[Success] OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 on HP Elitebook 8440p with 1st Generation Intel HD Graphics

[w1r3d]

Following a week of trial and error (a lot of errors), I was finally able to install last night my first Hackintosh!

 

First attempt using Clover boot loader did not work and resulted mostly in kernel panic. Second attempt with Chameleon got me closer, but still I could not figure out what was wrong. The one thing that my gut feeling told me was that I may need to make sure I have maxed out my RAM with identical SO-DIMMs. When I started, the Elitebook had one 4GB and one 2GB SO-DIMM. When I tried swapping, there were further problems which could only be resolved by resetting the BIOS to default. After that, everything went mostly smoothly. 

 

This is my current BIOS configuration:

 

With the boot flags -x -v -f I was able to finally get the installation completed:

 

Could create an account and log in:

 

and these are the screenshots showing the OS X:

 

and as what the Elitebook is known to the Apple world, as a MacBook Pro 6.2:

 

I'll post more details in a follow-up.

 

Many special thanks go to all who have helped, but in particular to iFire, artur-pt, PJALM, joe75, Download-Fritz and Joseph. Apologies if I forgot any of the many from this forum who have actively helped me to get this far.

 

Attached is the Manual for the HP8440p with hardware specifications, which is useful to know what kind of kexts to install. HP8440p Manual.pdf

[w1r3d]

For anyone interested in the same installation, here is a handy guide to the machine's specifications. I've used the vanilla guide to get me started, and also needed to check the guide for the first generation Intel HD Graphics, supplemented by the download link to the Graphics kexts. The display used is eDP, according to the specifications listed in the Manual (see attachment at previous post), so there is going to be support for Core Image (CI), but not Quartz Extreme (QE).

 

Update 12 April 2014:

Finally I was able to install the right Graphics kext and could boot without the -x flag. 

 

Update 13 April 2014:

However, currently there is a problem with the Screen Saver. When coming back from the screensaver, I get a kernel panic. :-(

[w1r3d]

Update May 14, 2014:

 

Swapped the Intel Wifi card out and replaced it with a Broadcom 43224 card bought via HP Spare Parts store. Needed two kexts (toledaAPRT.kext and patched IO80211Family.kext) to get it running and also needed to turn off LAN/WLAN Switching in the BIOS. If you don't do that and plug in an Ethernet cable, then the BIOS will turn off the WiFi card, and when you unplug the Ethernet cable, Mac OS X is not capable of turning it back on.

 

Summary of what works:

See http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.9.2/Portables#EliteBook_8440p_i5-540M

[pokenguyen]

You should only install toledaAPRT, and use vanilla IO80211Family.kext

[FerrariPhil]

Hi Congrats on getting it working on the 8440p.  I think my system is fairly similar and was hoping you could point me to the fixes for the following that do not seem to work.  

 

Sleep - The system immediately hangs, no idea why

Trackpad and Pointer do not work.  I have loaded the latest ApplePCPIPPS2Nub and ApplePS2Controller kexts I could find online but they made no difference

Audio.  I have loaded the latest VoodooHDA I could find online and changed the IOPCIPrimaryMatch to 0x3b568086, but still no success

WiFi.  I am suspecting the standard Intel WiFi is not going to work since you swapped the module out, but interested to hear

 

If possible could you send me all the kexts you have used in Extensions in case the version is important.

 

Cheers

[kurt]

Hi w1r3d, 

 

I have the exact same setup as you but I can't for the life of me get the laptop to boot without the safe mode flag. I am trying to install 10.9.5. Have you had luck with 10.9.5 on the Elitebook 8440p?

 

Thanks,

[Tatuy2]

Hey I can not see the images.

[Allan]

This happens because some issues in our Forum.

If the author of topic have backup of the pics, he can upload again using another method.

[kenjiloc]

For anyone interested in the same installation, here is a handy guide to the machine's specifications. I've used the vanilla guide to get me started, and also needed to check the guide for the first generation Intel HD Graphics, supplemented by the download link to the Graphics kexts. The display used is eDP, according to the specifications listed in the Manual (see attachment at previous post), so there is going to be support for Core Image (CI), but not Quartz Extreme (QE).

 

Update 12 April 2014:

Finally I was able to install the right Graphics kext and could boot without the -x flag. 

 

Update 13 April 2014:

However, currently there is a problem with the Screen Saver. When coming back from the screensaver, I get a kernel panic. :-(

Could you send me your Extra folder or kexts or dsdt pacth?

[kimzii]

For anyone interested in the same installation, here is a handy guide to the machine's specifications. I've used the vanilla guide to get me started, and also needed to check the guide for the first generation Intel HD Graphics, supplemented by the download link to the Graphics kexts. The display used is eDP, according to the specifications listed in the Manual (see attachment at previous post), so there is going to be support for Core Image (CI), but not Quartz Extreme (QE).

 

Update 12 April 2014:

Finally I was able to install the right Graphics kext and could boot without the -x flag. 

 

Update 13 April 2014:

However, currently there is a problem with the Screen Saver. When coming back from the screensaver, I get a kernel panic. :-(

what excatly did u do to get into the installer?i've tried for days now and followed the vanilla guide with 10.9.0 and 10.9.5 versions..does it need to be exact the 10.9.2 version?

 

Edit:i did find a niresh distro of mavericks 10.9.0 that seems to work...first installation worked...got into the setup after installation...have uefi boot enabled in bios..and boot with bootflag -x

Edited December 23, 2017 by kimzii