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I don’t think I’ve had so much ‘fun’ since wrestling with an old IBM AS400 – but that’s another book of stories…
One of the guys at work got somebody to build him a Hackintosh with the following specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
CPU: Intel Q6600
Graphics: original one died and owner replaced with ‘EVGA GeForce GT 740 2GB Superclocked’ – hence the current need to update O/S
Boot HDD: Intel SSDSA2CW080G3 80 GB
RAM: 8Gb (4 x slots of DDR2)
He has 2 other HDD’s in there for storage and they’re not under any RAID config.
This hardware was installed with Snow Leopard and the guy who built it for him warned him not to install any of the future Apple security updates in case it broke the OS/Hardware relationship. Anyway, a few weeks ago, the original graphics card died and he replaced it himself with the one in the above list. However, this caused some problems with certain applications reporting that they couldn’t run due to a graphics problem which has pushed the issue of an upgrade.
Seeing as I am the IT guy at work, I said I’d have a look and figured on following the UniBeast guide to installing Mavericks on any supported Intel based PC.
The first thing I did was to create a Time Machine backup onto one of his other storage drives before doing any other messing about.
I successfully created the USB boot stick, went through the Award BIOS recommended settings and booted to Chimera with no problems and got to the install screen for Mavericks. As this was supposed to be an attempted upgrade, I bypassed the drive formatting and chose to install to the only available option, SSD1. Looking at the install log, it seemed to know about a previous installation and went through the process until reboot was necessary.
This was according to the guide, the post-installation MultiBeast part of the process, but all I got after booting to Chimera and choosing the Mavericks install was the grey screen, Apple logo & spinner for the some 12 hours…
At that point I realised there was something wrong and accidentally discovered how add boot commands at the invisible command line (that would be a useful addition to the guide). Doing a bit of Googling, I learned about the –v –f –x flags and also the -x GraphicsEnabler=Yes PCIRootUID=1 that had reported to work with a Mavericks install and this Mobo. However, it still stops in verbose mode and I can’t get to MultiBeast to finish off the install.
I’m out of ideas/losing the will to live so, I am asking the following:
Although there are 3 Mac’s in my home, my dayjob is Windows servers/desktops and this Apple thing seems to be about the most inflexible mono-culture to be fighting with, but what the heck, I might learn something new!
One of the guys at work got somebody to build him a Hackintosh with the following specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
CPU: Intel Q6600
Graphics: original one died and owner replaced with ‘EVGA GeForce GT 740 2GB Superclocked’ – hence the current need to update O/S
Boot HDD: Intel SSDSA2CW080G3 80 GB
RAM: 8Gb (4 x slots of DDR2)
He has 2 other HDD’s in there for storage and they’re not under any RAID config.
This hardware was installed with Snow Leopard and the guy who built it for him warned him not to install any of the future Apple security updates in case it broke the OS/Hardware relationship. Anyway, a few weeks ago, the original graphics card died and he replaced it himself with the one in the above list. However, this caused some problems with certain applications reporting that they couldn’t run due to a graphics problem which has pushed the issue of an upgrade.
Seeing as I am the IT guy at work, I said I’d have a look and figured on following the UniBeast guide to installing Mavericks on any supported Intel based PC.
The first thing I did was to create a Time Machine backup onto one of his other storage drives before doing any other messing about.
I successfully created the USB boot stick, went through the Award BIOS recommended settings and booted to Chimera with no problems and got to the install screen for Mavericks. As this was supposed to be an attempted upgrade, I bypassed the drive formatting and chose to install to the only available option, SSD1. Looking at the install log, it seemed to know about a previous installation and went through the process until reboot was necessary.
This was according to the guide, the post-installation MultiBeast part of the process, but all I got after booting to Chimera and choosing the Mavericks install was the grey screen, Apple logo & spinner for the some 12 hours…
At that point I realised there was something wrong and accidentally discovered how add boot commands at the invisible command line (that would be a useful addition to the guide). Doing a bit of Googling, I learned about the –v –f –x flags and also the -x GraphicsEnabler=Yes PCIRootUID=1 that had reported to work with a Mavericks install and this Mobo. However, it still stops in verbose mode and I can’t get to MultiBeast to finish off the install.
I’m out of ideas/losing the will to live so, I am asking the following:
- Is there any point continuing to fight with this in-place upgrade on this old hardware?
- Would it be better to erase the partition and try a fresh install of Mavericks?
- Is this hardware too old for the newer OS/X in general (I’ll bung Win 7 on if it is and be done with it)?
Although there are 3 Mac’s in my home, my dayjob is Windows servers/desktops and this Apple thing seems to be about the most inflexible mono-culture to be fighting with, but what the heck, I might learn something new!
