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[GUIDE!] Lenovo G500 10.9.1 - Stock Windows 8 Dual Boot using Clover
If you are looking for the guide, click here!
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Took a couple days to get it right, but I now have OS X 10.9.1 on my laptop dual-booting with the OEM Windows 8 install via the Clover bootloader on pure UEFI mode. This was my first try on another SKU of the same laptop with 10.8.4. On that one, I got everything except HDMI audio (which I haven't worked on a lot) and the card reader (not working under ML, haven't tested id patching on Mavs) working, using Chimera, single-booting, on BIOS mode of course. With this one (the one that's actually mine and I'll use) I found there can be a couple differences on the same model: Trackpad can be Synaptics or Elan (you can get inertia scrolling with the Synaptics one, but the Elan one has more gestures), and Wi-Fi can be BCM4313 or AR9425 (both unsupported by OS X, who cares, flash bios and swap it). If you use Clover, you can get USB working without -gux_defer_usb2 but it will still wake up instantly. You need it on Chameleon to get at least proper plugging-in working. Also, Mavericks/Clover (?) boosts my Geekbench 3 score to almost 4500 from 4450.
Ok, back to the topic:
The one priority thing I need to fix is sleep. Sometimes, sleep works fine, other times it will "reboot" (but you'll get some things back… as if passing through the boot sequence was part of waking up), other times it will "reboot" after a few minutes of waking up. I'm currently booting with -gux_defer_usb2 EHCIacquire=Yes as I did on my previous 10.8.4 install. Without -gux_defer_usb2 it will wake up instantly, and sleep seems to work fine if I remove (or keep) EHCIacquire=Yes, except it will still reboot spontaneously after a few minutes and there's an issue with the lid I'll detail. It will sleep and wake up properly if I keep the lid open, but if I close it after it sleeps, then open it back and press something so it wakes up, I'll get no backlight when it wakes up (and adjusting it won't do anything), so I'll have to sleep it and wake it up again but without closing the lid, and then I'll get the backlight back. Also, the battery stops charging and stays on trickle power (?) after you put it to sleep, and you'll have to unplug and plug the power adapter to get it to charge again. Everything is perfect if you disable the sleep timer and never put it to sleep manually either. So… any ideas?
Thanks a lot!
If you are looking for the guide, click here!
---------------------ORIGINAL POST-----------------------
Took a couple days to get it right, but I now have OS X 10.9.1 on my laptop dual-booting with the OEM Windows 8 install via the Clover bootloader on pure UEFI mode. This was my first try on another SKU of the same laptop with 10.8.4. On that one, I got everything except HDMI audio (which I haven't worked on a lot) and the card reader (not working under ML, haven't tested id patching on Mavs) working, using Chimera, single-booting, on BIOS mode of course. With this one (the one that's actually mine and I'll use) I found there can be a couple differences on the same model: Trackpad can be Synaptics or Elan (you can get inertia scrolling with the Synaptics one, but the Elan one has more gestures), and Wi-Fi can be BCM4313 or AR9425 (both unsupported by OS X, who cares, flash bios and swap it). If you use Clover, you can get USB working without -gux_defer_usb2 but it will still wake up instantly. You need it on Chameleon to get at least proper plugging-in working. Also, Mavericks/Clover (?) boosts my Geekbench 3 score to almost 4500 from 4450.
Ok, back to the topic:
The one priority thing I need to fix is sleep. Sometimes, sleep works fine, other times it will "reboot" (but you'll get some things back… as if passing through the boot sequence was part of waking up), other times it will "reboot" after a few minutes of waking up. I'm currently booting with -gux_defer_usb2 EHCIacquire=Yes as I did on my previous 10.8.4 install. Without -gux_defer_usb2 it will wake up instantly, and sleep seems to work fine if I remove (or keep) EHCIacquire=Yes, except it will still reboot spontaneously after a few minutes and there's an issue with the lid I'll detail. It will sleep and wake up properly if I keep the lid open, but if I close it after it sleeps, then open it back and press something so it wakes up, I'll get no backlight when it wakes up (and adjusting it won't do anything), so I'll have to sleep it and wake it up again but without closing the lid, and then I'll get the backlight back. Also, the battery stops charging and stays on trickle power (?) after you put it to sleep, and you'll have to unplug and plug the power adapter to get it to charge again. Everything is perfect if you disable the sleep timer and never put it to sleep manually either. So… any ideas?
Thanks a lot!