besweeet Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 For the full tutorial, refer to http://thetecherra.com/2012/02/17/tutorial-run-os-x-mountain-lion-10-8-on-a-pc-hackintoshosx86-from-start-to-finish/. Basically, you'll be preparing your USB flash drive to install 10.8 with on your computer. It's basically the same process as with Lion, but with a few tweaks and stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sselshamy Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) Installation succeeded but when booting from fresh installed ML drive it gives me waiting for root device [solved] but after disconnecting my main SSD and let the secondary HDD ML a primary HD, boot successfully and everything working after installing ethernet & audio kexts. I am using now chameleon 2011 and the original OSInstall & OSInstall.mpkg because the attached 2 files doesn't work. Edited July 15, 2012 by sselshamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 Installation succeeded but when booting from fresh installed ML drive it gives me waiting for root device You'll have to find some drivers for your chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cochon Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Thanks besweet for the info. I partition my usb with MBR, install run very well Post Install, I copy my dsdt.aml, org.chameleon.Boot.plist to /Extra folder, the only to make it boot I have to set UseKernelCache=No Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucinter Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 I followed the guide and everything went well in the first part. But after booting and selecting language, I get: "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer" and two choices: restart and restore from Time Machine." Anyone knows why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 You need a proper (supported mac) smbios.plist file in your /Extra folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 I followed the guide and everything went well in the first part. But after booting and selecting language, I get: "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer" and two choices: restart and restore from Time Machine." Anyone knows why? What nyolc8 said. I had the exact same issue, and picking a MacBook Pro SMBIOS worked fine. This was mentioned in step 5 of part 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucinter Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Yup, it works great, thanks! I've used all the kexts from Lion and I encountered no problem so far. Is it just me, or the overall speed is slightly higher than Lion? The whole system seems snappier, faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 Yup, it works great, thanks! I've used all the kexts from Lion and I encountered no problem so far. Is it just me, or the overall speed is slightly higher than Lion? The whole system seems snappier, faster. Well, Mountain Lion is more of a service pack for Lion (with the addition of a few new features), so that's probably why . But yes, it doesn't seem noticeably faster than more stable than even 10.7.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucinter Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Any luck with VoodooHDA? I tried with several versions, but all of them cause KP. Also, I know it's weird, I can't find Gatekeeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah101 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Any luck with VoodooHDA? I tried with several versions, but all of them cause KP. Also, I know it's weird, I can't find Gatekeeper. I think Gatekeeper is not built into this distribution, but I know it is listed on the developer website from what I have read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 18, 2012 Author Share Posted February 18, 2012 Any luck with VoodooHDA? I tried with several versions, but all of them cause KP. Also, I know it's weird, I can't find Gatekeeper. I used the latest version of VoodooHDA that comes with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Worked fine for me on ALC892. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtemp Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Not working for me. I barely kick-off the boot loader, and then get a kernel panic: message like "no driver found (ACPI .....)". I have no problem with Snow Leopard or Lion installs though. Any boot params I could try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metacollin Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Hmm... I usually see that error when the kernel or something else critical is suffering form data corruption. Aside from trying to boot into single user mode (-s), the only advice I can give you is to try recopying everything. This is a long shot, but I've accidentally booted from my hard drive thinking I was booting from my thumb drive a couple times. If you have chameleon installed on both and don't always stick to the same boot device priorities, it's definitely a possibility. Since 10.8 requires chameleon r1820 or greater, it might KP like this when an older version of chameleon is messing with a large cat it hasn't been trained for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxor Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks for the guide!! Was able to boot fine into ML. Didnt get to coy my DSDT yet, might do later. Only issue I had was that all iCloud services were not working, saying that it couldnt connect to servers. Any ideas? I rememeber having that issue months ago in Lion, switching bootloader fixed the issue back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtemp Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Okay. I redid the USB stick from scratch, and I can now at least get ML installed. I'll play around with it tomorrow, but I thought I'd share this... In order to get to the ML install screen, I had to use a boot line that read: -v PCIRootUID=1 npci=0x2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks for the guide!! Was able to boot fine into ML. Didnt get to coy my DSDT yet, might do later. Only issue I had was that all iCloud services were not working, saying that it couldnt connect to servers. Any ideas? I rememeber having that issue months ago in Lion, switching bootloader fixed the issue back then. Dang, that's odd. iCloud and everything around it has been working perfectly for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansaku Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 So I followed the guide, used my DSDT so I did not place NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in S/L/E, and was able to boot, however I too get stuck at "Still waiting for root device". Tried deleting DSDT and used the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext, still gets stuck, same spot. I can't see how it is a chipset problem, my healthy SL drive only needs FakeSMC and an edited DSDT to work. My system specs are in my sig, what am I missing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucinter Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I used the latest version of VoodooHDA that comes with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Worked fine for me on ALC892. Yeap, it worked for me also. Many thanks for the guide and all the hints! However, a lot of applications just crashes when I open them: Mail, Preview, Reminders, Notes and Game Center (as far as I noticed, there may be more of them, but seems to be only Apple apps), although I remember that Mail used to open the first few times after the install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikingblack Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Hi, I used the guide to make my USB drive. But when I boot it, USB doesn't work. I've replaced IOUSB kexts from Lion onto the drive but it didn't work. I'm sure a DSDT would fix it, but when I put on on the drive it doesn't boot. Any help? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 So I followed the guide, used my DSDT so I did not place NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in S/L/E, and was able to boot, however I too get stuck at "Still waiting for root device". Tried deleting DSDT and used the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext, still gets stuck, same spot. I can't see how it is a chipset problem, my healthy SL drive only needs FakeSMC and an edited DSDT to work. My system specs are in my sig, what am I missing? The last time that happened to me was when I had an old AMD + nForce desktop. Maybe you need some chipset drivers of some sort? And to be honest, I've never used a DSDT for any hackintosh I've done. Hi, I used the guide to make my USB drive. But when I boot it, USB doesn't work. I've replaced IOUSB kexts from Lion onto the drive but it didn't work. I'm sure a DSDT would fix it, but when I put on on the drive it doesn't boot. Any help? Thanks. How far did -v even go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikingblack Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 The last time that happened to me was when I had an old AMD + nForce desktop. Maybe you need some chipset drivers of some sort? And to be honest, I've never used a DSDT for any hackintosh I've done. How far did -v even go? OK i got it to boot with the DSDT, but no USB. -v boots it now. Thanks for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabhunter Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 I'm getting a kp when booting off the usb installer. It's a problem with acpi. I have tried using acpi=off I have tried putting my Extra folder from Lion on the usb I have tried deleting smbios.plist and reinstalling Chameleon ( the ML one) Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 I'm getting a kp when booting off the usb installer. It's a problem with acpi. I have tried using acpi=off I have tried putting my Extra folder from Lion on the usb I have tried deleting smbios.plist and reinstalling Chameleon ( the ML one) Any ideas? Can't help you without knowing what -v is telling you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabhunter Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Can't help you without knowing what -v is telling you. Unable to find driver for this platform: ACPI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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