The Hackintosh Thread

[Zaap]

So there is no SleepEnabler.kext on my HDD anywhere.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should remove that will fix my issue so that I can start without going into safe mode?

http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?t=23085

^ Everything I find on the 1545 is the same as the experience I had with the 1525. That is, 10.6.8 is a bitch on it, and 10.6.7 is about as far as it goes without pulling your hair out.

Most threads on the subject dead-end as above. When I find cases of people actually running 10.6.8 on any of these laptops, they always seem vague about it, admit that there are all sorts of non-working components in 10.6.8 (my experience as well) and disappear from threads before providing any sort of workable guide.

Anyway, I hope you figure it out, or just go back to an easier to install version of Snow Leopard.

 

[adairusmc]

I worked on mind for quite a while last night and got everything to work - except after I installed multibeast my mouse and keyboard stopped working. They work fine booting into safe boot. Trying to make them work even just a little so I can run multibeast again and enable USB legacy support, to see if that does it.

 

[purbeast0]

http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?t=23085

^ Everything I find on the 1545 is the same as the experience I had with the 1525. That is, 10.6.8 is a bitch on it, and 10.6.7 is about as far as it goes without pulling your hair out.

Most threads on the subject dead-end as above. When I find cases of people actually running 10.6.8 on any of these laptops, they always seem vague about it, admit that there are all sorts of non-working components in 10.6.8 (my experience as well) and disappear from threads before providing any sort of workable guide.

Anyway, I hope you figure it out, or just go back to an easier to install version of Snow Leopard.

hmmm damn. how painful/painless is it to simply revert back to 10.6.7?

any idea if the newer versions of osx work on the laptop?

 

[mosslack]

I worked on mind for quite a while last night and got everything to work - except after I installed multibeast my mouse and keyboard stopped working. They work fine booting into safe boot. Trying to make them work even just a little so I can run multibeast again and enable USB legacy support, to see if that does it.

Try running Kext Utility or other similar utility program to repair permissions and rebuild the kext cache. That was a constant problem and solution when we hacked the Asus 1201N back in the Snow Leopard days.

 

[SKORPI0]

Finally, was able to install 10.8.2 on my current rig. Tried MultiBeast, UniBeast, myHack, etc since last year. Only iATKOS ML2 worked (audio, ethernet and video) as is. No Kernel panic, no adding/fixing of kexts. Thanks for all the hard work. :thumbsup:

Oh in 64-bit too.

 

[destrekor]

I've been way too busy to screw around with a side project like this for the past week or so, so I have missed a bit in this thread and not trying to go about entirely catching up just yet.

Can iATKOS be made remotely legit? I mean, I guess a hackintosh can never be entirely legit - but I paid that $20 for the OS and, well, I kind of want to at least utilize it.
But it seems simply taking the as-is distro is one of the easiest approaches if you have a system that wasn't perfectly assembled with OS X specifically in mind.

 

[purbeast0]

I've been way too busy to screw around with a side project like this for the past week or so, so I have missed a bit in this thread and not trying to go about entirely catching up just yet.

Can iATKOS be made remotely legit? I mean, I guess a hackintosh can never be entirely legit - but I paid that $20 for the OS and, well, I kind of want to at least utilize it.
But it seems simply taking the as-is distro is one of the easiest approaches if you have a system that wasn't perfectly assembled with OS X specifically in mind.

don't know how it is done now, but back when i did mine it was actually easier with the retail disc. i had issues with the hacked versions of osx, but the store bought one worked like a charm.

 

[adairusmc]

I got mine completely working with the 10.8 niresh build, thanks to the help I got here. Works great now actually.

 

[Zaap]

hmmm damn. how painful/painless is it to simply revert back to 10.6.7?

any idea if the newer versions of osx work on the laptop?

I know I've seen where people were able to get Lion running on the Dell Inspirons, even in one case Mountain Lion just with a whole bunch of problems.

Maybe try finding help on this site: http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/forum/62-other-dell-laptops/

I used to go there to find solutions for problems I ran into with the 1525.

 

[purbeast0]

I know I've seen where people were able to get Lion running on the Dell Inspirons, even in one case Mountain Lion just with a whole bunch of problems.

Maybe try finding help on this site: http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/forum/62-other-dell-laptops/

I used to go there to find solutions for problems I ran into with the 1525.

cool i will look into it.

i rebooted and everything seems to boot up just fine now. however i cannot get my wireless to work. everything else seems to be working just fine. going to see if i can search this weekend to get the wireless working.

 

[purbeast0]

this may be a dumb question, but since i've never used one i'm gonna ask it anyways.

since i'm having issues getting the airport card to work on my hackintosh, should something like this work just fine?

http://www.amazon.com/Airlink-compat...reless+adapter

i noticed in the first review the person specifically mentions it working fine on osx. so i'm pretty sure that it will work but was just wondering if anyone had used one of these with a hackintosh.

 

[Zaap]

So long as your usb ports work, and the USB wireless adapter is compatible with your version of OSX, then yes, it will work.

One review on there says it's a Realtek 8188CUS chipset, so it will require Realtek drivers/control panel to work. (It won't just show up as an airport device).


TRY THIS FIRST:

http://www.osx86.net/10-6-snow-leopard/12730-dell-inspiron-1525-wifi-not-working-sl-10-6-8-a.html

The 2nd post suggests this person "try this" which ends up working. The link is to the IO80211Family.kext that's either modified from 10.6.8 or from 10.6.7.

Install the kext with proper permissions of course, or if you prefer, use a utility like kext wizard.

It's cool your setup works, but unfortunately since you're running without a backup, every time you try something like the above, you're running a risk. It will *probably* work just fine, but if it ends up borking your install, you'd be back to using some round about way of uninstalling the kext and replacing the old, rather than just test it with zero risk on a backup partition first.

If you ever redo your system- create a backup partition.

 

[purbeast0]

thanks for the link. i had hope when i read the comments for it, but unfortunately it is not working for me still.

 

[Zaap]

thanks for the link. i had hope when i read the comments for it, but unfortunately it is not working for me still.

Make sure you've deleted any mkext cache files that might override the newer installed kext.

 

[purbeast0]

Make sure you've deleted any mkext cache files that might override the newer installed kext.

well i deleted the prior one. i'm using kext utility to install the one in the link above, and i thought that automatically fixed the whole cache thing.

and one thing i do notice is that as soon as my computer boots up and you see the system bar at the top of the screen where it shows the airport status, it shows the bars accross the airport icon for like a 1/2 second, then they go away and it shows no airport installed.

 

[Zaap]

well i deleted the prior one. i'm using kext utility to install the one in the link above, and i thought that automatically fixed the whole cache thing.

No, if there's an Extensions.mkext or Extensions.kextcache or similar file in Extra/Extensions or S/L/E then the kext in cache will override the installed system kext.

I guess kext caches are supposed to speed up booting. But to me, they just add confusion when they override newer/modified kexts. I'd rather the system load all kext files each bootup from their installed location in Extra or S/L/E.

and one thing i do notice is that as soon as my computer boots up and you see the system bar at the top of the screen where it shows the airport status, it shows the bars accross the airport icon for like a 1/2 second, then they go away and it shows no airport installed.

Make sure your wireless isn't being turned off from a physical switch on the laptop. I've seen cases where this happens because the physical switch will turn off the wifi, but OSX doesn't recognize the switch so it will stay turned off. If you're dual booting, try booting into Windows and making sure the wifi is active. (Or boot into Linux and make sure.) You might also check the BIOS to make sure there isn't some setting that's auto-selecting wifi being on or off which OSX may not recognize and again default to off.)

 

[purbeast0]

don't have any of those files in either locations :/

 

[mosslack]

No, if there's an Extensions.mkext or Extensions.kextcache or similar file in Extra/Extensions or S/L/E then the kext in cache will override the installed system kext.

I guess kext caches are supposed to speed up booting. But to me, they just add confusion when they override newer/modified kexts. I'd rather the system load all kext files each bootup from their installed location in Extra or S/L/E.

Wouldn't it be easier to boot ignoring caches using the -f switch at the boot prompt? If all you need is an indication of whether the cache is the problem, it would certainly be easier than deleting them.

 

[Zaap]

Probably easier but the system should rebuild the cache file. Bottom line for me is I see no need for preserving an outdated cache file in any case.

 

[mosslack]

Probably easier but the system should rebuild the cache file. Bottom line for me is I see no need for preserving an outdated cache file in any case.

Very true.

On a slightly related topic, this was how I developed a myHack guide for the HP DC7800 recently. myHack has an annoying habit of installing an /Extra folder, no matter if you want it or not and that was causing the DC7800 to have no USB on the reboot after the initial install. But booting ignoring caches allowed the USB to function properly so one can get in there and fix the problem.

BTW, as I mentioned before, I am using Kaido's USB boot loader for this system and it works very well. I have a Lion and Mountain Lion partition on the system and both boot equally well using the USB flash drive.

It worked so well that I bought a HP DC7700 on ebay to try and do the same. Problem was, it came with no hard drive and a Pentium D 945 CPU. After playing around with some of the distros, I finally managed to get iAtKos S3 v2 setup on it.

After having some problems with that I changed the CPU to an E4500 and installed both Lion and Mountain Lion on it using the same myHack guide. At $49 with free shipping, made a nice little cheap Hackintosh!

 

[purbeast0]

another question...

anyone ever use a docking station with a hackintosh or know if it's possible?

i'm just so much more efficient at a desktop and it would be awesome if i could get the docking station for my dell and be able to use my keyboard, mouse, and dual monitors.

 

[Zaap]

At $49 with free shipping, made a nice little cheap Hackintosh!

Wow, I'm guessing a <$50 Hackintosh must be a record.

another question...

anyone ever use a docking station with a hackintosh or know if it's possible?

i'm just so much more efficient at a desktop and it would be awesome if i could get the docking station for my dell and be able to use my keyboard, mouse, and dual monitors.

I've never tried it. I would imagine USB devices would work. Biggest problem for you is probably video. I don't think your graphics hardware is actually supported (no QE/CI) or true resolution switching. So likely if external monitors worked at all, it'd be at a low, non-native resolution.

 

[mosslack]

Wow, I'm guessing a <$50 Hackintosh must be a record.

Yep and that is also another milestone for me, my 20th Hackintosh!

http://mosslack.weebly.com/

I'm sure others have done more systems than me, but I'll bet they didn't have more fun!

 

[purbeast0]

yeah i googled the docking station for my laptop and there isn't a real one only a usb one, not sure how it would work.

after getting a usb wireless adapter and trying all night to get it to work, i still can't get it to work. really getting sick of this.

is there any easy/safe way to downgrade from 10.6.8 back to the 10.6.6 that i was on prior?

 

[destrekor]

So, convince me that I do or do not need to modify my BIOS (on my Asus P8Z68 Deluxe) to get all the power management features to work smoothly.

Also, involved in all of this - I am not getting rid of my overclock on the i7 2600K. Can I make the BIOS edit without returning the BIOS to pure stock? Can I get Mountain Lion to play nice with the OC?