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There seem to be an issue with building a bootable USB with 10.8.3. At least with my graphics card (Radeon 6870) the boot stops with a white screen. I don't know of any way to solve this so make sure you don't have this issue before deleting your <10.8.3 "Install Mac OS X" app.

Upgrading to 10.8.3: 1. Upgrade, 2. Rerun finalize

10.8.2 works without issues on my system, in case anyone is wondering :)

0nn0, on , said:I've tried before, but it still failed. @tseug: Do you have a solution for my issues? My only solution is to follow step 1 which tells you to buy Mountain Lion. If you, for any reason, do not follow this step you are on your own.

This method was created (and tested) for the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard but it should be relatively easy to modify for any other motherboard. You will be creating a Boot USB that can be used to install OS X Mountain Lion on a Hackintosh (or a genuine mac for that matter). Clean install Prerequisites A USB drive (8 GB) or a spare partition. We'll assume you'll use a USB device here An install partition for OS X Mountain Lion. Let's call it MountainLion A DSDT.aml (optional) v2.1: install.zip Directions Buy and download Mac OS X Mountain Lion from the App Store. In Disk Utility, format the USB as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and give it some name: We'll use Boot here but it can be anything. Make sure that "GUID Partition Table" is selected under "Options..." If you already have a custom DSDT.aml you wish to use, add it to install/Extra/. Note that if you add a custom DSDT, it must be named DSDT.a...

Use ALC885HDA_Lion_MLion_V1.00.zip from here. It works for me with layout id 12. That is,Copy Platforms.xml.zlib and layout12.xml.zlib to /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext/Contents/Resources/ Copy ALC885HDA.kext to /System/Library/Extensions Edit DSDT as described in the readme touch /System/Library/Extensions reboot

kurt, on , said:Nevermind, got it to work! Also, please tell me the OP will update this script for Mountain Lion once it is released later this month? OP, FTW on this script. Works perfectly on my GA-P35-DS4! I will probably update it for Mountain Lion. Although, if the rumour holds (launch date july 25) it probably won't be on launch day as I am on holiday at the time. FavleX, on , said:..any suggestions to solve that? In the mean time an old partition 10.5 is bootable..can I copy something from that to solve? Or I relaunch the finalize script..? You might need additional kexts and/or changing org.chameleon.Boot.plist . I don't know how to deal with hardware I can't test.

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How to update to 10.7.4: 1. Update (Combo or Software update). 2. Boot into USB 3. Rerun finalize 4. Reboot into your installation. Done. kernel.log gives some error messages regarding SMC::smcReadKeyAction and SMC::smcInitHelper in 10.7.4 but it doesn't seem to have any adverse effects.

This method was created (and tested) for the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard but it should be relatively easy to modify for any other motherboard. It's a CLI at the moment for this reason but a GUI might exist at some point (Especially if someone else makes one ;) ). You will be creating a Boot USB that can be used to install OS X Lion on a hackintosh (or a genuine mac for that matter). Note that the current version uses a Chameleon with the so called Facetime and iCloud fix which is reported to cause trouble for RAID installs Clean install Ingredients A USB drive (8 GB) or a spare partition. We'll assume you'll use a USB device here An install partition for OS X Lion. Let's call it Lion A DSDT.aml (optional) v1.3:  install.tar.gz 1.39MB 1717 downloads Directions Buy and download Mac OS X Lion from the App Store. In Disk Utility, format the USB as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and give it some name: We'll use USB Boot here but it can be anyt...