Saturday, 21 December 2013

how did I move my hackintosh from Mountain Lion to Mavericks

Simple instruction by [tonymacx86] didn't work. It kind of installs, but Mountain Lion is still there after restart.

Then I went to this.

  • As usual for me with OS X,  stayed there for something like 10 minutes.
  • I did full backup before step 3. just tar-ed everything to backup location.
  • Following instruction it went without a problem, but for me it won't boot normally :(
  • So I booted into safe mode (-x at boot), applied Pjalm patches, and re-did MultiBeast and then it worked. Remind you, this is HW specific, so you must be specific here. My config is Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI + i5-3770 and I use onboard Intel graphics.
  • Happily started to check if everything works and it seemed ok, nothing broken. Then it hung, did hard reset and it didn't boot again (here comes two evenings of thinking, trial and reboots + messing around in tonymacx86.com), but I fixed it. The methods are two. First and best: you understand what you do exactly and dig deep into internals. Second, the most popular: try, fail, try, fail, ... etc. For me it was a mix of both. With too much of the second, I must admit :)
  • After that it was pretty obvious what to do, until...
  • My wife tried to log in :) and it hung indefinitely... tried it for a few times, nothing, still hung. Then I changed her account to log in without password and it worked nicely.
  • Finally I was able to do the obvious things and since then everything works :)



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