ASUS S56CA - ML installation

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Fist of all I'd like to thank Dinesh for all the hard work developing the touchpad and Fn Keys' kexts, without himwouldn't have been possible.

The SD card reader won't work and surely you'd have to swap your WIFI card for a compatible one, all the rest will work like a charm.

You are going to need a 8GB flash Drive, a Mac or a Hack, some spare time, a bit of patience and al least half brain to make it.

ASUS S56CA.zip

MY SPECIFICATIONS:

INTEL i5 3317U
HD4000
ALC 270
ATHEROS AR9285

BIOS 208




1.CREATE THE INSTALLER:

. Precook MountainLion10.8.4.dmg with my hack in a 8GB USB flash drive formatted in Mac Os X Extender (journaled) GUID Partition Table using a MAC or a HACK.

. Copy the folder ASUS S56CA into the flash drive.

. COPY SMBios.plist, org.chameleon.Boot.plist, ApplePS2Controller.kext and ApplePS2ElanTouchpad.kext and delete the others PS2 kexts in that folder from ASUS S56CA/EXTRA Folder INTO The EXTRA Folder of MYHACKINSTALLDISK in the USB.

. Repair permissions of the installer.


2.SET UP THE BIOS:

.ADVANCED:
-Power Off Energy Saving DISABLED
-VT-d DISABLED
-USB Cnfiguration: XHCI Pre-Boot Mode DISABLED
-All the rest ENABLED
.BOOT:
-Launch CSM ENABLED


3.INSTALL MOUNTAIN LION

.Press ESC at boot and select USB Flash drive

.Open DISK UTILITY and Format the Hard Drive:
-Select the HardDrive.
-Select Partition: Make the partitions you need. (Left One about 30GB for Recovery).
-And again Mac Os X Extender (journaled) GUID Partition Table.
-Install in the desired partition.
-Select My Own Extra folder: ASUS S56CA/EXTRA
-Remove Problematic Extensions.
-Reboot from the installer press F8 at boot and select the OS.
-Fill in the forms.
-Now you’d be able to start using your hack.


4.INSTALL KEXTS AND BOOTLOADER

-Install Bootloader From ASUS S56CA/APPS.
-Install Kexts From ASUS S56CA/KEXTS into S/L/E using Kext Wizard (ASUS S56CA/APPS).


5.INSTALL CLOVER

-Format EFI partition http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287737-how-toclover-on-efi-partitionadd-to-bios/
-Copy ASUS S56CA/EFI into it.
-Install Clover into the OS from ASUS S56CA/APPS.
-Edit EFI/Clover/Config.plist to Boot into the desire partition e.g. MOUNTAIN LION and your Hardware UUID (about my hack/System report) as well.


6.RECONFIG YOUR BIOS

.ADVANCED:
-USB Configuration: XHCI Pre-Boot Mode ENABLED
.BOOT:
-Fast Boot ENABLED
-Launch CSM DISABLED

SAVE CHANGES AND REBOOT TO THE BIOS

.BOOT:
Add New Boot Option
Add Boot Option: e.g. CLOVER
Select File System: select your HD option
Path for boot option: /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi


By now you should be good to go, just delete NullPowerManagement.kext from EXTRA folder and repair permisions with myhack.app.


Remember to reinstall audio kexts when updating Mountain Lion and most importantly though, enjoy your new Hack Build.