- Joined
- Sep 4, 2011
- Messages
- 17
- Motherboard
- GA-Z77M-D3H
- CPU
- i5-3570K
- Graphics
- HD4000
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Thank you Tony for your wonderful MultiBeast that did almost everything in my SL install on a Dell 755 SFF.
As an absolute hackintosh noob it took me over a week to get myself acquainted with the basics and get a stable system up and running on my hardware.
In the end it came down to just one tiny little detail to make it work and had I got that little bit of information right at the beginning, it would have saved me a lot of torn out hair... So maybe this info can help others, too...
The basic system was up and running in about one or two hours - doing a clean install with the iBoot + MultiBeast method and a retail SL DVD as described in Tonys blog.
Then I found that the only graphics resolution I would get was 1024x768 -- what I wanted was a dual screen 1920x1080.
I dont want to bore you with all the detours that I took only to find that in the end it was just a matter of finding the right PCI root number (using gfxutil) for my Nvidia graphics card and setting "PCIRootUID=4" in the Kernel Flags in Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist.
Now (almost) everything works like a charm and I have only got a few glitches that dont (yet) work as I want them:
HDMI-Audio is still hidden in the bushes somewhere...
and I have to check into all the power saving modes that "should" be there somewhere...
I will get there eventually...
So once again:
Thank you so much Tony for making this install sooo easy with MultiBeast.
Maybe you want to add a little explanation about the PCIRoodUID, what it does and why it is important into your MultiBeast features pdf to save other noobs a little time, too
As an absolute hackintosh noob it took me over a week to get myself acquainted with the basics and get a stable system up and running on my hardware.
In the end it came down to just one tiny little detail to make it work and had I got that little bit of information right at the beginning, it would have saved me a lot of torn out hair... So maybe this info can help others, too...
The basic system was up and running in about one or two hours - doing a clean install with the iBoot + MultiBeast method and a retail SL DVD as described in Tonys blog.
Then I found that the only graphics resolution I would get was 1024x768 -- what I wanted was a dual screen 1920x1080.
I dont want to bore you with all the detours that I took only to find that in the end it was just a matter of finding the right PCI root number (using gfxutil) for my Nvidia graphics card and setting "PCIRootUID=4" in the Kernel Flags in Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist.
Now (almost) everything works like a charm and I have only got a few glitches that dont (yet) work as I want them:
HDMI-Audio is still hidden in the bushes somewhere...
and I have to check into all the power saving modes that "should" be there somewhere...
I will get there eventually...
So once again:
Thank you so much Tony for making this install sooo easy with MultiBeast.
Maybe you want to add a little explanation about the PCIRoodUID, what it does and why it is important into your MultiBeast features pdf to save other noobs a little time, too
