G3258 Yosemite Partly Installed

[CatzRuleZWorld]

So I have a computer I built mainly for gaming on windows but I wanted a challenge and I like Mac OS X so I decided to try to hackintosh it.

After I saw that the unlocked Pentium CPU I had was not compatible with anything above 10.8 I started searching for a work around of this because 10.10 is free for me do download while 10.8 costs $20. I stumbled upon a forum post where a user by the name of new hacker1746 had 10.9 working on a G3258 because of the "fake CPUID" feature of the Clover boot loader.

I thought since that worked it would work on 10.10 (it didn't seem as if anyone had tried this yet). So off I went following a forum guide to install 10.10 with Clover... (I skipped to that because apparently that's the only Mac OS that works with the video card I have.)

I was met with quite a few roadblocks that I had to solve before finally coming into the Mac OS X installer. I got through the installation after that without a hitch but upon finishing the setup for my user account on the second boot up it just sat there saying "Setting up your new Mac".

After about a half hour of this I decided that it wasn't doing anything so I rebooted again but this time I was met with a login screen!

I put in my password and boom! I was met with another perpetually propelled pinwheel...

At this point now I'm thinking that the G3258 isn't supported for a reason; it's not that Apple decided to kill something just because it's old like normal but it just doesn't work with newer Mac OS Xs.

 

This is where I'm at. I will supply updates if I ever get any farther but any help would be much appreciated!

If I can't get this to work I just might put down the $20 for 10.8 and HOPE I can get that working.

 

Full PC Part List:

G3258 Pentium CPU

EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC GPU

MSI H81I Motherboard

Corsair H55 AIO CPU Cooler

(HDDs, SSDs)

550W OCZ PSU

Cooler Master Elite 130 mITX Case

 

Mac to make bootable USB drive:

2013 MBA with 10.10 Installed

 

-CatzRuleZWorld

[kvonlinee]

If you got i3 haswell it would work.

Your case pentium haswell, search for a modify kernel of the version osx you have, do not attemp update at all. Put that modify kernel to drive kernel place.

You put in 10.8 is not really change anything it will still be the same.

[jamiethemorris]

So I have a computer I built mainly for gaming on windows but I wanted a challenge and I like Mac OS X so I decided to try to hackintosh it.

After I saw that the unlocked Pentium CPU I had was not compatible with anything above 10.8 I started searching for a work around of this because 10.10 is free for me do download while 10.8 costs $20. I stumbled upon a forum post where a user by the name of new hacker1746 had 10.9 working on a G3258 because of the "fake CPUID" feature of the Clover boot loader.

I thought since that worked it would work on 10.10 (it didn't seem as if anyone had tried this yet). So off I went following a forum guide to install 10.10 with Clover... (I skipped to that because apparently that's the only Mac OS that works with the video card I have.)

I was met with quite a few roadblocks that I had to solve before finally coming into the Mac OS X installer. I got through the installation after that without a hitch but upon finishing the setup for my user account on the second boot up it just sat there saying "Setting up your new Mac".

After about a half hour of this I decided that it wasn't doing anything so I rebooted again but this time I was met with a login screen!

I put in my password and boom! I was met with another perpetually propelled pinwheel...

At this point now I'm thinking that the G3258 isn't supported for a reason; it's not that Apple decided to kill something just because it's old like normal but it just doesn't work with newer Mac OS Xs.

 

This is where I'm at. I will supply updates if I ever get any farther but any help would be much appreciated!

If I can't get this to work I just might put down the $20 for 10.8 and HOPE I can get that working.

 

Full PC Part List:

G3258 Pentium CPU

EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC GPU

MSI H81I Motherboard

Corsair H55 AIO CPU Cooler

(HDDs, SSDs)

550W OCZ PSU

Cooler Master Elite 130 mITX Case

 

Mac to make bootable USB drive:

2013 MBA with 10.10 Installed

 

-CatzRuleZWorld

If you got to the login screen then the CPU isn't the problem. Glad to hear you got it booting. Probably your GPU. You have a maxwell card, did you boot with nv_disable=1 before installing the web drivers?

[kvonlinee]

My bad, I mis read it.

[CatzRuleZWorld]

If you got to the login screen then the CPU isn't the problem. Glad to hear you got it booting. Probably your GPU. You have a maxwell card, did you boot with nv_disable=1 before installing the web drivers?

 

I thought I did nv_disable but maybe I forgot... I'll try that soon but I didn't know that would make something like that happen

Thanks!

[CatzRuleZWorld]

    So I guess it worked with nv_disable=1.

    I got into the UI and was able to do stuff but i noticed all the animations were really fast and when I pressed a key it would input like 6 of that letter and in the clock setting the clock was spinning at about 60x speed. I changed the com.apple.BOOT.plist (I think) and added FSB=100. That fixed it i think...

    Next I needed to get ethernet working so I googled that up and found a kext and kext installer (this is about 30 mins ago but I already forgot what I used. Sorry for anyone trying to follow what I'm doing with their own computer :/). Anyways, that works great!

    Now to get the GPU working... I tried to install the driver in the link from someone's post on the tonymacx86 site and when i tried to install it said my system isn't compatible or something like that. All of the previous was without the GPU installed in the case so I thought maybe it needs the hardware installed to install the driver. I put in the GPU and now I'm having the same problem of getting past the login screen once again. This is where I'm stuck at the moment but I'm sure Ill eventually get past it and on to another problem! (so (sarcastically) excited!)

[jamiethemorris]

    So I guess it worked with nv_disable=1.

    I got into the UI and was able to do stuff but i noticed all the animations were really fast and when I pressed a key it would input like 6 of that letter and in the clock setting the clock was spinning at about 60x speed. I changed the com.apple.BOOT.plist (I think) and added FSB=100. That fixed it i think...

    Next I needed to get ethernet working so I googled that up and found a kext and kext installer (this is about 30 mins ago but I already forgot what I used. Sorry for anyone trying to follow what I'm doing with their own computer :/). Anyways, that works great!

    Now to get the GPU working... I tried to install the driver in the link from someone's post on the tonymacx86 site and when i tried to install it said my system isn't compatible or something like that. All of the previous was without the GPU installed in the case so I thought maybe it needs the hardware installed to install the driver. I put in the GPU and now I'm having the same problem of getting past the login screen once again. This is where I'm stuck at the moment but I'm sure Ill eventually get past it and on to another problem! (so (sarcastically) excited!)

fsb=100 won't do anything with clover, that's a chameleon parameter. The equivalent value for Clover would be setting the BusSpeedKHz value to 100000 - I wouldn't bother with that right now though because that's probably all because of the nvidia drivers not running. Until you install the web drivers, you will need to use nv_disable=1 on every boot, then after you install them add nvda_drv=1 to your boot flags. To install the web drivers, you need to use the MacPro3,1 SMBios AND you need to have the card installed, that's why they aren't installing. If that still doesn't work then you are using the wrong version - there are different versions for 10.10 and 10.10.1. After they are installed you can change the SMBios to whatever you want. But to my knowledge every time you update the drivers you will need to use a Mac Pro SMBios.

 

Edit: You can find all the different web drivers for their corresponding OS versions here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301416-nvidia-web-driver-updates-for-yosemite/

[CatzRuleZWorld]

fsb=100 won't do anything with clover, that's a chameleon parameter. The equivalent value for Clover would be setting the BusSpeedKHz value to 100000 - I wouldn't bother with that right now though because that's probably all because of the nvidia drivers not running. Until you install the web drivers, you will need to use nv_disable=1 on every boot, then after you install them add nvda_drv=1 to your boot flags. To install the web drivers, you need to use the MacPro3,1 SMBios AND you need to have the card installed, that's why they aren't installing. If that still doesn't work then you are using the wrong version - there are different versions for 10.10 and 10.10.1. After they are installed you can change the SMBios to whatever you want. But to my knowledge every time you update the drivers you will need to use a Mac Pro SMBios.

 

Edit: You can find all the different web drivers for their corresponding OS versions here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301416-nvidia-web-driver-updates-for-yosemite/

Yep, I actually figured most of this out although I did not have to set the SMBios to anything different to get the driver installed. I think all I did was boot with nvda_drv=1 with the card installed and then it installed.

Now my problem is that it's installed but I can not set the resolution to the 1080p that my HDMI monitor is capable of through system prefs. I'm wondering if there is a text file somewhere that I can set a custom resolution.

Another problem I have is that the graphics are pretty glitchy. It's this way with the iGPU and the 750 Ti where sometimes the title bar of a window will just not show and when I try to open launchpad it takes like 10 seconds to load.

My assumption is that it might be related to the FSB clock speed thing.

I've done some more research and found that there is a clover setting for the bus speed and the CPU clock speed. I'm going to try to set those manually (although they are both supposed to be automatic).

After that I'll report back with my new problems.

 

I'm still pretty surprised I got this OS to boot and install on this CPU

[jamiethemorris]

Yep, I actually figured most of this out although I did not have to set the SMBios to anything different to get the driver installed. I think all I did was boot with nvda_drv=1 with the card installed and then it installed.

Now my problem is that it's installed but I can not set the resolution to the 1080p that my HDMI monitor is capable of through system prefs. I'm wondering if there is a text file somewhere that I can set a custom resolution.

Another problem I have is that the graphics are pretty glitchy. It's this way with the iGPU and the 750 Ti where sometimes the title bar of a window will just not show and when I try to open launchpad it takes like 10 seconds to load.

My assumption is that it might be related to the FSB clock speed thing.

I've done some more research and found that there is a clover setting for the bus speed and the CPU clock speed. I'm going to try to set those manually (although they are both supposed to be automatic).

After that I'll report back with my new problems.

 

I'm still pretty surprised I got this OS to boot and install on this CPU

still sounds like graphics acceleration isn't working. It won't work ootb with integrated graphics either (they are fully supported, but it takes a little work), so that's why you are having the same symptoms. Are you still booting with nvda_drv=1? Can you post a screenshot of the graphics section of system profiler? Also you should post your clover config.plist and an ioreg dump.