Couple of days back Apple has released Mac OS X Lion and in just one day over 1 Million users have bought and downloaded OS X Lion, which shows us the craze for OS X Lion. If you also love Mac OS X, but afford to buy a Mac machine then you can build a Hackintosh PC by installing Mac OS X on a normal PC. So if you have already built your Hackintosh PC with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, then here is a detailed guide which will help you to install Mac OS X Lion 10.7 on your Hackintosh.
Requirements to Build Hackintosh PC With Mac OS X Lion 10.7
- Hackintosh PC running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later
- Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 with 64 bit CPU
- 8GB free space on your HDD with 4GB of space available in “/Applications”
- Mac App Store Account + $29.99
- Internet Access to Download 4GB OS X Lion App through Mac App Store
- Mac Pro 3,1 system definition and the latest Chimera Bootloader from MultiBeast
STEP 1: Download OS X Lion From the Mac App Store
- Boot into your current Snow Leopard
- Download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store.
- After the OS X Lion installer launches click continue.
- Select your currently booted Snow Leopard drive and hit Install. This will simply install the files necessary to do the OS X Lion installation at a later stage.
- Click Restart to reboot your PC.
STEP 2: Prepare the Installer Partition
- Boot into the existing Snow Leopard installation.
- Open up /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
- From the left column highlight your Snow Leopard drive
- Choose the Partition tab, and Click the + to Add a Partition.
- Name the secondary partition as “Lion” with a size of 8 GB and click Apply.
- Click Partition and once you are done, close Disk Utility.
STEP 3: Using xMove
- Download xMove
- Double-Click xMove, and choose “Lion” as Destination. (DO NOT choose existing Snow Leopard as the Destination.)
- The process takes a few minutes, and when done, you’ll have a secondary partition on your drive containing the OS X Lion Installer.
STEP 4: Boot Installer & Install OS X Lion
- Reboot your Hackintosh PC and at the Chimera boot screen, choose “Lion”
- It will boot directly to a familiar Mac OS X Installer complete with Disk Utility.
- Install OS X Lion over existing Snow Leopard or onto any empty drive or partition.
If you have installed OS X Lion directly over an existing Snow Leopard installation, you’re done! You should already have done proper post-installation steps on your existing Snow Leopard drive and you can skip Step 5 and simply reboot into Lion!
STEP 5: Setting Up Hackintosh MultiBeast
MultiBeast is an all-in-one post-installation tool designed to enable boot from hard drive, and install support for Audio, Network, and Graphics on your Hackintosh. It contains two different complete post-installation solutions: UserDSDT and EasyBeast. In addition it includes System Utilities to rebuild caches and repair permissions and a collection of drivers, boot loaders, boot time config files and handy software.
Choose one of the following options directly following a fresh installation:
UserDSDT is a bare-minimum solution for those who have their own pre-edited DSDT. Place your DSDT.aml on thedesktop before install. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately. Download your motherboard’s pre-edited DSDT.
EasyBeast is a DSDT-free solution for any Core2, Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 system. It installs all of the essentials to allow your system to boot from the hard drive. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately.
- At Chimera boot screen, choose your freshly installed Lion drive
- Complete setup and registration routine
- When you get to the desktop, run MultiBeast
- If you have a custom pre-edited DSDT, place it on your desktop and choose UserDSDT
- All others select EasyBeast
- Select System Utilities
- Reboot to OS X Lion
via TonyMacX86
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