[Guide] HP DV8, DV7, DV6, & DV5, 10.6.4 Easy, Comprehensive Installation

[Mammoth]

I'm not running 64-bit for a couple of reasons. I wanted to test Meklort's patcher to see how it compared to the other solutions (so far I'm happy!) and understand what he was doing in case he doesn't do the 64-bit patcher and I can pick up that development. I also wanted to compile the older Apple PS/2 code and maybe add some support for the special HP keys (at least those that aren't going through the EC). I'm still running the 32-bit only voodoo PS/2 kexts so I get no keyboard in 64-bit yet (I should just put in the kexts you have gathered and get on with it)

 

 

 

Try the attached. I found a posting that suggested a stub is needed on the AppleACPIBatteryDevice for 64 bit. This is also the debug version (I think the first one was release). No guarantees If you still can't get it working, give me a day or two to break my install and get it working again in 64-bit...

 

 

OK, here are the results from my first test:

 

- Battery lasted about a full hour on a full charge. That's normal (I think) for this big laptop and this is the standard battery.

 

- When it got down to the last bit of power, I never got any warnings about "power about to run out", which I think normally on a Mac you do. Instead, it just lost power.

 

- When I plugged the power adapter back in and powered back on, it doesn't show a charge percentage but instead just shows the "A/C Plug" icon and immediately shows "100%".

 

- Switching to "Show Time" only displays "Charged".

 

- Looking in Energy Saver, it immediately shows "Battery is charged".

 

 

So it looks like a few tweaks are needed, but a lot of great progress and fast!

 

UPDATE: It just switched (after about 5 minutes) to the "lightning bolt" charging icon, and the percentage switched to 0%... now 1%.

 

Switching to "Show Time" still shows 0:03

 

In Energy Saver, it now says "Current battery charge: 2% Estimated time until full: 0:03".

[gsly]

OK, here are the results from my first test:

 

- Battery lasted about a full hour on a full charge. That's normal (I think) for this big laptop and this is the standard battery.

- When it got down to the last bit of power, I never got any warnings about "power about to run out", which I think normally on a Mac you do. Instead, it just lost power.

- When I plugged the power adapter back in and powered back on, it doesn't show a charge percentage but instead just shows the "A/C Plug" icon and immediately shows "100%".

- Switching to "Show Time" only displays "Charged".

- Looking in Energy Saver, it immediately shows "Battery is charged".

 

So it looks like a few tweaks are needed, but a lot of great progress and fast!

 

UPDATE: It just switched (after about 5 minutes) to the "lightning bolt" charging icon, and the percentage switched to 0%... now 1%.

 

Switching to "Show Time" still shows 0:03

 

In Energy Saver, it now says "Current battery charge: 2% Estimated time until full: 0:03".

 

I also noticed that the code will need some more tweaking (or perhaps the DSDT battery functions need work) to get the calculations right, I'm not sure if this is because the code is from an old code-base, or has been hacked a bunch. It looked fairly clean at first glance, but I need to go through it and see what is what.

 

Initially I just wanted something that was stable and no KP with I unplugged to move around. Stability first, functionality second

 

I don't have a lot of free time these days, but I've got the latter half of December off so hopefully I can get to some of the many projects I'm working on, this one included.

[yehia2amer]

I'm not running 64-bit for a couple of reasons. I wanted to test Meklort's patcher to see how it compared to the other solutions (so far I'm happy!) and understand what he was doing in case he doesn't do the 64-bit patcher and I can pick up that development. I also wanted to compile the older Apple PS/2 code and maybe add some support for the special HP keys (at least those that aren't going through the EC). I'm still running the 32-bit only voodoo PS/2 kexts so I get no keyboard in 64-bit yet (I should just put in the kexts you have gathered and get on with it)

 

Try the attached. I found a posting that suggested a stub is needed on the AppleACPIBatteryDevice for 64 bit. This is also the debug version (I think the first one was release). No guarantees If you still can't get it working, give me a day or two to break my install and get it working again in 64-bit...

hi gsly thanks for your great work

 

i tried to ask Meklort about the 64bit version

Hi Meklort, hope you're fine

 

I want to know if there is any news about a 64bit version of the lapic fix to run 64bit kernel ?

 

Quote from: meklort on September 04, 2010, 03:29:14 AM

64bit will arrive sometime, probably within a week or two.

 

you said two weeks and it's been two months!!!???

 

this will really help us HP users alot

 

thanks alot for all your work, hope to see update soon

and he said :

It'll get done when it gets done. It's not very high on my list (esp since it doesn't affect me), so it won't happen any time soon.

weird!!! he is too busy and it's not on his priorities , can you do it , can we help you

[gsly]

hi gsly thanks for your great work

 

i tried to ask Meklort about the 64bit version

and he said :

 

weird!!! he is too busy and it's not on his priorities , can you do it , can we help you

 

I can try. Its been a while since I've done any assembly coding, like back when CPUs were 8 and 16-bit I need to do a bit of reading to get up to speed on a few things (universal binary formats, etc) first.

 

And I can sympathize with Meklort, I don't think his Netbook installer project is likely using 64-bit so it's not something he needs or would likely be easy for him to test.

 

Speaking of Meklort, I looked at his source for AppleACPIBatteryManager and confirmed that it has been changed to work with custom DSDT methods which is part of his Netbook installer package so that explains the nonsense calculations we see. I also read the Apple docs related to the Power Management layer last night and I think we should be able to get this working better on HP, hopefully without the custom DSDT. I just need to re-read the ACPI spec on the battery stuff again and see if HP's DSDT methods adhere to it

[manmal]

I can try. Its been a while since I've done any assembly coding, like back when CPUs were 8 and 16-bit I need to do a bit of reading to get up to speed on a few things (universal binary formats, etc) first... ...

 

... ...I also read the Apple docs related to the Power Management layer last night and I think we should be able to get this working better on HP, hopefully without the custom DSDT. I just need to re-read the ACPI spec on the battery stuff again and see if HP's DSDT methods adhere to it

 

 

Thanks glsy, really!

We really appreciate your work!

Your ACPIBattery is working fine (calculation apart)... i mean, no kernel panics and so on!

Keep up the good work m8!

... and plz keep us updated with your projects!

If you need our tests, we are more than happy to help you.

Thanks again!

Mal

[Mammoth]

I can try. Its been a while since I've done any assembly coding, like back when CPUs were 8 and 16-bit I need to do a bit of reading to get up to speed on a few things (universal binary formats, etc) first.

 

And I can sympathize with Meklort, I don't think his Netbook installer project is likely using 64-bit so it's not something he needs or would likely be easy for him to test.

 

Speaking of Meklort, I looked at his source for AppleACPIBatteryManager and confirmed that it has been changed to work with custom DSDT methods which is part of his Netbook installer package so that explains the nonsense calculations we see. I also read the Apple docs related to the Power Management layer last night and I think we should be able to get this working better on HP, hopefully without the custom DSDT. I just need to re-read the ACPI spec on the battery stuff again and see if HP's DSDT methods adhere to it

 

Hi Gsly,

 

Just wanted to thank you again for all your help and work; truly awesome and much appreciated.

 

I didn't respond to all your points due to time, but want to address each of them:

 

- Getting ANY of the HP buttons working would be a bonus. So if you are able to do it, GREAT, as no one to date that I know of has been able to do anything with them. Question: What are the chances we could get the brightness slider working? A lot of people have requested that and would certainly be a very useful function. In this thread, even (I think) within the first 5 pages), code was found that made the slider appear in System Preferences, it just has no affect.

 

- On the Keyboard and TrackPad .kexts, elsewhere in this thread (more recently), someone posted a working, non-Voodoo, working, 64-bit version. I did not have the time to even look at it before, let alone try it, but I think I saw several downloads of it and believe it is working; I think it even added more TrackPad functionality.

 

- Also, TOTALLY with you on the importance of stability over everything else! Once again, really great work!

 

- I'm with you on the free time side of things. I enjoy the work I do on our HP Hac, but time is unfortunately scarce for me these days. If you are able to work on things in December, GREAT, that is soon enough.

[soebbes]

Mac Man50,

how did you fix the blinking cursor?

regards

soebbes

 

 

 

Mammoth,

I followed the chameleon guide 3 times always blinking cursor or no boot device. Maybe I am blind. Can you make underlines instead of space and tell me the answers of the system after each enter?

Kind regards

soebbes

[Mammoth]

you said two weeks and it's been two months!!!???

 

Hi Yehia Amer,

 

I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but that "sounds" really pushy and demanding (and a little ungrateful). Again, I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, as we all know we are doing this stuff for no pay and in our spare time (not to mention he doesn't even have our system).

 

I would recommend responding back to him and let him know you didn't mean it like that, and that you appreciate any help he can spare us when he has it.

 

Just a suggestion I think would go a long way in making sure everyone is "good".

 

While we are at it, I want to thank YOU Yehia Amer, as you have been a HUGE contributor to all our efforts!

 

[oskr66]

Hi to everyone , just to mention how fun this topic is , and to thank everyone who has contributed to this great topic of the dv8 .

I would like to mention that after reading and installing all the recommended fixes , my dv8 is working excellent , thanks to all of you , one thing I have noticed is , i did not have a smbios.plist , i fallow instructions from " The X", on editing the plist , , it seems that video works better , but now i lost my sleep capabilities !

Not sure why ? before I was able to just close my screen and it would go to sleep, now it does not work. is there a way to fix this ?

also , the crackling noise from the speakers is gone after the updated smbios.plist

I have not updated to the 6.5 with the new kernel , cause i am not sure 100% of how to do this , Do I need to open

SHOWALLFILES program , then replace the 64 bit kernel, with the - i7_mobile_kernel from Taptun?

Also , before, every time I put computer to sleep , I lost my DVD drive, it was not recognized after waking up , now after update of smbios.plist , the problem was solved .

Please let me know if anyone has a solution, and thank you guys for all the help you have provided us !

[Mammoth]

Mac Man50,

how did you fix the blinking cursor?

regards

soebbes

 

 

 

Mammoth,

I followed the chameleon guide 3 times always blinking cursor or no boot device. Maybe I am blind. Can you make underlines instead of space and tell me the answers of the system after each enter?

Kind regards

soebbes

 

Hi Soebbes,

 

I can tell you, for sure, that literally hundreds of people have been able to complete the installation successfully, so everything needed is there. For those who have had trouble, so long as there wasn't an issue of compatibility or defective hardware (including issues with the burned copies of the CD and OS X DVD), in most cases the problem was there were parts of the guides they were not following closely enough. Once they followed to the letter, it all worked.

 

As far as spaces vs. underlines, in those cases, you can copy and paste commands for 100% accuracy. Putting underlines in however would make that not possible, and that's one reason they are not used (plus it would confuse some).

[Mammoth]

2010-12-01 - 12:55 PM GMT -8:00

 

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Work has officially begun on v1.20 of the Mammoth DVx Installation Guides, Update Guide, and Mammoth DVx Boot CD!

 

I am shooting for a target release date of:

 

 

Please see Post #1 of this thread for full details.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=221653

[The X]

Hi to everyone , just to mention how fun this topic is , and to thank everyone who has contributed to this great topic of the dv8 .

I would like to mention that after reading and installing all the recommended fixes , my dv8 is working excellent , thanks to all of you , one thing I have noticed is , i did not have a smbios.plist , i fallow instructions from " The X", on editing the plist , , it seems that video works better , but now i lost my sleep capabilities !

Not sure why ? before I was able to just close my screen and it would go to sleep, now it does not work. is there a way to fix this ?

also , the crackling noise from the speakers is gone after the updated smbios.plist

I have not updated to the 6.5 with the new kernel , cause i am not sure 100% of how to do this , Do I need to open

SHOWALLFILES program , then replace the 64 bit kernel, with the - i7_mobile_kernel from Taptun?

Also , before, every time I put computer to sleep , I lost my DVD drive, it was not recognized after waking up , now after update of smbios.plist , the problem was solved .

Please let me know if anyone has a solution, and thank you guys for all the help you have provided us !

 

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I had not tested sleeping by closing the lid, but you were correct - it wasn't working with the smbios.plist I had posted.

 

I have found the setting in the file that causes the problem, it's the SMsystemversion that breaks lid closing/opening to control sleep. I haven't done any further investigation why that might be, but I have done the same exhaustive tests as before without this key in smbios.plist, and I see no difference at all as far as video and 3D performance goes. Unless someone smarter than I knows a good reason to keep it in there, I would suggest the following smbios.plist instead of the one I posted a few days ago:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SMbiosversion</key>
<string>MBP61.0057.B05.1003191134</string>
<key>SMmanufacter</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMproductname</key>
<string>MacPro3,1</string>
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>C02CJ2DNDC79</string>
<key>SMexternalclock</key>
<string>333</string>
<key>SMmaximalclock</key>
<string>1600</string>
<key>SMmemtype</key>
<string>24</string>
<key>SMmemspeed</key>
<string>1333</string>
<key>SMmemmanufacter_1</key>
<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
<key>SMmemserial_1</key>
<string>0x00001020</string>
<key>SMmempart_1</key>
<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
<key>SMmemmanufacter_2</key>
<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
<key>SMmemserial_2</key>
<string>0x00003021</string>
<key>SMmempart_2</key>
<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
<key>SMmemmanufacter_3</key>
<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
<key>SMmemserial_3</key>
<string>0x00003021</string>
<key>SMmempart_3</key>
<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
<key>SMmemmanufacter_4</key>
<string>0xAD00000000000000</string>
<key>SMmemserial_4</key>
<string>0x00003021</string>
<key>SMmempart_4</key>
<string>0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

In regards to updating to 10.6.5, all I did was install the update and then replace mach_kernel. I did not have to use showallfiles to see it. Please remember, having a good backup before attempting any major system alterations is always a good idea.

 

EDIT: Oops, I forgot to remove the SMsystemversion entry ;P

[jy371]

2010-12-01 - 12:55 PM GMT -8:00

 

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Work has officially begun on v1.20 of the Mammoth DVx Installation Guides, Update Guide, and Mammoth DVx Boot CD!

@mammoth, Looking forward to having HP hot-keys or brightness control on DVx. Cheers,

[oskr66]

To " The X"

Thank you so much for your fast response, and thank you for the new smbios.plist, I will test it tonight , also thanks for the inside on the Kernel , I will update to 6.5 and update to the new kernel , on my video test , before the update on smbios.plist, the HD videos I have did not played right , once I updated the .plist they played nice and smooth !

also the cracking on the sound was fixed with the new .plist . and my DVD worked after sleep wake.

Cant wait for the Hot keys to work and the brightness control to be fixed !

thanks again to Mammoth, The X, Taptun, gsly, Yehia Amer ,and every one else who contribute to this great project !

[5hadow]

Hi guys im new here ive gota hp 530 runs leopard perfectly but snow leopard after install hangs at apple logo and booting with -v flag it gets to one this point of text and just restarts my system no eerrors nothing my specs are below and i installed useing iatkos s3 v2 distro

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specs

General Built-in Devices Speaker, Wireless LAN antenna Width 14.1 in Depth 8.9 in Height 1.4 in Weight 6.0 lbs Localization English / United States Notebook type Budget Screen type Widescreen Wireless capabilities IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g Processor Processor Intel Celeron M 530 / 1.86 GHz Data Bus Speed 533.0 MHz Chipset Type Mobile Intel 940GML Express Cache Memory Type L2 cache Installed Size 1.0 MB RAM Installed Size 1.0 GB / 2.0 GB (max) Technology DDR2 SDRAM - 667.0 MHz Form Factor SO DIMM 200-pin Configuration Features 1 x 1 GB Environmental Parameters Min Operating Temperature 41.0 �F Max Operating Temperature 95.0 �F Humidity Range Operating 10 - 90% Shock Tolerance 125.0 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 200.0 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating) Vibration Tolerance 0.75 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.5 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating) Storage Controller Storage controller type Serial ATA Storage Controller / Serial ATA Interface Serial ATA-150 Storage Hard Drive 120.0 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400.0 rpm Storage Removable None Hard drive type Portable Optical Storage (2nd) 2nd optical storage type None Optical Storage Type DVD�RW (+R DL) / DVD-RAM Read Speed 24x (CD) / 8x (DVD) Write Speed 24x (CD) / 8x (DVD�R) / 2.4x (DVD+R DL) Rewrite Speed 10x (CD) / 4x (DVD�RW) / 5x (DVD-RAM) Display Display Type 15.4 in TFT active matrix Max Resolution 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) Widescreen Display Yes Features BrightView Video Graphics Processor / Vendor Intel GMA 950 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 Max Allocated RAM Size 224.0 MB Audio Audio Output Sound card Audio Codec CX20549 Compliant Standards Sound Blaster Pro Input Device(s) Input device type Keyboard, Touchpad Telecom Modem Fax / modem Max Transfer Rate 56.0 Kbps Protocols & Specifications Bell 103J, ITU V.32bis, Bell 212A, ITU V.32, ITU V.22bis, ITU V.17, ITU V.92, ITU V.21, ITU V.80, ITU V.23, ITU V.34, ITU T.30, ITU V.8bis, ITU V.22, ITU V.29 Networking Networking Network adapter Wireless LAN Supported Yes Wireless NIC Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN Data Link Protocol IEEE 802.11b, Fast Ethernet, Ethernet, IEEE 802.11g Compliant Standards IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.3i, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.3 Expansion / Connectivity Expansion Slots Total (Free) 2.0 ( 1.0 ) x CardBus - SO DIMM 200-pin, 1.0 ( 1.0 ) x Memory - Type I/II Interfaces 2.0 x Audio - VGA - Mini-phone 3.5 mm, 1.0 x Display / video - Input - 4 pin USB Type A, 1.0 x Microphone - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15), 1.0 x Hi-Speed USB - Phone line - RJ-45, 1.0 x Network - Line-out/headphones - Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1.0 x Modem - RJ-11 Miscellaneous Features Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately), Power-on password, Memory change alert, System password, DriveLock Compliant Standards SABS, GOST, ACPI, CCC, CE, FCC, UL Manufacturer Selling Program HP Smart Buy Power Power Device External Battery Technology 4-cell Lithium ion Installed Qty 1.0 Capacity 32.0 Wh

[The X]

To " The X"

Thank you so much for your fast response, and thank you for the new smbios.plist, I will test it tonight , also thanks for the inside on the Kernel , I will update to 6.5 and update to the new kernel , on my video test , before the update on smbios.plist, the HD videos I have did not played right , once I updated the .plist they played nice and smooth !

also the cracking on the sound was fixed with the new .plist . and my DVD worked after sleep wake.

Cant wait for the Hot keys to work and the brightness control to be fixed !

thanks again to Mammoth, The X, Taptun, gsly, Yehia Amer ,and every one else who contribute to this great project !

 

Remember to use Taptun's latest kernel or delete the incompatible kexts as mentioned by him in an earlier post a few pages back.

[Mammoth]

Hi guys im new here ive gota hp 530 runs leopard perfectly but snow leopard after install hangs at apple logo and booting with -v flag it gets to one this point of text and just restarts my system no eerrors nothing my specs are below and i installed useing iatkos s3 v2 distro

 

 

Hello Shadow,

 

Sorry, but this is not an iatkos thread, I know nothing about this, and probably most here wont either. You need to find a thread suitable for your installation method.

 

Good luck with it.

[Mammoth]

I am trying to track another issue we all may be seeing on our systems.

 

Please let me know the status of the following on your system:

 

When in OS X, dose the fan run nearly constantly and at high speed? If not, did you have this issue before, and do you know what you did to fix it?

 

I would like to have this corrected in the next release.

[The X]

I am trying to track another issue we all may be seeing on our systems.

 

Please let me know the status of the following on your system:

 

When in OS X, dose the fan run nearly constantly and at high speed? If not, did you have this issue before, and do you know what you did to fix it?

 

I would like to have this corrected in the next release.

 

It's a bit hard to know exactly what you define as high speed. As I have posted before, I did have a temperature issue before where it never got below low 70 Celsius with the fan ALWAYS on just about maximum. However, I got that sorted, but OS X definitely runs hotter than Windows 7 still. I would not say it's running constantly on high anymore tho.

[oskr66]

to " The X "

thanks again for the help , I fallowed your instructions , replaced the mach-kernel with the new kernel from Taptun , and it did not go well , at boot it was telling me that I needed the mach_kernel , so I put it back , then , I was getting KP at boot about the AppleintelPowerManagement.kext , so i had to removed it in order to boot up , aslo you mentioned to remeve the kexts not needed , I did not even had the ones recomended to be taken out , after all night trying , I finally got it back this morning , not sure how much i messed up , but now I have 2 kernels on the root directory , the mach_kernel, and the i7_mobil_kernel, computer boots , but sleep does not work , i tried your smbios.plist after edited as you recommended and it did not worked for me , closing the screen puts the computer to sleep with out waking up , had to reboot to be able to get back to it . everything else works as before, USB's , camera , card reader, etc.

So , not sure what to do to test anything from here , kernel is working at 64, just not sure which one .

if you have any help for me , please let me know , I will appreciate your help. thanks

[The X]

to " The X "

thanks again for the help , I fallowed your instructions , replaced the mach-kernel with the new kernel from Taptun , and it did not go well , at boot it was telling me that I needed the mach_kernel , so I put it back , then , I was getting KP at boot about the AppleintelPowerManagement.kext , so i had to removed it in order to boot up , aslo you mentioned to remeve the kexts not needed , I did not even had the ones recomended to be taken out , after all night trying , I finally got it back this morning , not sure how much i messed up , but now I have 2 kernels on the root directory , the mach_kernel, and the i7_mobil_kernel, computer boots , but sleep does not work , i tried your smbios.plist after edited as you recommended and it did not worked for me , closing the screen puts the computer to sleep with out waking up , had to reboot to be able to get back to it . everything else works as before, USB's , camera , card reader, etc.

So , not sure what to do to test anything from here , kernel is working at 64, just not sure which one .

if you have any help for me , please let me know , I will appreciate your help. thanks

 

You need to rename i7_mobile_kernel to mach_kernel, that's the first step, then replace old mach_kernel with the renamed new one. Also, without AppleintelPowerManagement.kext sleep will not work.

[oskr66]

To my dear friend " The X " , you are the man !

 

Thank you so much for all your help ! renamed the kernel , put back the Appleintellpowermanagement.kext , and now everything works !! Excellent !! Sleep works !

I really appreciate all your help and all of your time !

[ptesone]

I was able to use the Mammoth 1.15 BCD to boot up my retail snow leopard dvd successfully on my HP dv9000

 

thx for the great guide!

[shef_city_techno]

Hi,

 

First I gotta say to Mammoth how great your guide is!! I have been trying to install OSX on my HP DV7 3111a for months ever since I bought it with little success, I can't believe I've only just found this thread!!

Using your boot CD I have managed to boot into a random old install of 10.6.2 (a distro I must admit) that I had installed on a USB drive which is further than I've ever got before! I can only boot in safe mode with -x cpus=1 busratio=17 but at least it loads which I have never got before with any installation (and I've tried retail 10.6 using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/chameleon etc., every distro I can find etc.).

What normally happens is I can install using -v -x cpus=1 busratio=17 but whenever I try and boot it will always reset before finishing loading. Depending on what boot flags I use varies weather it resets pretty much immediately (says a few lines of text then reboots on Starting Kernel or something like that), or using safe mode can sometimes get as far as loading all the drivers then rebooting.

This is happening when I use your boot cd and try to install using a retail 10.6.3 disk. Using -v -x cpus=1 busratio=17 it loads all kexts then says something like:

 

nvidia512......something

patching dmi table... something

...

starting... something...

 

it all goes past so fast its hard to read, sorry I know thats probably not much help.

 

From what I can work out it may be something to do with having the wrong DSDT or needing the legacy_kernel? The only other version of OSX I have got to work was iPortable Snow which is a usb stick version of hazard I believe which will boot using same flags using the legacy_kernel or chocolate_kernel. This does load but I can't get the graphics card to work with QE/CI so pretty much useless. From what I know all I need to get the card working (its a nVidia geforce 105m 512mb) is to use GraphicsEnabler=Yes. When I try and boot my semi working 10.6.2 install it loads using safemode and cpus=1 busratio=17 but with no QE/CI , when I add GraphicsEnabler=Yes it comes up witha load of text about NVEnabler detecting stuff (about 3 pages) then resets again.

 

Arrghhh I've been trying this for months now and really wanted a new laptop that would support OSX its so annoying. I can't work out why it won't work. I've also been following kokmal in an excellent thread at http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&a...45d7037eeec09a4 who seems to have a virtually identical machine to me (same spec just slightly different model number 3138a not 3111a) and his works so I thought mine would as its seemingly the exact same machine.

 

Any help would be so appreciated:)!!

 

Thanks,

 

Mik

 

Hi,

 

First I gotta say to Mammoth how great your guide is!! I have been trying to install OSX on my HP DV7 3111a for months ever since I bought it with little success, I can't believe I've only just found this thread!!

Using your boot CD I have managed to boot into a random old install of 10.6.2 (a distro I must admit) that I had installed on a USB drive which is further than I've ever got before! I can only boot in safe mode with -x cpus=1 busratio=17 but at least it loads which I have never got before with any installation (and I've tried retail 10.6 using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/chameleon etc., every distro I can find etc.).

What normally happens is I can install using -v -x cpus=1 busratio=17 but whenever I try and boot it will always reset before finishing loading. Depending on what boot flags I use varies weather it resets pretty much immediately (says a few lines of text then reboots on Starting Kernel or something like that), or using safe mode can sometimes get as far as loading all the drivers then rebooting.

This is happening when I use your boot cd and try to install using a retail 10.6.3 disk. Using -v -x cpus=1 busratio=17 it loads all kexts then says something like:

 

nvidia512......something

patching dmi table... something

...

starting... something...

 

it all goes past so fast its hard to read, sorry I know thats probably not much help.

 

From what I can work out it may be something to do with having the wrong DSDT or needing the legacy_kernel? The only other version of OSX I have got to work was iPortable Snow which is a usb stick version of hazard I believe which will boot using same flags using the legacy_kernel or chocolate_kernel. This does load but I can't get the graphics card to work with QE/CI so pretty much useless. From what I know all I need to get the card working (its a nVidia geforce 105m 512mb) is to use GraphicsEnabler=Yes. When I try and boot my semi working 10.6.2 install it loads using safemode and cpus=1 busratio=17 but with no QE/CI , when I add GraphicsEnabler=Yes it comes up witha load of text about NVEnabler detecting stuff (about 3 pages) then resets again.

 

Arrghhh I've been trying this for months now and really wanted a new laptop that would support OSX its so annoying. I can't work out why it won't work. I've also been following kokmal in an excellent thread at http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&a...45d7037eeec09a4 who seems to have a virtually identical machine to me (same spec just slightly different model number 3138a not 3111a) and his works so I thought mine would as its seemingly the exact same machine.

 

Any help would be so appreciated:)!!

 

Thanks,

 

Mik

[doomer0]

Hi,

 

First I gotta say to Mammoth how great your guide is!! I have been trying to install OSX on my HP DV7 3111a for months ever since I bought it with little success, I can't believe I've only just found this thread!!

Using your boot CD I have managed to boot into a random old install of 10.6.2 (a distro I must admit) that I had installed on a USB drive which is further than I've ever got before! I can only boot in safe mode with -x cpus=1 busratio=17 but at least it loads which I have never got before with any installation (and I've tried retail 10.6 using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/chameleon etc., every distro I can find etc.).

What normally happens is I can install using -v -x cpus=1 busratio=17 but whenever I try and boot it will always reset before finishing loading. Depending on what boot flags I use varies weather it resets pretty much immediately (says a few lines of text then reboots on Starting Kernel or something like that), or using safe mode can sometimes get as far as loading all the drivers then rebooting.

This is happening when I use your boot cd and try to install using a retail 10.6.3 disk. Using -v -x cpus=1 busratio=17 it loads all kexts then says something like:

 

nvidia512......something

patching dmi table... something

...

starting... something...

 

it all goes past so fast its hard to read, sorry I know thats probably not much help.

 

From what I can work out it may be something to do with having the wrong DSDT or needing the legacy_kernel? The only other version of OSX I have got to work was iPortable Snow which is a usb stick version of hazard I believe which will boot using same flags using the legacy_kernel or chocolate_kernel. This does load but I can't get the graphics card to work with QE/CI so pretty much useless. From what I know all I need to get the card working (its a nVidia geforce 105m 512mb) is to use GraphicsEnabler=Yes. When I try and boot my semi working 10.6.2 install it loads using safemode and cpus=1 busratio=17 but with no QE/CI , when I add GraphicsEnabler=Yes it comes up witha load of text about NVEnabler detecting stuff (about 3 pages) then resets again.

 

Arrghhh I've been trying this for months now and really wanted a new laptop that would support OSX its so annoying. I can't work out why it won't work. I've also been following kokmal in an excellent thread at http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&a...45d7037eeec09a4 who seems to have a virtually identical machine to me (same spec just slightly different model number 3138a not 3111a) and his works so I thought mine would as its seemingly the exact same machine.

 

Any help would be so appreciated:)!!

 

Thanks,

if you have the processor i5-430M, try this boot cd instead of the mammoth one: http://prasys.info/2010/07/empireefi-1-085...-10-6-3-is-out/

also i would like to see the mammoth boot cd working also for this processor in the future 1.20 guide, is this possible mammoth?