The full operating system is a free download for anyone who has purchased Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion or has a Mac preloaded with OS X Mavericks or Yosemite.
#Custom mountain lion install disk update
Follow these steps: Direct Update to OS X El Capitan using Clover. If you have followed updates until OS X Yosemite using Chimera, check out Clover Basics and Switching Advice.Įxisting Clover users may do a direct update to OS X El Capitan by simply running the Install OS X El Capitan app as normal Mac users would. To start from scratch, booting the 10.6 Snow Leopard Retail DVD directly, check out iBoot + MultiBeast.įor the first time is recommending Clover as your default bootloader. This is a requirement, as you need access to the Mac App Store to download OS X and create the installation drive. In order to start fresh, you'll need access to a functional computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later. UniBeast is a tool that creates a bootable installer out of your downloaded version of OS X. By doing this, you can always go back to your working installation. We strongly recommend performing a full backup of your existing system using Carbon Copy Cloner. Get our latest UniBeast and MultiBeast tools from the downloads section.Ĥ. Register here at tonymacx86! If you don't have a user account, create one!Ģ. Screenshots of the error are always helpful.įollowing this helps me to pin down the error.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guideġ. Report what you've already tried that didn't work. On running the script? If so, which one? On booting the USB device? On booting the hard drive? Report whether you have made any modifications to the install package. Check whether the graphics card is reported as working in Mountain Lion by others. Report your hardware including motherboard and graphics card. If you have problems please follow these guidelines when posting in this thread: On Gigabyte, you can press F12 on POST to get a boot menu. Make sure you are actually booting from the USB device. Apart from the warning this doesn't seem to causing any problems.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the Unix terminal Here are some extra instructions: on the target volume.īoth scripts are commented and include links to the sources of the included software. It is copied over to the boot USB by mkboot and installs Chameleon etc. Mkboot is a bash script that installs Chameleon, the things needed from the Mountain Lion install app, and other tidbits to the target volume.įinalize is a bash script as well. For a substantially different motherboard you'll need to modify mkboot and finalize appropriately. Sleep, network, and sound works on GA-P35-DS4. Once you've gone through creating or migrating accounts, open System Preferences -> Energy Saver and check the box by "Start up automatically after a power failure".The USB device can now be ejected and OS X can be booted from the hard drive.In Terminal: sudo install/mkboot /Volumes/Boot/.There are more details in 'ALC885HDA_Lion_MLion_V1.00/Readme First.txt' included in install.zip and also available here The method used by default is for ALC889A sound and requires a specific ID (layout ID 12) in your DSDT to work. Although the included patcher was made to support GA-P35-DS4 it has also been confirmed to work well with a number of other Gigabyte boards similar to GA-P35-DS4. If you don't add a DSDT, one will be created for you when you run finalize (See below). Note that if you add a custom DSDT, it must be named DSDT.aml. If you already have a custom DSDT.aml you wish to use, add it to install/Extra/.Make sure that "GUID Partition Table" is selected under "Options." In Disk Utility, format the USB as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and give it some name: We'll use Boot here but it can be anything.Buy and download Mac OS X Mountain Lion from the App Store.
We'll assume you'll use a USB device hereĪn install partition for OS X Mountain Lion. You will be creating a Boot USB that can be used to install OS X Mountain Lion on a Hackintosh (or a genuine mac for that matter).Ī USB drive (8 GB) or a spare partition. This method was created (and tested) for the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard but it should be relatively easy to modify for any other motherboard.
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