Here, you will have to skip display driver installation so that you can boot into your new OS in VESA mode. Just hit customize button after selecting the destination disk(refer to the guide mentioned above) Now for the most important step, to customize the installation. and if all goes well you will end up in the OSX Installer as shown in the guide mentioned above. It takes some time on the apple logo screen with the progress ring running. Setup my BIOS to its defaults, checked that tha SATA mode was set to AHCI(it was by default). Now for the actual steps, I just did the following.Ģ. Multibeast, by tonymacx86, is a essentially an installer bundled with a lot of kext files for Hackintoshes. The most important thing is to customize the installation so that your newly installed mac boots successfully from the hard disk. MultiBeast allows to easily customize an OSX installation, adding needed kexts and configuration files. Almost everything works except a couple of things that don't matter much.Īnd decided to install the niresh distro. Sleep - Did not bother to look for the proper driver some claim it works thoughīuilt in Wifi - No compatible drivers (works via a usb dongle)īuilt in Card Reader - Not important at all for meįinger print reader - who cares ? right ? To start off, here is a list of what all works.

and here it goes, my guide to set up a mac on an HP EliteBook 8540w. Since I did end up wasting lots of time trying to find the right mix of drivers, thought of sharing it so that it may be useful in case you have a HP 8540.

It took me 3 installs to get all the correct drivers and a working mac up and running.

So, went ahead and googled out many links and forums to set it up. Kexts (or also known as Kernel Extensions that’s how it got its name from Kernel + Extensions), are actually drivers on Mac OS X. today was the day that I did take it up seriously to setup mac on my pc, though I wanted to build a new hackintosh with latest compatible hardware that I could get, first wanted to try it out to see how it would work out, and, to check on myself if I would use the mac beyond the point when the cool transitions and UI would loose its freshness :-). Multibeast is a collection of kext files that you’ll need to install for your Hackintosh to have sound, internet, a high resolution screen, and more. I had this in my mind(staying idle) for so looooong that I don't remember when it had dawned on me.

Everything in multibeast