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- Jul 27, 2012
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- Motherboard
- Lenovo S30 4351 "Socrates" Rev. 2.0 Product Name: 43518G3
- CPU
- Xeon E5-1650
- Graphics
- EVGA GTX1050ti
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
I've seen dozens of articles online about people having success with the Lenovo T410, with various hardware configurations. For the most part, all iterations of this laptop come with one of two Graphics setups, either Switchable Graphics with First Gen IntelHD integrated (does not work)/nVidia NVS3100M discrete (works with GraphicsEnabler=Yes) or Intel HD3000 integrated (works out of the box).
I have a Lenovo T410 with switchable graphics and an i5 520m. If you set the graphics to discrete only in the BIOS, everything is supposed to work just fine. Now what I can't understand is why, in all of my searching I've never even ONCE come across people having ANY of the issues I've had, for example:
1) not being able to boot ANY version of the Mac OSX Installer. Most people say they either use the iBoot/retail method or unibeast (lion and above) and it just works. No boot flags, added kexts, etc. In the end I was FINALLY able to install Snow Leopard (no newer version of osx than that) by using disk utility to copy the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 DVD to USB and then installing Multibeast on that, and THEN replacing mach_kernel with the modbin 10.0 kernel.
2) On top of that, I had to remove ALL of the graphics kexts (AppleIntelHD* and NVDA*) from /s/l/e on the multibeast snow leopard usb I created.
3) After encountering dozens of errors (pci, acpi, bluetooth, firewire, etc.) which I had to correct one by one, I finally figured out through trial and error that I needed to add "GraphicsEnabler=No" and "busratio=18" in order to finally just reach the installer.
3) I had to repeat the entire process for installing subsequent combo updates (starting with 10.6.7, copying AppleACPIPlatform.kext and IOPCIFamily.kext from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8). Also had to use anv kernel 10.8 in order to boot.
So my question is, how is it that despite having a laptop with a CPU and GPU that many other users are reporting success with can I not even boot into Unibeast on any version of OSX about Snow Leopard, much less install or boot a functioning system?
I have a Lenovo T410 with switchable graphics and an i5 520m. If you set the graphics to discrete only in the BIOS, everything is supposed to work just fine. Now what I can't understand is why, in all of my searching I've never even ONCE come across people having ANY of the issues I've had, for example:
1) not being able to boot ANY version of the Mac OSX Installer. Most people say they either use the iBoot/retail method or unibeast (lion and above) and it just works. No boot flags, added kexts, etc. In the end I was FINALLY able to install Snow Leopard (no newer version of osx than that) by using disk utility to copy the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 DVD to USB and then installing Multibeast on that, and THEN replacing mach_kernel with the modbin 10.0 kernel.
2) On top of that, I had to remove ALL of the graphics kexts (AppleIntelHD* and NVDA*) from /s/l/e on the multibeast snow leopard usb I created.
3) After encountering dozens of errors (pci, acpi, bluetooth, firewire, etc.) which I had to correct one by one, I finally figured out through trial and error that I needed to add "GraphicsEnabler=No" and "busratio=18" in order to finally just reach the installer.
3) I had to repeat the entire process for installing subsequent combo updates (starting with 10.6.7, copying AppleACPIPlatform.kext and IOPCIFamily.kext from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8). Also had to use anv kernel 10.8 in order to boot.
So my question is, how is it that despite having a laptop with a CPU and GPU that many other users are reporting success with can I not even boot into Unibeast on any version of OSX about Snow Leopard, much less install or boot a functioning system?