Beiträge von BenStudent900S

Zitat von ralf.

Its an Impossible Mission

This did not age well. lol. Before I explain my process, let me just say that at this moment, I am back to Windows 10 on my 900S because I need a properly functional device.

First, I created an El Capitan installer using Unibeast. For whatever reason, I could not get the installer to boot using Clover, even with the recommened optimizations.

Secondly; I had to add the HackerFamily, and IONVMEFamily kexts, and patch the plist. (Apologies for not including links at this time).

However, all of the above would have been useless if I had not rolled back my BIOS. The standard Lenovo BIOS does not really allow one to make major system changes. Lenovo released a special bios for Linux installation on the 900S. After I ran it, I accessed the BIOS, and I had to switch from RAID to AHCI, and change a few other common settings.

Once that was done, I was successfully able to to move ahead with my EL Capitan Install. The NVMe was recognized, and all was well.

Except: The kext for keyboard and trackpad posted in this thread keep causing me to experiance KP during the installation process. Ultimatly I am left to use a standard USB keyboard and Mouse.

Anyway, the system is nice, but without functional wifi, keyboard, and mouse (and god only knows what else won't work...) I decided that this simply isn't a practical use of my time - at this point in time - I need a properly functional laptop.

Also; I used Clover Configurator to set the system as MacBook9,1 (12" - Core M 6th Gen) In addition, I discovered I had to se the RAM as relying on only one slot - but marked as dual channel - in order for the system to recognize the full 8GB. The screen actually displayed at the proper 2560x1440, but with just a few MB of video RAM.I simply wasn't prepared to start messing with that.

Cheers!

So i used the kexts. Originally, I created a Clover installation USB, but it kept failing when ever I tried to start the installation. It would show me the Apple logo, and then boot into Windows.

So I decided to go with UniBeast, which did in fact work to boot me into the OS X installer. Although the touchpad kext didn't work. The Ps2 kext causing me to have a KP.

As I said, the main issue appears to be getting the NVMe to be recognized.

Update: I successfully partitioned my NVMe SSD, and created a OS X Seirra USB installation via Unibeast. The installation actually starts up and brings me to the OS X installer screen. The problem, as noted above, appears to be that OS X does not recognize the NVMe drive. This is something I am working on at the moment. In addition, the PS2 Voodo kext for keyboard causes me to have a Kernel Panic when running the installer. The touchpad kext does not do anything for me.

SO, now I am working on trying to compile a unique Kext for my NVMe drive. This is fun. If it works I will update you on it.

MY m.2 actually has 256GB. Although some 24GB are reserve for the recovery partition. Currently I have 115GB free on my C drive. I have some movies and pictures to move so that should actually free up about 15GB. My school data is all saved in One Drive / on an offsite USB and this semester its less than a Gig (aside from Office installation files - but if I absolutely had no room I could use Microsoft online features in any event. I used a 32GB USB to create a recovery drive the other day for windows so I think in the worst case that should work to get me back up and running.

so more accurately:

1) around 40GB (with programs and media etc.
2) lets say 5GB as an extremely liberal estimate.
3) at least 100 GB
4) At least 100 Gb - OS and programs take up about 30 - 40 GB, plus lets say 5Gb for school docs so being super liberal that should leave me with at least 50GB of free HDD space.

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me with this. Thank you.

P.S. I saw something on Reddit earlier about High Sierra including native NVMe support...

@al6042 Thanks. Yes I have someone in my life with a MacBook Air, so creating the installation media is not an issue. The only real issue is making sure things run smoothly enough. I have finals coming up so I should probably try this out after finals. I was under the impression that the Wi-Fi card would work. Just out of curiosity, could I technically partition my drive into two parts so I don't need to delete my Windows partition? Just in case the installation goes horribly wrong and this way I don't need to spend hours recovering windows etc.

But why? What if I try a different SSD?

I too have a Lenovo YOGA 900S and am dying to try and run it as a Hackintosh. Windows is hard for me as a student with concentration issues, but I am not in a position to buy a Mac. Has there been success in getting El Capitan or Seirra to run on this system? What do I need to do to get the installation to recognize the SSD?

Best Regards,

Ben