newtonian Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I tried making a USB Installer for Mavericks DP1, I prepared a GUID'd 16GB USB key with the Mavericks Installation base and installed Chameleon 2.2 svn r2262 on it. I tried booting it on the following machine: Core i7 4770 (not 4770K) Asus Q87M-E motherboard (Intel Q87 chipset) 32GB RAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024 MB BIOS/UEFI settings: disable iGPU, CPU State C, disable Vd-m, disable Vt-x, SATA AHCI mode, USB storate auto mode (also tried force HDD and force CD-ROM), Boot device USB in legacy BIOS mode (also tried UEFI mode). When it tried to boot off my USB key, I get a text cursor '_' in the upper left conner of the screen, the cursor drops to one line bellow, then it goes closer to the middle of the screen, then it disappears and nothing happens. I never even reach the bootloader's text menu. I also create an Mavericks installer on a SATA hard drive, put Chameleon on it and tried boot it from an internal SATA controller. Same result. I know the USB key is properly made since I tested it on my Core 2 Duo system and it boots fine. Could it be a compatibility problem between Chameleon and my motherboard or chipset? All the other posts I see for Haswell systems seem to be based on the Z87 chipset. I am planning on trying with RevoBoot. I also heard you can use GRUB2 to load the OS X kernel directly? If any one else with a Q87 system out there can try Chameleon, your results would be appreciated. As would any solution to my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newtonian Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share Posted September 9, 2013 I tried using the Clover bootloader and I get the exact same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newtonian Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 UPDATE: I managed to get Chameleon and Clover launching on my system. From another Hackintosh, I did the whole InstallESD.dmg procedure to a internal SATA drive, installed Chamelon then plugged in the SATA drive into my Asus Q87M-E based system. I booted into GRUB2 from my main drive and had GRUB2 boot Chameleon by doing this (grub is in hd0, chameleon hd1): c (to enter GRUB command line)set root=(hd1)chainloader +1boot It's weird that my BIOS can't boot Chameleon but GRUB has no problem. Now the computer keeps rebooting when it reaches the 'Starting Darwin x86_64' line (even with -x -v GraphicsEnabler=no ACPI=no) but I still haven't tried everything yet. I haven't tried extracting and editing my DSDT, doing that BIOS patch thing, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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