*GUIDE* Mountain Lion on OLD UNSUPPORTED MACS!

[james341]

Na

 

[sega dude]

Will this work on the final release released today? (6/25/12)

 

[Buddygor]

Thanks a ton!!

Sadly, up until this week I have run on by an original iMac g4(!), and am happily soon getting a late 2006 MacBook, almost exact as the mid 2007 one you used! I am excited to do this now that I don't need a supported Mac, but I have a couple questions-

-Will this last forever, or will future app/OS X updates break the hack and ruin my system, or are these kexts and mods things Apple doesn't update?

-Will it run good? How does it run on your system? Choppy or smooth? I've gladly heard that the actual release of ML today is much less RAM intensive than Lion! Let's hope for the best!

Someone please answer my questions!

LOVE YOUR POST,
Noah

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I have a late 2006 macbook pro
can i install the new AppleStore Mountain Lion on my mac?

No.

 

[John.B]

I would love to try this on an unsupported computer, but the only unsupported computer, I plan to keep on Leopard.

Install to an external drive?

 

[Pendora]

I have installed ML on a Macbook2,1 with the 10.6.2 drivers. It does not work completely but until i have a new Mac good enough.
But I have a very strange problem. App Store and Message won't let me log in. App Store says it can not verify my Mac and Message says it has a problem logging me in.
Both applications work on my Mac Mini witch is support by ML.
Has anyone else have the same problem on a non supported Mac?

 

[hughjasswhole]

I have a late 2006 macbook pro
can i install the new AppleStore Mountain Lion on my mac?
is there some other instruction for the just out version?
i tried to download it from the apple store but it says that i can't run it on my mac.
this is my mac :

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I have this exact same machine (MacBookPro2,2) I installed mountain lion on an external drive for testing. It seemed to run fine and just as speedy as Lion except no proper video driver for the X1600. So at this point it is pretty useless. I tried installing the drivers from lion, I tried installing the hackintosh drivers, no joy. So other than no video acceleration it runs good. I have a feeling someone will fix us up a video driver so be hopeful. Sound worked after installing audio driver from lion. I didn't spend a whole lot of time with it but here are some other things I noticed didnt work: Screen brightness keys, keyboard backlight, sleep from apple menu, and sleep with the lid closed (that was the one that really made me think that Lion is the end for this MacBookPro).

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You do have to use a hacked installer, but it is very easy.

I tried three methods and this is the only one that worked for me.

http://att.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1404548

 

[hackerwayne]

Heres some bad news for X1600 and X1900 owners (MBP2,1, iMac4,1, 5,1)

1. Mountain Lion does NOT support 32bit kernel in the final release. (LP64 only, arch=i386, "3" and "2" on start-up won't work)

2. A highly required kext ATI1600Controller.kext does not support 64bit. Try loading it by going into Single User Mode, navigate to /system/library/extensions and type kextload ATI1600controller.kext. It will give you a nasty error.

3. Because of the reason above, Mountain Lion will only display Radeon X1600 8MB in about this Mac.

4. OpenGL, QE/CI don't work. Only frame buffer.

Solution.
1. Get ML to boot in i386/32bit kernel extension mode.
2. Find a 64bit version of ATI1600Controller.kext (not likely to be able to)
3. Try to load 32bit kernel extensions in LP64 kernel.

 

[x13gamer]

Heres some bad news for X1600 and X1900 owners (MBP2,1, iMac4,1, 5,1)

1. Mountain Lion does NOT support 32bit kernel in the final release. (LP64 only, arch=i386, "3" and "2" on start-up won't work)

2. A highly required kext ATI1600Controller.kext does not support 64bit. Try loading it by going into Single User Mode, navigate to /system/library/extensions and type kextload ATI1600controller.kext. It will give you a nasty error.

3. Because of the reason above, Mountain Lion will only display Radeon X1600 8MB in about this Mac.

4. OpenGL, QE/CI don't work. Only frame buffer.

Solution.
1. Get ML to boot in i386/32bit kernel extension mode.
2. Find a 64bit version of ATI1600Controller.kext (not likely to be able to)
3. Try to load 32bit kernel extensions in LP64 kernel.

So will there be any chance this will get sorted out in the next few days and will allow those of us running late 06' MBP to run it?

 

[SiskoKid]

This process doesn't work for me at all. I have the full final version of Mountain Lion not the preview which may be why this is so different.

I have Mountain Lion DMG that I downloaded from my laptop. I have an old Mac Pro 1,1 that has a newer graphics card (Radeon HD 4870) and I wanna try this process.

When I right click the app in the dmg, right off the bat I can't navigate to any folder called Shared Support or file named InstallESD.dmg

After a while I figured maybe the .app in the official Mountain Lion .dmg is the InstallESD.dmg so I went ahead and ran my terminal on it. It does nothing of note to it, and I can't navigate to any Packages Directory.

Any help on this would be rad or maybe an update to how to do this with a final Mountain Lion release.

 

[Buddygor]

No!

I really want to do this. Like I said in my previous post, I am finally getting an Intel mac , and don't want it to be behind already. I might be mistaken, but HackerWayne, remember the old LeopardAssist app that told the Leopard installer that the Mac was 867MHz. Perhaps it just won't run, but if we make the installer think it's a higher GPU like the NVidia 9200M, or maybe even tell it it's a Late 2008 MacBook (in my late 2006 MacBook's case). Again, I'm no hacker, and maybe there is another way around, but hopefully we can get something here. Thanks a lot for the original post, and maybe you can find another way to keep up with this final build.

If there is a way, maybe some newbie instructions?

Thanks a TON all of you guys!
Noah Budgor


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Just re-read your post HackerWayne, and you say bad news for X100 chipsets. Does that mean that my MacBook's GMA 950 will work, or is that even more unsupported .

 

[hughjasswhole]

Installing is the easy part. No major workaround. It is the video card driver. It simply doesn't work in 64 bit. Someone needs to adapt one.

It's like putting diesel in a gas engine. It doesn't work.

 

[Buddygor]

Installing is the easy part. No major workaround. It is the video card driver. It simply doesn't work in 64 bit. Someone needs to adapt one.

It's like putting diesel in a gas engine. It doesn't work.

Hmm... dang it... Maybe stick to Lion.. but I want iMessages and Notification Center and Twitter/FaceBook integration and the new Safari (unless that's coming in an update) and all that. Sadly, it doesn't look like that's happening. Maybe the next hack is to get those on Lion! Well, hopefully we can sort this out.

Noah Budgor

 

[hughjasswhole]

[/COLOR]Just re-read your post HackerWayne, and you say bad news for X100 chipsets. Does that mean that my MacBook's GMA 950 will work, or is that even more unsupported .

Ya....funny kind of....It seems that the GMA950 is doable and our better X1600s aren't

Of course it needs to be a Core2Duo MacBook. Still has to be 64 bit.

Install it anyways and check it out....Works good enough for a test drive.

 

[Xsanda]

Air 1,1

I have a MacBook Air 1,1
what kexts do I need to use?
Thanks!

 

[danpwright]

Mac Mini and Mountain Lion

Dear all,

I have been following this thread with great interest, having successfully already installed OS X.7 Lion on my Mac Mini (early 2006 with upgraded processor) within a week of it coming out thanks to this forum. Whilst that only involved a firewire install from another mac and then editing of the platformsupport.plist, it seems this next upgrade might be a little harder to do.

From what I can gather, I need:

1. A USB flash pen installer (hacked)
2. Certain kext files to copy and paste to System/Library/Extensions
3. To copy and paste the serial of my mac to platformsupport.plist

I have a Mac Mini 1,1; Intel 950 GMA. Core 2 duo processor (upgraded)

Any help much appreciated!

 

[Buddygor]

Ya....funny kind of....It seems that the GMA950 is doable and our better X1600s aren't

Of course it needs to be a Core2Duo MacBook. Still has to be 64 bit.

Install it anyways and check it out....Works good enough for a test drive.

Great! it's the higher-end 2GHz C2D, so I'm good there. So what your saying is that the GMA 950 has no problems like the X1600? Does it already have drivers or what? And do I just use the original post or something specia for the public release?

Thanks!
Noah Budgor

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Ya....funny kind of....It seems that the GMA950 is doable and our better X1600s aren't

Of course it needs to be a Core2Duo MacBook. Still has to be 64 bit.

Install it anyways and check it out....Works good enough for a test drive.

Oh and another thing- IS my MacBook 64-bit? It's a late 2006 and EveryMac says it's 32-bit, but all C2Ds are 64-bit right? Let's hope so! Also, MacTracker says it's a 64-bit Merom chip. Maybe it's a 64-bit processor, but OS X won't let it run 64-bit processes or somewhat? Hmm. Again, let's hope

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A THIRD thing, I would want to use ML as my only OS. Is that practical, or not? Would it be buggy it break with updates?

 

[hughjasswhole]

Buggy and subject to breaks. This upgrade is probably more than Apple just crossing off the bottom macs because the performance wasn't up to par and leaving us to find a workaround. What I have here seems more like a hackintosh with having to mess with the kexts and whatnot, which is fun and all but not what I want in my production machine. I will keep watching with great interest, hopefully someone will come out with a sweet driver for the X1600.

ps--that being said, Apple could have included all that crap that my MacBookPro needed, THANKS FOR NOTHING APPLE, JERKOFFS!!! (just kidding)

 

[Buddygor]

Sad face :-(

Alright, I guess I'm sticking with Lion.

Noah

 

[Mautz001]

Hay pendora, how did you installed it? I always get an error with the boot.efi. Used this method:
http://att.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1404548


Is there any other way to install it on MacBook2,1?


Thanks

 

[sorryiwasdreami]

Dear all,

I have been following this thread with great interest, having successfully already installed OS X.7 Lion on my Mac Mini (early 2006 with upgraded processor) within a week of it coming out thanks to this forum. Whilst that only involved a firewire install from another mac and then editing of the platformsupport.plist, it seems this next upgrade might be a little harder to do.

From what I can gather, I need:

1. A USB flash pen installer (hacked)
2. Certain kext files to copy and paste to System/Library/Extensions
3. To copy and paste the serial of my mac to platformsupport.plist

I have a Mac Mini 1,1; Intel 950 GMA. Core 2 duo processor (upgraded)

Any help much appreciated!

I second this. Any help would be fantastic on 2006 mac mini 1,1 upgraded to 2,1 with 10.7.4

 

[aerSq]

Help, it doesn't work, I did everything you said from step 5-7, but still not able to boot into it, I am desperate because I already erased my internal hd now my Mac won't work, so help. On start up it shows a prohibited sign and if I press command-v it says this version of Mac OS x is not supported on this platform Mac-f22788c8

You didn't follow the instructions if you didn't backup first... If you did backup just restore from your backup. If not you may just need to go back to your operating system from before such as Lion or Snow Leopard.

 

[Vo3Dyx]

Whats the current progress with x3100 driver? Installing ML is not a big deal, but its useless without graphical acceleration

 

[ariel1matrix]

I have this kinde problem:

"Can not find the additional components required to install OS X."

I have a macbook 3.1 with C2D and X3100, the system from Appstore.

 

[EnricoBaradJ]

Same problem

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