652 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Hi, I have tried many times in the past to get my hardware to work with OSX on it with little varying success with slow progress but progress none the less. Fixed a kernal panic myself when auto mounting .dmg's. Fixes no keyboard found after install, fixed install failed. Fixed wifi/ AirPort problem, then audio stopped working. I love Apple so here I am back, this is my annual holiday. I try once or twice a year to get this damn amazing OS to work on my cheap ass hardware. If I had the money, of course I know a Mac runs better on a Genuine Mac, and it is among my goals to achieve having money to buy one. Although I have accomplished getting an iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and an iPad 2. I have over 100 Apps on my Windows 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate install but I'm willing to start over if I can get OSx86 10.7.2 working on my main machine. Here are my specs, custom built. Motherboard: Asrock x58 Supercomputer CPU: i7 920 RAM: 24GB of Kingston memory GPU: GeForce GTX 275 - NVIDIA C:\ Drive: KingSton SSD Now 64GB F:\ 1.5TB 3GB/s HDD G:\ 3TB 3GB/s HDD 750w PSU DVD RW+/ - 7 cooling fans, other: please ask and I will promptly reply. Be honest, do I have a chance at getting this to work on my system? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizZ Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Supercomputer, rofl. Anyway, try using a distro first for starting iAtkos for example. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/#findComment-1770313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenCop Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Yeah, your in good shape. That hardware looks like it will be pretty much 100% working in the end. I'd recommend doing a retail install with an actual Snow Leopard disk, and do the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]+[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method, as it's the preferred method nowadays. If you do have a Snow Leopard retail DVD, you can follow this great guide here from tonymacx86: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibo...ac-os-x-on.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/#findComment-1770379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
652 Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 I'm getting ready to do this in the next couple of days, the last time I tried this, I wasn't able to get a kext for the x58 chipset. Do I need this and is it available? Advice if I should worry about this or not, also the rare kexts I was able to find, I could not figure out how to install them. Everyone seems to give a lot a varying advice. I am a Genius when it comes to Windows and PCs, but I am kind of stumped with some of this stuff, I'm not sure if it's harder, different, or this stuff is just poorly documented. But please stupefy everything for me. I work hard to understand and learn quickly but don't assume I will know all the Mac terminology. I'm still learning but I've only had small steps of progress as opposed to leaps and bounds with Windows systems even though it's a horrible buggy, slow, flawed virus ridden platform. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/#findComment-1770528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 main things u will need to keep eye on is Chameleon 2.1 bootloader that loads /Extra/dsdt.aml (hardware faking of bios descriptions chameleon reads this file instead of motherboard hardware description) /Extra/smbios.plist (fakes the model of mac board and serial and rom revision) and /Extra/Extensions/FakeSMC.kext (fakes the SMC device in macs) can be done from USB properly built as install disk from another mac with a snow leopard retail 10.6.0 or 10.6.3 .dmg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/#findComment-1770530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
652 Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 Okay, I just read the tutorial that SvenCop has provided me. I noticed that it is for Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I want Lion 10.7.2 Please advise Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/#findComment-1770537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 you need os x to make a lion usb so start by making 2 partitions. and install snow on one, then lion on second. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/272017-i-want-to-install-lion-onto-my-supercomputer/#findComment-1770646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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