Unplug all USB-connected devices from your computer before you begin the setup (except your keyboard and mouse). Usually 3GB/s SATA ports are light blue in color. The 6 GB/s SATA ports simply don’t work well with OS X. On Gigabyte motherboards, the 3GB/s ports are blue while the 6 GB/s ports are white. Open up your PC, and make sure that the SATA cables for your hard drive and your DVD/Bluray drive are plugged into the 3GB/s SATA ports on your motherboard, not the 6GB/s SATA ports (these should be labeled on the motherboard). This could take a very long time(30min to 2hrs), depending upon the speed of your USB drive. Open Disk Utility, located in Application à Utilitiesthen follow the instructions in the attached image to prepare your USB drive for Unibeast.
Although it is possible to get your copy of Mac OS X Mountain Lion installer app from torrents, I don’t recommend it. Wherever you get your Mountain Lion installer from, just make sure that your file has ‘.app’ extension.
Download it onto a USB drive from the downloads page of Ħ.) OS X Mountain Lion: This guide requires you to have a copy of the Mountain Lion installer app from the Mac App store, or the Lion USB Thumb Drive from Apple. You can reuse this USB drive for normal stuff after you finish installing Lion.ĥ.) Multibeast Mountain Lion edition (5.0 or newer): Multibeast is a collection of kextsthat your Hackintosh will need to run properly, after the initial installation.
You could use my guide to install Mac OS X Lion in a VM and then use it to run Unibeast to prepare your hackintosh install USB.Ĥ.) An empty USB drive (8 GB or larger): The USB drive used for Unibeast must be at least 8 GB in size. Thus, for it to run and to modify the installer of OS X Mountain Lion you need run Unibeast in OS X. Click here for tonymac download page.(You will have to create an account first)ģ.) A Hackintosh with OS X already installed OR a real Mac OR or a Mac OS X virtual machine: Unibeast is a Mac application. You can then use this USB drive to install Lion on your PC. Note: A very large number of desktop motherboards are compatible but in case of laptops the compatibility list is very thin.Ģ.) Unibeast Mountain Lion Edition: This a small tool from tonymacx86 which modifies the installer of Mac OS X Lion and writes it onto a USB drive. But a good rule of thumb is that if your Motherboard and CPU are post 2010 then most likely they will be compatible. There are (incomplete) lists of compatible motherboards and CPU’s maintained at OSx86 wiki and tonymacx86 wiki. You could use Google to check if your motherboard and CPU are Hackintosh compatible. 1.) A compatible computer: Not every computer will work with Mac OS X, even with the help of tools like Unibeast and Multibeast.