[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac

[hackerwayne]

Thank very much, Wayne. So what fixes will not be included for us 32-bit users? Any substantial reason to wait for 0.3 if one has a Macbook 4,1?



I guess I missed that skimming through this thread. Is it serious? Are we sure it is due to MLPostFactor and not a Safari bug?

The memory leaked issue has never been addressed here before, been getting some tweets on Twitter about that thou it sounds like Apples problem thats causing memory leak. Cuz im having memory leak issue on my fully supported Mid 2011 i7 MacBook Air. Those stated "64-bit only" will be fixed in 0.3

 

[andreas79]

Hello!!!First of all i would like to thank everyone who made this possible...i was so happy that i could use mountain lion to my old but well working 2007 mac
i have some questions though :
1)After the complete installation of mountain lion do i have to keep the file Install OS X Mountain Lion which is located to ML/Recovered Items/Applications or i can delete it???I'm asking because i have two partitions now to a 160 gb hard disk and everything counts for free space it also shows on launchpad and it annoys me a bit as i want everything to look clean
2)I've installed 10.8.2 and tried to install the 10.8.3 combo update with the guide i saw but didn't make it out...so if i install the 10.8.3 update do i lose all data and apps as it does a clean install or is it like a normal update???because when i tried with your guide it did a clean install even if it got again 10.8.2,don't know what i did wrong (???) so please could you post a guide for going from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 step by step???
Thank you very much

 

[CoBrA2168]

The memory leaked issue has never been addressed here before, been getting some tweets on Twitter about that thou it sounds like Apples problem thats causing memory leak. Cuz im having memory leak issue on my fully supported Mid 2011 i7 MacBook Air. Those stated "64-bit only" will be fixed in 0.3

hackerwayne - I read a few pages back that MLForAll somehow is getting the kexts working in 64-bit mode? If so that would be fantastic! Does this apply for the X3100?

Also, just so I get this straight, the Mountain Lion we are running is really primarily ML DP1 (with some Lion thrown into the mix)? I finally did get it installed and working on my hackintosh by the way!

 

[Buddygor]

Help

Hello!!!First of all i would like to thank everyone who made this possible...i was so happy that i could use mountain lion to my old but well working 2007 mac
i have some questions though :
1)After the complete installation of mountain lion do i have to keep the file Install OS X Mountain Lion which is located to ML/Recovered Items/Applications or i can delete it???I'm asking because i have two partitions now to a 160 gb hard disk and everything counts for free space it also shows on launchpad and it annoys me a bit as i want everything to look clean
2)I've installed 10.8.2 and tried to install the 10.8.3 combo update with the guide i saw but didn't make it out...so if i install the 10.8.3 update do i lose all data and apps as it does a clean install or is it like a normal update???because when i tried with your guide it did a clean install even if it got again 10.8.2,don't know what i did wrong (???) so please could you post a guide for going from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 step by step???
Thank you very much

Hey, I can offer some help.

For the ML app, you have 2 options. If you deleted the original "Install" partition, keep the ML app so you can use MLPostFactor again later on. If you DIDN'T delete the partition, as long as you keep it, the app is unnecessary.

For the 10.8.3 update, here's what you do

1. Make sure you 'Install' partition is still there, or remake it with MLPostFactor.

2. Install the 10.8.3 delta update (use the combo if you are on 10.8.1 or just 10.8), and when it is done, restart.

3. Hold down the alt key at start, and choose "Install" (it may also be called EFI Boot), and wait for it to boot up.

4. Don't install OS X, just go to 'Utilities' at the top, and click MLPostFactor.

5. Go through the steps, but WHEN INSTALLING IT, CHOOSE 10.8.3!!

6. Then install, and reboot to your ML partition, go on your merry way


Noah Budgor

 

[Intell]

Roll your eyes as much as you want. They truly are just simple file changes and a few shell scripts. Nothing mind blowing like exploiting a process or reprogramming the EFI.

Ahum, could you both please get the hell of this forum. Everybody here is trying to accomplish something here, to make ML run on old Mac's, and you guys don't contribute ANYTHING, just bashing of Hackerwayne and MLforALL. Go away, or post something useful. The day any of you posts a working utility for installing 10.8 on an unsupported Mac, or release a JB, I'll remove this post. Until then, please stay away.

I have contributed to this thread in the past. And while not getting 10.8 on an unsupported Mac, I have gotten FaceTime to work on an iPod Touch 3G and iPad 1. The two projects are similar in that they put something on a machine that "can't" have it as per Apple. I've also shoehorned 10.5.0 on a PowerMacintosh 8600 when Leopard first came out. I know what it's like to wedge an OS onto a machine that it isn't designed for. Especially an Apple machine and OS. Applejuiced, while having not released a jailbreak just like hackerwayne, has worked very closely with iPhone DevTeam members in jailrbreak related projects. Unfortunately, that's all the more he cares to share on the subject. Till then I suggest you start respecting everyone a bit more before you let slip an insult. And look, colours!

 

[hackerwayne]

Roll your eyes as much as you want. They truly are just simple file changes and a few shell scripts. Nothing mind blowing like exploiting a process or reprogramming the EFI.



I have contributed to this thread in the past. And while not getting 10.8 on an unsupported Mac, I have gotten FaceTime to work on an iPod Touch 3G and iPad 1. The two projects are similar in that they put something on a machine that "can't" have it as per Apple. I've also shoehorned 10.5.0 on a PowerMacintosh 8600 when Leopard first came out. I know what it's like to wedge an OS onto a machine that it isn't designed for. Especially an Apple machine and OS. Applejuiced, while having not released a jailbreak just like hackerwayne, has worked very closely with iPhone DevTeam members in jailrbreak related projects. Unfortunately, that's all the more he cares to share on the subject. Till then I suggest you start respecting everyone a bit more before you let slip an insult. And look, colours!

1. These systems lacks EFI64, Try to install this on stock ML bootloader. Lets see what happens.

2. I don't think so.

3. Thats more like some easy files replacement (not to mention pretty darn useless, considering iPT3 has no Mic)

4. 10.5 was easy, all you have to do is have a G4, install it else where and put it back. Try to get it work on G3.

5. Most importantly, you're not being productive here.

 

[andreas79]

Hey, I can offer some help.

For the ML app, you have 2 options. If you deleted the original "Install" partition, keep the ML app so you can use MLPostFactor again later on. If you DIDN'T delete the partition, as long as you keep it, the app is unnecessary.

For the 10.8.3 update, here's what you do

1. Make sure you 'Install' partition is still there, or remake it with MLPostFactor.

2. Install the 10.8.3 delta update (use the combo if you are on 10.8.1 or just 10.8), and when it is done, restart.

3. Hold down the alt key at start, and choose "Install" (it may also be called EFI Boot), and wait for it to boot up.

4. Don't install OS X, just go to 'Utilities' at the top, and click MLPostFactor.

5. Go through the steps, but WHEN INSTALLING IT, CHOOSE 10.8.3!!

6. Then install, and reboot to your ML partition, go on your merry way


Noah Budgor

Thank you so much for your reply
i've already deleted the "Install" partition so i just have to remake it and install MLPostFactor and i guess i choose 10.8.3,right???and one more question:do i download the 10.8.3 combo update from the site or is it the same to use the update from the app store????

 

[Intell]

1. Try to install this on stock ML bootloader. Lets see what happens.

2. I don't think so.

3. Thats more like some easy files replacement (not to mention pretty darn useless, considering iPT3 has no Mic)

4. 10.5 was easy, all you have to do is have a G4, install it else where and put it back. Try to get it work on G3.

5. Most importantly, you're not being productive here.

EFI not the bootloader, it is the firmware. The bootloader is on the disk and is loaded by the EFI. You can't really change Apple's EFI much or at all on Intell Macs. Sure you can chainload off of it onto Chameleon, but the stock EFI is always there and it can't be removed or changed. While useless, it was fun to do and people still use it and request bug fixes. It was a bit more than some scripts. I had to develope a method to inject dylibs into the dynamic library shared cache. Something the iOS doesn't really like to do. Do a search on this thread, I've posted things in the past that helped it along.

10.5 wasn't easy. The 8600 has a G4, in it not its stock 604e, but Leopard lacks many of the needed kexts for it. I had to rewrite most of 10.2's kexts for it from their sources, change many properties in the 8600's older OpenFirmware implementation, patch out the kernel, and lots of trial and error. Getting Leopard to work on a G3? I've done that as well. Not the fastest thing and it doesn't work past 10.5.2 due to the kernel requirements. You have to use a few extra kexts from the Leopard beta and its kernel. This project will probably start to suffer from the same problems as the Leopard on a G3 project that a few have undertaken over the years. And as always, productivity is in the eyes of the beholder.

 

[hackerwayne]

Thank you so much for your reply
i've already deleted the "Install" partition so i just have to remake it and install MLPostFactor and i guess i choose 10.8.3,right???and one more question:do i download the 10.8.3 combo update from the site or is it the same to use the update from the app store????

Updating is not recommended. Better stay in 10.8.2

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EFI not the bootloader, it is the firmware. The bootloader is on the disk and is loaded by the EFI. You can't really change Apple's EFI much or at all on Intell Macs. Sure you can chainload off of it onto Chameleon, but the stock EFI is always there and it can't be removed or changed. While useless, it was fun to do and people still use it and request bug fixes. It was a bit more than some scripts. I had to develope a method to inject dylibs into the dynamic library shared cache. Something the iOS doesn't really like to do. Do a search on this thread, I've posted things in the past that helped it along.

10.5 wasn't easy. The 8600 has a G4, in it not its stock 604e, but Leopard lacks many of the needed kexts for it. I had to rewrite most of 10.2's kexts for it from their sources, change many properties in the 8600's older OpenFirmware implementation, patch out the kernel, and lots of trial and error. Getting Leopard to work on a G3? I've done that as well. Not the fastest thing and it doesn't work past 10.5.2 due to the kernel requirements. You have to use a few extra kexts from the Leopard beta and its kernel. This project will probably start to suffer from the same problems as the Leopard on a G3 project that a few have undertaken over the years. And as always, productivity is in the eyes of the beholder.

Sure. The EFI is 32-bit. It doesn't like ML's 64-bit bootloader. So theres some work done there. Since you're so good at that, why not help us look into 10.7.5 & 10.8 dp1 IOHIDFamily.kexts to make things work? Source not available.

 

[Intell]

Sure. The EFI is 32-bit. It doesn't like ML's 64-bit bootloader. So theres some work done there. Since you're so good at that, why not help us look into 10.7.5 & 10.8 dp1 IOHIDFamily.kexts to make things work? Source not available.

This is your and MLforALL's project. I don't even think the IOHIDFamily source is on Apple opensource site. They've been pruning out things from there as of late. Something I'm rather against because it has been hurting projects such as this.

 

[andreas79]

ok,thanks hackerwayne...just wanted to see the 10.8.3 update apple improvements i guess

 

[hackerwayne]

ok,thanks hackerwayne...just wanted to see the 10.8.3 update apple improvements i guess

If you really want to update, both method works just fine. Using Combo Update or updating thru App Store

 

[andreas79]

If you really want to update, both method works just fine. Using Combo Update or updating thru App Store

Thank you so much!!!!I guess i'll stick to 10.8.2 if you say so,i trust you 120%

 

[Capt.Clipperson]

I will launch a separate v0.2.5 with that fixed.

For anyone who's already installed v0.2.2, wants mDNS/Bonjour to work, and isn't afraid to use the command line from Terminal: execute the following steps to extract the MLPostFactor version of mDNSResponder and replace the stock version in /usr/sbin. After a reboot Bonjour services should be working. Thanks to HackerWayne & MLforAll for their hard work. My original 2008 MBAir is now running 10.8.3 faster than it ever ran Lion. No sleep, brightness nor Bonjour issues now!

sudo -s <enter admin password>

hdiutil attach MLPostFactor\ 0.2.2.dmg
cd /Volumes/MLPF/MLPostFactorV0.2.2/MLPostFactor.app/Contents/Resources
xar -xf MLPostFactor.mpkg Restore.pkg -C /tmp
cd /tmp/Restore.pkg
gzcat Scripts | cpio -id Dats/mDNSResponder
chown root:wheel Dats/mDNSResponder
mv Dats/mDNSResponder /usr/sbin
cd ..
rm -fr Restore.pkg
hdiutil detach /Volumes/MLPF

exit <back to normal user>

 

[Buddygor]

Wait!

Thank you so much for your reply
i've already deleted the "Install" partition so i just have to remake it and install MLPostFactor and i guess i choose 10.8.3,right???and one more question:do i download the 10.8.3 combo update from the site or is it the same to use the update from the app store????

Well, here's the thing-

If you're original app is 10.8 or 10.8.1/.2, then chose that when creating the Install partition. When you UPDATE is when you reboot and then select 10.8.3 from the Install partition and then install it to your updated drive.

Hope it helps!


Noah Budgor

 

[andreas79]

Well, here's the thing-

If you're original app is 10.8 or 10.8.1/.2, then chose that when creating the Install partition. When you UPDATE is when you reboot and then select 10.8.3 from the Install partition and then install it to your updated drive.

Hope it helps!


Noah Budgor

ok!!!now everything is clear...the previous time i tried i had chosen 10.8.3 at this point...now i just have to decide whether i update or not...i'll wait for other users to say how they experience 10.8.3...thank you very much,you were so helpful

 

[Buddygor]

Thanks!

ok!!!now everything is clear...the previous time i tried i had chosen 10.8.3 at this point...now i just have to decide whether i update or not...i'll wait for other users to say how they experience 10.8.3...thank you very much,you were so helpful

Yup, that's what I'm here for


Noah Budgor

 

[Buddygor]

Some Cool Goodies

Hey everyone, I have some cool 'goodies' for us all.

For repairing Permissions and a ton of cleaning/maintenance, I use Onyx.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

It's a nice app for doing all kinds of stuff, sort of like TinkerTool but more useable and refined. There are also tons of parameters you and change, like disabling Spotlight and Dashboard or anything like that. Free, and highly recommended.

Also, I found these pretty aweome OS X folder icons, they're more blue, and kinda 3D. Gorgeous and much more lively. They're called Aqua Lion.
To install them, I use the now-free (however unsupported) Candybar. Another great app.

CandyBar- http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8948/candybar

Icons- http://lukeedee.deviantart.com/art/Aqua-Lion-Folders-251215571

Hope that some people enjoy this and find some use out of it.

P.S. I have upgraded my Lion intall to ML, and find it very responsive and more useable and stable than Lion. I have a Late '06 MacBook.


Noah Budgor

 

[refosco]

This is your and MLforALL's project. I don't even think the IOHIDFamily source is on Apple opensource site.

Actually it is available

 

[QuarterSwede]

For anyone who's already installed v0.2.2, wants mDNS/Bonjour to work, and isn't afraid to use the command line from Terminal: execute the following steps to extract the MLPostFactor version of mDNSResponder and replace the stock version in /usr/sbin. After a reboot Bonjour services should be working. Thanks to HackerWayne & MLforAll for their hard work. My original 2008 MBAir is now running 10.8.3 faster than it ever ran Lion. No sleep, brightness nor Bonjour issues now!

sudo -s <enter admin password>

hdiutil attach MLPostFactor\ 0.2.2.dmg
cd /Volumes/MLPF/MLPostFactorV0.2.2/MLPostFactor.app/Contents/Resources
xar -xf MLPostFactor.mpkg Restore.pkg -C /tmp
cd /tmp/Restore.pkg
gzcat Scripts | cpio -id Dats/mDNSResponder
chown root:wheel Dats/mDNSResponder
mv Dats/mDNSResponder /usr/sbin
cd ..
rm -fr Restore.pkg
hdiutil detach /Volumes/MLPF

exit <back to normal user>

This totally works!

AirPlay video isn't working (menubar AirPlay icon doesn't popup and the option is checked in System Prefs) but that may be a limitation of the GMA 950.

 

[Mercy2011]

This totally works!

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AirPlay video isn't working (menubar AirPlay icon doesn't popup and the option is checked in System Prefs) but that may be a limitation of the GMA 950.

Hmm, apparently only me who cannot get it to work..
After sudo-s and password command in Terminal, I type hdiutil attach MLPostFactor\ 0.2.2.dmg, and get this error: hdiutil: attach failed - No such file or directory

The MLPostFactor 0.2.2.dmg file is on my desktop. What the hell am I doing wrong?

Arhhh, It drives me crazy ...

 

[hackerwayne]

MDNSRESPONDER/ BONJOUR FIX.

Right. Enough of all the PMs telling me to launch 0.2.5. To fix mDNSResponder, just replace mDNSResponder with the one attached. The file is located at /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder.

This file is included in MLPostFactor but we forgot to include a script to copy it.

Disk Utility Permission Repair Fix

Assuming you still have your Install partition. Navigate to System/Library/Installation/Packages and install BSD.pkg

 

[hackerwayne]

Actually it is available

Link? I couldn't find it. I love your sig. "heat gunned with love" xD Did that to mine as well. Happened again 3 months later lmfao.

 

[Rastafabi]

Link? I couldn't find it. I love your sig. "heat gunned with love" xD Did that to mine as well. Happened again 3 months later lmfao.

Here it is.
IOHIDFamily

 

[hackerwayne]

Here it is.
IOHIDFamily

NICE! Right, ill work on it later.