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Installing OSX86 on Sony Vaio VGN-N31Z + Screen fix and others


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Hi! I had some problems installing iDeneb v1.4 on my Vaio.

1) Boot up the CD

2) After the general T&Cs, at the top click Utilities then Disk Utility

3) Format the drive as Mac OSX Extended

4) Quit the utility and select your drive for install

5) Click Next then Customize

6) Now select Chipset Drivers: Intel ICHx SATA, Fixes and Patches: one of the ps/2 device support patches, Video: Intel, GMA950

7) Select other applications and fixes such as power management also OSx86 tools.

8) Now click install

9) On reboot remove disk and the apple logo should appear.

10) If it loads set up your lucky however if it doesnt:

 

*********FIX*********

 

By TH4JAMES

 

I couldn't find any users with the same problem who had fixed their installs, but i kept hacking around at it, the problem did seem to be related to the kext cache not being updated properly, alongside a broken kext.

 

For others with the same problem, what I did was re install iDeneb 1.3 with the intel gma950 driver and adding in the OSx86 tools to the install. Then I got hold of another AppleIntelGMA950.kext/ (actually one for an eee pc...), formatted my flash drive to HFS, and put the kext on it.

 

Boot the laptop with -s to get into single user mode, mount laptop's drive in write mode, create a folder to mount the drive into (mkdir pendrive) then mount the drive

 

mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s1 /pendrive/ (where disk1s1 is the name of ur flash drive in /dev/)

 

Move the existing kext somewhere else, or delete it (rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelGMA950.kext) then copy the new kext to that folder (cp -R /pendrive/AppleIntelGMA950.kext/ /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelGMA950.kext)

Modify the permissions on the new kext:

 

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelGMA950.kext

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelGMA950.kext

rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext"

 

now the crucial step that made it all work

 

kextload -v /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelGMA950.kext

 

this should tell you that it was successfully loaded, type exit to boot the system, and it should boot!

Note, that until you do the next step, you will need to boot with -s and run the last command EVERY TIME YOU BOOT

On booting up, the resolution and graphics performance will probably be crappy, i used the OSx86 tool packaged with iDeneb to install the best drivers for my machine, empty my kext cache and repair partitions, and after a reboot, everything works brilliantly! (no more typing that command in every boot either!)

 

* IF THE MOUNT DOES NOT WORK AND YOU HAVE WINDOWS ON THE OTHER PARTITION INSTALL TRANSMAC. RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR ON VISTA AND CLICK ON YOUR PARTITION. PUT THE FILE DIRECTLY INTO THE DIRECTORY. THEN CONTINUE WITH THE CHMOD ONWARDS IN -S MODE.

 

** IF YOU CANT SEEM TO GET THE FIX TO WORK AND YOU HAVE TO RE APPLY YOU NEED TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET THEN GO TO THE OSX86TOOLS CLICK DOWNLOAD DRIVERS, CLICK REDETECT HARDWARE, AND INSTALL THE UPDATES.

 

*********SOUND, WIRELESS and ETHERNET DRIVERS***********

ETHERNET: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=159648

AUDIO : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=159648

WIRELESS: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t=#entry1099541

 

 

**************TRACKPAD SUPPORT****************

To add trackpad support install

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...touchpad+driver

this will add 2finger scroll and double tap. However your pad will become ultra sensitive so just reduce sensitivity settings ;)

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