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Building my Hack Pro – 3. Avoiding installation obstacles

by Jozef Mares

You can find few obstacles during basic steps with your Hackintosh. This post covers what you can do to resolve ones.

Your Hack Pro won’t boot after install on integrated graphic adapter

Go to BIOS / UEFI and change primary graphic adapter to discrete (PCI, PCI Express). I haven’t dig into problem but I think it has something with GraphicsEnabler.

Your Hack Pro won’t boot after install at all

You should try to boot with -v option to see what is going on. Usually if there is a problem with kernel extension (kext) you can try to boot with -x -v.

You see error with AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext

You did not installed some utils from Multibeast like patched kexts. You do not need to reinstall whole system as some forums suggests. Just boot with install USB key, mount drive (it is in top menu – you need to remount it to read-write mode), start terminal and execute:

mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/

Reboot with -f parameter passed to bootloader.

You see error related to ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin

You can even see in boot log (if you are debugging some problem always boot with -v):

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin: :start - waitforservice(resourcematching(appleintelcpupower management) timed out...)

Try pass these parameters to boot loader:

PCIRootUID=1 -v

Sometimes is restart only thing you need.

You see just spinning wheel during boot

Try booting with GrahphicsEnabler=No

I’m desperate

Ask on forum, but give people informations like your hardware, OS X version, boot parameters, what you have installed from Multibeast and so on. Good luck!

You can try these forums and sites for example:

tonymacx86
InsanelyMac
Olarila

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