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Q: The system starts loading but hangs at Still waiting for root device.

A: Apart from the standard tip to turn on AHCI mode in BIOS, if it does not exist, find a matching kext for your IDE controller. Or you can try booting with the key NoCaches. Loading will be slowed down because the controller needs more time to be initialised.
This issue arises only when Clover and the OS are on different devices.

 

Maybe you can try to install Clover on your OS X partition. When you'll boot OS X, your SATA controller should be already initialised by Clover and you should not have this issue anymore... Theoretically....

I've bought the BCM 4352 and to replace my Atheros. Wifi ac is working very well in all OS . Replacing the card solves the computer sleep which works better right now. But I'm not able to detect the bluetooth card with my N550JV and I don't know why. One samsung user has the same problem. 

 

This card is recommend on the osxlatitude forum and insanelymac but bluetooth seems to have some issues with some laptop. I'm trying to resolve it so if I find something, I'll tell you because it's a very good card for wifi

Did you try booting without caches ? This solves the "waiting for ...." issues on my HP laptop".

BTW use vanilla kernel with Clover and set KernelPM to true in config.

Subwoofer can work after editing voodoohda pin node or applehda one's. Choose the one you want to patch. I'm using VoodooHDA 2.8.4 patch by Amook for Asus N550JV and subwoofer works. You may have to create a multi-output device in MIDI config to get it working.

 

What's your audio chipset ?

Yes it's the elan one

The site said it was a demo but I use it for 3 weeks and I don't have any problems : all works good

 

BTW, I'm dropping the MacBook Air 6,2 SMBios from Amokk : I can get only P-States 8, 24 and 32 (maybe some more) with it.

 

EDIT : MacBook Air 6,2 CPU Coeff [ 8 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ]

 

With the MacBook Pro 11,2, I can get CPU Coeff [ 8 17 24 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] (I did quick tests, maybe Coeff 25 and 27 are woking) which is better for power management (Coeff 17) 

But we need to unlock more Coeff between 8 and 17 to get the best power management. And I would like to unlock the 34 Coeff too to push my CPU at max turbo when I'm playing

 

If someone did it with this SMBios or another one tells me

 

EDIT2 : after running AICPUPMI.kext with MBP11,2 during some hours I got this [ 8 17 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 ] which is better. 

Touchscreen kext which works well for me : http://touch-base.com/download.asp

Ask for the Elan Driver.

As everybody knows, there are two majors partition scheme on PC : MBR and GPT. GPT has many more advantage than MBR, but I won't describe them here. GPT is used on all the Intel Mac by default and if you want to use MBR for your OS X install you'll have to patch your install. The best way is therefore to use GPT partition scheme. But if your computer doesn't have UEFI (BIOS only), some Windows editions like Windows 8/8.1 will refuse to install on GPT : because of Microsoft policy, only UEFI computer can use GPT as system drive.

 

 

EDIT : Before following this tutotrial, try a standard install ! This worked for Hervé.

 

 

Many peoples bypass this by creating an hybrid partition scheme GPT/MBR which consists of using GPT partition scheme with an MBR boot sector to start the windows bootloader. But this partition scheme is very dirty : you can read this article from Rod Smith which will convince you to not use it.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html
 
An other solution is to use the standard GPT (which is part of uefi specs) and emulate the UEFI bootloader. Tianocore/DUET is often used in all the tutoral I've seen ; but it's a little long to install and it won't work on all computer, according to Rod Smith (http://www.rodsbooks.com/bios2uefi/index.html). In the hackintosh world we have the best  : Clover EFI bootloader.
Clover EFI is a fork of DUET which emulate Apple EFI on PC to boot OS X, but it can emulate UEFI too. 
 
Requirements :
 
- PC with a BIOS only  (no UEFI)
- a free HDD
 
What you can expect of this tuto :
 
- multi OS setup between EFI and legacy OS 
- a clean pure GPT partition table 
- Clover EFI bootloader
- a more "vanilla" OS X install
 
At this time, I do all my tests on a ThinkPad T410 with a BIOS and Windows 8.1 and I have a clean Windows install on GPT. I'm booting from an USB key with Clover installed on it. I just have to move Clover from the USB to the EFI part of my GPT disk and install OS X (I received it two days ago)
 
I will complete this tuto with more informations and screen later because I don't have a lot of time (Baccalauréat is coming for me...) but you can follow this short guide :
 
1 - Partition your hard drive with GPT ! you will lose your data ! You can use the program you want 
 
2- Create EFI partition : I used a Diskpart on a windows to go key to make sure windows detect the part is an EFI one 
 
3 - Create an MSR partition using diskpart (windows)
 
4 - Create the root file system (NTFS) of your windows install. Keep enough space at the end of the disk for OS X and/or Linux.
 
5- Prepare a Clover EFI boot key. There are a lot of tuto explaining this. 
 
6- Prepare an windows install usb install media. Clover didn't see the windows DVD for me, but it may work for some people. 
 
7 - Boot from the Clover USB and select your windows install media. Install windows on the partition you've made previously.
 
! It doesn't work for me ! The install failed. It worked with DUET so maybe it can work with Clover.... See 7bis
 
7bis - From a windows OS (I used my Windows To GO key) : use the the imagex command to expand a windows ISO on your Windows partition
 
imagex.exe /apply F:\sources\install.wim 1 G:\ 
F: is the mounted iso and G: the windows partition. 
Then configure the windows bootloader 
bcdboot.exe G:\windows /s H: /f UEFI 
G: is the windows partition and H: the EFI partition of your disk 
For these steps you will need to install the windows ADK.
 
8 - remove your windows install media and reboot to clover usb. Then select Microsoft EFI from the Clover menu. That's all : you have a working install of windows with pure GPT and BIOS 
But you still need to use your clover key each time you want to boot...
 
9 - Install OS X using Clover or Chamelon 
 
10 - In OS X mount EFI part and install clover on it WITHOUT formatting the EFI part. You must change the clover installation options to install the boot sectors. See the clover doc.
 
Now you can boot Windows without key, just with selecting Microsoft EFI in Clover Menu 
For the people who use Clover to install OS X you can boot OS X too. 
 
11 - Chameleon lovers (untested) 
Install Chameleon on the OS X partition WITHOUT erasing the main boot sector 
Use fdisk if you are not sure : install the PBR and chameleon only.
Then configure Clover to allow booting from legacy OS 
Boot your computer and select your OS X partition in Clover
You may arrive to the Chamelon Menu.
You are done 
 
 
BIOS --> CLOVER EFI --> Windows Boot Manager (UEFI)
BIOS --> CLOVER EFI --> OS X (Apple EFI emulate by Clover)
or
BIOS --> CLOVER EFI --> Chameleon --> OS X (Apple EFI emulate by Chamelon)
 
This guide is still in BETA and not complete so no complain 
If you have questions, I would be happy to answer if I can.

 

 

 

 

Extra Guide (mainly for chameleon users or people who can't make Clover to work on their computer)

 

Thanks to milindsmart we have others solutions to boot windows installed on pure GPT.

 

1) Use a boot drive in MBR. 

Windows is installed on pure GPT but windows boot files are located on the MBR drive. Windows is loaded in BIOS and not UEFI emulation like with Clover

See detailed topic by milindsmart itself : http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/320700-boot-windows-7-8-gpt-bios-system-no-hybrid-mbrs-duet.html

 

2) Use a virtual drive image

Bootloader loads a disk image (with MBR) which contains Windows Boot Files 

No need for multiple drives 

See here for infos : http://reboot.pro/topic/19516-hack-bootmgr-to-boot-windows-in-bios-to-gpt/page-5?do=findComment&comment=187175

I've bought the Azurewave CE123H, but I don't get BT to work. Neither in Windows nor in OSX. I use it in an Samsung Series 9 NB.

 

First I thought BT is broken, but then I tested the card in an Acer Laptop and it shows up BT and WLAN with missing drivers. In the Samsung NB it shows only the network controller, but not the BT. In my BIOS is nothing to enable/disable Bluetooth or WLAN with. Another WLAN/BT Cards (Atheros) works for both, so BT isn't disabled globally.

 

Has someone tested this card in an Samsung Notebook already or any other suggestions?

Same problem on Asus N550JV : wifi works very well but bluetooth is not detected by os x, windows or linux ....

I've an Azurewave too. No options in the BIOS and wih my previous AR9485, bluetooth was working.

I don't understand why it's not detected ...

AR 9485 doesn't work, I've tried a lot a things. Finally, I replaced this card with the BCM4352 wifi ac + bluetooth 4.0.

The card is easy to swap so no problems. Wifi works very well on OS X (airdrop, airplay....), Windows and linux (with wl driver). But I can't get bluetooth woking on all OS : bluetooth is simply not detected by the computer....

Icloud seems to work for me but not facetime or imessage. Some threads say you must have a valid serial number and this the one provided in the EFI folder seems to be wrong.... But it's just guess

 

Some others threads say you must have a apple account with a credit card and setuped on a valid iDevices

 

So we have to do some researches ....

Well the N550JV is an UEFI laptop so he must boot from a Fat32 partition so you can't boot from your osx install (HFS).

 

An mine, I've installed Clover on the EFI part and I mount it only when I need to mod my clover config. So I think you didn't have to change your setup

Well the N550JV is an UEFI laptop so he must boot from a Fat32 partition so you can't boot from your osx install (HFS).

 

An mine, I've installed Clover on the EFI part and I mount it only when I need to mod my clover config. So I think you didn't have to change your setup

Well the N550JV is an UEFI laptop so he must boot from a Fat32 partition so you can't boot from your osx install (HFS).

 

An mine, I've installed Clover on the EFI part and I mount it only when I need to mod my clover config.

When I tried to setup a new clover install on a new USB, the new USB was detected as "UEFI : USB2.0".

When I press enter the screen blink and go immediatly back to the bios settings. No way to boot it. 

To solve that I add manually the Clover USB entry. 

in the BIOS (UEFI mode) :

- add a new entry 

- path : choose your usb drive / EFI /CLOVER/CloverX64.efi

- name : TheNameYouWant

- don't forget to save the entry

- boot the entry 

 

this work for me.

 

For the setting I use stock setting (UEFI mode).

Maybe try to add the Clover Boot entry manually

Or you can downgrade your BIOS by using winflash.

What do you mean when you say I can't enter Clover ? 

Hi this laptop is already well known

Go here and dig in the thread

 

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/5577-asus-n550/#

 

If you have questions ask them

Good luck !

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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

Hmmm... I don't know because the informations from different website are differents....

 

Well on this website http://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-N550JV-CN027H.99117.0.html  I can see you may have an i7-4700MQ -> mine is i7-4700HQ 

These procs are very close but the difference is on the intel hd 4600 : the IGPU do not have the same frequency 

http://ark.intel.com/products/75117

http://ark.intel.com/fr/products/75116/intel-core-i7-4700hq-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3_40-ghz

 

Maybe it can be explains  why the IGPU acceleration don't work for you but I really don't know.

 

For the NVIDIA I can see on this website http://www.respect.ru/catalogue/notebooks/asus_n550jv-cn027h.html  you have 2GB of Video Memory. I have 4 GB so our card seems to have a little difference...

 

Except the Intel website, I don't know if the informations are true so I don't know.....

I hope this smbios change will allow us to get more P-States

Thanks you in advance !

Clover updated to rev 2464 

Credits to amokk for the config

Hope this will work for you

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11106337/osx/EFI.zip

 

I would like to fix the brightness and sleep, if someone has an idea...

The folder of VoodooHDA is empty

 

EDIT: Also can you upload the new modified files for the last Clover rev 2464? Thanks a lot 

 

 

I checked all that you wrote to me.  I have that's what.

Sound ,video, battery does not work.

May have something to say.

BIOS version 207

Thank you.

This videohttp://youtu.be/Rr23geww3UY

Only with such a clover to get the boot https://www.dropbox.com/s/cp05lh46ebakkwq/CLOVER.zip

 

 

Well here are the files for VoodooHDA (from amokk)  and VoodoBattery :

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11106337/osx/VoodooBattery.zip

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11106337/osx/VoodooHDA.kext-2014-01-05.zip

 

For VoodooBattery install only the VoodooBattery.kext : the AppleACPIPlatorm.kext is too old and is not needed to make the battery work.

 

Which N550JV do you have ? Mine is N550Jv-CM193H and my Bios is the 207 too. You have the same Intel HD 4600 so it's strange that the video don't work...

For the Nvidia 750M, I know that two models exist : one with 4GB of DDR3 (the one I have) and one with 2GB of GDDR5.

Maybe they are writen in different ways in DSDT...

Are you sure Clover is working ? Because FakeSMC is not in your log so it's not injected by Clover ; that's why you are stuck. One more thing : the Nvidia kexts are loading but with the Amokk's DSDT, the Nvidia card should not be detected (always turn off).

 

Try reinstallling Clover with the rev 2435 provided by amokk and replace the EFI folder.

 

Good luck

Well this is maybe a MSR lock issue. With Mavericks the Power Management is handled by the kernel and not by AppleIntelCPUManagement.kext

The kernel need to write some values in some registers which are locked on some BIOS. That's why the kernel panic.

 

See this post : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293503-haswell-early-reboot-mavericks-locked-msrs-and-hp-envy-15-j063cl-i7-4700mq/

 

Use the kernel post in attachement, he is xcpm-free so there is no power management. Boot and install OS X.

Then manage to have power management. The best solution is to use Clover Bootloader with Kernel PM patch set to true in the config. With this, you can use the stock kernel, all is auto-patched by Clover.

 

See this : http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration/KernelAndKextPatches#KernelPm

Well :

Edup N8508 Mini USB Adapter 150Mbps 802.11n : http://www.amazon.com/EDUP-EP-N8508-150Mbps-802-11n-Wireless/dp/B004FWKEZ0

Chipset : Realtek RTL8188CUS 

You can find drivers here : http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=274&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true

 

Worked on Mavericks with the Mountain Lion installer, and should work on all versions listed on the website

On windows, Windows 8.1 reconized the chip when I plug in, no need to install any drivers

 

I hope this can help someone