Can I Hackintosh my Sager np7358?

Hey everyone just have a question not sure if im allowed to ask this. But is my sager np7358 hackintosh compatabile? Its a stock np7358 beside the hard deive. I tried vmware but having issuea bridging my connection over.

 

So I would like to hackintosh my sager for that reas

 

You need Prema's modded bios and you need to follow these instructions to get it installed.

http://biosmods.wordpress.com/tutorials/

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So I can as long as I follow this?
Is it all compatabile? I seen people say there wireless card isn't, But is my card?
Also it says psu must be unplugged?

 

PSU has to be unplugged after the BIOS flash for the update to complete properly. Read the instructions carefully, there is also a tutorial video. One wrong move can brick your machine so be extremely cautious.

Wireless will almost certainly not work if you have an Intel card, buy a cheap USB dongle which has OS X in the system requirements.

Dedicated video card may or may not work. Lean towards expecting it not to work.

I put Mavericks on my 9377 and it worked until I did a system update. That killed it. I'm sure it's been patched by now but honestly, OS X native is and has always been a headache. I should know, I was involved in the original development to get it running on vanilla systems instead of VMWare. It has always been a painful process and Mavericks is the worst yet.

I would Google Niresh if you wish to be successful in getting it to work properly with your machine.

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What are your specs?

 

Tried using niresh, as soon as I boot from the usb to try to install mavericks I see the apple boot screen for a split second and it immediately goes black and restarts to my sager splash screen.
Chipset: 4th Generation Intel® Mobile Core i7-4710MQ Haswell Processor
Intel® HM87 Chipset
NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 860M GDDR5 (2.0GB) w/ Optimus Technology
[Maxwell Core]
Integrated Graphics Intel 4600HD

Built-in Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Integrated 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN + Bluetooth™ 4.0
Realtek RTL8723BE wireless lan

 

What did I tell you you had to do first or this situation would happen? Go back and read my response, the answer is there on Prema's tutorial page.

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I was looked up niresh as suggested and just tried following the guide they had.
And psu is inside the laptop? that means I need to open it? or is that just the charger?
And I saw somewhere niresh mavericks and clover have issues together.

 

Smh. If you can't understand the basic terminology and how to follow instructions, you really shouldn't be messing with hackintosh.

The reboot is caused by the MSRs being locked - you have two options, flash Prema's modded bios or you can pass xpcm-free to boot the installer. The problem with the second option is that you will not be able to boot if you install a system update because it will remove the xpcm-free kernel. If you flash Prema's modded bios and set the CFG Lock setting like that tutorial, you don't have to worry about it.

As for Clover it took some work but it worked with Niresh just fine. You have to install it after you install OSX and you'll have to boot your install by using the install USB or DVD on first boot and using the arrows to select your installation.

Your laptop doesn't have an internal PSU, that's what the power brick is...

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Sorry for being a bit slow man, just flashed prema's modded bios without a issue so thats awesome.

Not sure if you can answer this, I'm going to make a windows 8.1 usb tool so I can dual boot following this guide.
Dual boot Windows 8.1 + OS X 10.9 Mavericks - Multi-booting and Virtualisation - InsanelyMac Forum

Unless thats not neccesary?
But with the windows usb could I also add some extra files such as clover,multibeast and or chameleon without messing up my windows usb?

 

Its all good sorry for being stern about it, it's just not something that is really to be taken lightly.

What I did when I installed Niresh was I chose to have it install chameleon and then I booted up the install and installed Clover to a spare USB drive first. That way I could configure it as I wanted and I wouldn't have to worry about being unable to boot OS X by messing up the boot record or the EFI partition.

Follow this guide http://cloverboot.weebly.com/install-clover-to-usbhdd.html

And install to a USB. Clover takes more configuration than the old chameleon bootloader or the vanilla Darwin bootloader from back in the day so it's important to not use it on the system's hard drive until it is working exactly how you expect it to.

Also keep in mind that you can wipe put your Windows install very easily if you put the two on the same drive and you can break the EFI partition for Windows as well. I did both of these things. I don't know if you have two hard drives but if you do, I would open up the laptop and disconnect the cord for the one with Windows on it when you install.

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No worries man, I was being dumb and stubborn.
The thing with installing clover on a seperate usb, I have 2 one with niresh mavricks and one with windows 8.1 so I can set up the dual boot using that guide after.
Will clover allow me to dual boot? or is that for the kecks?
They will be on the same drive, which is why I been slowly trying to looking into so I can prevent anything. My concern is installing os x than not being able to boot back to my windows after.

 

Could I just drop them in my windows usb and then drag them on the mac os desktop?

 

Unfortunately that's a very real possibility. Especially with EFI. It gets sticky and unfortunately I can't help with that part because I chose not to deal with it. Os X got one SSD, Windows for the other.

Follow this guide.

http://www.niresh.co/page/osx86.htm...how-to-dual-boot-osx-windows-8-with-clove-r39

Its not that complicated from what I see.

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Well, time to take a chance.

The only thing I don't understand in the guide is what I'm doing with clover configurator and bootloader and what I'm doing with them and where am I putting them to get them on os x.

 

I had to play with it... It was a trial and error thing unfortunately which is why the USB install for testing worked so well.

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Its installing very slowly and moving netweem 17 minutes and 21 mins. I formatted the mac paritiom with mac os journal then started the installation, does it take long to install or suppose to go to this slow and hop back and forth with remaining time?

 

It takes about an hour depending on the machine. Make sure to move the mouse occasionally so it doesn't freeze up, weird glitch it's had since Tiger.

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An hour?... The heck?

 

I have an HP Envy with clover installed to the efi partition and vanilla mavericks on one drive, and windows 7 on another drive. Perfect harmony.

I would recommend making sure both drives are using GPT

 

He already said they will be on the same drive.

And niresh can take around an hour with all the scripts it runs. I use vanilla OS X on my desktop and just need the nVidia alternate drivers for my 780 Ti but my Clevo is an entirely different beast.

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That was for if he reinstalled later and changed his mind. I did read that part.

Niresh... Makes sense then. I've had the least amount of problems with clover in my efi partition especially when it comes to replacing, adding or upgrading kexts. Best way to keep OSX vanilla. Your 780 has all its horses running?

 

It did until I got bored and decided to wipe it out and go back to Windows having RAID.

It was a bit frustrating getting it working. I was getting a black screen with the Apple drivers, through troubleshooting I figured out that the DVI was active but the HDMI was not. Not a big deal, I deleted all nVidia kexts in single user, rebooted and installed the alternate driver.

It even let's you monitor the temp!

The only issue is that every update was replacing the kexts so I had to wait for nVidia to release an alternative driver for that version of Mavericks and deal with no acceleration while waiting.

In the end, its just better for me to stick with Windows on my machines. The days of me spending hours and hours for days on end and spindle upon spindle of blank DVDs figuring out how to build an installable DVD are over with. I'm not patient enough for that anymore.

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Lol I hear you with the trial and error. USB wasn't an option for the install?

 

The days I refer to at the end there are when I was trying to make an installable OS X distribution for the first time... Back when Tiger was only available as a VMWare image that could be dd'd to a partition on your computer. I figured out most of it and taught JaS and a few others how to do it because I got annoyed with rebuilding packages.

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Got it ok.