[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac

[adenia]

Sorry, please ignore my above posts, I just saw the requirement of OS X Lion as the base requirement so I presume I must be back after installing that before I do the MLPFactor for Mountain Lion.

thanks
S

You must be running lion (10.7) before MLPF install.

If you have 10.6, that's snow leopard.

 

[sany72]

Hi Anyone please, any help with this!!??

S

Regarding Chrome: I have had that issue too.
Try repairing your permissions. I just repaired mine twice and I noticed an OpenGL kext getting repaired ... and voila: Chrome working

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Hi

I am relatively new to fiddling things with MAC, can you please suggest the process that needs to do a repair like you have done, just trying to learn. Please tell me step-by-step.

thanks
S

 

[trdr]

Software Updates

Thanks for this excellent job.

I´ve installed it and works everything in my Macbook 2,1 but i can´t do software updates. I read that is limited but how can i update apple soft. (Safari - iTunes - iPhoto)

Thanks!!!!

 

[sany72]

The only glitch I noticed is that, whenever I opened the app 'photo booth' there is a lot of lag in what comes up on the display to what is in front of the camera, maybe it is something to do with the camera driver. I tried all the versions in mountain lion all had the same issue on my macbook pro 2.1. I didn't notice this lag in OS X Lion 10.7 as I tried rolling back to see if this was right.
Hope it is limited to only that and will not hinder the rendering performance in Photoshop and adobe light room!!?

 

[sany72]

removing partition?

Sorry for this noob question....
after installing the Mountain Lion, I removed the 'install' and 'Macbook pro (default space)' partitions and retained the Mountain Lion partition. For this, I selected for example the 'install' partition in disc utility>went to partition tab>and selected '-' and i did the same for the other partition as well. After this, I see my Mountain Lion partition which is 21 GB (which i initially allocated for the ML installation and the rest of the space is un allocated. My question is how do i merge this space with my startup disk (which is ML), because I dont have enough space in my startup disk and i keep getting the message that there is not enough space.

thanks
S

 

[RV-ABZ]

Reallocating unused disk space depends on your partition arrangements. Look up the arrangement in Disk Utility. If the recovered space is after your ML partition, delete the unused partition and drag down your ML partition to increase it.

However, if the recovered space is before your ML partition, I don't believe you can reallocate that to the ML partition. I could be wrong of course...

 

[sany72]

Reallocating unused disk space depends on your partition arrangements. Look up the arrangement in Disk Utility. If the recovered space is after your ML partition, delete the unused partition and drag down your ML partition to increase it.

However, if the recovered space is before your ML partition, I don't believe you can reallocate that to the ML partition. I could be wrong of course...

Thanks RV-ABZ, I fixed this now after browsing different threads in the community and thanks once again to all.
Dragging the start-up drive in disc utility to fill the unoccupied space will not work for me as my start-up disk was down the hierarchy (remember my startup disk is the left over from MLPFactor process 'install' and 'Mountain Lion' that were created below the then existing 'OS X Lion running' start-up drive).
What helped? Downloaded the trial version of 'Carbon Copy Cloner', thanks to CCC. In 40 mins I was able to clone the Mountain Lion from down the disk hierarchy into the unused space on top>then booted into the newly cloned Mountain Lion>went into disk utility>removed the old original Mountain Lion down the hierarchy>dragged the corner of the clone to fill all of the unused space>hit 'Apply'.

Thanks once again to all and special thanks to Hackerwayne for helping me refresh my MacBook pro 2.2 that was sleeping on Snow Leopard while I was still looking for a buyer for this machine. I was so much upset with Apple, that I wanted to do a thrashing video for youtube of my MacBook pro which I originally bought for around $2500. But now, I am seeing new hopes and new usage - all thanks go to the amazing people here, now looking eagerly to Maverick & MaverickPFactor. Is Hackerwayne on the job already, he is my super star now.

S

 

[sany72]

Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and MLPF

I am currently on 10.8.4, my question is MLPF 0.3 shows option up until 10.8.4 but not 10.8.5 - can I still download the latest from App Store and still select the 10.8.4 from the MLPF while patching?
Or is there a MLPF 0.31 living somewhere in this thread which I missed.

...and to do this - do I need to go back to 10.7.5 in order to run MLPF or can I still do this from 10.8.4?

thanks

 

[hwojtek]

I am relatively new to fiddling things with MAC, can you please suggest the process that needs to do a repair like you have done, just trying to learn. Please tell me step-by-step.

Disk utility -> select your disk in the left pane -> repair permissions button.

 

[adenia]

I am currently on 10.8.4, my question is MLPF 0.3 shows option up until 10.8.4 but not 10.8.5 - can I still download the latest from App Store and still select the 10.8.4 from the MLPF while patching?
Or is there a MLPF 0.31 living somewhere in this thread which I missed.

...and to do this - do I need to go back to 10.7.5 in order to run MLPF or can I still do this from 10.8.4?

thanks

You can use MLPF v0.3 with 10.8.4 selection and MAC OS X 10.8.5 app file to success complete the process.

After all, you can modify a file to get correct OS Information inside "About this mac" and get last actualizations (Safari and others).

Edit: The file to modify is /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

 

[bdthom09]

Can't download ML from app store

nevermind i got it lol

 

[sglebs]

asp_tcp.kext was installed i properly??

Is your mic working?

Yes, the mic is working.

 

[Muggnsau]

Hello greets from germany, is the name of the third partition importand? Example, ML or Mountain Lion? Thx 4 answer!

 

[jysjeong]

External Drive

I have one question,

Can I run this program by using external drive instead of dividing my harddrive in two?

So like choosing external drive rather than divided install partition!

Thanks!

 

[RV-ABZ]

Hello greets from germany, is the name of the third partition importand? Example, ML or Mountain Lion? Thx 4 answer!

No, use whatever you wish.

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I have one question,

Can I run this program by using external drive instead of dividing my harddrive in two?

So like choosing external drive rather than divided install partition!

Thanks!

Yes, absolutely.

 

[safigi]

Sucessful 10.8.4 to 10.8.5 update

First of all thank you for

HackerWayne and MLForAll, I could update my 2007 Mac Mini to 10.8.4.

I have just updated to 10.8.5 (with Pacifist and edit SystemVersion.plist). There are same new update for 10.8.5 like ITunes 11.1.3, Remote Desktop Client Update 3.7.1, Airport Utility 6.3.1 and Safari.

I updated Safari but, I don't know that should I update the others.

I have only one problem now, when I am using vnc from windows desktop to connect screen sharing, after login I give a black screen on windows.

Any idea?

Thank you!

 

[Guigue]

Kernel Panic with GTX 660

I managed to get ML 10.8.5 installed on my Mac Pro 1,1 (firmware upgraded to 2,1) however I get a kernel panic as soon as I try booting with my GTX 660 plugged in (it works fine with the original 7300GT).

Verbose mode doesn't say anything of interest

I'm honestly very much lost as to what I should to. I'm using MacOSX stock graphic drivers (The NVIDIA ones won't even install, my "Computer is not supported").

I tried installing 10.8.5 with MLPostFactor and something similar to tiamo's technique (using a boot.efi for ML), same results.

Any ideas? Am I missing a step?

 

[Muggnsau]

Hey Guys, my PostML install was succsessfull. But i have a big problem!
I can´t connect to any FTP Server or SMB Server.

I read this Thread since 1 hour, but my english is not so good to understand everything!

i installed 10.8.2 with PostML v03 32bit
on a mini 2007

 

[RV-ABZ]

Yes, it's one of those few bugs with MPLF...

 

[Muggnsau]

Yes, it's one of those few bugs with MPLF...

Oh no ;€

 

[remembrancenn]

Can't install onto MacBook Mid-2007

Hi,
Thanks for your work, but MLPostfactor v0.3 is not working for me.
I tried OS builds 10.8.4 10.8.5
It's successfully passes 1st steps: I can create USB stick or Install partiotion on HD and run installation till the end. After the message "Installation Success" I navigating to Utilites menu and running MLPostfactor to apply fixes for just installed system, but MLPostfactor does not work from Setup menu.
I tried to run it via Terminal and got the next errors:

-bash-3.2# /Applications/Hack/MLPostFactor.app/Contents/MacOS/MLPostFactor
2014-01-10 23:02:34.981 MLPostFactor[2324:707] NSSoftLinking - The Librarian framework's library couldn't be loaded from (null).
2014-01-10 23:02:34.983 MLPostFactor[2324:707] NSSoftLinking - The function 'LBCurrentProcessHasUbiquityContainer' can't be found in the Librarian framework.
2014-01-10 23:02:35.209 MLPostFactor[2324:707] *** -[AppDelegate applicationWillFinishLaunching:]: No user interaction allowed. (error -1713)
2014-01-10 23:02:47.049 MLPostFactor[2324:707] *** -[AppDelegate installbt:]: Security API failed with error -60008. (error 1)

Can you please help me to install 10.8.4 or 10.8.5 onto my Macbook 2007?

 

[remembrancenn]

try repair permissions using the install drive

For Install drive "Repair permissions" button is not active. I tried to repair for target drive (ML) with no success.

 

[safigi]

I can connect windows share without problems

Hey Guys, my PostML install was succsessfull. But i have a big problem!
I can´t connect to any FTP Server or SMB Server.

I read this Thread since 1 hour, but my english is not so good to understand everything!

i installed 10.8.2 with PostML v03 32bit
on a mini 2007

 

[safigi]

Repair mountain lion partition, after booting into install partition.

For Install drive "Repair permissions" button is not active. I tried to repair for target drive (ML) with no success.

 

[RV-ABZ]

I can connect windows share without problems

I've not been able to connect to SMB servers either and The Master himself did confirm those connections were not working: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17844736/.