drm1990 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I have had a hackintosh rig for about 2 years now. I currently run mountain lion on my desktop but recently bought a macbook pro of similar specs in hopes of having a portable version of my desktop. I have had clones of my drives on an external where in the past I could just plug into any normal apple computer and boot from the external and basically run an exact copy of my desktop on any apple computer with no issues. That was when I was using snow leopard and I never had any issues doing it that way until the newer apple hardware became incompatible with snow leopard. Fast forward to now I attempted to do the same thing but with a clone of my mountain lion set up on this mid 2012 macbook pro which also runs mountain lion. It loads up, apple symbol comes up and then it just gets stuck. I deleted all the extra kexts that would normally not be found on normal apple hardware and still it just does not load. What could be the issue? I cant be the only person to ever attempt running a clone of their hackintosh on a normal mac. I tried putting the clone on a partition on this macbooks internal drive and deleting the extra folder and extra extensions and keep getting the same results. Im trying to avoid using migration assistant since that is a simple solution that will cause headaches with programs I use and things that I do. I need an exact copy of my current rig on this computer. So please refrain from asking me why I don't just use migration assistant. I just need to know what I need to delete in order to run a clone of my hackintosh on normal apple hardware. I apologize for typing so much I just wanted to give as much background info as possible. Could it be something related to the EFI partition on the hackintosh clone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 when you use "startup disk" from system preferences, choose that, then after it shuts down, before it restarts, hold command-v untill you see verbose output... post screenshot where it stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drm1990 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 I restarted and went to get the verbose mode log and it just loaded up on the cloned drive somehow with no issue. Lol not going to question it I guess. Appreciate it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Now try that with a cloned Windows installation! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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