iATKOS ML2 Guide.pdf

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December 2012

iATKOS ML2 Installation Guide

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Thanks to @mhr_pii, @dramen and @krmtna for their works..

Thanks to @denizckosar for the artwork..

Thanks to all the GGRN people..

>> Attention! <<

What is this?

- This is OSX86.

OSX86 is a collaborative project to run the Apple's Mac OS X computer operating system 10.4 and

above on non-Apple personal computers with x86 and x86_64 architecture compatible processors

(a.k.a. our PC's :)

>> Noob style deﬁnition: Install Mac on PC <<

What is iATKOS Project?

- iATKOS is the code name of Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion

(10.8) OSX86 installer releases of OSX86.Türk team.

Simple and all-in-one OSX86 installation for basic and compatible hardware is the aim of this

project.

1- a) iATKOS ML2 is an OSX86 installer and it is designed for Non-Apple X86_64 Intel

CPU computers.

b) This installer includes Apple's Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 (Build 12C54).

c) You do not need any other OS X system on your target computer to install OS X

Mountain Lion. You only need iATKOS ML2 dmg ﬁle burned to a Dual Layer DVD/Blu-Ray or

restored on a USB media.

2- Hardware Compatibility and Requirements for iATKOS ML2:

You will want to know about the details of your computer before attempting to install this

system.

To get your hardware details (Vendor IDs, Device IDs), you can

- Fire up a Linux Live CD and boot from it (ie. Parted Magic, Ubuntu Live CD). Type "lspci -nn" in

terminal, press enter and take notes.

- Boot from iATKOS ML2 media, open terminal, type "lspci -nn", press enter and take notes.

- Get/install Everest Ultimate Edition on Windows and use it to export the information.

Check your hardware details and do the comparing with the hardware support list below.

- Motherboard

- Simply, Intel chipsets from 945G to C606 are supported.

Common chips are 945, 965, 975, P35, P43, P45, P55, G31, G41, G43, X58, H61, HM65, HM67,

H67, P67, Z68, Z77, X79, C602 and C606.

- Besides the main chipset model, a motherboard has many components. Every component itself

may or may not be compatible and even may be problematic for Mountain Lion. Also, BIOS of the

motherboard may be problematic to run Mountain Lion. Because of these reasons, some

motherboards will not be able to run this OS easily, some of them will need hard eforts in

order to make it partially work and some of them will never run it.

- CPU

- Intel Core2Duo and newer 64bit (EM64T) capable processors are supported.

- AMD CPUs are not supported.

- Graphics Card

- Intel Graphics HD 3000 and HD 4000 are supported, the rest Intel igpus are not . This means

Intel HD 2000, Intel HD, X3100, X3150, X4500, GMA950 and GMA900 are not supported.

- nvidia vga cards from G80 core to the newest kepler series (G80, G84, G86, G92, G94,

G96, G98, C79, GT200, GT215, GT216, GT218, GF100, GF104, GF106, GF108, GF110, GF114,

GF116, GF119, GK104, GK106, GK107) are supported on 10.8.2.

This does not mean that all of them will work (of course) but most of them will work out of

box (OOB) with iATKOS ML2.

Some of them will work with issues (some are known issues and some may not be) and

some of them may not work. You will have to try and see it yourself.

Device id injection to Apple's stock Mountain Lion drivers will be needed for many nvidia cards

and iATKOS ML includes this operation as automated. However nvidia's drivers released for

Mountain Lion does not need that injection (also included in iATKOS ML2 as a choice) but anyway

after software update, injection will probably be needed again which iATKOS ML took care of that

problem too.

- About ATI , for now 7xxx is not supported on Mountin Lion 10.8.2. 7xxx support will most

likely come with 10.8.3.

Most of the ATI 6xxx/5xxx/4xxx cards work with modiﬁed drivers and the users will have to take

the additional steps to use such cards after installation.

- Network

- Common wired and wireless network devices listed below will be auto-detected by iATKOS ML2

and most of them will work OOB.

- Users that have other compatible network devices will have to search for the drivers to make

them work on OS X.

Supported chips:

Wired:

- Intel Gigabit and Intel Pro/100

- Realtek RTL 8139/8111/8168

- Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114/AR8131/AR8151/AR8161/AR8171/AR8132/AR8152/

AR8162/AR8172

- Broadcom BCM57780, BCM57781, BCM57785

- Marvell 88E8035, 88E8036, 88E8038, 88E8039, 88E8056, 88E8001

Wireless: Some chips (ie. Atheros ar5008, Broadcom BCM4311) are natively supported by OS X.

So, this is not the complete wiﬁ support list of OS X, this is the additional support list.

- Atheros 9285, 9287, 9227

- Broadcom 4312, 4321, 4322, 43224, 43225, 43227, 43228 (Some of these broadcom chips

need rebranding in order to work on OS X.)

- Minimum 1GB RAM

- Minimum 15GB free space on target partition

You may also visit Wiki HCL pages and other OSX86 platforms for more support.

Mostly, compatibility of a hardware can be deﬁned by its chipset and device id, but

this is not a rule. Motherboards/VGA cards/other computers parts with same

chipsets and device ids of diferent brands may have diferences that can result with

incompatibility.

Therefore > Search, read and try it on your computer before asking

like "Will this hardware/computer work with iATKOS ML2?".

Simply, if a hardware is absolutely not compatible for OSX86 10.8.2

(i.e. Broadcom BCM4313, Atheros AR5007, etc.), then it is also not

compatible for iATKOS ML2.

3- Check the md5 of the iATKOS dmg ﬁle that you downloaded and make sure that

the md5 checksum matches the one posted on our website. If not, then you have a

faulty dmg image ﬁle.

4- Read the instalation steps carefully and if something goes wrong, don't panic.

Scroll down to the troubleshooting guide. Make sure you have read/applied the steps

of troubleshooting guide before posting in the forum!

Information:

- 64-bit/32-bit thing:

Mac OS X Mountain Lion is a 64-bit operating system which means that it can only boot in 64-bit

mode.

32-bit applications will work but loading a 32-bit compiled driver/module/kext is not possible

for Mountain Lion. Therefore applications that need their own 32bit-only modules (kexts) may

partially or totally fail.

- You can make clean, upgrade and refresh installs to your existing OSX86 system using

iATKOS ML2. Please read the related section.

- Easy installation on Software RAID volumes. No additional user actions needed. Please

read the related section.

- nvidia graphics cards will have less problems with OS X 10.8 using iATKOS ML2 because

of the automated id injection.

- Network devices will be auto-detected.

- Onboard sound devices will be auto-detected. Thanks to Andy Vandijck and Voodoo

team.

- Using software updater to apply main system updates just like real Macs on most

computers is possible using iATKOS ML2. Please read the related section.

- This installer may not include all the necessary drivers required by your setup. Additional

steps may be needed to be taken by the user to setup and use such components.

- Main system is fully stock. We are running iATKOS main system on our real Macs!

- Intro track > "Flu - Şarj-ı Deşarj"

- German translation by @stahlgewitter.

- Hebrew translation by @

(R o m

an H o ro l).

- French translation by @julianbougnon.

Before Installation:

- BIOS settings:

- Set your BIOS to its default settings.

- Execute Disable bit: Enabled

- XD (if exists): Enabled

- Limit CPUID Max: Disabled

- Set all cores of the CPU active/enabled.

- Virtualization (if exists): Enabled or Disabled, try it.

- Hyper-threading: Enabled or Disabled, try it.

- HPET (High Precision Event Timer/PCH): Enabled

- SATA Mode: AHCI

- Set all the Overclock/Performance/Turbo etc. values to Auto.

- Set the UEFI mode settings (if exists) to compatible mode

- Preparing a Target for installation:

- A target partition or disk will be needed for installation.

- If you are not an advanced user , I advice you to use a clean harddisk with no personal data/OS

as for target and unplug all the other harddisk drives connected to your motherboard just to be

safe.

- If you are not an advanced user and if your target disk includes personal data and/or any OS, I

advice you to backup your data before anything.

- Parted Magic or OS X Disk Utility can be used for partitioning and such operations for

preparing a target.

- Use Parted Magic if you are not an advanced user .

- Parted Magic: Parted Magic is a Linux Live OS project for harddrive operations. Download

the iso image from >> http://partedmagic.com << Burn it to a CD/DVD with any suitable

application and boot your computer with it. Run the partition editor application and create your

target.

- OS X Disk Utility: Boot iATKOS ML2, choose the language, run Disk Utility via Utilities menu and

create your target.

Create your target partition formatted as HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)).

-Partition Type: You can choose MBR (Master Boot Record/msdos) or GPT (Guid Partition

Table) for your target harddisk via partitioning options.

If you don't need/want to change your existing partition table type, just do not touch it. If

you want to change it, note that all your existing data on target harddisk will be gone.

GPT:

Advantages:

-You can add/remove partitions and change the size of them on a GPT partitioned drive without

repartitioning and you can even do it on-the-ﬂy on a running OS X system partition.

-You can create up to 128 bootable partitions on a GPT partitioned drive.

-You can use Software RAID only on GPT partitioned drives for OS X.

Disadvantages:

-Multiboot is not so easy to manipulate for newbies.

MBR:

Advantages:

-Pretty easy to manipulate multiboot

Disadvantages:

-Partitioning operations with OS X Disk Utility need recreationing of the whole partition table.

-No Software RAID for OS X

-2TB partition size limit

-You can have max 4 bootable partitions (4 primary partitions) for OS X. You can only boot the

OS X installations on the rest of the partitions (logical partitions when more than 5) over ﬁrst 3

primary partitions.

- I advice MBR for your target harddisk if your are not an advanced user .

The target should be a Primary Partition for MBR partitioned harddisks.

Starting the Installation:

- Boot your computer from iATKOS ML2 media (Dual Layer DVD, Blu-Ray or USB Media)

Most OSX86 compatible computers will be able to boot iATKOS ML2 media by default (without

entering commands), but some computers will need some boot ﬂag(s)/command(s) to be entered

at boot promt.

If you are booting from DVD/Blu-Ray, then you need to press F8 in ﬁrst 10 seconds for boot

promt.

Common boot ﬂags/commands for iATKOS ML2 install media:

- You can enter without quotes (").

- You can try combinations by adding a space between them, i.e. "-v cpus=1".

"GraphicsEnabler=Yes" This is needed for Intel HD 4000 installation.

"cpus=1" This may be needed for some 2011 socket motherboards and some laptop

computers. TSC Sync should be selected for those 2011 socket motherboards during install.

"UseKernelCache=No" This command is needed for computers that freeze at any point

(including "PCI Conﬁguration Begin" line) or computers that act weird :) this can be a CMOS reset

or ignoring other SATA ports issue.

By entering this command, ElliottRTC.kext and modiﬁed IOPCIFamily.kext will be loaded during

install.

"-v" Verbose mode.

"-x" Safe mode.

"USBBusFix=Yes" This option is to ﬁx USB related issues of some motherboards that can cause

freeze or USB ports to fail.

"npci=0x3000" Computers that freeze on "[ PCI Conﬁguration Begin ]" line may try this

command.

"ATIConﬁg=xx" "xx" is the ATI framebu f er name for target model (search it on google). This

may be needed for some Intel HD 4000 + ATI gpu computers to boot with "GraphicsEnabler=Yes"

command.

If you used this command to boot iATKOS ML2 media, then you will also need to use it to boot

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