nmarques Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hi all, I've purchased a ASUS Z97M-PLUS and successfully patched the BIOS to allow writting on MSR 0x2c bit 15 (see screenshot). I've managed to install Mavericks 10.9.3 with success, and: After install I can boot through my USB stick and boot the local drive with "-x UseKernelCache=No'" and it works. From there, I've dropped SSDT.aml and placed it on /Extra in order to get CPU recognized (i5-4670 3.4Ghz). When I do this, my USB stops working and I believe that since I'm booting from the USB stick, it fails to successfully handle USB and everything stops there with a "Still waiting for root device". Passing arguments (Chimera) like rd=disk0s2 (confirmed, SSD) still fails. So I'm kinda stuck here. Anyone can help (maybe DSDT patching, though it's UEFI)? From here no options allow me to boot back even if -x. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello Good Job! But chimera is a chameleon branch, and chimera is used for tonymac, i don't believe someone in here you help you with chimera, because we don't like tonymac... I can help you, but only if you don't use this bootloader anymore... what you say? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarques Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello Good Job! But chimera is a chameleon branch, and chimera is used for tonymac, i don't believe someone in here you help you with chimera, because we don't like tonymac... I can help you, but only if you don't use this bootloader anymore... what you say? Pimentel, I've readed the statements regarding Tonymac and I do understand your concerns. As a previous GNOME Developer and a person who was linked in the past to Fedora and OpenSUSE, I do quite simpathize with it (Licence violations and not sharing the code, the commercial {censored} I dont quite give a damn because I'm not planning to pay him). Are your Portuguese or Brazilian btw? Sure. I will make a new install and use Clover? (I honestly need a UEFI bootloader for EFI and I don't feel like writing one or forking one) would that work? This is because Asus Motherboards don't boot from GUID partition tables. So point me in the way to: 1) prepare a installer USB stick (I do own a real mac, so no issues at all); 2) steps after install; And we go from there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello Don't worries i'll help you... Yeah! I'm Brazilian I gave to you a method to install OSX, is fast and easy... please check that, it'll help you to create a usb installer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarques Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello Don't worries i'll help you... Yeah! I'm Brazilian I gave to you a method to install OSX, is fast and easy... please check that, it'll help you to create a usb installer Can you provide a link so I follow the right stuff ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello Can you provide a link so I follow the right stuff ? I gave the link to you... via PM See that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarques Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello I gave the link to you... via PM See that Roger, doing the magic right now (funny to see imagewriter ). If it's raw wouldn't it be easier: dd if=<source> of=<source> bs=8M ? Anyway... DSDT, am I going to need it? I can provide a clean dump from Linux for patching if required; I don't really know how to patch it (not the process, the changes needed) so some help would be cool. What info can u provide me in advance regarding stuff I might need and that I can work right now while waiting for the download. NM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Hello If it's raw wouldn't it be easier: dd if= of= bs=8M ? I don't undestand your question.... I don't believe that will be necessary DSDT, just patch kernel for allow writting on MSR 0x2c.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2044822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarques Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Your image does work fine, nevertheless it doesn't even allow to boot the installer; It loads up (doesn't matter if it's safe mode or not or with/without caches) and once it touches the PCI sub-system it just reboots the system. Either way there's a new patch for my BIOS, so I've updated it but haven't patched the BIOS for the MSR (I'll stick with cpu null power management kext I suppose). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2045296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Hello You wanna mean that kernel patch doesn't work for this usb installer??? Confuse, because i saw this patch work fine in others situations... Did you use RehabMan patch??? code perl??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/299809-help-asus-z97m-plus-haswell-mavericks/#findComment-2045305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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