I was looking at Prasys’ blog, and I found a post about a newer EFI Boot CD that’s supposed to be better than Empire EFI called ModCD. I saw that it supports both Intel and AMD machines, so I tried it out on my laptop and actually got the Snow Leopard install disc to boot. It recognizes the battery and the WiFi right away, but unfortunately it doesn’t recognize the SATA hard drive. I’m currently using the older version since the download link for the current version wouldn’t work, but I’m hoping that if/when I do get the new version it will work a little better. I’ll keep trying, and hopefully I’ll get it working and if I do I’ll write a tutorial.
Slightly off topic, I downloaded the new version of iBoot and tried it out on my P5Q Pro Turbo, it worked great. I booted it after installing to a USB hard drive and iBoot has GraphicsEnabler enabled and has the correct audio driver for the motherboard, so I got to enjoy the welcome video with audio and in full resolution. It doesn’t have the ethernet driver, but that probably wouldn’t be too hard to add to the ISO file before burning. I might do a fresh install this weekend; if I do I’ll write an updated guide using iBoot and maybe ModCD. It’s nice to be back to “hackintoshing,” it’s been a while. And in case I don’t write again this weekend, happy early Halloween!
If you do get it to work I would love it if you would post the tutorial. Also, what specific version of the NV53A are you trying this on? Thanks and good luck
I think mine is the NV53a24u
So curiosity got the best of me and I decided to give it a try. I also have the NV53a24u, however I didn’t seem to get as far as you did. The modCD booted up just fine, when I changed the discs, it showed up as Mac OS on the GUI but when I pressed f5 a few times nothing happened. It eventually went to a black screen and my computer rebooted. So I guess I might have to try it with the older version of modCD as you did. Also, which version of the retail snow leopard did you use(I tried 10.6.3)? Is there something extra you did because of the AMD processor?
Sorry, I spoke too soon. After downloading the earlier version of modCD, I was able to get the install disc to boot. It actually recognized my hard drive, but it did not recognize the partition I had made earlier… Anyway the resolution was also kind of off as in the pictures you provided but hopefully that will be an easy fix if I am able to install OS X
I used the 10.6.0 DVD. I think when I first got the laptop I did some research and found that there aren’t any drivers for the video chipset this thing has. Also, I tried to install to my external hard drive and it installed very slowly. I gave up after about an hour. Did it recognize the internal drive right away or did you have to use some boot options like I did? I tried making a partition but apparently I have the maximum amount so Windows wouldn’t let me do it.
Yeah it recognized my hard drive right away, I don’t know why but I didn’t have to do a thing. I didn’t know there was a maximum amount of partitions Windows would let you have. Maybe you could try buying a hard drive that is known to be supported. Anyway, I did successfully install OS X last night. It only took about 30-40min (I’m guessing when you tried it was so long because you were installing to an external drive.) It works surprisingly well (I’m actually on it right now) but I still need to figure out the screen resolution problem. The mouse and wifi work right away which is a life saver, but something is wrong with the sound which I hoping to figure out soon.
You could try entering “Graphics Mode” = “1366x768x32″ at the bootloader, but I don’t know if it would work. Even if it did change the resolution you probably wouldn’t have hardware acceleration or anything like that. By the way, does two finger scrolling work by default?
I guess I’m gonna have to choose between Ubuntu and OS X if it isn’t gonna let me make another partition.
I’m using it right now, I found a graphics kext that almost works for it here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=219199
I just have to boot using the -f flag from ModCD. The mouse cursor doesn’t show right though, and theres no QE/CI. I’ll keep trying though. And I see what you mean about the sound, it seems to be outputting the sound from the microphone.
Im having the same problem and cant get it to load up like a mac it boots up verbose, any ideas
I tried using that kext too but I couldn’t boot into OS X when I restarted… How did you go about installing it? I’m not terribly familiar with OS X and all the guides I’ve looked at online show different approaches to installing kexts.
whoops, forget my previous post, I just noticed you put up your tutorial and saw you posted link to the kext helper.
Yeah I always use kext helper, you can see how to do it without it if you click advanced. It shows you the commands it uses.