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Issues w/ Hackintoshing Compaq Presario CQ57

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Insleep

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Hello! Noob Hackintosher here (this is my first time trying) --

I'm trying to Hackintosh a Compaq Presario CQ57 (laptop). I successfully made the UniBeast USB and the laptop boots into it but always get a kernel panic.

When I enter boot flag -v, I see the reason why it kernel panics is because "kernel-__SYMTAB" and "name" are not kexts.

Full specs:

Compaq Presario CQ57
Intel Celeron B800 @ 1.5GHz
2GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics w/ 768MB (graphics) RAM


If you have any suggestions on what to do, please comment.

Thanks!!
 
Insleep said:
Hello! Noob Hackintosher here (this is my first time trying) --

I'm trying to Hackintosh a Compaq Presario CQ57 (laptop). I successfully made the UniBeast USB and the laptop boots into it but always get a kernel panic.

When I enter boot flag -v, I see the reason why it kernel panics is because "kernel-__SYMTAB" and "name" are not kexts.
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That is normal and not the cause of your problem.


Full specs:

Compaq Presario CQ57
Intel Celeron B800 @ 1.5GHz
2GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics w/ 768MB (graphics) RAM


If you have any suggestions on what to do, please comment.

Thanks!!
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The Celeron B800 does not have a graphics chip supported by any version of OS X.
 
Hm, well, I got the OS X installer to boot up with cpus=1, and I'm installing OS X right now. Will report back when it's done.
 
Funny enough, that was going to be my primary use for this Hackintosh. File sharing and printer sharing.
 
Insleep said:
Funny enough, that was going to be my primary use for this Hackintosh. File sharing and printer sharing.
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OK... good thing...
 
Alright, so I installed it. When I boot it up now with boot flags -v and cpus=1, it boots up completely fine, but then I get a gray screen and the mouse pointer turns into a spinning beach ball that keeps going and going. I've tried GraphicsEnabler=No and I've also tried taking out the WLAN card and that doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Safe mode (-x) won't even boot without cpus=1, and when I do use -x and cpus=1, the system goes into a reboot loop.


Any suggestions?
 
Insleep said:
Alright, so I installed it. When I boot it up now with boot flags -v and cpus=1, it boots up completely fine, but then I get a gray screen and the mouse pointer turns into a spinning beach ball that keeps going and going. I've tried GraphicsEnabler=No and I've also tried taking out the WLAN card and that doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Safe mode (-x) won't even boot without cpus=1, and when I do use -x and cpus=1, the system goes into a reboot loop.


Any suggestions?
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Your hardware is relatively old and low-end... Not much experience with it.

Try:
dart=0 GraphicsEnabler=No IGPEnabler=No -x -v cpus=1

You're probably going to have some DSDT patching to do.
 
Thank you so much! That got me into safe mode. Before setting up OS X, I put back in the WLAN card for Internet access. I started back up into safe mode but the card was not recognized. I'm pretty sure it's not compatible with OS X. I also tried Ethernet - not working either. On the bright side, the optical drive works, the webcam works, and the built-in mic works. I don't know where to go from here without WiFi since I need MultiBeast. Should I download it on my (real) Mac and transfer it over via USB?

Thank you so much for getting me this far!
 
Insleep said:
... I don't know where to go from here without WiFi since I need MultiBeast. Should I download it on my (real) Mac and transfer it over via USB?
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Yes.

You will need to determine which Ethernet and which WiFi chipset you have.
 
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