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It's been a while since I posted here last time, but I have returned because I can't figure this one out. There seems to be no info about the installation of OS X on the K72JT, I'm trying to get a dualboot with Windows 7. I mostly need help with which kexts I need for this system.

 

Specs:

 

Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 480M 2.66 GHz

Chipset: Intel® HM55 Express Chipset

RAM: 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz SDRAM

Video: AMD Radeon HD 6370M

 

More specs at:

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Versatile_Performance/K72JT/#specifications

 

I'm willing to write a tutorial after OS X is running perfectly.

 

Thanks in advance!

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My opinion:

 

OSX can be installed. Video is a problem. The only hint of support that I can find might be in the Chimera bootloader. The computer has unknown wireless but it has integrated bluetooth. The typical wireless card with bluetooth integral is NOT compatible with OSX. You can replace the card with a wireless card that would work but you would lose bluetooth. It has unknown ethernet so we don't know what kind of support it has. Audio is unknown. The link you gave for specifications does not say anything about who manufactures and what model the various peripherals are. If you were to run Everest or Aida64 under Windows or boot a Linux Live CD (maybe Mint or Ubuntu) and run the command "lspci -nn", we would have a better picture of what is inside the computer.

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I booted up from my Ubuntu disk and this is the result:

 

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 18)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port [8086:0045] (rev 18)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:68e4]
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan HDMI Audio [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] [1002:aa68]
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1063] (rev c0)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 05)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 05)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 05)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 05)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 05)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 05)

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OK, it looks like the wireless might work and the ethernet might work. Still a little bit of a question on audio. Audio is made up of two chips - the controller and the codec. "lspci" reports on two controllers, the 2nd is HDMI part of the video system. But it never reports on the codec (like Realtek ALC889 for instance). The best way to find that is in Windows - Device Manager - Sound. For each item found there, right click and select Properties. Click the Details tab. In the pop-up, select Hardware IDs. Then we need the 4-digit characters following VEN_ and following DEV_.

 

So far, it is still looking doable with big question marks on the quality of video and of sound.

 

For kexts, get yourself registered at Kexts.com. Look up AR9285 for wireless and be sure that it can handle the dev/vendor ids of (168c:002b). Look up AR8131 for ethernet and be sure it can handle dev/vendor ids of (1969:1063)

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Sound drivers:

AMD High Definition Audio Device:

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1002&DEV_AA01&SUBSYS_00AA0100&REV_1002

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1002&DEV_AA01&SUBSYS_00AA0100

Realtek High Definition Audio:

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0269&SUBSYS_10431A63&REV_1001

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0269&SUBSYS_10431A63

 

I have honestly no idea how I can find out if those network cards are compatible, the site confuses me a bit.

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Wireless AR9285 - http://www.osx86.net/view/1279-atheros_ar9285_fix.html - says it is for Snow Leopard, but I believe it should work on Lion as well

Wireless AR9285 - http://www.osx86.net/view/1299-ar9285_lion.html - for Lion

Ethernet AR8131 - http://www.osx86.net/view/1637-atheros_l1c_-works_on_ar8131.html - for Lion

Audio ALC269 - http://www.osx86.net/view/1283-alc269_for_lion_voodoohda.html - there are several of these, might have to try more than one

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Well, if you have an existing Mac installation, the preferred way is to build a USB flash drive that can boot the retail 10.7 Lion. If you don't have a Mac, then you can do it on a PC by making use of the programs TransMac and MacDrive. But it is really a pain in the butt. Failing that, I would use iAtkos L2. If you keep your customization selections to a minimum, it is pretty close to installing retail with a flash drive.

 

Support for your video (maybe) is in the bootloader Chimera. Once you manage to get installed and booted, go get Chimera and install it and hope that it enables your video to work to the fullest. Use Google to find Chimera 1.90 or higher.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I have downloaded a clean Lion .DMG that comes directly from the app store(via torrents), the first problem I got was that TransMac/UltraISO didn't recognize it. I fixed it by opening the .DMG file and extracting another .DMG file from the InstallMacOSX.pkg folder, this seems to be the right file.

But now the problem I'm having is that it's not bootable, all the files are there and looks fine to me. I tried both burning it straight from .DMG format via TransMac and converting it to .ISO, the disk does not want to boot. What am I doing wrong?

Also, when viewing the DVD in Windows it shows empty, but in TransMac and UltraISO it shows the files on the disk just fine.

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