SolarFl4re Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Hi, I used Chameleon (the latest version) to install retail Mavericks to my 320GB WD Passport Essential external hard drive (from 2008, FWIW). Unfortunately, Chameleon won't show the hard drive no matter what I do (tried various BIOS settings and USB ports). There's one HFS+ partition on the drive with Mavericks, GUID table. Using VMWare, I can boot into it fine, so I know that the install is OK at least. Clover sees the drive fine, but even with a manually fixed DSDT (no errors with latest Intel compiler), I get "Unable to find driver for this platform ... ACPI". All extra devices have been unplugged and or disabled. The system is a Dell XPS 420 with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Intel X38 chipset. The fact that Chameleon boots the installer just fine makes me think that it would work if I could get this one issue sorted. Any help would be much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpamamadeus Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Hi, I used Chameleon (the latest version) to install retail Mavericks to my 320GB WD Passport Essential external hard drive (from 2008, FWIW). Unfortunately, Chameleon won't show the hard drive no matter what I do (tried various BIOS settings and USB ports). There's one HFS+ partition on the drive with Mavericks, GUID table. Using VMWare, I can boot into it fine, so I know that the install is OK at least. Clover sees the drive fine, but even with a manually fixed DSDT (no errors with latest Intel compiler), I get "Unable to find driver for this platform ... ACPI". All extra devices have been unplugged and or disabled. The system is a Dell XPS 420 with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Intel X38 chipset. The fact that Chameleon boots the installer just fine makes me think that it would work if I could get this one issue sorted. Any help would be much appreciated! to get past I get "Unable to find driver for this platform ... ACPI". u need to disable dsdt fixs in config.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolarFl4re Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 to get past I get "Unable to find driver for this platform ... ACPI". u need to disable dsdt fixs in config.plist Genius!! Thank you, that worked. I should have asked... 20 hours...ago. It just booted, I'm on my desktop, and it looks like I have graphics acceleration working... Wow. I disabled all of the DSDT fixes & dropped the OEM tables (which have errors and unknown opcodes), and it's... Working. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XITE666 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Try Clover Lite http://www.osx86.net/files/file/3892-clover-v2k-r2638-lite-no-uefi/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywi3Gm1FOiE#t=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolarFl4re Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 Try Clover Lite http://www.osx86.net/files/file/3892-clover-v2k-r2638-lite-no-uefi/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywi3Gm1FOiE#t=0 Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, the page isn't found on osx86, and the video is gone. However, I found this thread on applelife.ru, which I think is it - I'll give it a shot! If I understood correctly, it doesn't have a GUI/theme like Clover? I would like that, it seems like the default animated theme is stalling Clover sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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