No Hackintosh is complete without a boot loader and sometimes, the boot loader is the make or break element of the system. While allowing you the ability to boot into your new Mac OS X partition, he boot loader also sends the instructions that fires kexts and drivers and if your boot loader and your hardware aren’t fully in sync, it won’t matter how many fixes you try manually, the system just won’t work.
As always, you should keep some kexts and Multibeast around in case things go sour. If the install fails, install another Lion partition and install the update from the secondary partition.
Now that the details are out of the way, in all likelihood, you shouldn’t need to fix anything. If you added sleepenabler, it is best to remove it.
It has been reported that audio kexts may fail and if you edited your graphics kext, that may have been replaced.
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Once this is done, you can just download and install the 10.7.4 combo update on your fresh Lion system or 10.7.3 system. You can then restart the computer and Lion will work. I haven’t tried the Software Update, but I would assume that since updating it manually went smoothly that Software Update would as well.
If anything breaks – which didn’t happen in my case – you can just run multibeast or kext helper and fix it as you would normally. If you are using a modified kernel, you will need to check to see if one is out and then install it before restarting.
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This is the guide for those who have a system that rejected Hackintosh after the installation and have unfavorable hardware (like an AMD processor) or for those who have slipped away from Mac OS X for other reasons and want to install another Operating System in its place or simply recoup the space. If you haven’t installed Hackinosh but are anxious about it, I recommend you read this too.
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Apple released the Lion 10.7.2 update on October 12 and it will install smoothly on your computer (assuming that Lion went smoothly).Downloads
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 Combo Update (858 MB)
If anything breaks – which didn’t happen in my case – you can just run multibeast or kext helper and fix it as you would normally. If you are using a modified kernel, you will need to check to see if one is out and then install it before restarting.
Choose your language and hit continue.
You will now need to prepare your partition. If you want to overwrite Snow Leopard, you won’t have to do this step.
Note that if you overwrite Snow Leopard, your kexts may be kept and still work. If the install goes sour, you can always try to clean install lion since the installer is in a separate partition and if all else fails, try the other method of installation (coming shortly) or restart from the beginning and install Snow Leopard.
Go to the Utilities Menu and choose Disk Utility.
You can go to the partition tab and create a partition by clicking on the + button and defining a size. This will create the drive and partition it as well.
If you already have a drive ready, choose the partition, and go to the Erase tab and erase as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
To go back to the installation, click on the x on the top left corner of Disk Utility.
Now you click Continue until you get to the Disk Selection part where you choose your disk and hit install. There is nothing of use in the Customize box.
After about 15 to 20 minutes of installation, you should get the install succeeded screen.
After you restart and boot into the installed Lion partition, you will be greeted with the introduction video if everything worked – in my case the sound didn’t so I didn’t get the video. You will then be greeted with the typical questionnaire to fill out – just the looks will be refined and the scrolling will be backwards.
First you will choose your country.
Then your keyboard.
If you don’t get the following message, then it means that internet works. In my case it didn’t. You will have to choose the option where you don’t have internet and then find and install the correct kext later.
Then it will ask you to transfer data.
Then you can register (not necessary, just click continue).
Now comes your account credentials. This time, you will notice a check box where you can toggle whether or not you want Mac OS X to log you in automatically when you boot. (This can always be changed later)
Then you choose your time zone.
I didn’t uncheck the toggle box so I landed on the log in screen.
On the top right corner of the screen, the time is displayed.
Once logged on, you will meet your new desktop which has a different background picture and some new Dock icons.
You will then be prompted to set up and identify your keyboard. This is self explanatory and takes less than a minute.
You can verify that it is indeed Lion by going to the About This Mac option where you will see that it is indeed 10.7.
Apple refined the more info part and it looks like this:
In the end, the ASUS P5KPL-CM with GeForce 8400 graphics had only lost its Sound and Ethernet.
Lion has been out for a while and there are 2 methods that you can use to get your hackintosh up to date. In this method, you will need to have an installed partition of Snow Leopard which is updated to 10.6.8.
It is important that your installation is using the GUID partitioning scheme (which is a bit of a hassle with dual booting Windows) because if you don’t the Lion installer will reject each and every partition that isn’t in GUID format.
Once this prerequisite is met, you will need to verify that your computer can run OS X Lion and then get your hands on the app store version of the Lion disk.
Lion will elegantly let you know if your computer isn’t compatible – as it did on my Aspire One.
Once you have done all of that you are ready to proceed with the first phase of this installation. It is straight forward and you shouldn't run into too many problems.
One thing to note for people with nVidea Graphics cards, if your card was glitch and horrible after the 10.6.8 update, a clean install of Lion actually will support your graphics card out of the box so in Lion you can play games and change the screen resolution without getting the dreaded blue screen.
The first thing that you are going to need to do is download xMove. It is a utility that will move your installer files from the current partition that you’re on to the place that you want to access for the installation.
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Now, we have all the pre-requisites for the first phase of installation, let’s start.
Insert your Lion DVD – if you run the dmg, you will be prompted to burn it. It will show up on your desktop and from this point you can go into the installer.
The installer will ask you where to install Lion and it is important that you leave its default choice. Lion isn't going to install, it is going to download extra files.
This can take a bit of time depending on your bandwidth but in my case, it took about 7 minutes.
Lion will then prompt you to restart your computer and so you will and you will boot back into your normal partition (the one you just left).
If you aren’t putting Lion on an 8gb usb, you can alternatively go to Disk Utility and create a new partition that is about 8gb.
Now you are going to run xMove and choose the app store option and continue until it asks you where you are going to install it. Simply choose the USB drive or new partition as your installation location. It will prompt you as to which install medium you are using for a second trim and again you choose the app store DVD.
xMove will take under 10 minutes to make the move and once it is done, you can restart your computer.
Before we do this, I advice you to get Multibeast 4.0 and whatever internet kexts your computer uses as these are the two features that will break in a typical Mac OS X compatible machine. Save these files to a usb key, along with Kext Utility if you need it.
Once this is complete, you can restart and boot into the Lion Installer partition.
There are many ways that you can burn a DMG in Windows that involves third party software that proved to be no success for me. However, there is a way to use Mac to burn the DMG on your PC and its called iAtkos.
If you are a Windows user, or a former Windows user, chances are you remember the scars of pre SP1 Vista. From the driver problems, to the crashes, to the snail-like crawl, Vista took a perfectly running machine and essentially took it on a long and hard ride. Vista became the weight and anchor to Microsoft, that it was to every Machine that tried to take it.
For those of you who are looking for a way to get Lion on an Acer Aspire One, you may have noted a lack in resources. Upon running the Lion installer in Mac OS X on my Acer Aspire One D250, I was greeted with a windows that states that my machine – which has an Atom Processor – won’t be able to run Lion.
This screenshot represents a pamphlet that is in circulation in American McDonald’s restaurants. It is a guide on how to access their free Wi-Fi service. Before you call this a Mac win – like many Apple fan boys must have today, McDonald's forgot to mention Windows 7. Was that deliberate, or is configuring Windows 7 so easy that no guide is needed or is the guide outdated?
You would be amazed at how shipping some simple information inside a box rather than outside would curb massive security threats that now encompass Apple’s new Macs. If the operating system itself didn’t get enough of a beating by malware, hackers can infiltrate your Mac with information that is displayed on stickers on the outside of the box.
If you have installed Lion, you may notice that it acts to mimic the iPad and iPhone in terms of scrolling. As a result, when you flick down, you scroll up and vice-versa.
Mac OS X Lion launches today and it has over 250 new features. Before you upgrade, you may want to see what is new with Lion and decide on whether it is what you were dreaming for.
Microsoft will continue to try to get pirates to buy Windows for its full $299 price tag by strengthening the activation system that seems to be susceptible to cracking. However, if Microsoft made the effort to reduce prices to a more reasonable level, not only would they defeat piracy, they would turn many Windows users who are skeptical about upgrading into the first set of people on board. Apple recently announced that its newest version of Mac OS X would ship for $29.99 again. Meanwhile, Microsoft has 6 versions of its Windows, each varying in usability and price.
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