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Since the 10.7 Lion USB Thumb Drive became available, we've been inundated with requests for a method of using it for direct Lion installation. To this end, we've made a special new version of xMove. xMove now has 2 options- one for the traditional App Store method, and a new option that allows the USB Thumb Drive to be used to create the Installer partition. xMove Guide for USB Thumb Drive        1. Boot into existing Snow Leopard installation       2. Insert USB Thumb Drive       3. Run xMove - targeting blank partition or drive       4. Reboot and choose Installer       5. Install Lion Unfortunately, it is proving exceedingly difficult to boot the USB Thumb Drive directly. Because of the layout changes of the media in comparison to Snow Leopard, it's a multi-stage installation process necessitating changes to the bootloader. We are still actively testing and working on a...

UPHUCK WROTE: ## just booted and installed Lion (clean not upgrade) to my MacBook using the Retail Lion DVD I have created in minutes  >> btw I advice clean installs, not upgrades from Snow, also with upcoming iATKOS L1 release KEEP IN DATE HERE:  http://uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=18091&start=45

Introducing rBoot ,   the boot CD that works with Snow Leopard and Lion! It will even boot xMove created installer partitions. Available for download at  tonymacx86.com/downloads . Features: No kernel included - boots both 10.6.x Snow Leopard and 10.7.x Lion installations. Boots  xMove-created  10.7 Lion Installer- will NOT boot the 10.7 Lion USB Thumb Drive PCI Root graphics fix for Gigabyte motherboards - Asus, MSI, etc... may require PCIRootUID=0 at boot screen for full resolution Chimera 1.5.4  bootloader NOTE: iBoot is still our recommendation for initial installation and booting the Retail Snow Leopard 10.6 or 10.6 3 DVD. Please do not upload or redistribute rBoot to any other sites.   If this utility has helped you, please consider a  contribution  to support further rBoot development.  Thanks in advance, and enjoy! -tonymacx86 & MacMan

A user of MacEfiRom released a couple of tools for macs: 1) Upgrade utility to upgrade imac4,1 firmware to imac5,1, this allows you to upgrade imac4,1 with core2duo cpu and install more than 2GB memory, so you can install and use Lion on it 2) Upgrade utility to upgrade 2006 MacPro1,1 with firmware of MacPro2,1, this brings support for some CPUs to MP1,1 3) Tutorial for installing Chameleon on a Mac, so you can boot 64-bit kernel on a Mac with 32-bit efi and 64-bit cpu.

Last three 10.7.2 beta builds has same ATI drivers version, so no changes for 69×0. So, it’s likely we will not see anything new untill 10.7.3. Apple is never adding support for new cards durring beta tests of one osx version.(all betas of same build have same graphics cards support). netkas

A lot of manufacturers provide DOS only firmware updaters. If you have a dual boot system with Windows it’s a piece of cake. But the issue is how do you do this on a Hackintosh without Windows installed?  Well I have found a solution, FreeDOS, a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. What you need: USB drive greater than 16 MB FreeDOS Base CD Blank CD or CD-RW Installation procedure: Format the USB drive as a MBR/FAT volume Burn the FreeDOS Base CD Shut down OS X and disconnect all disk drives Boot computer while ensuring that Legacy USB support is enabled in the BIOS and USB drive is connected Boot from FreeDOS Base CD and follow instructions to install. It will install by default to the 1st drive it finds. In this case it’s the USB drive as it’s the only one connected. Shutdown and reconnect all disk drives. You now have a bootable “DOS” drive. This drive is bootable and can be read and written to in OS X. You can copy any DOS based programs on t...

A while ago after the xnu source for 10.7 came out I decided to patch up the source code to match up with what  meklort ‘s private kernel patcher module for Chameleon does for atom processors in addition to my little version overriding fix with Extensions.mkext overriding the kexts in kernelcache. He gave me permission to give out the equivalent changes his patcher module does, but only via kernel source. I didn’t post them just because I was mostly gone but since I’ve had free time (I’ve been idling on  IRC  lately) I decided to post this stuff. Here’s the kernel for 10.7.1, only patched for atom. Lemme list other things it does though. Binary:  mach_kernel_atom.10.7.1.bz2 Source diff:  10.7.1_atom.diff A few changes in it other than getting it to run on an atom processor: In OSKext.cpp, I ditched a goto so a kext in /Extra/Extensions.mkext or /Extra/Extensions/*.kext will not be disregarded if you are also loading kernelcache which also contains that same kext...

In the wake of  Mac  OS X Lion being announced, developers Nawcom and Meklort have announced Project v0ltr0n, which aims to be "a nice and easy retail solution for installing [Mac OS X Lion] onto PCs". Here's an excerpt of some of the features that they're aiming to provide through v0ltr0n:  The ability to install OS X 10.7 Retail DVDs OS X 10.7 retail install images onto hard disks with non-GUID partitions without issues. Integrated kext patching within the bootloader for kexts which need to be patched either through their Info.plist or binary. (based on a number of netbookinstaller�s features) Integrated kernel patching within the bootloader for all unsupported CPUs. As of now, just basic support for AMDs have been planned, but this will make things easier for unsupported Intel CPU people as well. Retail DVD sub-package injection and autoselection, just like ModCD/ModUSB, so your hardware support gets installed with the OS. SleepEnabler.kext will not need to be upd...

MacMan's done a major update to the  DSDT Database , adding verified edits for the latest BIOS versions of Gigabyte Socket 1155 motherboards. Here's a list of the Gigabyte motherboard DSDTs and BIOS versions recently updated: Gigabyte GA-H61-S3-F1  Gigabyte GA-H61-S3-F2  Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2-B3-F7  Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2-F1  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2-B3-F2  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2H-F1  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2H-F2  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2P-B3-F1  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2P-B3-F2  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2P-B3-F3  Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2V-B3-F5  Gigabyte GA-H61M-USB3-B3-F7  Gigabyte GA-H61M-USB3-B3-F8  Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3-F1  Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3-F2  Gigabyte GA-H67A-D3H-B3-F4  Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3-F6  Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3-F7  Gigabyte GA-HA65M-D2H-B3-F8  Gigabyte GA-P61-DS3-B3-F3  Gigabyte GA-P61-S3-B3-F4  Gigabyte GA-P61-USB3-B3-F8  Gigabyte GA-P67-DS3-B3-F2  Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3-F4  Gig...

We've recently figured out how to enable HDMI Audio on the Sandy Bridge Intel HD 3000 onboard graphics controller! This is a rather advanced procedure, and requires editing both your DSDT and the audio kexts. If you have a GA-H67N-USB3-B3 and want to test, or aren't up for the challenge, we've included pre-edited files at the end of this article. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion Gigabyte Socket 1155 H61, H67, or Z68 Motherboard  Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPU featuring HD 3000 onboard graphics Current Desktop Models: i3-2105, i3-2125, i5-2405S, i5-2500K, i7-2600K Chimera v1.5 or later - available in  MultiBeast 4.0: Lion Edition Mac mini 5,1 system definition - available in  MultiBeast 4.0: Lion Edition AppleHDA.kext 2.1.1 or later (10.7.1) If you've used AppleHDA Rollback, get a new 2.1.1  here Plist Editor - like  Plist Edit Pro   Hex Editor - like  Hex Fiend DSDT Editor - like  DSDTSE Kext Installer - like  KextBeast NOTE: Most Gigabyte H6...

Today  MultiBeast  was updated to version 4.0, specifically for Lion. MultiBeast 4.0: Lion Edition is ONLY for 10.7.x. For 10.6.x, use MultiBeast 3.9: Snow Leopard Edition. The latest versions are now available at  tonymacx86.com/downloads .  Please do not upload or redistribute MultiBeast to any other sites.  Full list of changes: Added Extension Migration Tool which copies the contents of /Extra/Extensions to /System/Library/Extensions and deletes /Extra/Extensions and /Extra/Extension.mkext. It will also add UseKernelCache=Yes to /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist Replaced Chimera v1.4.1 r877 with v1.5.4 r1394. This version adds GraphicsEnabler support for additional ATI and NVIDIA cards along with adding support for the Intel HD 3000 GPU in Sandy Bridge CPUs. Also includes olegpronin's Facetime fix for non-RAID volumes. You need to add SkipFTFix=Yes to /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist when booting from a RAID volume. Added to Customization -> Boot Option...

Apple has released a new seed of OS X Lion 10.7.2 along with a new beta of iCloud for Mac. The new build of Lion 10.7.2 update is tagged 11C48 and the iCloud for OS X Lion is updated to Beta 10. If you are a  developer  and have access to the  Apple Download Center  you can now  download  these updates. OS X Lion 10.7.2 Update (11C48) This pre-release version of OS X Lion  software  update 10.7.2 ( os_x_lion_10.7.2_update_11c48.dmg ) is an update to OS X Lion 10.7. If you installed a previous seed of OS X Lion 10.7.2, please run the included reversioner package ( os_x_lion_10.7.2_update_reversioner_11c48.zip  / os_x_lion_10.7.2_11c43_combo_updatereversioner.dmg  / os_x_lion_10.7.2_11c43_delta_updatereversioner.dmg ) followed by the OS X Lion 10.7.2 update without restarting your system. You should restart your system after  installing  the OS X Lion 10.7.2 Update. iCloud for OS X Lion beta 10 iCloud ( icloud_for_os_x_lion_beta_...

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 ...