Divin3 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Hi! I have tried at least 6-8 different OS X distros on my PC in virtualbox with not too much luck. When I was starting to give up I finally managed to install and run a 10.5.6 Leopard, (which doesen't look very stable: I got kernel panic when I tried to shut it down). But it RUNS! And this gave me hope! My goal is to find the latest version possible that runs on my pc, get it running on virtualbox (for testing), than install it on my PC with dual boot! I dont know much about the OS X platform, only some basics. I have been reading a lot about it in the past two weaks but there are still many things for me to learn. So I have two questions: 1) What distro should I use that would work? 2) What kext files should I install to have at least the basic drivers working (like USB, Sound, etc.) If you have any ideas that I could try, please let me know and I will do my best to make it run and test it. my computer specs are: AMD A10-5800k (FM2 chipset) F2A85-M motherboard Asus radeon 6770 video card Kit Dual Channel Kingston 8GB (2 x 4096MB), DDR3, 2133MHz motherboard: http://ca.asus.com/e...#specifications processor: http://www.cpu-world... A10-5800K.html video card: http://www.asus.com/...#specifications Sorry for the long post, and thank you for your help! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Buy Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard, use the VM you have with Leopard to make the installer, then ask help here when and if you get stuck. All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebaszp Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Ok, I did a combo upgrade, and everything seems fine. I do have a minor complaint, though: my machine refuses to connect to iCloud. Surely this can be fixed, but how? It did that before the update, too. Also, if someone knows of a kext that works with my onboard chip (Radeon 3000), that would be swell. It's one of those chips considered "legacy" by AMD (like the rest of the 3xxx and 4xxx series). I don't need that, but, you know...QE/CI sounds like a lot of fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Also, if someone knows of a kext that works with my onboard chip (Radeon 3000), I don't mean to be harsh, but as i already told you, there's not and there will never ever be. Sorry, man, but it's impossible to modify proprietary kexts more than a very limited extent, and to write one from scratch is a task that even software companies with much more resources and qualified personnel than any hackintosh community failed to accomplish. Again, and will be the third time i'll say that (meaning next time i'll remorseless delete the post ) buy a cheap ATI 4xxx card and be happy. About iCloud, there's a workaround for it: search for the correspondent topic here in the AMD development section. But it's no easy feat, and you'll need to use a friend's Mac or Intel vanilla hack to do it. Glad to read things are going well with your hack! Enjoy! All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_carol Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Yes, i did. And my DSDT is technically well prepared for HDMI audio. Yet, even VoodooHDA fails to enable it, and further research has shown me this is apparently an issue for all HD5450 users under OSX. If i make it, i'll probably be one of the very first. AppleHDA, though, is a work in progress. ATI chipset: very tough to get working. All the best! Just for my curiosity, could you tell me the output of ioreg | grep ATY and also send me the rom bios file of your vga ? buy a cheap ATI 4xxx card and be happy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dec_Bra1n Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I don't mean to be harsh, but as i already told you, there's not and there will never ever be. Sorry, man, but it's impossible to modify proprietary kexts more than a very limited extent, and to write one from scratch is a task that even software companies with much more resources and qualified personnel than any hackintosh community failed to accomplish. Again, and will be the third time i'll say that (meaning next time i'll remorseless delete the post ) buy a cheap ATI 4xxx card and be happy. About iCloud, there's a workaround for it: search for the correspondent topic here in the AMD development section. But it's no easy feat, and you'll need to use a friend's Mac or Intel vanilla hack to do it. Glad to read things are going well with your hack! Enjoy! All the best! @ mac_carol and theconnactic Hey lit off topic but i have ATI 6770 M 2GB laptop no kext for now :( do you know anything about then tell me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I think it might as well be supported. Since it's not AMD hardware, open a topic here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/forum/174-ati/ All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebaszp Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 buy a cheap ATI 4xxx card and be happy. This whole hackintosh + Linux + Windows gaming thing I had going has put me between a rock and a hard place...I think Nvidia drivers lately are a lot better than AMD ones for Linux. For one thing, I can only use open source drivers with my chip because of that "legacy" {censored}. But I digress. I do know, from what I've read, that Nvidia is really bugged on AMD hackintoshes right now. I'll think about it. Sorry for being so annoying. If there's any way I can help in the AMD development or testing, do let me know. I'm not a programmer (yet), but I'm used to bash, and I'm a fast learner. I don't use OS X as my main OS, so losing it wouldn't be that much of a pain in the ass right now, and I'd love to see this move forward. Go team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divin3 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Buy Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard, use the VM you have with Leopard to make the installer, then ask help here when and if you get stuck. All the best! Well I would if they would work. But I couldn't even got to installation with other distros yet (black screen or stuck at apple logo). OS X doesen't realy like my FM2 chipset and yet I could only find solutions for am chipsets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskorini Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Well I would if they would work. But I couldn't even got to installation with other distros yet (black screen or stuck at apple logo). OS X doesen't realy like my FM2 chipset and yet I could only find solutions for am chipsets My 3870k boot with fx_kernel for ML, test it. However I've installed OSX ML (i've used a my friend's mac with this guide http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280756-guide-the-all-in-one-guide-to-vanilla-os-x-mountain-lion-chameleon-dsdt-for-beginners/ ) in a USB Drive (HFS+ Journaled Guid Partition Table), but i forgot to put the kernel's file. Yesterday nigth I succeed to mount in write the usb drive in ubuntu and i put the kernel's file, but the problem is that when i select the key for boot, it switch directly to ssd ignoring it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitcore Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Guys i have a problem. I am installing Lion right now. I want to install OSX to the second partition of my HDD (First partition is windows 7) The partition is formatted in NTFS. And AHCI is enabled, but i cant find it in disk utility! How can i make it visible? Thanks! Bitcore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Yesterday nigth I succeed to mount in write the usb drive in ubuntu and i put the kernel's file, but the problem is that when i select the key for boot, it switch directly to ssd ignoring it... Did you remember to install Chameleon on the USB stick? The partition is formatted in NTFS. And AHCI is enabled, but i cant find it in disk utility! The problem here is your disk is formatted as Master Boot Record. You have to add some files to make your installer see it and effectively write to it, See this guide, there's a link to the files and instructions about how to proceed ("Note 2D"): http://www.insanelym...-for-beginners/ Best regards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskorini Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Did you remember to install Chameleon on the USB stick? Yep, i've installed this chameleon http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231075-chameleon-22svn-official-pkg-installer-binaries/ ( Latest Trunk [PKG r2187] iMessage fixed ==> Chameleon-2.2svn-r2187.pkg.zip 3.15MB ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 So it should be able to boot from it. Did you try to set the USB as primary boot device on the BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskorini Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 So it should be able to boot from it. Did you try to set the USB as primary boot device on the BIOS? When appears the splash screen I press on F11 button on the keyboard and i choose USB. However i test a old nawcom cd and it doesn't recognize the usb drive... But i have an idea, maybe a bit 'stupid, can I burn Chameleon on a CD? EDIT: I found Chameleon 2.1svn and i burn it but it doesn't recognize the usb drive o_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Just for my curiosity, could you tell me the output of ioreg | grep ATY and also send me the rom bios file of your vga ? Of course, Carol. Here: Cedar.rom.zip All the best! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskorini Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I'm the man of strange cases... ROTFL! If i use posterior USB 3.0 i can boot my usb drive but... https://dl.dropbox.c...22 16.05.13.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_carol Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 @theconnactic thanks for the file a friend of mine has xfx 5450 and maybe I can borrow her card for running some tests under osx and I will let you know if I can manage to enable the hdmi audio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaPaY Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Dear All, boot.cheamelon.plist: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com...yList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1440x900x32</string> <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>npci=0x2000</string> <key>device-properties</key> <string>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</string> </dict> </plist> Macos X 10.7.5 Symptoms: When I enter: -v -x arch=x86_64 ---> System can boot and my Nvidia card + Monitor recognising from OS correctly -v arch=x86_64 ---> White screen no mouse cursor -v arch=i386 ---------> KP Please see the screenshot http://i.imgur.com/3zDH3R2.jpg I can boot only safe mode. any help would be apprecited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitcore Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 The problem here is your disk is formatted as Master Boot Record. You have to add some files to make your installer see it and effectively write to it, See this guide, there's a link to the files and instructions about how to proceed ("Note 2D"): http://www.insanelym...-for-beginners/ Best regards! Thanks mate! It worked, see my post at lion development Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskorini Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I'm the man of strange cases... ROTFL! If i use posterior USB 3.0 i can boot my usb drive but... https://dl.dropbox.c...22 16.05.13.jpg I'm boring, I know What is the problem on the image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unci Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 you could try this kext VoodooTSCSyncAMD.kext.zip Thanks but it doesn't work for me but the kext is loaded.. i'm using ML 10.8.2 processor AMD phenom n830 Triple core processor in my laptop.. i also use busratio=105 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Dear All, boot.cheamelon.plist: Macos X 10.7.5 Symptoms: When I enter: -v -x arch=x86_64 ---> System can boot and my Nvidia card + Monitor recognising from OS correctly -v arch=x86_64 ---> White screen no mouse cursor -v arch=i386 ---------> KP Please see the screenshot http://i.imgur.com/3zDH3R2.jpg I can boot only safe mode. any help would be apprecited Out of curiosity, 1) do you have the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in /S/L/Extensions? and 2) (more important) do you have Xcode, including the iPhone SDK? All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 a friend of mine has xfx 5450 and maybe I can borrow her card for running some tests under osx and I will let you know if I can manage to enable the hdmi audio Carol, thank you very much, but i already solved the HDMI audio issue with a kext provided by Mirone, plus the fixes i applied myself to solve another HD5450 annoyance, the black screen upon wake issue: PCIRootUID=0 and GraphicsEnabler=No. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287013-thoughts-about-applehda-patching-on-amd-hardware-ati-chipsets-nvidia/#entry1899978 see post #17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaPaY Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Out of curiosity, 1) do you have the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in /S/L/Extensions? and 2) (more important) do you have Xcode, including the iPhone SDK? All the best! 1.Yes 2. Xcode I didn't install it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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