osx9010 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Finally, Got it working except for NIC/WIFI My laptop came with windows 8 partitioned and GUID table. I wanted to dual boot with maverick. Step 1. partition HD. Wipe HD and configure partition. For what ever reason I cannot use GUID partition table. After install 8, it doesn’t see the HD anymore. I had to configure my HD as MBR. So first partition is fat32 for osx and 2nd partition is ntfs for windows. Step 2. Install windows 8 to 2nd partition which is now partition 3 because windows creates a small partition for booting. Now make sure your windows activation key works before proceeding with OSX install. Step 3. Create the myhack usb installer with the option for installing osx on mbr disk. Download extra from http://www.osxlatitude.com/packs/Custom/Custom_Notebook-mav.zip During the installation when it ask you for a generic extra or your own, select your own and point to this folder. Copy it to the myhack usb installer somewhere. Step 4. Patch USB installer. During USB myhack boot(with keyboard and mouse plugged in), I get an early reboot. So i following the instructions here and added their mach_kernel. Might need to boot with -f -v to get the installer going. Step 5. Post installation. On first boot, after successful installation I had to use -f -v -x To fix having to issue -x flag, I followed this this posting. To fix issue with having to do -f flag I booted into osx, delete myhack.kext from S/L/E and perform a full fix from the myhack app. 6. At this point keyboard is working except for track pad. To fix the trackpad issue, I downloaded the ELAN drivers v3 final from https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1948-elan-touchpad-driver-mac-os-x/ 7. Everything should now be working except for nic/wifi. I read this is not possible? any help here? 8. You probably wanna boot back into windows at this point right? Well you probably got an error like “boot bcd 0xc00000f†Here, I had to boot into the windows install and get into command prompt and run the bcd rebuild stuff. You can find that on the internet. You will also need to get into diskpart and set partition 3 as active. Partition 3 is your windows partition. If you have any suggestion and comments please feel free to leave them. I am happy with the install so I will be donating. And if you followed this thread, you should donate to those people as well… Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 14, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 14, 2014 [...] To fix issue with having to do -f flag I booted into osx, delete myhack.kext from S/L/E and perform a full fix from the myhack app. [...] Why do you delete myHack kext from /S/L/E to follow that myFix (full) when you want to rebuild your cache? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osx9010 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 ^^ I have no idea. but I read somewhere and bronxtech mentioned to deleted the myhack.kext and run myfix full. This solved the issue with the cache -f. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 15, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 15, 2014 that was for a corrupted myhack.kext..... you should not have to do that every time. but glad it helped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osx9010 Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 ^^ yeah it was weird. I had to do this on two separate computers. It worked each time. No more -f after re-creating the myhack.kext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osx9010 Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Hello All, my graphics is a little choppy. I'm thinking it has to do with qe/ci? Also in the system information it says "kernel extension info : No kext loaded" does that mean i have no drivers for it? which is why it's choppy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tberdy Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 [...] Step 1. partition HD. Wipe HD and configure partition. For what ever reason I cannot use GUID partition table. After install 8, it doesn’t see the HD anymore. I had to configure my HD as MBR. So first partition is fat32 for osx and 2nd partition is ntfs for windows. Step 2. Install windows 8 to 2nd partition which is now partition 3 because windows creates a small partition for booting. Now make sure your windows activation key works before proceeding with OSX install. [...] Your laptop comes with UEFI, he must be able to use the GUID partition table this is in the UEFI requirements. But if it works in Legacy mode it's good too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osx9010 Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 ^^ yeah it was weird. I noticed the original HD was GUID table. but it had like 3 other partition on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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