[WIP] Lenovo G710 + Mavericks

[phoe]

Hey everyone. I had the pleasure to set up OSX 10.6 on a tiny Samsung NC-10 and now I'm pushing it further to install on a something newer. And geez, there are so many different things around.

 

I want to make myself at home by posting this personal thread of mine where I'll post everything about my tries to make my new laptop munch on Mac OS and not get indigestion in the process.

 

 

 

Let me show you my hardware first.

 

Lenovo G710 Laptop

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4200 M Dual-Core@2.50GHz

That's a Haswell architecture that doesn't want to boot at all unless I use an xpcm-free kernel.

 

RAM: 4GB

 

GPU: HD4600 (ven:8086 dev:0416)

There's an NVIDIA Optimus-capable in there that won't be used with OSX.

 

AUDIO: IDT (ven:111D dev:7695)

 

WLAN: BCM43142 (ven:14E4 dev:4365)

I already know this has to be replaced.

 

LAN: AR8171 (ven:1969 dev:10A0)

I've seen that this can be told to work with OSX.

 

Additional things: USB 3.0, Bluetooth, Multitouch, HDMI output, VGA output

I won't test the card reader on this one, because it seems broken under all OSes and I'm too lazy to fix it. :F

 

 

 

I have successfully installed Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu (in legacy mode, no UEFI) on this and managed to triple-boot it with a Niresh Mavericks test install. BEFORE THE FLAMING HAPPENS: I've done that as a test run to check what steps would be necessary to do during the proper install. The lessons I've learned are:

* this PC needs an xpcm-free core in order to boot at all,

* Niresh booted without any additional kernel arguments (just Enter at its Chameleon variant got me into OSX),

* the system itself booted; the things that do not work straight out of the box are QE/CI, audio, LAN, WLAN, power management,

* I could take myself a photo with the builtin camera,

* it booted up with the native 1600x900 resolution only the first time, then I suspect that the Niresh autoconfiguration utility that runs at first boot broke stuff and I had to remove AppleIntel* from S/L/E using the builtin grafix utility in order to get it to boot again... in ugly 1024x768.

 

Now it's time to do the thing the way it should be done: the vanilla way. *cracks knuckles* At least I'll understand how everything works.

 

I'm reading up on http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/298027-guide-aio-guides-for-hackintosh/ at the moment and waiting for my 10.9.5 .dmg to finish downloading.

I'm going to create and post a full install guide for this laptop. I want to use Clover as my main bootloader without touching the MBR partitioning scheme.

My journey with vanilla Mavericks is going to happen slowly over the week (or a few)

 

 

 

Any advice you would like to give me at this very moment? Things I should or totally shouldn't do? Should I perhaps go with Yosemite instead (though I fear the xpcm-free issue isn't resolved there yet AFAIK)? Have I made any big mistakes this far that need to be corrected?

 

I hope that once it's all done, we all have one more detailed Hackintosh HOWTO. :3