Creating a Hackint0sh Part 4
ARRGGGGhhh…turns out that the motherboard i have (GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L) has TWO VERSIONS: v1.x and v2.x…only v1.x is compatible at the moment…guess which one I have?
Update 1: According to this site, my motherboard should be compatible sans on-board NIC…and the guide points to the same guide I used from Lifehacker, except that I used a bootloader 10.3 instead of 10.1.
Weird thing is, when I boot using the thumbdrive, I can press a key THEN the installed partition appears and I can continue booting from that point on. Obviously, when I restart without the thumb drive, I’m back to staring at “Verifying DMI Pool Data…” screen.
I am now reinstalling with bootloader 10.1…not sure if that would make a difference.
This sucks. I’m not remotely confident that I will have a working Hackint0sh any time soon.
Update 2: It turns out that I NEED the thumb drive to boot into the installed partition (just like I have noticed in Update 1)…so it was actually acting normal…which means I do have a partially-working Hackint0sh. I just need to do some extra steps to have a fully-functional Hackint0sh:
- I need to install Chameleon/Netkas bootloader in order to make my OS X partition bootable
- The built-in NIC of the motherboard does not work;
I stole a PCI NIC from my older computer that I never use anymore. - I need to tinker with the drivers to make audio work
- Sleep does not work apparently; I need to install something to make it work properly
I feel that I’m so close to this, yet so far…
Update 3: The NIC I stole from my old computer didn’t work. I didn’t think it would anyway, so I ordered the NIC that is exactly on the Lifehacker guide. Until then I have a barely useful Hackint0sh that has no network nor sound.
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