mastegr Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Hi there! IT's been over 2 months since my first experience with Hackintosh. (I'll tell you what I'm pursuing, and what I have acomplished so far. IF YOU WANNA SKIP ALL THE PROCESS AND JUST GO TO THE STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION, FIND THE " SUCCESSFUL step by step instalation") GOAL -> keyboard-less, mouse-less, Full working LAN, Full HDMI, Full 6.1 audio, rendering nodes controlled via UNIX ACOMPLISHED SO FAR ->keyboard-less, mouse-less, half working LAN*, NO AUDIO, minimum SVGA display, UNIX controlled //DESCRIPTION OF HARDWARE, for 6 almost identical cloned CPUs: >Motherboard ASUS M2N-VM HDMI, this was bought in Mexico City (si hay un chilango por aqui) >AMD Athlon X2 5200+ & 5400+ >1Gb generic Ram >SATA HD (some are WD 1600AAJS Caviar 160GB, other SEAGATE Barracuda 7200 320 GB) //EPIC INSTALLATION PROCESS 1st attemp - IDE Hard drive I downloaded several distributions: Kallyway 10.5.2, Zephyrot AMD 10.5.2 and Leo 4 all v.3 and v.4 Kallyway attemp- My first attemp was with the m2n-vm hdmi MoBo, an AMDx2 5200+ and an IDE hardrive. I plugged a DVD Rom and tried Kallyway... it recognized the hard drive, and from there I tried perhaps 18 documented installation variations from the options. It will eventually at some combination of options, finish the installation, restart, but mark an error at the white&apple screen. Eventually a discarded kallyway when Leo 4 all v3, finally downloaded. Leo 4 all attemp- It never got ahead from "no root device". So without deep knowledge or understanding what happened at that moment, started downloading another distribution. Zephyrot AMD 10.5.2 attemp- For a start, it booted until the installing options. And as it announces, its easier in the installing options. So, variations and several instalations (18 documented) went on, until eventually it re-started on the so expected welcome screen. So if you are trying to install this MoBo with an IDE drive THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION to use! COUTERPART and non-working devices For my needs, the USB and LAN are the most important things to work properly. At fresh installation LAN didn't worked, I downloaded several nForce kexts and installed, until (if Im not wrong) an nForceLAN.kext was the winner, and internet worked and ssh conection protocol worked... BUT it crashed when a lot of consecutive files were being transfered. With this partial success, and the applications i needed installed correctly and fully functional for render (this means the CPU worked aparently OK), I bought 5 more replicas, this time with a more silent SATA drive. //SUCCESSFUL step by step instalation - SATA Hard Drive OK... so. My first attemp was with Zephyrot AMD 10.5.2 distribution... but guess what? It didn't recognizes the SATA drive, not even in AHCI or SATA mode in BIOS... I tried then Kallyway 10.5.2, it booted until the installation screen, It recognizes the SATA drive, but the installation crashed before finishing... My next idea was to make a hybrid version of Zephyrot, which worked OK for my MoBo, with the kexts from Kallyway that allowed SATA to be recognized. After digging a little in the forum, and a few days with many DVDs in the trash can, I pulled out a hybryd Zephy-Kally DVD. (Extracted the Extensions.kext from inside the Kallyway DVD /System/Library/, uncompressed it, resulting in an EXTENSIONS folder, changed the ID DEVICE for my SATA in the info.plist of AppleSATA-something.kext, created cache, then copied it to the Zephyrot DVD /System/Library, and repaired permissions... something like this, and eventually I ended with a DVD that readed SATA drives (in AHCI mode in BIOS), containing apparently the magic of Zephyrot DVD... but not. It crashed after several install-options variations. OK. I started downloading before this point Leo4all v.4 which acclaimed an easier AMD installation. And IT DID! Of course after 7 days of changing options, so HERE IT IS, THIS ARE THE OPTIONS YOU MUST FOLLOW TO MAKE A HACKINTOSH WITH THE SAME SPECS AS MINE (M2N-VM HDMI, AMD X2 5x00+, SATA drive apparently of any brand and capacity) Plug everything, The DVD rom can be as master or slave, BUT SATA option in BIOS MUST BE in AHCI mode at installation. When DVD starts countdown (still in DOS), click any key... OSX installation starts, Go To the Disk Utility and Format your HD as MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR), this is the one that works! guid never booted correctly. OK. Now the options. ONLY Nforce67, i choosed audio ALC883 but it didn't work, ONLY NvidiaKush, On NON-EFI KERNEL choose 9.2.2 SS3, NON EFI options choose: ACPCIPlatform, SMSBIOS-NOEFI, NO-EFI BOOT (according with our MBR partition)... if everything goes right, you should be having a "Successful Instalation" screen within a few minutes. Restart, but BEWARE!! you must now change BIOS of sata to SATA mode, do not leave ahci because it won't start. Smile to the Welcome screen, and when you are on OSX, install with a USB ( I guess any) nForceLAN.kext. This will enable internet, and file transfer in a low traffic mode... I guess you are not expected to download fast files and not get a crashed LAN connection. //Up to DAY So this is where I stand now, I have all 6 nodes, with silent SATA drives, connected with ethernet with this LAN driver that crashes ONLY WHEN IT SENDS a lot of consecutive files, it receives OK, i Tested rsync's of 2Gb and 4Gb with hundreds of files and it RECEIVED ok all files, but when I retreive files from the node (like any rendered sequence), It crashes at the 5th or so file. Video hasn't worked fully yet, despite several Nvidia-like kexts I've found. Audio behaves the same after several kext installation attempts. OK. I'll continue posting. May the force be with you -MasteGr- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137469-succesful-install-105-on-asus-m2n-vm-hdmi-clones-render-nodes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb2008 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Kudos!! I have a M2N-VM DVI here. Got the Leopard installed once. Then I ruined it by trying to install Video Driver.. Then I can not get a successful install anymore.. always give error when trying to load from HD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137469-succesful-install-105-on-asus-m2n-vm-hdmi-clones-render-nodes/#findComment-1343122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Semplice Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 I managed to install iAtkos v7 on the M2N-VM DVI but i havent managed to get my soundcard and videocard (ATI HD 4670) working!? Anyone that can help me out? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137469-succesful-install-105-on-asus-m2n-vm-hdmi-clones-render-nodes/#findComment-1420195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bern23 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 I managed to install iAtkos v7 on the M2N-VM DVI but i havent managed to get my soundcard and videocard (ATI HD 4670) working!? Anyone that can help me out? hello...im also a newbie to osx 86...i managed to install kalliway 10.5.2 on my asus board m2a-vm with a 1gb ati hd graphic card(ati4670)..audio are working well,lan also working and usb's all working with some command to initiate.. here are the options i used on the customization portion on the installation: on your bios first eanbled virtualization,sata AHCI, plug and play os-no..1st boot on your cd rom a) amd patch-used patch 1 graphic card- used ATI HD option any of them c) Kernel-used 9.2.0 d) network on lan used rtl 1000 e) wireless used rtl8187 do not include rtl8187b f) smbios-used the speed of your memory like 667 or 800mhz depend which memory u are using. regarding the usb detection there some problem here u have to download the enable_usb command for you to work the usb detection. u can search the file here on insanelymac.com. hope this will help you...gudluck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137469-succesful-install-105-on-asus-m2n-vm-hdmi-clones-render-nodes/#findComment-1421235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Semplice Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 hello...im also a newbie to osx 86...i managed to install kalliway 10.5.2 on my asus board m2a-vm with a 1gb ati hd graphic card(ati4670)..audio are working well,lan also working and usb's all working with some command to initiate..here are the options i used on the customization portion on the installation: on your bios first eanbled virtualization,sata AHCI, plug and play os-no..1st boot on your cd rom a) amd patch-used patch 1 graphic card- used ATI HD option any of them c) Kernel-used 9.2.0 d) network on lan used rtl 1000 e) wireless used rtl8187 do not include rtl8187b f) smbios-used the speed of your memory like 667 or 800mhz depend which memory u are using. regarding the usb detection there some problem here u have to download the enable_usb command for you to work the usb detection. u can search the file here on insanelymac.com. hope this will help you...gudluck Thanks for the information i will try it out asap. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137469-succesful-install-105-on-asus-m2n-vm-hdmi-clones-render-nodes/#findComment-1422000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Semplice Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I managed to install kalyway 10.5.2 but somehow i cant get my videocard to install.. i tried different kind of ATI options @ the installer but none of them actually work! (HD4670) does anyone know a solution for this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137469-succesful-install-105-on-asus-m2n-vm-hdmi-clones-render-nodes/#findComment-1429643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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