OSx86 installation guide can seem daunting at first glance, especially
when trying to remember cryptic terminal commands and sorting through
volumes of misinformation on the web. This guide requires no coding,
terminal work, or Mac experience of any kind.
Apple is only distributing OS X Lion through the Mac App Store, we had
to rethink our retail installation method. What follows is our
recommendation for the easiest, cleanest and most Mac-like installation
process. For best results, follow this guide to the letter.
guide is for the Retail OS X Lion App downloaded from the Mac App
Store. If you are using the OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, a new guide is
coming soon.
- Intel Core 2 or above, 64 bit CPU
- Mac App Store Account + $29.99
- Internet Access to Download 4GB OS X Lion App through Mac App Store
- 4GB space available in /Applications
- 8GB additional free space on your hard drive
- Mac Pro 3,1 system definition and the latest Chimera Bootloader from MultiBeast
2. Download the OS X Lion App directly from the Mac App Store - it will automatically open.
1. Boot back into your existing Snow Leopard installation.
2. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
not interrupt the process- it will only take a few minutes. When done,
you’ll have a secondary partition on your drive containing the OS X Lion
Installer!
and it cannot find the necessary files. A quick way to remedy this is
to manually mount the InstallESD.dmg and run xMove again.
1. Reboot- at the Chimera boot screen, choose Installer
2. It will boot directly to a familiar Mac OS X Installer complete with Disk Utility.
3. Install OS X Lion over existing Snow Leopard or onto any empty drive or partition.
If you’ve installed directly over an existing Snow Leopard installation,
you’re done! You should already have done proper post-installation
steps on your existing Snow Leopard drive, so skip Step 5 and simply
reboot into Lion!
STEP 5: MultiBeast
an all-in-one post-installation tool designed to enable boot from hard
drive, and install support for Audio, Network, and Graphics. It contains
two different complete post-installation solutions: UserDSDT and
EasyBeast. In addition it includes System Utilities to rebuild caches
and repair permissions and a collection of drivers, boot loaders, boot
time config files and handy software.
a bare-minimum solution for those who have their own pre-edited DSDT.
Place your DSDT.aml on the desktop before install. Audio, Graphics and
Network will have to be enabled separately. Check out our DSDT Database to download your motherboard’s pre-edited DSDT.EasyBeast is
a DSDT-free solution for any Core2/Core i system. It installs all of
the essentials to allow your system to boot from the hard drive. Audio,
Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately.
1. At Chimera boot screen, choose your freshly installed Lion drive
2. Complete setup and registration routine
3. When you get to the desktop, run MultiBeast
4. If you have a custom pre-edited DSDT, place it on your desktop and choose UserDSDT
You now have a fully updated bootable version of OS X Lion on your
CustoMac! If you have any trouble, there are plenty of folks in the
tonymacx86 forum with similar hardware to help out! Special thanks
to all the hard work and effort of everyone involved in the
community, all of our Mods for testing and retesting this method, and
to Adamsmasher and Complx for the new logos!
If you’ve had success using xMove + MultiBeast, consider a contribution to help keep the sites going. We’re constantly updating and tweaking our tools to help you.
Thanks in advance!
-tonymacx86 & MacMan
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