So by following this guide, you can install Mac OS X Lion on your hackintosh using only a USB thumb drive. The guide is called UniBeast.
Follow this guide, and you’ll be able to do a clean-install of Mac OS X Lion on your hackintosh, or upgrade your existing Snow Leopard installation (that’s your personal preference). There’s only one thing to remember.
You’ll need access to a system running Mac OS X (Snow Leopard or Lion, doesn’t matter), only for the USB drive preparation steps. This system could be a real Mac, or it could be your existing hackintosh as well. Now let’s get started with the guide. Since the guide itself is self-explanatory, we are just going to follow along here.
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You can read the at tonymacx86’s blog. For this one, you need a system running Mac OS X, a Mac App Store downloaded copy of Mac OS X Lion (downloaded as an app) OR a Mac OS X Lion Recovery USB (available from an Apple retail store and/or from the ). You’ll also need a USB thumb drive, preferably 8GB or larger. Also, download the UniBeast package from the of tonymacx86’s website (you need to be a registered user for that, so register first, because you might also need to post on the forums for help if you come across a problem). Last but not the least, you need patience, tolerance, and the enthusiasm to make things work! First, let’s get the installation USB drive ready.
Make sure you have a system running Mac OS X at hand. Attach the USB thumb drive, and open Disk Utility from Application/Utilities, or just type Disk Utility in Spotlight. Select your USB drive in the left sidebar, and click the Partition tab. Under Volume Scheme, select 1 Partition, and give it a name (Installer, for instance).
Make sure that the format is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Next, click the Options button. Select Master Boot Record, and press OK. Now you’re ready to apply the changes to the USB, so click Apply, and click Partition. Wait a couple of seconds till the process completes.
Now it’s time to copy the installation files to the USB drive. As mentioned earlier, you can either use a downloaded copy of Mac OS X Lion (from the Mac App Store) or you can use the Lion USB Thumb Drive. Either way, you should have the preferred installation mode in your possession, i.e. The downloaded Install Mac OS X Lion App should be in the Applications folder of your Mac. Or if you’re using the Lion USB thumb drive, make sure to have it attached to your computer before proceeding to the next step.
So let’s run UniBeast. Accept any license agreements, and select your USB thumb drive when you arrive at the Destination Select screen. Upon clicking Next, you’ll see some options.
Now if you’re using the Mac App Store version of OS X Lion, select the “Mac App Store” option. If you’re using the Lion USB thumb drive, select the “Apple Store” option. But remember, you have to select only one option. If you’re going to install Lion (using this USB thumb drive being prepared) on a laptop, select the “Laptop Support” option as well. Once done, click Next, enter your password, and have a cup of coffee.
This will take a while (anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes). When the UniBeast installation is complete, you can use this USB thumb drive to install Lion on a Hackintosh, for a fresh install, or as an upgrade to existing Snow Leopard. If you want to install Lion alongside an existing Snow Leopard installation on a hackintosh, be sure to create an empty partition first using Disk utility (or just use another empty hard drive, if you want to). Be sure to have the same BIOS settings as recommended in the iBoot + Multibeast guide, further explained. In short, set all hard drives to SATA mode (AHCI), enable HPET, use less than 4GB of Ram (for installation only), and make sure no extra peripherals are connected to the computer. Ready to install?
Make sure your booting sequence is set to boot from USB drive first. Reboot your hackintosh with the USB drive attached. Once you reach the bootloader screen, you’ll see the installer partition you created earlier (here, it’s named “USB”). Now, remember what we learned about boot flags? You’ll probably need to enter some of them to reach the installer. Luckily, tonymacx86 has already defined a couple of them, so be sure to use the ones applicable for your hardware configuration.
AMD Radeon 6670 – type PCIRootUID=0 Unsupported graphics – type GraphicsEnabler=No TIP: Additionally, you can boot with –v (alongside the other boot flags) to see where the installer loading stops or causes a problem, and you may also use the –x bootflag (for booting in safe mode). Note down the boot flags that work for you. This was the only tricky step in the entire process. Once you reach the installation screen, it’s just a matter of going through a couple of standard installation steps like selecting the language and specifying the destination partition/hard drive for installation (if you’re going for a clean install). If you’re going to update an existing Snow Leopard installation, the next couple of steps (regarding work with Disk Utility) may not be required, and once you reach the Destination Select screen, the partition will already be there, just select that, and start the installation. In case of a clean install, make sure you have prepared the destination partition beforehand. If not, prepare it first using Disk Utility.
On the menu bar at the top, click Utilities Disk Utility. Once Disk Utility loads up, select your hard drive, and click the Partition tab. Under Volume Scheme, select 1 Partition, give it a name (Lion, Mac HD, anything you want), and set the partition format to “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. Click the Options button, and make sure “GUID Partition Table” is selected. If it isn’t, select it and press OK.
Once that’s done, press Next on the installer, select the drive you just created, and install Lion right away! When Lion finishes installing, you need to restart your hackintosh. And once again, you have to boot from the USB you’ve created. This time, you’ll have your Lion partition showing up at the bootloader screen. Use the arrow keys to highlight it, and press Enter to boot from it.
You might consider any boot flags as well which helped you reach the installer screen. Once you get to the desktop, congratulate yourself, you just installed Mac OS X Lion on a PC! All that’s left to do is to download and run MultiBeast to enable any non-functional devices and to install a bootloader (using EasyBeast or UserDSDT) so that you may not need the USB to boot into Lion on your hackintosh. The multibeast installation tips and tricks are explained in detail in the and parts of the How-To Geek Guide to Hackintoshing, so be sure to have a look at them. And there you have it. Mac OS X Lion, on a custom built hackintosh.
We will keep you updated on any further advances in the hackintoshing world, so expect more! All thanks to tonymacx86 and his team for putting together an easy to follow guide. This guide is just an explanation of the original. The tonymacx86 logo and other logos are the trademarks and registered copyrights of tonymacx86.
Screenshots taken from the original guide. Here are some explaining how you can use the UniBeast method to install Mac OS X Lion on a hackintosh. This might give you an idea of how it’s actually done, and then you may try it for yourself.
'CPU LED is a fantastic little menu bar tool for keeping an eye on your CPU load. So if you're at all concerned about your CPU load and you've got space to spare in your menu bar, give CPU LED a whirl.
' (Samuel Gibbs - TUAW) Do you ever wonder how stressed your CPU is? Sometimes, opening a complex activity monitor while your computer is heavily loaded is too late (or too much). Sometimes all you need to know is that your CPU is working hard. CPU LED is a very lightweight unobtrusive app that adds a LED in your status bar indicating your CPU activity (coded as light, medium or hard). You can have only one light for all your processors or one per core (your choice).
You can also choose the status icon appearance so it blends nicely with your status bar style, and hover with your mouse over the leds to see the current usage% and core temperature. In order to know what is going on with your computer at a glance, CPU LED is the perfect companion for Disk LED! See it for yourself. And if you are using Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, you can also upgrade CPU LED by adding Memory LED! That small guy will show you how much of your RAM is occupied (LED style), and how much paging is happening (i.e.: RAM to Disk and Disk to RAM operations). Too much paging means your performance is going down the sink. Now you know how to solve those uncomfortable 'I switched apps and my machine is dying' moments!
When Memory LED shows that you are running out of memory, just close some programs and you are good to go! - If you are experiencing any problems or would like to send us a suggestion, please contact [email protected] or tweet us @agileroute and we'll be happy to help you. Tooltip with the current processor load. You can now upgrade CPU LED by adding a Memory LED! (only for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users) What is a Memory LED? This small guy will show you how much of your RAM is occupied (LED style), and how much paging is happening (i.e.: RAM to Disk and Disk to RAM operations). Too much paging means your performance is going down the sink.
Now you know how to solve those uncomfortable 'I switched apps and my machine is dying' moments! When Memory LED shows that you are running out of memory, just close some programs and you are good to go! - If you are experiencing any problems or would like to send us a suggestion, please contact [email protected] or tweet us @agileroute and we'll be happy to help you. 1.1 Aug 18, 2011. Fishface991, Does what it says, but can be very badly behaved I used this app since January 2012, when I bought an 8 core MBP and found I could no longer see each core's load in the activity monitor dock (it shows just one bar if you have any more than four cores.) I'm a programmer and I like to see if one of my cores is pegged (usually because I screwed something up.) So I found CPULed. It's done a reasonable job since then, taking up little room in my menu bar and showing me CPU activity in a neat and reasonably attractive way. The problem is, it's become flaky.
When I try to restart the Mac tells me 'CPULed cancelled restart.' (It restarts anyway.) If I try to quit it, it won't quit. I can't access its preferences. More recently, I've noticed Finder gradually using up to 100% CPU after an hour or so of uptime; I kill Finder, it creeps back up. I went through all my programs, extensions, plugins and other thingumajigs until I finally stopped CPULed running on startup. Sure enough, Finder is back to normal. All this on Lion, by the way.
I don't necessarily blame CPULed for this. After all, when I first installed it I could open its preferences, I could quit it, and it didn't cancel restart. It was the perfect little app. Finder behaved well too. Maybe it's fought with something I've put on more recently?
I don't know. All I do know is that this particular luxury has been uninstalled. Fishface991, Does what it says, but can be very badly behaved I used this app since January 2012, when I bought an 8 core MBP and found I could no longer see each core's load in the activity monitor dock (it shows just one bar if you have any more than four cores.) I'm a programmer and I like to see if one of my cores is pegged (usually because I screwed something up.) So I found CPULed. It's done a reasonable job since then, taking up little room in my menu bar and showing me CPU activity in a neat and reasonably attractive way. The problem is, it's become flaky. When I try to restart the Mac tells me 'CPULed cancelled restart.' (It restarts anyway.) If I try to quit it, it won't quit.
I can't access its preferences. More recently, I've noticed Finder gradually using up to 100% CPU after an hour or so of uptime; I kill Finder, it creeps back up. I went through all my programs, extensions, plugins and other thingumajigs until I finally stopped CPULed running on startup.
Sure enough, Finder is back to normal. All this on Lion, by the way. I don't necessarily blame CPULed for this.
After all, when I first installed it I could open its preferences, I could quit it, and it didn't cancel restart. It was the perfect little app. Finder behaved well too.
Maybe it's fought with something I've put on more recently? I don't know. All I do know is that this particular luxury has been uninstalled. Music Factory Studios, Perfect for Pro who need CPU info As a audio engineer CPU usage is one of the most important things you need to manage when recording or mixing. Certian audio plugins can use alot of CPU and this app helps us to choose what to use sometimes using a very CPU intensiive plugin might not be the right choice so you watch CPU LED and then choose an alternative that is suitable.
I have never had an issue with this app and I like how it shows all threads of the CPU depending on what Mac you have. I own 3 different Macs and each with different CPU configurations, Xeon 8 core Mac Pro it shows 16 bars one for each thread, and Dual core i5 Mac Mini it shows 4 bars for 4 threads and a 15 inch Macbook Pro with an i7 quad core and CPU LED shows all 8 threads this is a great feature but I have to say 16 little Bars on the 8 core Mac Pro forces you to use the more narrow icon sets because it takes up so much space in the toolbar. I just wish There were more in app purchasable icon sets. Even though there is alot of icon sets I would like to see some for the larger cpu sets like guys with Quad i7’s and Xeon Cpu’s.
Image the 12 core mac pro with 24 bars on the toolbar you would have no room for anything else or other utility add on apps. Music Factory Studios, Perfect for Pro who need CPU info As a audio engineer CPU usage is one of the most important things you need to manage when recording or mixing. Certian audio plugins can use alot of CPU and this app helps us to choose what to use sometimes using a very CPU intensiive plugin might not be the right choice so you watch CPU LED and then choose an alternative that is suitable.
I have never had an issue with this app and I like how it shows all threads of the CPU depending on what Mac you have. I own 3 different Macs and each with different CPU configurations, Xeon 8 core Mac Pro it shows 16 bars one for each thread, and Dual core i5 Mac Mini it shows 4 bars for 4 threads and a 15 inch Macbook Pro with an i7 quad core and CPU LED shows all 8 threads this is a great feature but I have to say 16 little Bars on the 8 core Mac Pro forces you to use the more narrow icon sets because it takes up so much space in the toolbar. I just wish There were more in app purchasable icon sets. Even though there is alot of icon sets I would like to see some for the larger cpu sets like guys with Quad i7’s and Xeon Cpu’s. Image the 12 core mac pro with 24 bars on the toolbar you would have no room for anything else or other utility add on apps.
Uncle Gum, Works w Yosemite; no problems I can’t comment about whether it is super accurate or not, but it does give me some idea that CPU is usually not overtaxed; shows me when something really pushes it (usually just briefly); but most importantly - when something strange is going on. Occasionally I’ll see a regular rhythm of red spikes, or one or more all locked up in red. Sometimes, but sometimes not, my computer well act strangely at the same time - being slow, locked up, some app not responsive, background process or even non-focused app not responsive. It gives me a useful flag to check further. Often a restrat fixes it. The quick link to activity monitor helps & gives more detail.
Nice free app! Uncle Gum, Works w Yosemite; no problems I can’t comment about whether it is super accurate or not, but it does give me some idea that CPU is usually not overtaxed; shows me when something really pushes it (usually just briefly); but most importantly - when something strange is going on. Occasionally I’ll see a regular rhythm of red spikes, or one or more all locked up in red.
Sometimes, but sometimes not, my computer well act strangely at the same time - being slow, locked up, some app not responsive, background process or even non-focused app not responsive. It gives me a useful flag to check further. Often a restrat fixes it. The quick link to activity monitor helps & gives more detail. Nice free app!
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