new guide for installing mountain lion gm on unsupported macs

[hms84]

HMS and NOGLIDER!!!!!

I made the mistake several times attempting to install ML GM on a MacPro1,1. I was able to install the firewire method and also from the macpro itself using an installation partition. Just follow the guide above but make sure you DO NOT HAVE the NVIDIA 7300. I also kept getting the grey circle with a line through it. I bought the HD5770 ATI card, swapped out the NVIDIA and booted perfectly. And I don't know if the extra RAM on the video card is helping but I now have a lot more free RAM. Safari would kill my system in Snow Leopard.

I ordered the card from B&H photo online yesterday with free shipping for $229 but I paid $10 extra for faster shipping.

Thanks for your response
I have Apple ATI 4870, I will try it again. Hopefully it will work

 

[Mautz001]

Any Way to get this on macbook2,1 ? Doesn't work I can't install it

 

[hms84]

HMS and NOGLIDER!!!!!

I made the mistake several times attempting to install ML GM on a MacPro1,1. I was able to install the firewire method and also from the macpro itself using an installation partition. Just follow the guide above but make sure you DO NOT HAVE the NVIDIA 7300. I also kept getting the grey circle with a line through it. I bought the HD5770 ATI card, swapped out the NVIDIA and booted perfectly. And I don't know if the extra RAM on the video card is helping but I now have a lot more free RAM. Safari would kill my system in Snow Leopard.

I ordered the card from B&H photo online yesterday with free shipping for $229 but I paid $10 extra for faster shipping.

Also if Safari is killing your RAM/CPU its probably flash!! theres a Safari Extension that kills all plugins, and runs as needed.

http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/

 

[andyyau]

Thanks for your response
I have Apple ATI 4870, I will try it again. Hopefully it will work

Hi, please let me know your result!

Mine is MacPro 1,1 (firmware upgraded to 2,1), 16G Ram, ATI 4870.
I tried more than 10 times, it got kernel panic all the time.

 

[hms84]

Hi, please let me know your result!

Mine is MacPro 1,1 (firmware upgraded to 2,1), 16G Ram, ATI 4870.
I tried more than 10 times, it got kernel panic all the time.

Nothing so far. Gray screen after the apple logo even when booting from the installation partition.

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Is there a different in installing with target disk mode and taking the SSD out and install with USB-SATA cable?

 

[albertsw]

JBasco20, how'd you get past the screen with the slash? I have a MacBook4,1.

Same issue

 

[armdn]

As the owner of two dropped macs, I can safely say it makes perfect sense to drop these machines. The dropped machines either lack a 64-bit EFI or have no GPU drivers that are 64-bit. Rather than maintaining two kernels, two sets of kexts, two disparate OSs, one 32 and one 64, Apple would rather focus on a single code base and improving it. Would it be nice if my two older macs could run it? Of course! Do I understand that in order to move forward, some things may need to be left behind? You bet. At the end of the day, my machines STILL do more now than they did when I bought them, so in my opinion, that's a win.

Totally not agree with you. There is no matter of what EFI in our macs. 64 bit or 32 bit. Every EFI can boot any type of OS 32 bit or 64 bit, no matter. On my Mac Pro 2,1 works without issues - Windows 7 Ultimate x64, FreeBSD 9.0 x64, Ubuntu Linux x64, and only Perfect Innovative OS X 10.8 can't. ********. Apple can activate booting to 64-bit kernel by disabling checking of what type of EFI used in hardware. Then it will free to boot to 64-bit kernel and extensions mode. Another thing that the must to do - is add EFIRuntime code to 64-bit part of kernel extensions. That is all, there is nothing difficult for Apple. There is no need to develop two parts of OS. Apple JUST don't want to support older macs, because they expect that peoples will buy new macs. Nuff said.

 

[andyyau]

Apple JUST don't want to support older macs, because they expect that peoples will buy new macs. Nuff said.

The problem is Apple does not release new MacPro since 2010. I am ready and will buy one to replace 1,1. But I am not willing to buy those old Mac with high price tag.

 

[GeJe]

To sum it up

So, to sum it up, it’s not possible as to now to install OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 4GB+ MacPro 1,1?

If I understood correctly, the problem lays in the boot.efi file that can’t address more than 4GB since it’s a hacked 32 bit boot file?

Any perspective for a solution? (beside removing RAM, of course!)

Thanks!

 

[hms84]

So, to sum it up, it’s not possible as to now to install OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on 4GB+ MacPro 1,1?

If I understood correctly, the problem lays in the boot.efi file that can’t address more than 4GB since it’s a hacked 32 bit boot file?

Any perspective for a solution? (beside removing RAM, of course!)

Thanks!

So that's the problem??
I'll try to take the one from lion and check

 

[MacUser22]

iCloud Issues?

Is anyone else experiencing issues with iCloud under System Preferences using a Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1? I keep getting an error stating my account is a valid Apple user id but not an iCloud account. Works fine under Lion and web access. I wonder if the server is authenticating the machine I’m using. Any help is greatly appreciated. Mountain Lion w/o iCloud access is pretty much not worth it.

 

[tchetelat]

ok i got it working and now the only problem i have is the back to my mac keeps telling me incorrect password but it took the password for everything else..... any idea's? Also facetime says it encounters an error during registration

That's great that you got it working. Can you let the rest of us, who are in the same position, know what you did?

 

[andyyau]

So that's the problem??
I'll try to take the one from lion and check

The one from lion cannot be used with ML. I have tested this already and it failed.

 

[miriv365]

Got this working on MacBook 4,1

Thanks for the instructions... any progress been made for the video drivers, that's the only thing that doesn't seem to be working correctly.

 

[USMCGuy]

Attempted Install on MacBook2,1 board-id "Mac-F4208CAA"
It Failed. I attached the install log. Some of the errors reported are:

Jul 27 17:34:46 localhost Unknown[288]: nvram: nvram is not supported on this system
Jul 27 17:34:46 localhost Install OS X Mountain Lion[359]: Failed to set prev-lang:kbd
Jul 27 17:34:46 localhost Install OS X Mountain Lion[359]: Extracting files from /Volumes/Macintosh HD/OS X Install Data/BaseSystem.dmg
Jul 27 17:34:48 localhost Install OS X Mountain Lion[359]: Failed to write imgsrc info to nvram

Jul 27 17:34:50 localhost Unknown[288]: Could not find IODeviceTree:/options
Jul 27 17:34:50 localhost Install OS X Mountain Lion[359]: Bless on /Volumes/Macintosh HD failed
Jul 27 17:34:50 localhost Install OS X Mountain Lion[359]: Couldn't bless the installation disk: /Volumes/Macintosh HD

 

[albertsw]

JBasco20, how'd you get past the screen with the slash? I have a MacBook4,1.

I have the same computer and the same issue.

 

[tchetelat]

MacPro1,1

Jul 27 19:36:38 localhost opendirectoryd[101]: 2326.6, Node: /Local/Default, Module: PlistFile - ODQueryCreateWithNode completed
Jul 27 19:36:43 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Unable to set 'macpro' as boot disk: The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk
Jul 27 19:36:43 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Install failed: The Installer could not start up the computer from the disk “macpro”. Try selecting your disk using the Startup Disk utility.
Jul 27 19:36:44 localhost Unknown[285]: Could not find IODeviceTree:/options
Jul 27 19:36:44 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Failed to revert bless to disk macpro (3)
Jul 27 19:36:44 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Unable to revert bless to target or imgsrc.
Jul 27 19:36:44 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Allowing machine sleep.
Jul 27 19:36:44 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Memory statistics for 'Install Failed' pane:
Jul 27 19:36:44 localhost OSInstaller[344]: Physical Memory Allocation: 471 MB wired, 5 MB trapped, 534 MB active, 136 MB inactive, 2950 MB free, 3620 MB usable, 4096 MB totalQueryCreateWithNode completed

 

[Fbianchife]

same error again.... the exact error is
The Installer could not start up the computer from the disk Macintosh HD try selecting your disk using the startup utility.... i did that and it says it can't bless it...

i didn't try but i guess you can.



open Terminal in Utilities Menu, then enter

cp /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist /Volumes/[Installation target]/System/Library/CoreServices

you may restart your computer manually if everything is fine except restarting.

Hello everybody, first of all pleased to meet you, I'm Francesco and I own a black Macbook 2,1.

I get the same error after the installationcompleted. However when I try to copry the PlatformSupport.plist file the system says that nothing is done since the 2 files are identical.
So when I manually restart and try to bootthe system I get the gray prohibition symbol.

How can I fix this??

 

[Fbianchife]

Hello everybody, first of all pleased to meet you, I'm Francesco and I own a black Macbook 2,1.

I get the same error after the installationcompleted. However when I try to copry the PlatformSupport.plist file the system says that nothing is done since the 2 files are identical.
So when I manually restart and try to bootthe system I get the gray prohibition symbol.

How can I fix this??

Nevermind it worked now!!

 

[giupone]

RAM Issue

known issues
1, find my mac of iCloud does not work.
this installation method does not create the Recovery Partition for you. so you need to create it by yourself to fix the issue.

2, sound driver does not work.
you may fix the issue by installing the old AppleHDA.kext from Lion.

3, graphics driver does not work.
there is no complete solution for the issue at this time. and you may help us by porting Linux Graphics Drivers from Intel to OSX.

Hi, first of all, thank you for your effort and for sharing with us.
It's really a shame I can't use this method since I have 10GB of RAM (well, I could downgrade to 4GB but... wth!)

Since this is a certain issue (I've tried myself, not working), maybe you could edit your post, stating it doesn't works if you have more than 4GB.

Thank you again... I'll keep following this post, hoping someone solves this problem.

 

[Mautz001]

Is anyone else experiencing issues with iCloud under System Preferences using a Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1? I keep getting an error stating my account is a valid Apple user id but not an iCloud account. Works fine under Lion and web access. I wonder if the server is authenticating the machine I’m using. Any help is greatly appreciated. Mountain Lion w/o iCloud access is pretty much not worth it.

Same issue here...

 

[Fbianchife]

Hey guys, I'm going crazy, where can I download the AppleIntelGMA950VLDriver.bundle file??

 

[Vo3Dyx]

Whats the current progress with x3100 driver? Installing ML is not a big deal, but its useless without graphical acceleration

 

[phearus]

Macbook4,1 x3100, more tests pending...

Macbook4,1 x3100 Driver:

Peeps - now don't get excited - I am fumbling about as much as the next guy... but

Check-it:

http://opensource.apple.com/source/IOGraphics/IOGraphics-409/

Now doing lots of reading over at the OSx86 and InsanelyMac forums it seems that using this project (or one similar) and the open-source code from Intel (http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html) we may be able to build some very-up-to-date 64-bit kernel extensions for our GMAx3100 graphics chip.

I am still looking into it.

On another note, this guy(http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2866) seems to have made an app called Quartz Debug that can enable Software-based QE. It can also turn it off (including hardware-based QE). By adding widgets onto the dashboard, one can either observe the water-ripples effect (with QE enabled) and without (with QE disabled). I played around with it in Lion 10.7.3 and that is what I saw.

I am going to test this in Mountain Lion - maybe we can get-away with using lion with software-based QE or no QE until 64-bit GMAx3100 kexts are available. At least this will make Mountain Lion semi-usable. I don't know how the software-based QE will sap performance - I will report-back when I have played around.

Also, though reports indicate this doesn't work in Mountain Lion, this app PleaseSleep (http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2866) has enabled folks' Hackbooks with GMAx3100 chips to sleep properly. So we need to track this code down and modify it accordingly to run on Mountain Lion...

I have some other ideas (like hacking-up device-id fields in AppleIntelHDGraphics kexts and adding the GMAx3100 device-id: 0x2a028086 and hope beyond all reason that I get lucky) but I doubt that will work at all.

Anybody around here know how to build kexts with Xcode? I am a bit strapped for time ATM - with a PhD to complete and work and family commitments etc.. you know. Some help (any help) would be great.

I will report back when I have performed a re-install and tested these things out.

 

[Vo3Dyx]

Ive just noticed that on the screenshot in post 1 there is x3100 with 144mb, but in my case "Intel graphic 64mb"
Doesnt it meens that dead.xx using some kind of driver?))