[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac

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Kernel panic

I tend to get kernel panics under 10.8.4 with MLPF 0.3. This is a clean install, in fact I entirely wiped my SSD off prior to installation of the new OS.

Both kernel panics have involved the com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC and, unsurprisingly perhaps, have occurred when writing on a USB memory stick. There is nothing wrong with the stick as I have been using it extensively under 10.7.x.

This is a shame because otherwise MLPF works flawlessly, including Photo Booth.

I am in no way innocent: Against Wayne's admonitions, I have installed a third-party kext (KeyRemap4Macbook, a key-remapping utility), which seems to work well. I cannot preclude the possibility that this kext may be the culprit, however the panics have consistently occurred while using the USB stick, and never while typing. I would simply uninstall the kext and see what happens, but the panics are not easily reproducible.

In conclusion: Is there a history of problems with com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC? Also, whenever LittleSnitch and other kexts cause panics under ML/MLPF, do these panics occur at the time the kext is invoked, or at some other apparently "random" moment?

Thank you.

 

[dedalos]

Macbook white late 2007, install 10.8.4 with 0.3 over a lion and all working fine.
It was like an official update .

Thank you for this.

 

[gpatpandp]

I dropped it in the root of the Installer Disk. I also dropped "mach_kernel" into "Macintosh HD" after finishing the install. You may not need to, but I got KP a few times during boot without it.

Firstly thanks again for your help. Unfortunately the addition of the alternate mach_kernel in both the installer and the OS system as well as the "boot" file in the installer did little to fix anything that was broken before adding them. It did allow for an alternate smbios.plist without crashing though it only accomplished changing the identity of my Mac Pro. When interchanging it with the smbios.plist of my actual system information nothing was gained functionality wise. It also created the "account field" in finder with my name present that was not there before. Still however the major issues of NO Audio whatsoever as well as no recognition of my Blu ray optical drive connected to the SATA port on my motherboard was/is still present. Out of desperation, I tried installing the 2.8.4 VoodooHDA.kext package again and it achieved nothing as before.

Maybe someone else can better interpret how you have created your working OS X 10.9 OS system better then I am able to do and point out the needed steps to push this further along so that others can get to the place you are with it.

 

[chaines]

Macbook white late 2007, install 10.8.4 with 0.3 over a lion and all working fine.
It was like an official update .

Thank you for this.

Did you mean that you installed Mountain Lion over a Lion install and everything works fine? You essentially upgraded?

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Firstly thanks again for your help. Unfortunately the addition of the alternate mach_kernel in both the installer and the OS system as well as the "boot" file in the installer did little to fix anything that was broken before adding them. It did allow for an alternate smbios.plist without crashing though it only accomplished changing the identity of my Mac Pro. When interchanging it with the smbios.plist of my actual system information nothing was gained functionality wise. It also created the "account field" in finder with my name present that was not there before. Still however the major issues of NO Audio whatsoever as well as no recognition of my Blu ray optical drive connected to the SATA port on my motherboard was/is still present. Out of desperation, I tried installing the 2.8.4 VoodooHDA.kext package again and it achieved nothing as before.

Maybe someone else can better interpret how you have created your working OS X 10.9 OS system better then I am able to do and point out the needed steps to push this further along so that others can get to the place you are with it.

I'm half way through writing a step by step tutorial on how i came to my working setup. Hopefully it'll help. I should be finished in a couple hours.

EDIT: Hit me up on Skype (batmanofzurenarh) I'll be able to help you faster lol

 

[gpatpandp]

I'm half way through writing a step by step tutorial on how i came to my working setup. Hopefully it'll help. I should be finished in a couple hours.

Just read your post over on jabbawoks blog...my reply there was pretty much verbatim what I just wrote here though I wanted folks to know...

I wrote:

"batmanofzurenarh and I have been in communication all afternoon. Quite the kind, helpful individual I must say."

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Just read your post over on jabbawoks blog...my reply there was pretty much verbatim what I just wrote here though I wanted folks to know...

I wrote:

"batmanofzurenarh and I have been in communication all afternoon. Quite the kind, helpful individual I must say."

lol Thanks XD

EDIT: I'm on Skype (batmanofzurenarh)

 

[gpatpandp]

lol Thanks XD

Further to that, what I most appreciate in conversing with individuals like yourself is that we are alike in taking issues not yet resolved and finding out (or in my case at least attempting to find out) the answers for ourselves. And while it is certainly ones prerogative to do so, reading many of the post here I find that there are far to many individuals that are rather demanding in wanting to be spoon fed solutions while being perfectly content to sit on there hands and do all the taking while doing little or nothing to help or contribute toward the cause. I am quite certain that wayne and ML4ALL would concur with this assessment.

At any rate, good to be working on this with you.

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Further to that, what I most appreciate in conversing with individuals like yourself is that we are alike in taking issues not yet resolved and finding out (or in my case at least attempting to find out) the answers for ourselves. And while it is certainly ones prerogative to do so, reading many of the post here I find that there are far to many individuals that are rather demanding in wanting to be spoon fed solutions while being perfectly content to sit on there hands and do all the taking while doing little or nothing to help or contribute toward the cause. I am quite certain that wayne and ML4ALL would concur with this assessment.

At any rate, good to be working on this with you.

Same here - I'm probably going to clone my system and try re-installing to see if I get the same result. If I do than i'll know its not something that happened by chance hahaha

EDIT: btw what hardware do you have in your Mac Pro that didn't come with the stock system?

EDIT 2: Other than my Radeon HD 6870, everything in my System is stock hardware.

 

[gpatpandp]

Same here - I'm probably going to clone my system and try re-installing to see if I get the same result. If I do than i'll know its not something that happened by chance hahaha

EDIT: btw what hardware do you have in your Mac Pro that didn't come with the stock system?

The Blu ray drive of course. I installed the cpu upgrade (i.e. two x5355 Intel Xeon chips). My Mac Pro was originally 3.0 Dual Core though through testing I found the small drop in processing (to 2.66 GHz) speed was worth it to acquire the eight (8) cores. My graphics card is an Apple ATI Radeon HD 5770. And my RAM is normally 16 GB though presently it is at 13 GB as I just utilized my lifetime warranty and returned 4 GB's this past Tuesday (only one 2 GB was faulty though the manufacture requested it be sent back in pairs) and put two 512 MB's temporarily in there place. Although not strictly hardware related, I also installed the Mac Pro 2,1 firmware update as in my research I found that besides correctly indentifying the eight (8) cores in system profile that the 2,1 firmware also does a more efficient job at regulating the fans and cooling down my Mac Pro.

YES BY ALL Means Make a back up ! Who knows you might be the only individual on this planet that possess a fully functioning OS X 10.9 Mavericks 64 bit system on an unsupported Mac Pro at this juncture !!!

 

[batmanofzurenar]

The Blu ray drive of course. I installed the cpu upgrade (i.e. two x5355 Intel Xeon chips). My Mac Pro was originally 3.0 Dual Core though through testing I found the small drop in processing (to 2.66 GHz) speed was worth it to acquire the eight (8) cores. My graphics card is an Apple ATI Radeon HD 5770. And my RAM is normally 16 GB though presently it is at 13 GB as I just utilized my lifetime warranty and returned 4 GB's this past Tuesday (only one 2 GB was faulty though the manufacture requested it be sent back in pairs) and put two 512 MB's temporarily in there place. Although not strictly hardware related, I also installed the Mac Pro 2,1 firmware update as in my research I found that besides correctly indentifying the eight (8) cores in system profile that the 2,1 firmware also does a more efficient job at regulating the fans and cooling down my Mac Pro.

YES BY ALL Means Make a back up ! Who knows you might be the only individual on this planet that possess a fully functioning OS X 10.9 Mavericks 64 bit system on an unsupported Mac Pro at this juncture !!!

rofl hopefully not

EDIT could the firmware be an issue? cause I'm pretty sure that I'm using Mac Pro 1,1 firmware. Never attempted to upgrade it.

 

[gpatpandp]

rofl hopefully not

EDIT could the firmware be an issue? cause I'm pretty sure that I'm using Mac Pro 1,1 firmware. Never attempted to upgrade it.

You know I never even considered that possibility I wonder...I would not think so but I suppose it is possible. Frankly, since I have the cpu upgrade where you do not, if given the choice I would stick with the 2,1 firmware and forgo OS X 10.9 since I have already made the investment and I could potentially put my machines longevity at risk running it without the more efficient cooling monitor.

 

[gpatpandp]

fyi

 

[rezzo]

Today try MLpostfactor 0.3 with ML 10.8.4 and work like a charm. (in a MacBook 2,1 Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, GMA950, 4GB ram)
Congrats MLforAll and Wayne, great work!

 

[djwalter]

I'm not completely new to the forum but just joined to start posting. I've learned alot here and found this thread and this is awesome. If I read everything right I should wait for fixes as I have a mac pro 1,1 with an ati 5770. I just want to say thanks to everyone for making possible and letting get alittle out of me mac pro until I get enough cash to upgrade. I'll just keep trying to get caught up and following until there's a fix.

 

[uncleshady]

I hate to be a schumck, but can somebody go step by step on how to get Mountain Lion .app without having a compatible mac to download from?

I've got a white macbook 3,1 and I had the ML .app 10.8.0 (and successfully installed with 0.22 but now with PF 0.3 you can't install and upgrade. Is there a legit legal way to get the ML 10.8.4 .app?

Thanks

shady

 

[gpatpandp]

rofl hopefully not

EDIT could the firmware be an issue? cause I'm pretty sure that I'm using Mac Pro 1,1 firmware. Never attempted to upgrade it.

By the way...and I just assumed what your answer would be but I probably should have asked. Within the OS system there are two locations locations where the mach_kernel resides. One being where we have already discussed the root. There is also a mach_kernel located within the package folders of the OSInstall.mpkg Did you replace the mach_kernel you acquired from here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289062-109-mavericks-simple-vanilla-hackintosh-install-guide/ in both locations or just the root ?

 

[batmanofzurenar]

By the way...and I just assumed what your answer would be but I probably should have asked. Within the OS system there are two locations locations where the mach_kernel resides. One being where we have already discussed the root. There is also a mach_kernel located within the package folders of the OSInstall.mpkg Did you replace the mach_kernel you acquired from here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289062-109-mavericks-simple-vanilla-hackintosh-install-guide/ in both locations or just the root ?

Just the root

 

[dedalos]

Did you mean that you installed Mountain Lion over a Lion install and everything works fine? You essentially upgraded?

Yes I mean exactly that.

 

[gpatpandp]

Just the root

Well actually it does not matter...guess what...I just drilled into both mach_kernel files the one you downloaded here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289062-109-mavericks-simple-vanilla-hackintosh-install-guide/ and the one in my actual OS X 10.9 installer.app and they are one in the same. The individual providing that zip file must have merely included it in that folder for the mere sake of convenience. This makes this whole puzzle even more troubling as our mac_kernels, both installer wise and and OS system wise were always the same/identical to begin with. It made sense for you to have achieved a different result with a modified mach_kernel however now that I have discovered they are the same it makes no sense whatsoever.

Do you know the purpose or where you found that file entitled "boot" you packaged for me ? That, other then the difference of our two machines that we just established is the only variation of our two process that I am aware of.

Also for the sake of trouble shooting, I would have thought that my updated firmware (1,1 to 2,1) would have resulted in similar issues when performing jabbawok's 10.8 Mountain Lion method yet we both were able to successfully install using that method with no issues at all...this is weird.

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Well actually it does not matter...guess what...I just drilled into both mach_kernel files the one you downloaded here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/289062-109-mavericks-simple-vanilla-hackintosh-install-guide/ and the one in my actual OS X 10.9 installer.app and they are one in the same. The individual providing that zip file must have merely included it in that folder for the mere sake of convenience. This makes this whole puzzle even more troubling as our mac_kernels, both installer wise and and OS system wise were always the same/identical to begin with. It made sense for you to have achieved a different result with a modified mach_kernel however now that I have discovered they are the same it makes no sense whatsoever.

Do you know the purpose or where you found that file entitled "boot" you packaged for me ? That, other then the difference of our two machines that we just established is the only variation of our two process that I am aware of.

Also for the sake of trouble shooting, I would have thought that my updated firmware (1,1 to 2,1) would have resulted in similar issues when performing jabbawok's 10.8 Mountain Lion method yet we both were able to successfully install using that method with no issues at all...this is weird.

hmmm...... weird. Anyways I got the boot file from the same package... maybe you downloaded another one?

 

[Rastafabi]

I think I'm ready to say goodbye to efi booting, but there is still on (at least to me) mayor thing I definitely do not like about this... By using MBR as the partition scheme you lock down the partitions as they are. (Resizing, adding volumes - e.g. Bootcamp won't be supported. Correct me if I'm wrong).
I think I found a workaround (hybridMBR) for that while still being able to use Chameleon (or Chimera/Clover). Additionally you should be able to set up a FusionDrive. I will post a guide as soon as I confirmed it's working (pretty sure it will), as soon as the patched 10.9 drivers for x1600 are released. - So if you are interested you should wait (should work on 10.8, too.)
The method (not mine but non-efi bootloader alltogether) will enable updating for your maschine as well as 64Bit support while still having iCloud.

About the FusionDrive: using it in my 2006 MacBook Pro since some time (via Sata1 alias Pata alias IDE) I can say, that the speed boost is pretty impressiv and worth the 50€ I spend: OCZ Vertex 2 64GB (got it for 40€) and an IDE drive caddy (8€) for the optical-drive-slot.
My data (320-350GB) is shared perfecty with my Samsung 500GB HDD keeping the system fast. Additionally the FusionDrive enables the FindMyMac feature.

 

[batmanofzurenar]

Who wants to try out my OS X 10.9 DP on Mac Pro 1,1 guide? BE MY GUINEA PIG!!!! or not... your choice XD

http://gcpdetective.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/install-mac-os-x-10-9-mavericks-developer-preview-on-a-mac-pro-11-2/

Don't forget to thank Jabbawok & netkas for their hard work!

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GROWL** I'M BATMANOFZURENARH! FEAR ME!

 

[chaines]

Restore using Time Machine

If you needed to restore your system from a Time Machine backup, is the process fairly simple to do that? How would you use MLPFactor when you are doing a Time Machine restore?

 

[gpatpandp]

hmmm...... weird. Anyways I got the boot file from the same package... maybe you downloaded another one?

I finally got AUDIO for Pete's sake ! I totally re-did my installer (fyi neither of those specific "mach_kernel" or "boot" files you downloaded are absolutely necessary. Using Pacifist as described in my addendum/adjustment guide to jabbawok's 10.8 Mac Pro 1,1 method accomplishes the same however having the mach_kernel handy to drop into the installer root without extracting it will save time. The "boot' file you also downloaded is actually the file that goes into the root of the "BOOT" partition that Chameleon is installed in. Using the "update" method with Chameleon Wizard creates an invisible "boot' file and negates the need to install and or having to drop it in manually.

I confirmed that updating the smbios.plist wasn't necessary either to get this thing fully working. The smbois.plist using my actual system information that I initally created for jabbawok's 10.8 Mac Pro 1,1 method ended up doing the trick. I am also relieved that as I suspected, my updated 1,1 to 2,1 firmware was not the culprit.

I believe we are now at the same stage install wise though on another encouraging note, my "messages" also seem to be working. The lone hurdle for my OS X 10.9 Mavericks 64 bit install system to be fully functional is still the none recognition of my Blu ray optical drive connected to the SATA port on my Mac Pro's motherboard.

Might you be able to test your motherboard SATA port and see if you get your device to show up within your system if you have one ?