[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac

[H2SO4]

So awesome! nice job, and even nicer write-up
you rule!

How long did the, 'Restoring original installation system...' part take for you?

 

[indiecraig]

No problems with ftp mount here. Try it this way and see if it gives any errors. You may have to change the ftp:// to ftp://username:password@device/. Mounting by finder worked fine for me as well.

BlackBook:Volumes me$ mkdir /Volumes/test
BlackBook:Volumes me$ mount_ftp ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/ /Volumes/test/
BlackBook:Volumes me$ ls /Volumes/test/
KBHelp PSS Services deskapps
MISC Products Softlib developr
MISC1 ResKit bussys peropsys

Thanks for your help. I'm not sure what to do with that. I'm guessing I should enter it into Terminal or something, but don't have the time or volition to work on this more than I have already.

I have decided to change my usage of the network drive, and just archive large files to it using Cyberduck (which works fine). Everything else seems 100% so far, so I'm happy with the performance of ML and will be using it as my main OS from now on. Fingers crossed all of my apps work properly! Hopefully SMB/FTP will be fixed at some point in the future, but not a big deal if not.

 

[Jakimo]

I just tried to boot into the ML Recovery partition. I boot in Verbose mode. Didn't work for me...

Does anyone else see a ML Recovery partition? Have you used it?

thanks

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I just tried to boot into the ML Recovery partition. I boot in Verbose mode. Didn't work for me...

Does anyone else see a ML Recovery partition? Have you used it?

I just discovered how to open up the Debug menu of Disk Utility:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

Using this you can enable, Show all partitions. So it turns out MLPostFactor doesn't seem to create a recovery partition.

Anyone find a way to do so?

 

[Superduty]

hi guys,

first post here... what can I say... I'm a lurker.

First off, much thanks to Hackerwayne and MLforall... you guys rock!

(honestly, i'm stunned that this poor old mini i dug from the boneyard (okay, the garage) is now running ml, and am completely shocked that it's this stable!!)

the only problem I have is that I can't seem to get mail and notes running after installation; i installed 10.8 with Mlpostfactor (I had the .app stored from my MB installation)... everything else is running great... any ideas?

thanks!

 

[chaliwang]

Succeed Thanks Wayne

Dear Wayne：

V0.3 -> 10.8.4 Combo update succeed!

iSight lagging issue is fixed

MacBook2,1 & MacBook4,1

10.7.5 use V0.22 , Install to ML partition (10.8.3)

then 10.8.3 use 10.8.4 Combo Update to 10.8.4

Use USB to Reboot (USB HD is use V0.3 to create Install）

In Install mode , use V0.3 to fix ML partition

All Succeed , Thanks Again

 

[Needleroozer]

Looks like you got a corrupted download. I haven't seen a formal post of the md5 for the download, but here's what mine is. If yours doesn't match, you're probably corrupted. Can someone else confirm the hash?

BlackBookATA me$ openssl md5 MLPostFactorV0.3
MD5(MLPostFactorV0.3)= 77b8f847fdfe507ef457323da52f28f3

Well, my MD5 doesn't match yours, but the MD5 of the download from the osxhackers site is also different...

From MLforAll's:
MD5 (MLPostFactorV0.3.zip)= 7ca1ca6980e1276dfec3d053e496bec6

And then from osxhackers's:
MD5 (MLPostFactorV0.3.zip) = fff5942ecb56e50ae6281658b38a98d2

Weird. The osxhackers one seems just fine, though.

 

[Doritez]

2nd Kernel Panic

Sat Jun 8 23:51:47 2013
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2c5457): Kernel trap at 0x5d63e9c7, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0xbaddecaf, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0xbaddecaf, EBX: 0x0842d000, ECX: 0x0969ea00, EDX: 0x5d176f00
CR2: 0xbaddecaf, EBP: 0x5663bcf8, ESI: 0x0969ea00, EDI: 0x14d82000
EFL: 0x00010286, EIP: 0x5d63e9c7, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5663bb48 : 0x21e092 (0x6c62dc 0x5663bb6c 0x229fd0 0x0)
0x5663bb78 : 0x2c5457 (0x6d3fdd 0x5d63e9c7 0xe 0x6d3d4a)
0x5663bc38 : 0x2dc715 (0x5663bc60 0x5663bc48 0x5663bc58 0x2dca08)
0x5663bc58 : 0x5d63e9c7 (0xe 0x7f20048 0x56630010 0x5cd10010)
0x5663bcf8 : 0x5d6135ea (0x78b6dc0 0x969ea00 0x5663bd18 0x8410300)
0x5663bd18 : 0x562b6209 (0x87a7800 0x969ea00 0x0 0x0)
0x5663bd48 : 0x5cce06d7 (0x87a7800 0x147611e0 0x0 0x0)
0x5663bd78 : 0x5cce2c72 (0x7848000 0x87a7800 0x562b6120 0x147611e0)
0x5663bdd8 : 0x5cce06d7 (0x7848000 0x842d000 0x0 0x0)
0x5663be08 : 0x5cd367b9 (0x7848000 0x7848000 0x5cce291c 0x842d000)
0x5663be58 : 0x5cd36e3f (0x7848000 0x8425e80 0x0 0x0)
0x5663bed8 : 0x5cd37552 (0x7848000 0x8421600 0x0 0x0)
0x5663bef8 : 0x5cd399f4 (0x7848000 0x2 0x5663bf18 0x65d878)
0x5663bf28 : 0x67977e (0x7848000 0x8412880 0x1 0x2ba036)
0x5663bf68 : 0x6785ab (0x8412880 0xfd92188 0x0 0x156e5a8c)
0x5663bfa8 : 0x678424 (0x83ea440 0x75b838 0x83ea45c 0x8e117e8)
0x5663bfc8 : 0x2bdd5c (0x83ea440 0x0 0x10 0x9647d50)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.1)[ACF52DAA-24ED-4520-A3A1-4B4C3C53C8A5]@0x5ccdd000->0x5cd2dfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8E36FF3C-9339-3DA4-9CB6-78561C658B03]@0x562e1000
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI(5.1)[54F17B30-091E-4AC7-8D20-9DE0E830FBD3]@0x5cd2e000->0x5cd3cfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8E36FF3C-9339-3DA4-9CB6-78561C658B03]@0x562e1000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.1.0)[ACF52DAA-24ED-4520-A3A1-4B4C3C53C8A5]@0x5ccdd000
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily(4.0.8f17)[C4991FB6-0061-4641-8604-646B22C4E455]@0x5d604000->0x5d675fff
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController(4.0.8f17)[E34DF268-0A50-4B13-AB46-882328FDCC94]@0x562b3000->0x562bdfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily(4.0.8f17)[C4991FB6-0061-4641-8604-646B22C4E455]@0x5d604000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.1.0)[ACF52DAA-24ED-4520-A3A1-4B4C3C53C8A5]@0x5ccdd000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
MLPostFactor V0.3

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0: Mon Jan 30 18:40:46 PST 2012; root:xnu-2050.1.12~1/RELEASE_I386
Kernel UUID: 4BF8CB87-8FD4-3088-A324-95AF6103FFDC
System model name: MacBook4,1 (Mac-F22788A9)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 77013875033481
last loaded kext at 36911626084557: com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 10.0 (addr 0x73f40000, size 376832)
last unloaded kext at 25301550062510: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.1.22 (addr 0x56325000, size 12288)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 10.0
com.apple.nke.asp_tcp 7.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.59
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.9
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.1.13
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMAX3100 7.0.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.2.0a22
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothSCOAudioDriver 4.0.8f17
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothA2DPAudioDriver 4.0.8f17
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 5.0.0d8
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.7
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.28
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.2d2
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 5.0.0d8
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelGMAX3100FB 7.0.4
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.8f17
com.apple.BootCache 34
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad 227.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 227.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 227.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 312
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.0
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.8.9
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.1.0
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.2.2b1
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 500.36.11
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 5.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 185.0.0
com.apple.security.quarantine 2
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 3.2.30
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 185.0.0
com.apple.security.SecureRemotePassword 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 80.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.3
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.2.0a22
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.6fc11
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6
com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.0.18
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.0.18
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 5.0.0d8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.4
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.1.5d0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.2.0a22
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.2.0a22
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.3d2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.4
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 4.0.8f17
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.8f17
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 5.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 3.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.0
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.4.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.2.0
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 500.4
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.6.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.security.sandbox 220
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 331.7
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

 

[hackerwayne]

How about dropbox? MLPostFactorV0.3.zip

Take down your link please. Its considered as piracy :x

 

[LuisN]

Recovery Partition

I just tried to boot into the ML Recovery partition. I boot in Verbose mode. Didn't work for me...

Does anyone else see a ML Recovery partition? Have you used it?

thanks

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I just discovered how to open up the Debug menu of Disk Utility:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

Using this you can enable, Show all partitions. So it turns out MLPostFactor doesn't seem to create a recovery partition.

Anyone find a way to do so?

Here's what I did:
1. Cloned my original Lion partition to an external usb disk with 3 partition in it, one for Install, one for Lion and one for ML.
2. booting from the external disk into lion, I installed mlpostfactor into the external disk "install" partition.
3. rebooting from install partition, installed ML into the partition I created in the external disk.
4. After having a working system, I partitioned my internal drive with only one partition and created a recovery partition with Carbon Copy Cloner (disk center in windows menu).
5. cloned my external drive ML partition to my internal drive.
6. all working.

Att.: My recovery partition is LION, but it works with back to my mac and location services and for disk maintenance.
Don't forget to also clone the external drive "Install" partition just in case you need it for upgrading or rescue.

 

[MacTyke]

Successfully managed to install ML 10.8.4 on my MacPro1,1 with upgraded Radeon HD 3870. Only problem was the -- already mentioned -- unexpected "success" and hang after install. Ran MLPF after that and managed to boot ML. Cool.

What I experienced was that the UI is very slow. Safari lags (not flickering) as hell, opening a finder window reminds me at my old PowerBook G4 -- performance-wise. Seems that ML is somehow using some kind of "generic SVGA/XVGA driver", not HW acceleration. A single web page in Safari made the whole Mac completely unresponsive.

What is really sad -- and this seems to be unresolvable while using the DP1 32 bit kernel I think -- is that tools like "purge" (which is definitely needed on a 4GB machine) don't work.

I have this issue too. MacPro 1,1 HD4870. Any solutions out there? It's almost unusable.

 

[H2SO4]

Stuck at spinning gear...?

If anybody has any input I'd appreciate it, so here goes;

Downloaded Lion and installed 10.7.4 upon which I immediately updated to 10.7.5 via software update.

On the same physical disc, Downloaded MLPF 0.3 from 'http://www.osxhackers.com/Download.html' and the complete 10.8.4 installer from the App Store using a supported Mac, (transferred it to the applications folder along with MLPF).
Ran MLPF and installed it upon a 19.87 GB Mac OSX Extended journaled partition called install, (20GB was actually chosen using DU), all appeared well.
Rebooted using option selecting the now present EFI Boot partition and got as far as the spinning gear an no further, (even after 2 hours)...... hard reset the Mac to get to a usable OS.

Any ideas........?

 

[H2SO4]

read post #1

I must be stupid. Or blind.
I've read post 1 a number of times and am still missing whatever it is.........

 

[gleepskip]

Take down your link please. Its considered as piracy :x

I deleted the contents at the link days ago. I didn't bother to remove the URL from the post because it had already been quoted by someone else.

 

[nylock10]

Every time an update is released, do I need to download the full Mountain Lion installer in my applications folder? For example, once 10.8.5 comes out will I need to download the full installer from the App Store so I can patch my Installer partition? The instructions are a little hazy.

Also, I successfully got Mountain Lion running on a first generation Intel iMac! I had to replace the Core Duo processor with an Intel T7200 Core 2 Duo, though.

 

[iGoogleBiH]

I have a problem with recovery partition :/
For some reason it is still Lion recovery partition - it hasnt been updated so i can't use Find my Mac :/
Any sugestions?

 

[louielui]

I'm in the same boat.

I must be stupid. Or blind.
I've read post 1 a number of times and am still missing whatever it is.........

I boot from the Install partition and it just hangs there with the little cog at the bottom of the apple logo. Is there a permission or setting I'm missing?

 

[andreas79]

could you please post a step by step guide on how to update to 10.8.4 from 10.8.3 that i use now,i haven't really figured out what i have to do...

 

[TV21]

Download links not working?

Did I miss something?

None of the download links on the site work.

I was so looking forward to this, did the project get scrapped?

 

[grangerardo]

could you please post a step by step guide on how to update to 10.8.4 from 10.8.3 that i use now,i haven't really figured out what i have to do...

You should install 10.8.3 with mlpf 0.22.

Then, install 0.3 into install partition. After this, update with the combo uptade 10.8.4 and reboot in install partitio. Apply patch 0.3 to ML partition. So you should have osx 10.8.4 ok in ML partition!!.

 

[iGoogleBiH]

Does that allow you to use Find my Mac? Becouse i installed 10.8.3 with 0.3 mlpf and it didn't update recovery partition , so i can't use combo update

 

[hackerwayne]

Did I miss something?

None of the download links on the site work.

I was so looking forward to this, did the project get scrapped?

We're working to get it back up adfly deleted our links

 

[andreas79]

You should install 10.8.3 with mlpf 0.22.

Then, install 0.3 into install partition. After this, update with the combo uptade 10.8.4 and reboot in install partitio. Apply patch 0.3 to ML partition. So you should have osx 10.8.4 ok in ML partition!!.

My mac is already running 10.8.3 that i had installed with mlpf 0.22...so i have to create once again the install partition (because i had erased it),install mlpf 0.3 to the install partition and then do all the previous steps i did the same way from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 right???thank you again one more question i have already asked but wasn't answered very clearly...can i just erase the lion partition i still have on my mac,it's completely useless,i never go back to lion

 

[Jakimo]

I cloned my MLPF 0.3, Mac 10.8.4 install over to a striped RAID for speed. Afterwards, I went to Disk Utility to reformat the drive I just cloned from and found a PANIC.

So I'm not able to boot into my RAID 0.3 10.8.4, but the drive I tried to format so I can use it for backup - is not formating. I have 'Mediakit has no partitions' errors and so on, and nothing seems to work. (Erase drives always fail or now cause KPs.)

Anyone know of a low-level format utlity that may help get this rogue drive back on track?

thanks

 

[Jakimo]

Anyone know of a low-level format utlity that may help get this rogue drive back on track?

I remembered that MLPF had problems with permissions repair on 0.22, so I decided to use the Terminal to try to format my 3TB drive.

Worked NO problem, using this command:

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ "Macintosh HD" diskX

To find the value of X for your drive, use the Debug menu in Disk Utility and enable Show all partitions. You'll see the disks named 'diskXs1', the X is the number the OS has assigned to the drive.

So now I know, the Disk Utility GUI is not stable for drive formatting. Anyone else have problems similar?

 

[QuarterSwede]

I must be stupid. Or blind.
I've read post 1 a number of times and am still missing whatever it is.........

You're not blind; it's not there. It still says they're testing v0.3.