Zenshredder Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Hello, so since the last time I posted I've had a bit of luck and happened to find an old iMac in the dumpster at my job. I took it home, repaired it and now I have a legitimate means of getting a fresh copy of OS X! With that in mind, I've ditched the Niresh distro because no matter how many different things I tried I could NEVER get my graphics card to work properly. So I'm back at it trying to make a clean installer with the bare minimum to get me through, so far it's been going pretty good except one thing...the kernel. I honestly don't know where or how to install it onto the boot drive. I've looked around on these forums, on other forums(including Reddit >.>), etc. and I can't seem to find the answer that I'm looking for. My first attempt I just dragged/dropped into the USB drive after installing Clover, that obviously didn't work. I also renamed it to "mach_kernel" which didn't do anything either, lastly I tried installing it in a few places that I thought might be more likely such as the EFI drive. Am I missing something? Overthinking it? I'm at a loss. I'll break down my steps for creating the installer, hopefully someone can help me push through to the next step. ---------------------------------------------------------- My Specs: AMD FX 8350 Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard MSI R9 290 Twin Frozr 4X4GB AMD R9 Gaming RAM @ 2133Mhz Corsair 850W Gold Cert. PSU Installing on a 2.5" spare laptop drive ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's my method of creating the installer: Step 1: Download the Install OS X Yosemite.app installer Step 2: Run Terminal, type in this command: "sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction" Step 3: Once it finishes installing, I restart the iMac to complete any necessary changes Step 4: Open and install the latest revision of Clover to the drive Step 5: Restart the iMac again Step 6: Place FakeSMC and NullCPUPowerManagement kexts into the 10.10 folder inside the USB installer Step 7: Place the AMD kernel for 10.10.5 in the USB installer Step 8: Create a config.plist file with Clover configurator on the iMac to match what I've needed to boot previously and place inside the EFI partition of the USB installer Step 9: Remove the drive, attempt install on PC. ----------------------------------------------------------- Some additional notes: - The kernel I'm using is an AMD 10.10.5 kernel by Deepak, not sure if the OS X version I have is 10.10.5 since it won't tell me in the App Store when I load it, not sure if this is an issue or not - The kexts were also provided by Deepak on his website on getting El Capitan to work - I have installed Clover for UEFI boot, which my system is perfectly capable of, however I'm wondering if it might be a part of the problem - When I actually boot the USB drive, it starts up for several seconds in verbose mode and then powers down my computer completely, restoring power a couple of seconds later. I've been at this since April trying to get a working install of Mavericks and Yosemite, both unsuccessfully, so thanks in advance for any and all help, it's definitely appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spakk Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 You're make probably a few thoughts error. 1. Here is the link where you can find all runnable AMD kernel for AMD hackintosh: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285580-database-of-current-working-amd-kernels/page-4 2. the kernel for Yosemite belongs in to folder /System/Library/kernels/ (if the folder should not exist, so create the folder and add the matching kernel into the folder. (for Mavericks must be installed the mach_kernel into the main directory (root)) 3. To resolve the problem with your graphics card look here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/forum/174-ati/ 4. replaced by this package, the existing drivers in S/L/E http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/354-amd-replace-kext-for-yosemite/ then fix the permissions and renew the cache otherwise look here for running AMD hackintosh, some users have also made a description: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285110-amd-working-builds/page-13?do=findComment&comment=2167036 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaneee Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 "sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction" There is you'r problem. El Capitan will not work on AMD with the Yosemite kernel. Wait untill the El Capitan kernel sources are released and a kernel is made. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenshredder Posted December 4, 2015 Author Share Posted December 4, 2015 Thanks for both your guys help! @Spakk I knew it was going to be something dumb like that DX I can't believe I didn't think of creating a folder for the kernel...Ill try your suggestions and see if I can get it to boot tonight. @Shaneee I made that mistake when I first tried to make an installer because I'm dumb, thankfully I didn't have an El Capitan installer so the Terminal command didn't go through when I tried it XD I just deleted the parts where it says El\ Capitan.app and replaced it with Yosemite, no El\ of course. I'll post my success...or failure, as soon as I can, thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenshredder Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 So I tried your recommendations for the kernel as well as the keys and it seems that did not work. I probably should've tried to snap a picture of this before and troubleshoot from there but it was always a little too fast for me to take a snapshot. However, with a little bit of research it seems it could be one of the following: either I need different boot flags to do certain things like PCIRootUID and USBBusFix, or the kernel I am using isn't the right one or is corrupt. I hope is not the case and that I have to keep trying different kernels...I will keep trying different boot flags before I start testing different kernels from the download page Spakk provided.Some additional notes I've come up with are as follows:- My graphics card is not natively supported in OS X, not by a long shot. The 290 non-X version seems to be the least supported graphics card in the whole lineup of AMD cards, which could ultimately be a huge road block, and the fact that I got the Niresh distro to even partially work might be nothing short of a miracle. With all that being said, this could be the source of my problem or not even close to it, I have no idea still *scratches head*- I've been installing the suggested kexts in the Clover EFI partition under the kexts/10.10 folder, am I supposed to be installing them there to boot? In the actual Install OS X Yosemite.app? Or perhaps do I need to make another folder in one of the partitions?For now I'll be testing the boot flags and such to see if I can get any new results, in the meanwhile if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears! And thank you in advance as always, any help is appreciated. EDIT: Sorry my picture didn't post for some reason, here's an imgur link to check it out: http://imgur.com/70sOLLx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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