supposed to act as a driver, not like software or a program. Usually, in the system preferences=>networking panel, it'd show "android" right below the ethernet connection, whether its connected or not. But its just blank, like its not even installed. I checked the system/library/extensions for the kext and its definitely there, but not really doing anything. To double check it is the OS and not the driver, I installed a program called easy tether. Easy tether allows you to tether your phone to your mac but with limits unless you decide on buying it. And unfortunately one of those limits is connecting to the apple servers, so I dont even usually use it. But for the sake of troubleshooting, I installed it because it acts in the same way by adding a network configuration in the list of networks (right underneath 'ethernet'). But even easytether won't add a network configuration.i dont really know what to do because I need that HoRNDIS driver working to restore functionality to the OS X, and can't update the OS without it. I need help troubleshooting this driver problem!!!
PS I do not think its a conflict with the multi-beast drivers because I tried installing the two tethering programs before and after installing multibeast, and neither worked.