Insleep Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hello! Noob Hackintosher here (this is my first time trying) -- I'm trying to Hackintosh a Compaq Presario CQ57 (laptop). I successfully made the installer USB and the laptop boots into it but always get a kernel panic. When I enter boot flag -v, I see the reason why it kernel panics is because "kernel-__SYMTAB" and "name" are not kexts. Full specs: Compaq Presario CQ57 Intel Celeron B800 @ 1.5GHz 2GB RAM Intel HD Graphics w/ 768MB (graphics) RAM If you have any suggestions on what to do, please comment. Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hello and Welcome to InsanelyMac forum! You have issues because you hardware is not totally compatible with OS X. Your Intel HD is doesn't compatible with OS X. And without video, OS X it's useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insleep Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hm, well, I got the OS X installer to boot up with cpus=1, and I'm installing OS X right now. Will report back when it's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insleep Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Alright, so I installed it. When I boot it up now with boot flags -v and cpus=1, it boots up completely fine, but then I get a gray screen and the mouse pointer turns into a spinning beach ball that keeps going and going. I've tried GraphicsEnabler=No and I've also tried taking out the WLAN card and that doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Safe mode (-x) won't even boot without cpus=1, and when I do use -x and cpus=1, the system goes into a reboot loop. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 You read what i spoke to you? OS X will not work on this laptop. Even if you can install, will not be able use OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insleep Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Well, either way, I've got people on another forum helping me. Edited March 18, 2015 by Allan Sarcastic comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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