Hackint0sh. How to setup Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 DP1 on your windows-laptop, for example Dell Vostro 3350

You have certainly read about Mountain Lion everywhere on the internet, so I will not stop on DP1 features itself. Today I'll show you how to install OS X 10.7, 10.8 DP1 or DP2. This instruction assumes you are advanced PC user, but even newbies can try it. I used my own Dell Vostro 3350 as an example.

This laptop is pretty much the same with 2011th Apple MacBook Pro 13", and 5200 result in GeekBench is best evidence (MacBook makes 5500-6000). Comparement :

Never the less, you can use another laptop (or even desktop PC) based on the lates Intel CPU and compatible videocard, but you can have trouble making some components run (Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc). Despite ерthe availability of different Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL), most of them are outdated and useless, so you'll need to try everything yourself.

Where to setup?

You'll need to create a separate partition for Mac OS installation. I don't see any sense in describing this procedure, because if this is difficult for you, then you'll stuck on the next, harder steps. You'll need to create Primary partition not less then 15Gb, you can use Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 for it or any other partitioning tool, even free one. Also, you need to check your laptop BIOS version. Just press F2 on boot and look for the BIOS Version on screen - in can be А05 or А07. Also you'll a USB-mouse if the trackpad will fail to start on first boot.

What to setup?

Restoring a prepared image of Mac OS partition is the easiest way. You can grab DP1 here, you'll also find R-Drive application inside. UPDATE: Here you can find DP2 image.

How to setup?

Unpack downloaded ISO image. Install R-Drive in Windows and Transmac, you can get it here.

Restoring image with R-Drive:

• Run R-Drive
• Press Restore from image
• Choose osxlion.arc
• Choose a Primary partition prepared earlier
• Set the Make partition active flag if it's available
• Even if you have created a 50Gb partition, it'll be shrank to 15Gb during the process, we will resize it later

Now your computer can boot into Mac OS X. But don't hurry to restart, we need to apply all need changes for our laptop model and resize Mac OS partition if needed. I warn you, my DSDT file fits ONLY Dell Vostro 3350 without a discrete video, if you have a Core i5 model with Radeon graphics please search for the DSDT on the internet, you can try looking here (need registration and google translate from russian). Desktop PC's and laptops from another manufacturers owners can search for advice on specialized forums. If you have the same model as I do, or it's younger brother Dell Vostro V131 be free to download my Extra and Extensions folder from here and follow the next steps.

Replacing an Extra folder on Mac OS partition from Windows using TransMac

• Run Transmac
• Change access mode for Mac partitions from Read Only to Read/Write in settings
• Choose your hard drive in the left column and then a partition named kozel (not my naming :) )
• Remove Extra folder in partitions root and drag my Extra downloaded earlier instead
• Don't touch Extensions for now

Reboot, wait, celebrate the first Mac OS boot.

Now left-click on the Mac OS desktop, press Finder in the upper menu, choose Settings, Show on the Desktop, set the "Hard drives" flag, on the "Side panel" tab, find "Hard drives" flag, remove and set it again. Now you can see our kozel partiton on your desktop. You can rename it from here.

Go to System/Library/Extensions and remove these files:

• AppleACPIPlatform
• AppleHDA
• AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (only if you use Core i3-2310 2,1Ghz)
• ApplePS2Controller
• IO80211Family
• NullCPUPowerManagement (only if you use i3-2310 2,1Ghz)
• SmartBatteryManager

Copy all the filess from my Extensions folder instead of the deleted ones. You can't use my AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement if your CPU is not Intel Core i3-2310m, try using a special patcher from here. If it's too complicated for you, don't remove the NullCPUPowerManagement file, sleep function and CPU power management won't work but you'll still be able to use Mac OS. You'll get many error windows after the files are copied - just ignore that or press OK to dismiss. Run Kext Utility (white cube icon in the Dock) and restart.

You'll have all components orking after restart, but Bluetooth and a couple of blue USB3.0 ports on the left panel. Bluetooth works after rebooting from Windows without powering off, USB3.0 can be started with a Lacie USB3.0 driver but it can lead to freezes and glitches, so I don't recommend that. Just use a $10 USB-hub plugged in your eSATA/USB2.0 port on the right panel, if you need more then one USB port.

How can I resize Mac partition?
Download Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 - link is in the beginning of this post. Install it in Windows. Run. Right-click on Mac OS partition, choose Verify File System, then Move/Resize and make desires changes.

How can I restore Windows booting?

After all the steps you have nearly perfect working Mac OS, but you can't boot to Windows 7 because of an error. Fixable. Just boot from Windows 7 boot DVD or USB-flash, Select language, but don't press Next yet. Press Shift+F10, enter "diskpart" in command line and follow the next steps:

• select disk 0 - select hard drive
• list partition - look for windows partition number
• select partition 1 - select Windows partiton, enter your partiton number instead of 1
• active
• exit

Close the command line windows, press "System Restore" in the lower left corner, you will be prompted to fix errors and reboot, press OK. Now you Windows OS works again but Mac OS boot menu is lost. Fixable.

Again, boot from Windows 7 boot DVD or USB-flash, Select language, but don't press Next yet. Press Shift+F10, enter "diskpart" in command line and follow the next steps:

• select disk 0
• list partition - look for Mac OS partiton number
• select partition 2 - select Mac OS partiton, enter your number instead of 2 if needed
• active
• exit
• close all windows, laptop will reboot

Now you have working boot menu, and both - Mac OS and Windows 7 are bootable.

Advice regarding Mac OS

The first annoying thing you'll see is Bluetooth Assistant popping-up on every boot. Run this two command in Terminal to get rid of it:

1. sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth BluetoothAutoSeekPointingDevice -bool NO
2. sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth  BluetoothAutoSeekKeyboard -bool NO

Install NTFS-3G for Lion, from here to have a Write access to NTFS partitions.

Setup Brightness app from AppStore to get the brightness control.

Apple removed Safari and Mail RSS reader in Mac OS 10.8 DP1 - just setup Cappuccino from AppStore if you like reading RSS.

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