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[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac
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I have the same Macbook Pro.
Can you explain all your steps so far?
Thanks you!!
Anyone with a Late 2006 MacBook Pro and this hack? I'd love to know how the performance is 
Thanks!
Thanks!
I'll try
First off you need to follow hackerwayne's post number 22 on page 1 in this thread and follow the steps 1 through 5 and take what he offers as links in step number 5. There are 3 that you need.
Now you do as hackerwayne says in step 6 but remember to include the package "SIUResources.pkg" from your Lion Installer(the one from MacAppStore or elsewhere)
Now when you've completed step 7 you should have an installer like I did that you can boot from your Lion desktop.
But the catch is that you and I both have a 32bit EFI and that makes the Mountain Lion installation difficult. It was for me impossible to get any further than to witness the Mountain Lion installation within Lion come to an end and upon reboot - a forbidden sign.
I hope this entry wasn't too confusing. I tend to over explain.
And as I didn't suspect would happen is that my Mountain Lion install from VMWare wouldn't boot either despite all my effort with including my kexts and doing all kinds of voodoo with Single User mode as hackerwayne tells us to do. I took the advice and did a Mountain Lion install inside VMWare Fusion 4 and copied it out to my Lion desktop after using CarbonCopyCloner to create the DMG - then using the same app to clone it to my spare partition that was meant to be Mountain Lion. No luck.
If you even come across someone having gotten the late '06 model to work, let us know..Anyone with a Late 2006 MacBook Pro and this hack? I'd love to know how the performance is
Thanks!
I'm guessing yes. That would be a dig deterrent for me to even consider upgrading to ML. I guess I'll just stick with 10.7.
Mad Mac Maniac
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We'll have to wait on a 10.8.XX update to know for sure. I agree, if it's such a hassle to update for each and every .0X update then it's not even worth it.
I'm still on the fence about buying a new MBA...
I am feeling apple's finger intensely up my rectum with this situation.
No way I am sticking with lion btw, I am downgrading from it if I can't get this to work on my 2006 c2d macs.
There's absolutely no reason if lion worked with these macs, to make ml not work with them, it's just apple sticking it to us...
thanks apple.
No way I am sticking with lion btw, I am downgrading from it if I can't get this to work on my 2006 c2d macs.
There's absolutely no reason if lion worked with these macs, to make ml not work with them, it's just apple sticking it to us...
thanks apple.
Mad Mac Maniac
macrumors 601
I feel your pain... but on the other hand I can totally understand Apple's perspective. I have purchased every single OS upgrade since I bought my Mac in 2007 (all 2 of 'em
) and do you know how much I have given to apple in the past 5 years? 60 bucks. Selling both the hardware and software puts Apple in the unique sitation to benefit from hardware upgrades. That being said, I do think Apple is being a little bit too picky. The eligible Macs are 3-5 years old, whereas I believe it should be 5-6. But the reason for that is because Apple doesn't pick a completely abitrary mark in time. They find some required hardware specs that yeild an fitting timetable for upgrade and then exclude all the rest. If they set a 5 year mark, then we would be complaining about how arbitrary it was to include weaker spec'd Macbooks from 2007 but exclude stronger spec'd MBP from 2006.
The fact of the matter is we don't have to upgrade. In fact in the windows world a huge number of people never upgrade their machines. They just get the new OS when they buy a new computer. Or maybe they wait a couple years and puchase after the SP1 is released.
I'll try
First off you need to follow hackerwayne's post number 22 on page 1 in this thread and follow the steps 1 through 5 and take what he offers as links in step number 5. There are 3 that you need.
Now you do as hackerwayne says in step 6 but remember to include the package "SIUResources.pkg" from your Lion Installer(the one from MacAppStore or elsewhere)
Now when you've completed step 7 you should have an installer like I did that you can boot from your Lion desktop.
But the catch is that you and I both have a 32bit EFI and that makes the Mountain Lion installation difficult. It was for me impossible to get any further than to witness the Mountain Lion installation within Lion come to an end and upon reboot - a forbidden sign.
I hope this entry wasn't too confusing. I tend to over explain.
And as I didn't suspect would happen is that my Mountain Lion install from VMWare wouldn't boot either despite all my effort with including my kexts and doing all kinds of voodoo with Single User mode as hackerwayne tells us to do. I took the advice and did a Mountain Lion install inside VMWare Fusion 4 and copied it out to my Lion desktop after using CarbonCopyCloner to create the DMG - then using the same app to clone it to my spare partition that was meant to be Mountain Lion. No luck.
Hi!
I also own a MacBook Pro 2,2, but can't find the "Shared Folder" as described in step 2. I can't find InstallESD.dmg either. This is what I got:
Any ideas?
Thank you
GM with MacBook3,1
Anyone try this procedure with the GM on a Late 2007 MacBook3,1?
At this point in the thread, it's hard to determine if the original procedure outlined/updated in the first post will work with the GM release. Anyone want to summarize up to this point?
Anyone try this procedure with the GM on a Late 2007 MacBook3,1?
At this point in the thread, it's hard to determine if the original procedure outlined/updated in the first post will work with the GM release. Anyone want to summarize up to this point?
That's because the file you get on the net is the InstallESD.dmg. I think the official GM from Apple does have this Shared Support folder but the one found elsewhere is the InstallESD.dmg extracted from that folder.
That's what I've gone with anyway
I've given up trying to get my MacBook Pro from 2006 to run Mountain Lion - I'm waiting and raising enough money to get me a new Mac. Maybe at that time 10.9 will be out and I'll go "WOW" again.
My last effort was to do what is described here http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 but with no success. Perhaps it was because I used a spare 16GB USB thumb drive as the media for my experiment. I couldn't lose my two harddrives to this experiment on that webpage since one of my drives is the internal drive in the Mac and the other external drive is my Time Machine drive. So I couldn't format any of them to Master Boot Record for use with Chameleon.
I'll try
First off you need to follow hackerwayne's post number 22 on page 1 in this thread and follow the steps 1 through 5 and take what he offers as links in step number 5. There are 3 that you need.
Now you do as hackerwayne says in step 6 but remember to include the package "SIUResources.pkg" from your Lion Installer(the one from MacAppStore or elsewhere)
Now when you've completed step 7 you should have an installer like I did that you can boot from your Lion desktop.
But the catch is that you and I both have a 32bit EFI and that makes the Mountain Lion installation difficult. It was for me impossible to get any further than to witness the Mountain Lion installation within Lion come to an end and upon reboot - a forbidden sign.
I hope this entry wasn't too confusing. I tend to over explain.
And as I didn't suspect would happen is that my Mountain Lion install from VMWare wouldn't boot either despite all my effort with including my kexts and doing all kinds of voodoo with Single User mode as hackerwayne tells us to do. I took the advice and did a Mountain Lion install inside VMWare Fusion 4 and copied it out to my Lion desktop after using CarbonCopyCloner to create the DMG - then using the same app to clone it to my spare partition that was meant to be Mountain Lion. No luck.
Thanks you very much Allan!! Then we need EFI64 in our macs
Is it impossible to install?
Thanks dear friend
Thanks you very much Allan!! Then we need EFI64 in our macs
Is it impossible to install?
Thanks dear friend
A 64bit EFI certainly helps. But it seems that hackerwayne did install Mountain Lion and got to the desktop. Personally I just couldn't get as far as he could despite all my efforts. The forbidden sign shows up regardless of entering my Mac's identifier in the PlatformSupport.plist or how I try to emulate a 64bit EFI with Chameleon.
I hope that you get further than I did.
The GMA950 kext does not exist in the GM..
s-Mac-Pro:Extensions$ ls AppleIntel
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext/
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext/
AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/
AppleIntelHD3000Graphics.kext/
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGA.plugin/
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsVADriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHD4000Graphics.kext/
AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsGA.plugin/
AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsVADriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGA.plugin/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGLDriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsVADriver.bundle/
AppleIntelIVBVA.bundle/
AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext/
AppleIntelSNBVA.bundle/
s-Mac-Pro:Extensions$ ls AppleIntel
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext/
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext/
AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext/
AppleIntelHD3000Graphics.kext/
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGA.plugin/
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsVADriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHD4000Graphics.kext/
AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsGA.plugin/
AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsVADriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGA.plugin/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsGLDriver.bundle/
AppleIntelHDGraphicsVADriver.bundle/
AppleIntelIVBVA.bundle/
AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext/
AppleIntelSNBVA.bundle/
Mad Mac Maniac
macrumors 601
Hey Allan. I have the same computer, MacBookPro 2,2. (w/ ATI Radeon X1600 card). I managed to boot into the 64-bit kernel using this guide:
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html
Booting to ML is simple, you just need to make sure you edit the PlatformSupport.plist file on the drive you install ML to and insert your board-id and model.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1404548/
Once you are in Chameleon you need to enter the argument GraphicsEnabler=No and you will be able to boot, albeit without graphics drivers. The good news is that it is definitely possible to boot to the 64-bit kernel with both Lion and Mountain Lion, despite the lack of EFI64. Next up, graphics kexts
Not sure which ones to load... I've tried installing these from Lion 10.7.4:
ATI1600Controller.kext *
ATIFramebuffer.kext
ATIRadeonX1000.kext *
ATISupport.kext
*Also with just these two alone. It will not load the graphics up either way. Almost positive that these drivers are 64-bit, so it should only be a matter of time before we can figure it out.
Sound did not work out of the box. I installed the AppleHDA.kext from Lion, but it did not fix the problem. Sleep doesn't work yet either. Other then that, everything works including AirPort, Ethernet, iCloud, iSight, Bluetooth, Shutdown, etc.
UPDATE: Apparantly someone has released a patch that should eliminate the need to use the Chameleon bootloader. I have yet to try it, but you can find it here: https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15240592#post15240592
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Not sure, just the stock one. All I know is that when it was working in Lion it said "Audio ID: 30"
Im still alive, and I'm still hacking the retail. For those of you who were wondering haha. Most of the PMs ask this question
Objectives:
NO Chameleon/bootloaders and all that crap
-that will solve all sleep, sound issues
FULL graphics support. Except Intel GMA950, 7300GT.
-including 1600XT, 1900XT, GMA X3100 etc.
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Which version of ML did ya try to install?
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Install VoodooHDA.kext. That solves the sound issue, at least on my MBP 17" late 2006
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Got my hands on a late '06 MacBook Pro 17 with the X1600 graphics
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I hope not. As long as apple don't patch the method we used it shouldn't be a problem
Objectives:
NO Chameleon/bootloaders and all that crap
-that will solve all sleep, sound issues
FULL graphics support. Except Intel GMA950, 7300GT.
-including 1600XT, 1900XT, GMA X3100 etc.
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Which version of ML did ya try to install?
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Hey Allan. I have the same computer, MacBookPro 2,2. (w/ ATI Radeon X1600 card). I managed to boot into the 64-bit kernel using this guide:
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1123.0.html
Booting to ML is simple, you just need to make sure you edit the PlatformSupport.plist file on the drive you install ML to and insert your board-id and model.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1404548/
Once you are in Chameleon you need to enter the argument GraphicsEnabler=No and you will be able to boot, albeit without graphics drivers. The good news is that it is definitely possible to boot to the 64-bit kernel with both Lion and Mountain Lion, despite the lack of EFI64. Next up, graphics kexts
Not sure which ones to load... I've tried installing these from Lion 10.7.4:
ATI1600Controller.kext *
ATIFramebuffer.kext
ATIRadeonX1000.kext *
ATISupport.kext
*Also with just these two alone. It will not load the graphics up either way. Almost positive that these drivers are 64-bit, so it should only be a matter of time before we can figure it out.
Sound did not work out of the box. I installed the AppleHDA.kext from Lion, but it did not fix the problem. Sleep doesn't work yet either. Other then that, everything works including AirPort, Ethernet, iCloud, iSight, Bluetooth, Shutdown, etc.
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UPDATE: Apparantly someone has released a patch that should eliminate the need to use the Chameleon bootloader. I have yet to try it, but you can find it here: https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15240592#post15240592
Install VoodooHDA.kext. That solves the sound issue, at least on my MBP 17" late 2006
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Got my hands on a late '06 MacBook Pro 17 with the X1600 graphics
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I hope not. As long as apple don't patch the method we used it shouldn't be a problem
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^ brilliant to know you're working on it hackerwayne, really hoping you can come up with the goods although even following some of the earlier instructions were almost beyond me. Cheers and good luck!
New method troubles..
Alright, heres the thing. I manage to get the installer booted without using chameleon, but it ended in a kernel panic. Need some explanations of these messages. Anyone who wants to test can do so, heres how to do it:
*STRICTLY FOR ADVANCE USERS ONLY*
1. Assuming you already have a 10.8 USB installer and 10.7 installer.
2. Enable hidden files on your Mac
3. Open up the 10.8 USB directory, find a file called kernelcache 2xMB make a backup and delete the file
3. Open up the 10.7 installer, same thing, find kernelcache file and copy it to the 10.8 installer.
4. Download the "SystemFolder" and "EFI32.pkg" from #post 22 and paste it in 10.8 installer's package directory.
5. Navigate to the 10.8 installers package folder, make a backup of a file called "OSInstall.mpkg" then download this modified 10.8 ---------- [/COLOR][quote="Jonny... doing some testings :) NO MORE KERNEL PANIC.
Alright, heres the thing. I manage to get the installer booted without using chameleon, but it ended in a kernel panic. Need some explanations of these messages. Anyone who wants to test can do so, heres how to do it:
*STRICTLY FOR ADVANCE USERS ONLY*
1. Assuming you already have a 10.8 USB installer and 10.7 installer.
2. Enable hidden files on your Mac
3. Open up the 10.8 USB directory, find a file called kernelcache 2xMB make a backup and delete the file
3. Open up the 10.7 installer, same thing, find kernelcache file and copy it to the 10.8 installer.
4. Download the "SystemFolder" and "EFI32.pkg" from #post 22 and paste it in 10.8 installer's package directory.
5. Navigate to the 10.8 installers package folder, make a backup of a file called "OSInstall.mpkg" then download this modified 10.8 ---------- [/COLOR][quote="Jonny... doing some testings :) NO MORE KERNEL PANIC.
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I love you man.
THere, I said it. Now get sleep and audio working, and I'll marry you! There's still hope for our '06 MBPs!
THere, I said it. Now get sleep and audio working, and I'll marry you! There's still hope for our '06 MBPs!
EDIT!!! 4 AM GMT+8! GOT IT FULLY WORKING WITHOUT CHAMELEON! X1600 with FULL graphics acceleration. Method up in a bit, doing some testings
OK, great - can you please post your new technique? Thank you!