hackintosh 4540s guide
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Installing Mac OS Mountain Lion on the HP ProBook 4540s As a music producer and software engineer, I’ve been an avid proponent of Macs since Apple introduced the first line of Intel-‐based Macs in the mid 2000s. The ability to work on music in Logic Pro in Mac OS and subsequently dual boot into Windows to use Visual Studio has always been a selling point for me. Their prohibitive price point, however, is most definitely a point of contention by many and the reason why the ProBook line of notebooks from HP piqued my interest. With the ProBook, it’s possible to own a modern equivalent to the Macbook Pro for roughly a third of the price.
~ It’s well documented across the web that the previous ProBook model, the 4530s, sports a similar hardware configuration to earlier Macbook Pros, making it moderately easy to install Mac OS X (give or take a bit of kext-‐fiddling and DSDT-‐tinkering). While the newer HP ProBook 4540s also shares a similar configuration to newer Macbook Pros, at the time of this writing, scattered information and a nascent community surrounding this specific model make the journey to nirvana somewhat more difficult. As a result, I’ve decided to write this guide to installing Mac OS on the HP ProBook 4540s.
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Notes • At the time of this writing, USB 3.0, wake-‐from-‐sleep and WiFi do not
function. I’ve gotten around this by purchasing this USB WiFi adapter. Everything else, including the SD card reader, web cam, audio, microphone and USB, work well (camera works in Skype, but for some reason not in Photo Booth).
• As a first time hackintosher, I can’t pretend to be an expert and I can’t tell you there won’t be any frustration involved, but I’ve done my best to collect all resources available and document the process.
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• Because of the method I’ve used, it’s possible to dual boot Windows 8 (or
under) on another partition as well as use VMware Fusion to run a virtualized instance of Windows or the Windows partition (this is what I’m presently doing and it works well).
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What you’ll need. • I’d recommend buying a copy of Mac OS Mountain Lion if you haven’t
already. • iAtkos ML2 (a custom-‐built copy/installer of Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8.2
that works with the MBR partition scheme which you’ll need if you’d like to boot Windows).
• HP ProBook 4540s (I purchased this specific model [C6Z35UT] from Amazon and can’t be certain if this guide will work on any variations, although I expect it would).
o BIOS F.31 o Intel® Core™ i3-‐3110M (2.40 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 2 cores) o Mobile Intel® HM76 Express o Intel® HD Graphics 4000
• 8GB + flash drive • Existing mac or a virtualized mac in VMware (this is a perfect guide to setting
up a Mac in VMware on Windows) • A copy of Carbon Copy Cloner for your Mac or virtualized Mac instance. • HP 4540s Working File (thanks to duydangle at tonymacx86.com) • HP ProBook 6 installer for the previous generation of ProBooks. • MultiBeast for Mountain Lion. • RehabMan / OS-‐X Voodoo PS2 Controller (for keyboard / trackpad). • RehabMan / OS-‐X ACPI Battery Driver • Kext Drop • A PDF version of this guide for post installation.
Process
1. On your Mac or virtualized Mac OS instance, use Carbon Copy Cloner and your USB flash drive to copy over your iAtkos ML2 image to the USB drive (you may be able to use Transmac to copy over iAtkos on Windows, but I haven’t tested this).
2. Once complete, copy over MultiBeast, ProBook Installer, HP 4540s Working File and the RehabMan files to the USB drive.
3. When finished, transfer your USB drive to your HP ProBook and reboot (or simply reboot if you’re already using your ProBook).
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4. Before anything, press F10 to enter your BIOS settings (I didn’t realize this at first, but you can use your mouse on the BIOS configuration screen).
a. On the BIOS configuration screen, choose System Configuration, then Boot Options.
b. Under Boot Mode, choose Legacy. c. Scroll down to Legacy Boot Order and ensure USB Hard Drive is first,
then Notebook Hard Drive. d. Exit, then Save.
5. After rebooting, the iAtkos ML2 bootloader should load. 6. Select the Mountain Lion installer. 7. Before proceeding, type –x (for safe mode) and –v (for verbose mode [you
may need this to find out if something’s gone wrong, although unlikely). 8. Press Enter to begin loading the Mac OS Mountain Lion installer. 9. Once loaded, click the Utilities menu and choose Disk Utility. 10. From the left, select your notebooks hard drive:
a. If you’ve already partitioned, you simply need to make sure you’re your Mac OS partition is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (this should work if you’ve already partitioned and have an existing Windows install).
b. If you haven’t partitioned, select the Partition tab, and select the number of partitions you’d like (all that matters is that one needs to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Under Options, choose Master Boot Record.
11. When ready, click Apply to begin formatting or partitioning. 12. Once complete, exit Disk Utility and begin the setup process using your Mac
OS Extended partition. 13. Once the installation is complete, reboot with the USB flash drive still
attached and choose your new Mac OS partition with the flags –x –v (it wont boot if not in safe mode, but we’ll be taking care of this once the operating system boots up).
14. After booting up, go through the process of completing the installation. 15. Install MultiBeast. 16. Launch the ProBook Installer (thanks to jalembic from tonymacx86.com for
the rough run through) and only choose: a. OS X support kexts > Mountain Lion > 10.8.2 b. Chimera 1.11.1 c. AHCI path (10.8.x only). d. Misc OS X fixes > Color profiles & Sleep fix > Sleep image fix.
17. After installation, unzip the HP 4540s Working File and launch Kext Drop. 18. Select all of the *.kext files in the Extension folder and drop them into Kext
Drop. 19. Copy the unzipped folder’s contents of /Extra to /Extra at the root of your
Mac OS drive. 20. Unzip the RehabMan files and drop their contents into Kext Drop. 21. Launch Disk Utility, select your Mac OS partition, then Repair Permissions. 22. When finished, eject your USB flash drive, then reboot.
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Installing Windows If you’re planning on installing Windows on a separate partition, you’ll need to make sure you have your iAtkos ML2 Mac OS USB flash drive handy, since Windows will override the Chimera bootloader after installation. When that happens, insert the USB drive before booting and choose your Mac OS drive from the boot menu. Once logged in, simply reinstall Chimera.