Updating Mountain Lion to 10.8.2 on a PC

The 10.8.2 update to Mountain Lion machines brings Facebook integration, proper synchronization of messages between mobile devices and your hackintosh, FaceTime can receive calls made to your phone, and on a hackintosh basis, a updated graphics and HDA kext meaning graphics and potentially sound may be broken after the update. Those using AMD systems should be advised that the update includes a new 12.2.0 Darwin kernel. Let's get ourselves up to date without the hassle.

Instructions

1. First off, download the 10.8.2 combo update - it isn't a good idea to update with software update when we know that kexts may break. 

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   Mac OS X 10.8.2 Combo Update

2. Install the 10.8.2 combo update but don't Restart at the end, neglect the window and follow on. 
3. Re-install your graphics kexts as you did when you initially installed Mountain Lion (If you are running an Nvidea Graphics card, the kexts can be found in the download link in this article)
4. Run Multibeast and apply the patched Apple HDA kexts. Note that those running VoodooHDA shouldn't be affected by this update.
5. If you are running an AMD system, check if there are any kernel fixes for your patch and apply them.
6. Finally, go back to the 10.8.2 update and click restart to restart the machine.

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Mountain Lion on Your PC: Fixing Broken Kexts

Once you have Mountain Lion installed, you will notice that its functionality is reduced and that you can't enter the system without the nv_disable=1 boot flag. In this post, we will fix your Mountain Lion installation by first, installing a bootlader so you won't need the install USB, we will then fix the audio, followed by the internet, and finally the graphics. Once all these fixes are applied, you can restart your hackintosh and enjoy its new features without any hassles.

The first thing you need to do is go to kexts.com and download any kexts that you may require for your system.

Next, you need to download my Mountain Lion pack which includes all the kexts that are needed for systems similar to P5KPL-CM with Nvidea Geforce 8400 graphics. 

Download the Mountain Lion Pack

Installing a Bootloader and Fixing Audio

1. Extract the Mountain Lion pack that you downloaded and run MultiBeast 4.6.1.
2. In the options, choose EasyBeast and VoodooHDA 0.2.7.3 audio settings. 
3. Finally Select the System Utilities option that will repair permissions after the new kexts and boot loader are installed. EasyBeast comes with Chimera boot loader.

Fixing the Internet

1. Drag your internet-related kext into Kext Utility and let it install. 
2. After a reboot, the internet will be fully functional but don't reboot yet.

Fixing Clock Settings

If you are dual or triple booting OS X Mountain Lion with Windows and/or Ubuntu, this installer will fix the time discrepancy when switching between operating systems. 

1. Run the Localtime-Toggle.pkg file in the Mountain Lion Pack.

Fixing the Graphics

If you don't have the Geforce 8400 or similar graphics card, the only part of this reparation that will be relevant to you is the EFI string that you need to add to the org.chameleon.Boot.plist file in the Extra folder.

Install the Kexts

1. Open Kext Wizard in the Graphics folder in the Mountain Lion Pack and drag the three kexts into the Installation Tab. 
   
2. Click install, enter your password.
3. Then load each of the kexts into the Kext Info tab and click Load.
4. Once this is all complete, go to the Maintenance tab and Rebuild the Cache. 
   
5. Close Kext Wizard

Modify the Boot File

In the Mountain Lion Pack, I've included EFI Studio which is used to get device property strings that can be used to tell the boot loader to activate a graphics card or other device during boot.

1. Run EFI Studio, choose your device and select Add Device.
   
    
2. Once this is done, a window will pop up with a bunch of code and a series of numbers. From this point on, just click Hex String to Clipboard.

It is now time for the fun to begin.

1. Open the Finder and go to the Go menu on top. In that menu, select Computer.
2. You will now see all of the partitions that are present on your computer. Double click on the partition to which Mountain Lion is installed. You will see a few folders, but the important one is the Extra folder. 
3. Open that folder and you will see the org.chameleon.Boot.plist file that we need to edit. Double click on it, choose a place near the bottom and go to the Edit menu and Paste - notice the long string of numbers just appeared!
4. Encase those numbers in <string> </string> tags. Refer to the boot file in the Extra folder of the Mountain Lion Pack as a guide.
5. Just before this string, you need to add a new key so type <key></key>. Inside this key, type: device-properties, Once this is done, your code should look like the following - with the string of numbers varying in accordance to your device.

<key>device-properties</key>
<string>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</string>

Your org.chameleon.Boot.plist should look like this before you then save it by going to the File Menu and selecting Save.

Once this is done you can reboot into your Hackintosh partition and everything will work.

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Installing a Boot loader on Your Hackintosh

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.

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Mountain Lion on Your PC: Installation

Apple has released its new iteration of Mac OS X to the general public. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get Mountain Lion on your computer using the Install Media we made in the previous part of the tutorial.

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Mountain Lion on Your PC: Preparation

Apple has recently released its new iteration of Mac OS X to the general public. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get Mountain Lion on your PC using the installer app that can be bought from the Mac App Store in both Snow Leopard and Lion. This procedure can be done from either Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion 10.7.0 and up.

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Updating Lion to 10.7.4 on a PC

Apple released the Lion 10.7.4 update on May 9 and it will install smoothly on your computer (assuming that Lion went smoothly).

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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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 Combo Update (1.4 GB)

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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The Hackintosh Removal Guide

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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Updating Lion to 10.7.3 on a PC

Apple released the Lion 10.7.3 update on February 1 and it will install smoothly on your computer (assuming that Lion went smoothly).

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Hackintosh: Fixing Internet Issues

Some of you may find yourself with a Hackintosh that won’t access the internet after installing for the first time or after a stubborn update. Sometimes, you install a kext and it doesn’t seem to change anything. Well, maybe this trick will help you.

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Triple Booting Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu

Ever wanted to have all three different worlds on your computer at your fingertips? Or did you ever want to have a computer that only has Mac OS X and Ubuntu? Don’t hold your breath, it’s possible! Here’s how.

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Updating Lion to 10.7.2 on a PC

Apple released the Lion 10.7.2 update on October 12 and it will install smoothly on your computer (assuming that Lion went smoothly).

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.

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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 Combo Update (858 MB)

Once this is done, you can just download and install the 10.7.2 combo update on your fresh Lion 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.

This update updates Safari to 5.1.1 and includes iCloud – a major part in the synchronization system between all of your Macs and iDevices. On the first boot after the install, you will be prompted to set up iCloud.

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Upgrading to Lion on a PC with Snow Leopard Part 2: Installation

Once you have your install media ready, you will need to boot into the Lion partition that you just made. Once you have gone through the typical Apple Boot screen, you will be welcomed by the Lion installer which demonstrates a refined look in Lion.

 

 

 

 

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.

Partition Preparation

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.

Continuing with the Installation

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.

Setting Up your Account

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.

 

 

First Log on

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.

 

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Upgrading to Lion on a PC with Snow Leopard Part 1: Preparation

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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xMove
Multibeast 4 for Lion

 

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.

 

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Updating Your Hackintosh to 10.6.8

Using the framework that I have laid out, updating should be relatively easy. There is no Sleep Enabler to cause kernel panics. There are no additional kernel packs to install (unless you are using AMD) and so based on this minimalist framework, the update process should be smooth.

If you are on an Acer Aspire One, you will have to update incrementally to 10.6.8. This means that you can’t skip over updates because doing so will cause a lot of damage to your kexts.

If you, are running an Asus P5KPL-CM, you will have no choice but to install a second Mac partition and install the 10.6.8 combo update to the desired partition from another which I will refer to as Zigzag Updating in this post.



On another machine, the procedure might be different. If you are running an AMD system, you will need to update quoops as you update incrementally.

Download:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update

There are two methods that you can use. You can update incrementally or by using the Combo Update. If the Combo Update fails, reinstall Mac OS X and update incrementally. If this fails, reinstall Mac OS X,  install a second partition and update your primary partition from your secondary.

Zigzag Updating

For those who need to do the update from the secondary partition, here is how it works.

You install a Partition A with 30GB (bare minimum) and install a Partition B with the desired amount of space to 10.6.3 using the previous tutorials.
Then, you boot into Partition A, run the update and Change the Install Location and choose Partition B. Then you Restart.
At the Boot loader, Boot into Partition B and then fix whatever kexts that you have to using another article in the series.
Then Reboot Back into A to install the next updates to Partition B and repeat this process until you reach 10.6.8.

Restoring Graphics in 10.6.8

If you update and boot into a Blue Screen – which has happened to me when I updated to 10.6.8 with an NVidia GeForce 8400 Graphics card, you will need to reboot into your boot loader and type nv_disable=1 before hitting enter. This will disable the graphics card such that you can update the graphics card.

You will then need the NVidia updater for an NVidea card, which from my experience will give you conflicts and tell you that you don’t have one of their graphics cards. To bypass this, I removed the condition from one of their files to bypass this necessity.

If you have an NVidia Graphics card, download and install this package.

Download:
NVIDEA Updater

If the update alone doesn’t work, you may also need to use EFI Studio and add the string as outlined in this post.

If you are on an Acer Aspire One D250, you will need to reinstall the graphics by following the instructions in the "Restoring Graphics in 10.6.7" section as outlined in this post. If you get a blue screen or run into problems, try booting with GraphicsEnabler=yes or nv_disable=1. Note that nv_disable=1 isn't consistent on the Aspire One and is more suited with systems with NVidea Graphics cards.

Restoring Other Lost Functionality

You may also need to fix broken kexts, which can easily be done by following the steps in this post.

Updating is machine specific and may require different methods based on the machine. The method that I have outlined here is general and if you followed my previous posts in the series, you shouldn’t have a problem.

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Working with Broken Kexts on Your Hackintosh

When you install a Hackintosh, you will notice that there will be features that are missing. For instance, if you try to open a picture with Preview and see nothing but grey, it means that your graphics card isn’t properly installed. If you can’t hear anything when you try to play music in iTunes, it means that your audio card wasn’t detected. If your computer can’t find an internet connection, it means that your Wi-Fi or Ethernet controller are undetected. There is a way to fix these minor problems and in this post I will show you how.

 

Preferably, you should have downloaded any needed kexts to a USB drive before you installed Mac OS X. If you didn’t register an account at kexts.com and find the kexts that you need for your broken devices.

 

Once you have your kexts, you will need to know how to install them. While there is a manual way to do so, the fastest and easiest way is to get Kext Helper or Kext Utility and drag and drop the kexts into them. There isn’t much difference between the two so it all comes down to personal preference.

 

Downloads:

Kext Helper

Kext Utility

Alternatively, you can download an install Multibeast which has some kexts in the package and does the work for you. You essentially uncheck everything and then choose the drivers that you want and install them.

 

Download:

Multibeast 2.2.2

*Older versions of Multibeast are generally more compatible with USB problems and NVidia drivers and are best for computers that don’t have the latest Intel icore Processors.

 

If you are on a laptop, sleep won’t work because you didn’t select Sleep Enabler in the install which I intentionally left out. If you install Sleep Enabler, updating will be a pain. You should only install Sleep Enabler once you have reached a good, stable, updated version of Mac OS X. The reason why Sleep Enabler causes so much hassle is because it is version specific and having the wrong sleep enabler with the wrong version of OS X will result in a kernel panic at boot.

 

In the case of graphics, in some cases you will be required to not only install the kexts, but also add an EFI String to your boot.plist file.

 

To do so, you will need to download EFI Studio and then choose the graphics card that you have. It will generate a string of numbers which you will then copy to your clipboard.

 

Download:

EFI Studio

 

In spotlight, type: com.apple.boot.plist and select show all options – which essentially opens a Finder window.

 

In here, you choose the file that is on your partition (since you didn't install a boot loader, there is only one) and right click and open the file location which will open another Finder window.

 

Then, drag and drop the file to your desktop, open it, and add the following just under the last <string>:

<key>device-properties</key>
<string>The String that EFI Studio Makes</string>

It will look like this:

(This EFI String is for the Acer Aspire One and works for the GMA950 and GMA3150 graphics cards.)

<key>device-properties</key>
<string>c60000000100000002000000610000000200000002010c00d041030a000000000101060000027fff0400100000006d006f00640065006c0000000b000000474d4120393530200000004100410050004c002c00480061007300500061006e0065006c0000000800000001000000590000000200000002010c00d041030a0000000001010600001b7fff0400180000006c00610079006f00750074002d00690064000000080000000c000000160000006200750069006c0074002d0069006e000000050000 0001</string>

When editing the file, you should notice the Key and String Pattern. The code above should look like the rest of the code and be with the Key and String sets.

 

Then, save the file, close it, and drag and drop it back into the folder it came from. Enter your password to allow the system to overwrite the file.

 

The following boot will take a while and if it takes more than 2 minutes, reboot into another Mac OS X partition or the installer and go to Disk Utility and then Repair the disk permissions on the drive that won’t boot.

 

The hardest part to getting your Mac drivers to work is finding the right ones. To do so, read the comments on kexts.com as it is a community and bear in mind that if your kext isn’t there, it likely isn’t supported – which is where AMD users will be in a hit and miss risk with Mac OS X.

 

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Installing Mac OS X on your PC Part 2: Account

After your computer restarts from having installed Mac OS X, you will have to ensure that you boot from the boot loader. If you used a USB set to install Mac OS X, just plug in the boot loader USB and choose the Mac OS X partition. If you used the DVD, boot off the DVD and hit F8 before it boots back into the installer. From this point, you will be able to choose the Mac hard drive.

 

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Installing Mac OS X on your PC Part 1: Drivers

Installing iAtkos on your computer isn’t difficult. As long as your hard drive is partitioned the way that you want it and your install media is ready, the upcoming steps should be relatively easy.

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Preparing your Installers for Mac OS X

Preparing the install material for Mac OS X is relatively easy. There are four ways of doing so and this relies completely on preference and hardware.

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Preparing your System for Mac OS X

When you decide that you want Mac OS X on your computer, you have a decision to make. Do you want Mac OS X to become the sole operating system? Do you want a Dual boot?

Making Mac OS X Your Only Operating System

If you plan to build a custom PC with Hackintosh in mind, or want to permanently get rid of Windows it is possible. Just like Windows and Ubuntu and all Linux distributions, Mac OS X is an operating system. Whether it be on Apple or non-Apple hardware, given the right kexts and settings, and run on the reasonable hardware, it will run as smoothly as if it were on a Mac.

To prepare for this system, all you have to do is have the disks ready and do everything from the Mac OS X installer which will be shown in Installing Mac OS X on your PC Part 1: Drivers (Tutorial will be ready soon).

Dual booting Mac OS X With Windows

If you want the “best of both worlds” – being Windows and Mac OS X, you will need to have Windows installed first.

Linux Users:
You can also dual boot Mac OS X and your favorite Linux Distribution. In this case, you must install your favorite Linux Distribution First.
If you want a Tri-boot system (Windows, Linux and Mac), stay tuned for our post on it.

Then, from within Windows or Linux, you will need to use a disk partitioning tool to create the Mac partition.

In Windows Vista and newer, you will not need to download a partition manager as one is built-in to the operating system. However, if you are running Windows XP, you will need to download an install a partitioning tool. A good and free one is EASUS Partition Manager.

Windows XP users:
Download EASUS Partition Master Home

To access the Disk Manager in Vista and newer,  type “partition” in the Start menu search box and you will see “Create and Format Hard disk Partitions.”

Once in Disk management, right click on the hard drive that you wish to install Mac OS X on and choose “Shrink Volume.”



You will then be prompted for the size of the new partition. Enter in the size that you want to shrink in MB. Note that by default, it will display the maximum amount that can be split through shrinking.

Once you hit Shrink, it will create the new partition, but you aren’t finished yet. When it finishes, you will see a block of unallocated space. Right click on it and choose “New Simple Volume” and format it as NTFS. Make sure that the partition is a primary partition (It will be a different color from your other partition if it isn’t primary).

In order to keep the Windows partition in tact, we will need to do something else. You will need to right click on your new Mac partition and choose “Mark Partition as Active.” Doing this will tell the next installer – regardless the operating system – to write its necessary boot files and boot loader to the new partition instead of the Windows one. By doing this, you save yourself the hassle of trying to fix a broken Windows installation after installing Mac and you avoid yourself the hassle of consequently having to repair the Mac’s boot loader as well.

Side Note:
This also applies if you are installing a Linux distribution or a different version of Windows on another partition. Once you have installed the new operating system, you may decide that you don’t want it to be the first thing that boots – as that is what the active partition will do. To Make your original Windows partition first priority, right click on the partition and choose Mark as Active. The next time you open your computer, your BIOS will recognize the partition you marked as active as the hard drive to boot off of.

Now that you are all set up for single or dual boot, you can proceed to the next part of this tutorial.

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Mac OS X on Your Computer Series

After installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my Acer Aspire One and obtaining a successful result, I decided to try to install Mac OS X on my other computer, an Asus P5KPL-CM. Using a similar procedure to the one that I outlined in my Snow Leopard on an Acer Aspire One series, I successfully got it all the way up to 10.6.8.

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