Customisation options on iDeneb...and others
I have been having problems in getting any Hackintosh distro to run on my current hardware, iDeneb has been the only one that I can get to do a complete install. Have tried iAtkos, iDeneb and Kalyway. Any others anyone can recommend I try?…
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I have been having problems in getting any Hackintosh distro to run on my current hardware, iDeneb has been the only one that I can get to do a complete install.
Have tried iAtkos, iDeneb and Kalyway. Any others anyone can recommend I try?
I am assuming that I m choosing the wrong custom options when I install.
So can some one tell me, Do I have to choose Custom Options from each section, (Kernel, Video, sound, chipset etc) or can I just choose some, and the ones I do not choose will load a default set of drivers.
I have been trying (on and off) for the past year or more to get a Hackintosh machine working and so far have only once managed a complete install that actually boots, and then that failed as it turned out that the board was cracked and never ran when the board was screwed into a case.
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I have been trying to get a Hackintosh machine to work for 6- 10 months or more, but still not got a working system
I had posted the hardware on a different thread,
How to find out what hardware I have →
but did not want to ask a second question on that thread. Have not had any response since posting the hardware list on the other thread, so here is what I have:
Here is the spec using lspci -nn when booted from a Ubuntu Live CD
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge [8086:2561] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NQ [Radeon Mobility 9600] [1002:4e51]
01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NQ [Radeon Mobility 9600] (Secondary) [1002:4e71]
Thanks Raz, i'll give it a go.
Yes you are correct, there is a mistake regarding the graphics card. I took the original video card spec from the sticker on front of the case, but it looks like a different card has been put in at some point.
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hi, generally 1 option from each of the drivers and kext list then what you need from the rest,
it would help if you posted what hard ware you are using.
Raz
Hi, you could try the IPC 10.5.6 final distro as it gives more options for loading drivers/kexts than most of the others.
Try 9.5.0 kernal,nvdarwin xxx video,intel achx sata driver,patched usb driver,ps2 keyboard(if that is what you have),patch dsdt,applesmbios-27 rev3 macpro or imac. These are just basics to see if you can get past your black screen, you may need to try different video driver. you said in your post that you have nvidia graphics but yur lspci shows ati check your bios to see if the agp/pcie card has been enabled.
Dont load any more than is neccessary for now no audio/ethernet etc, if it works you will have to reinstall to get the rest.
Ensure that the partition you are loading onto is clean and formated to fat 32,
if/when you get to restart press F8 then -f,
Raz