arcaman6 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Hey Guys I am trying to upgrade my Vostro 200 to Maverick but not having any luck. System is Vostro 200 with Nvidia GT610 2GB video card. System is currently running fully updated Lion without any issues using the Lion-Mav boot pack I downloaded some time ago (no boot packs for V200 currently downloadable from site). I tried to use the Apple update to Maverick by downloading from Apple store which downloaded fine. When ran it said it was preparing for upgrade for around 1 minute and then said it was going to reboot the machine - which it did but came back up into Lion again without making any changes. I am thinking that maybe this is not how to do it. So I created an installer from the downloaded Maverick update file and MyHack 3.3.1 with the boot pack mentioned in the famous post 9. Built no problem. When I boot from it (F12 on power up) the startup seems to fine until the stage where the language selection would appear - system hangs with no video output. Last output on screen is SMC::smcInitHelper ERROR: MMIO regMap == NULL - fall back to old SMC mode NVIDIAStartup: Official GeForceSensors: still waiting for accelerator to start ... Starting with -x -v made no difference Starting with GraphicsEnabler=No made no difference PCI settings for card are 10DE:104A This might indicate issues with video card but since it is working OK with Lion I hesitate to suspect it. Any ideas? arcaman6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted September 3, 2014 Administrators Share Posted September 3, 2014 when you made the reinstall pen did you chose MBR patch? if you did retry with out the patch. also do not remove any of the file is says to remove. and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Thanks. Will try it both ways just for fun. I looked at the boot up more closely and realised I had missed a few lines at the end. They are probably not relevant but here goes anyway:- SMC::smcInitHelper ERROR: MMIO regMap == NULL - fall back to old SMC mode NVDAStartup: Official GeForceSensors: still waiting for accelerator to start ... NVDAGF188HAL Loaded and Registered {AGPM Controller] unknownPlatform DSMOS has arrived [iOBluetoothHCIController [start] -- completed arcaman6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted September 3, 2014 Administrators Share Posted September 3, 2014 You are correct, no Hackintosh can be "upgraded" to Mavericks (or any other OS X version for that matter) that way. You have to actually re-install the OS as a brand new installation but this can be done "over" an existing OS X installation such as SL, Lion or ML. You then get to keep all your files and/or apps. I guess you meant "NVDAGF100HAL Loaded and Registered", not 188HAL. Not that it matters anyway... Strange that your system appears to load all the right nVidia kexts, yet it fails to initialize graphics. Try to boot with -f flag in addition to -v and make sure you've configured your BIOS as per recommended settings. It must be something really trivial because you're just about there. Maybe change the resolution specified in the boot plist (it's that of my own LCD) in case it does not fit your screen. I don't think there's anything wrong with your card either. It should not normally matter, but I use FakeSMC v6.0.1033 under ML and v6.0.1067 under Mav. You may want to try the latter. You can also uncheck the C2/C3/C4 States I had selected in the Chameleon boot plist. FakeSMC_v6.0.1011.zip FakeSMC_v6.0.1067.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Many thanks. Yes it is 100HAL - I'm trying to read from a poor quality video as the text scrolls up too quickly to ready directly. My monitor is 1440x900 so I'll try that first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 You guys pull the rabbit out of the hat again Setting screen resolution to 1440x900x24 did the trick. Maverick 10.9.4 up and running. Many thanks for you excellent work. arcaman6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Now another little niggle. Every so often Maverick complains about a kext with a "Kernel extension is not from an identified developer" message and lists /System/Library/Extensions/myHack.kext/Contents/Plugins/FakeSMCKeyStore.kext as not from an identified developer - is there any way to stop this? [edit] Solved with following:- Go to System preferences - Security and privacy- Unlock (password needed)- Allow apps downloaded from: Choose: Anywhere arcaman6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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