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d00d, on 06 August 2012 - 12:39 AM, said:

I think there must be some problem with how you created the USB boot drive. I hadn't tried for the Mountain Lion GM before, but I tried it tonight. I did have to replace the Packages alias with the Packages directory, and I also had to copy mach_kernel. I don't have time now to do a complete installation, but I did run the installer until it got to the screen that says "Select the disk where you want to install OS X". I'm pretty sure it would continue on to do a normal installation. What happened when you booted sounds like what happens when you boot from a recovery partition.

d00d, on 06 August 2012 - 12:05 AM, said:

When you say "the installer", do you mean running the "Install OS X Mountain Lion" app, or running a regular installer as in OS X before Lion? I don't know how to get the Install app to work on a hackintosh. However, the app contains a disk image which can be used to make a regular, old-style install disc or USB stick. The disc image is InstallESD.dmg in ".../Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport". I wrote these note to myself for making a bootable USB stick:

Installer app has InstallESD.dmg in SharedSupport.
Mount ESD image- has BaseSystem.dmg at root.
USB installer volume starts with BaseSystem.dmg contents.
In System/Installation replace Packages alias with packages from ESD image.
Also, copy mach_kernel from ESD image to root.

Then of course you have to add a minimal set of kexts so OS X can boot on your machine. You can tell Chameleon to not use the kernel cache, and it will read all the extensions at boot time, so you won't have to rebuild the cache until Mountain Lion can do it.

d00d, on 03 August 2012 - 03:52 PM, said:

If you don't have a recovery partition on your hard drive, the installer attempts to create one. It does that by slightly shrinking the partition you're about to install OS X on, so it can create a small recovery partition. What the "some features are not supported" message really means is that the installer detected that you have a non-standard partition organization,  and it's not willing to modify it in order to add a recovery partition. I'm not sure what the connection is with File Vault, but if you continue you should get an otherwise normal installation of 10.8. I don't think that message has anything to do with 10.8 not booting for you.

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Maybe you already know this, but booting from RAID is more complex than normal booting. Each RAID partition (even ones without OS X) has an adjacent 128MiB Apple_Boot partition associated with it, and the initial booting uses files on the boot partition. I believe the boot partition has enough of OS X to get RAID support loaded, so that the main partition can then be booted. I'm surprised the installer didn't just update everything correctly, but if that's new information for you, maybe it will help you figure it out.

myrorym, on 16 July 2012 - 11:50 PM, said:

I like this USB device as an alternative to getting built-in audio to work: http://www.amazon.co...uct/B000KW2YEI/ It's USB codec is supported in OS X. It works well, although I discovered the optical output is mono, not stereo. The headphone output is stereo.

For other hardware alternatives, if you want Firewire 800, or built-in Firewire doesn't work, this card works with OS X: http://www.amazon.co...uct/B002S53IG8/ It has a Firewire header as well as the external connectors.

Also, for network problems there's this card that d00d recommended: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16833106033 It's supported by IONetworkFamily after a simple patch to add the device id in the Intel82574L plugin.