chasmataz Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 anyone have an extra folder or working dsdt for this desktop? I'm trying to install Lion on it, iFail will install and boot from the dvd, but i just can't get myhack to boot this machine. thanx in advance. chipset is H61. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmataz Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 ok, i read somewhere i can get the dsdt from a ubuntulive cd...now if i boot the ubuntu cd do i save the dsdt to a usb drive and try to edit it there and then transfer it to my "generic" extra folder? also i don't understand this whole "uefi" stuff; chameleon doesn't want to boot it from the HDD but will boot it from the iFail cd...i just point it to the myhack usb stick and install from there but i can't get it to boot after install with anything except the iFail cd (dvd). anyone got an idea how to fix this? it's running 10.7.5 great but i just can't get it to boot by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmataz Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 ok, another question...should i have formatted originally as MBR instead of GUID? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 15, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 15, 2014 GUID is fine. To boot, you need a bootloader such as Chameleon (that's what we recommend) but I don't think that is compatible with UEFI. Can you switch back to legacy at all? If you still have Windows, you can use a tool like Aida64 Engineering to extract your DSDT and various other ACPI tables. Failing that, from Mac OS/OS X, it can be done through tools like DSDTEditor or Chameleon Wizard; this on the condition that you're not already using a DSDT file or it will simply extract that, rendering the task useless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmataz Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 got it all working pretty well; it still won't boot without the iFail cd, but i ran the simple dsdtgui came up with zero errors and 26 optimizations. when i set the boot to legacy it kernel panics for some reason. i need to admit i'm a newbie, i just always use myhack and edp and everything has always worked. getting into this hp has been a challenge. it's weird, i can't get the myhack thumb drive to boot and i used the iFail cd to boot the myhack thumb to do the install, too weird but it works. i don't do windows, but i may change this machine over to an ubuntu machine just to have something different. thanx for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmataz Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 here's the specs: http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=5146418&spf_p.tpst=kbDocDisplay&spf_p.prp_kbDocDisplay=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c03018994-16%257CdocLocale%253D%257CcalledBy%253D&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken not sure if there's a boot pack that might come close? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 18, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 18, 2014 you probably need to set your bios to boot from usb. look into your bios. that board spec says socket 1155 and lists sandy cores. ivy also came in 1155 socket. if lion is not running well try a newer apple os. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmataz Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 ok thanx; i'll give it a shot. it's actually running pretty well, just doesn't want to boot. when i disable uefi booting it won't boot at all, so i'm stuck using the cd boot, which isn't the worst thing to happen, just a little frustrating when you're as anal as i am trying to get everything working right. thanx for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 18, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 18, 2014 For UEFI booting the solution is clover boot loader. but there should be an option in bios for legacy boot. and also one to choose the boot medium. i don't remember what button to press on hp to get the boot option list. maybe pressing esc key during bios post might show it. also you might have the option to boot from cd before booting from external or usb set in bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmataz Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 set boot to legacy, reformatted to mbr and used myhack to install generic extra, dropped the previous dsdt into extra and wala! it's all working sweet. now i just need to go buy 8 gigs of RAM... nice machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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