The main reason I bought the Probook 4540s was because of it’s hardware spec which is very similar to a Macbook and therefore well supported by OS-X. I use a Mac for my photo processing with Lightroom so I wanted to try to get OS-X running for when we go on holiday etc. The first part of installing OS-X was to create a bootup usb stick using the software from the tonymacx86 site. Hp Service Manual. This uses a legal copy of OS-X Mountain Lion which I had bought for my iMac to create a boot/install system which will run on an intel based machine.
Reason And Argument Feldman Pdf Printer there. HP Probook 4540s (self.hackintosh) submitted 1 year ago by ar0n43 I can plug in an external mouse and keyboard but the keyboard and trackpad built on the laptop will not work.
My first attempt at booting the laptop from this machine resulted in a black screen, but I found that if I passed in the parameters “useKernelCache=no GraphicsEnabler=no -r -f” I could get to the installer screen. From this point I used the mac disk utility to format the partition I was installing OS-X to as HPFS+ and then started the install going. The install process itself is easy enough to negotiate – any options which need to be selected are obvious and involve just one reboot prior to setting user accounts etc. Once the install was complete I had OS-X installed on my probook! The only issues I had were • The wifi/bluetooth adapter is not supported by OS-X and was not recognized • I could only boot OS-X with the usb stick plugged in WiFi The wifi situation was also affecting Linux because the internal adaptor was not being recognized in linux either.
I could more easily solve that problem in linux because of the wider hardware support in that OS, so I tried to find a usb wifi dongle that would work in Mountain Lion. This proved to be more problematic that I thought because althought I found a couple of devices which were listed as being supported in OS-X, it turned out they were supported in 10.5 or 10.7 but not 10.8. I eventually solved this by downloading the driver for one of the devices I tried, and Edimax EW-7811Un, from the realtek site directly.