hirion Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 A few days ago I installed OSX Yosemite with Clover to a Dell Precision T3500 Workstation. It works fine (I've found the installation guide on this forum). But there is a T5500 Dell to which I cannot install OSX. I've found posts on Hackintosh forums that OSX can be installed to T5500, but I haven't found a detailed guide for it. Can anybody help me with that? Thanks in advance, Lanyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted December 5, 2014 Administrators Share Posted December 5, 2014 As usual, if you want support, you're going to have to be more specific. What are the specs, what did you do, what error message did you get, where does installation fail, etc. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirion Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 You're right, these are the details: my T5500 specifications: A16 BIOS (I updated), 1 x e5503 Xeon processor, 4 GB RAM, XFX Nvidia 250 GTS graphic card, SATA 250 GB HDD Install faults: with Clover Yosemite install the installer load in, but disc utility doesn't recognize the HDD, in system info it writes INTEL ICH 10 AHCI 1.20 supported, but the device is "unknown". Native command quering: no, Detachable drive: no. I tried to make a DSDT.aml (I'm not sure in the process and I'm not sure I could do it properly), but the installer sent a failure message that it couldn't find ACPI driver. Chameleon Mavericks install myHack method in verbose mode listed too many processor cores (sixty-something). Instead of GUI loading in I got a black screen. I have tried without graphic enabler, but the result was the same. When I put DSDT.aml to the Extra library, - despite the fact that the path was written in - it sent a message that it didn't find ACPI table and at the end of the process the black screen came again. Interesting tough that with myHack 1.1.4 installer I could install Snow without any problem (it is true, that it doesn't work smoothly, because it is hard to find kexts for the devices). But, of course Snow wouldn't solve my problem because I would like to install Mavericks or Yosemite because of the applications. Thanks for any help, Lanyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macguru8 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Did you get your Yosemite Mackintosh up and running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 21, 2015 Administrators Share Posted February 21, 2015 is your bios sata mode set to AHCI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirion Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 There are 3 possible ways in BIOS:Raid Autodetect/AHCIRaid Autodetect/ATARaid On The Raid Autodetect/AHCI is chosen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirion Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Did you get your Yosemite Mackintosh up and running? Work with : 10.9.1 AppleACPIPlatform.kext - AppleAHCIPort.kext - IOAHCIFamily.kext- IOPCIFamily.kext + 5 USB kexts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurf3902 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 is your bios sata mode set to AHCI? Yes, as one the first things, indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurf3902 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Work with : 10.9.1 AppleACPIPlatform.kext - AppleAHCIPort.kext - IOAHCIFamily.kext- IOPCIFamily.kext + 5 USB kexts Did you get it going ? I see your machine resembles mine to a large degree... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirion Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Mavericks: I have updated to 10.9.5 successfully, only I have to rollback SAS drivers from 10.9.1. Apple has changed in 10.9.2 and it was the problem of "still waiting for root device". (AppleACPIPlatform.kext - AppleAHCIPort.kext - IOAHCIFamily.kext- IOPCIFamily.kext. These must be overwritten) Yosemite: I installed Yosemite, copied 10.9.1 AHCI kexts, but the mouse and the keyboard didn't work, so I copied the USB kexts (5 pieces) from Mavericks. Works this way. But: I cant update it, because then I cannot run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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