It's July, and OS X Lion is almost here! We thought we'd run down a preparation list of recommended tasks so you can be ready once it's available.
Necessary for Lion UpdateApple has provided a concise rundown of how to update to Lion on Day 1 here. The requirements are the same for CustoMacs. To proceed with a retail installation, you absolutely need the following.
- Intel Core 2 or above, 64 bit CPU
- A computer running the latest version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8)
- iTunes Account + $29.99
- Internet Access to download 4 GB Lion Install App through iTunes
- 4 GB hard drive space available in /Applications
Recommended Best PracticesWhen performing any full operating system upgrade, unexpected things can occur. To avoid data loss, these best practices should be adhered to. This upgrade should be a breeze, but if things do go wrong, you can always go back to your working Snow Leopard installation.
- Buy a Second Hard Drive
- Clone your Snow Leopard Hard Drive
- Back Up Your Data
Stay tuned for our full OS X Lion retail installation guide- coming Day 1!
-tonymacx86 & MacMan
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Awesome! Do you think we'll be able to install Lion simply by opening the app from the app store, or will we need to do a clean install from a DVD or flash drive? I know it's kinda early to tell, but what do you think?
Ati Sapphire 6950 2gb id device :0x6719 (bios asus 6970)
this card will be compatible with lion ??
thx
Awesome! Glad I'll be able to upgrade on day one it looks like!
Do you think it will be as easy to update as a real mac?
People Relax! i think the Lion will be easy as 10.6.8 was to install.
Thanks Tony for all!
TAHNK YOU Im ready :)
Ati Sapphire 6950 2gb id device :0x6719 (bios asus 6970)
No
Check netkas.org and tonymac forums
I will let all you brave people out there worry about Day 1. I don't even upgrade my real Macs until after the first point update.
> 64 bit CPU
I hope this is going to be a bad joke.
"This upgrade should be a breeze," ... Seriously ?! Loads of us are still burnt from 10.6.8
unless someone writes some pretty powerful scripting or there is a very new way of doing the installation, i can tell you that with the current method, its not that easy.
it will be cool if we can upgrade from 10.6.8 opposed to a clean install and making a boot DVD/flash drive. II believe the most likely date to be true is July 14th. It's the rumored date from reliable sources and I have found enough on it to actually believe it's a true date.
It's really easy!
Only issue is sleep!
As my parts will arrive next week - what will be better tactics: install first 10.6.3, update to 10.6.8, update to 10.7.0 or install 10.7.0 directly?
Thank you tonymacx86 & MacMan!!!
For most of Mac fans clean installation will be better, but if you don't want to reinstall all programs you can choose upgrade.
@ Anonymous July 9, 2011 2:27 AM
It is definitely much easier to install right away to 10.7
Especially when you are starting with a new build system just like i did, without going into any details.
Any idea if you can upgrade to Lion from 10.6.6?
Cheers heaps guys!!!!!!!
Fresh install is always best more so if you running ssd drives.
lol.
Tonymacx86 got banned by MacMan.
Reason: He talked about lion.
XD
I just have Intel E5400 Dual Core 2.7 Ghz so can i install Lion ?
Wow!! Lion....... I think it's Ok for my computer
Lion Rules:
1) You do not talk about Lion.
2) YOU DO NO TALK ABOUT LION!
PS, I got everything working on "IT" except it never seems to get out of sleep and does a weird power cycling thing over and over.
you won't be able to install 10.7 directly. It's download-only from the App Store, so you'll have to have 10.6.8 running. AFAIK, only 10.6.8 has the ability to download and install Lion properly, so you'll need to update to that first (like Tony writes in the original blog post).
It is easy for a real mac but you can forget it being easy for a hacintosh. It will not load as you think.
I think the reason for this post is that the new multibeast has it down. For that I am happy also.
since 10.6.8 hosed most of our systems im not sure why tonymac is thinking lion will be any easier to install? i have 100% compatible specs too. i think im sticking to 10.6.7 until a month passes from the lion launch date to see what other users run into.
"it" works 100%
you can perform a 100% clean install on an empty drive once you have downloaded the installer.
sleep works perfectly provided you have taken 3 steps (can't post details yet) :)
yo... yo...
waiting for iBootX coming soooooon...
@mark212: There is a simple way to load it directly but I will not talk about it.
@Anonymous: Nope there is a pretty easy way to get this to work on a hackintosh, but again I can't talk about it.
It IS easy for Hackintosh, REALLY easy!
awesome photo
working fine here (LION 10.7.0 GM)
quad 6600
asus P5Q
Radeon 4850 1GB
4GB ram
everything 100% , all old kexts work like a charm
If we need 64 bit CPU then I think it would be appropriate if you changed your name to tonymacx86_64 :P
So badass, can't wait. I updated one of my Hacks to 10.6.8 and made sure to run USB AND audio rollback and new Fermi driver and everything worked great. Need to update the other two now as well. Been a little relunctant just because one of them is my main "Work" system. But if I just follow Tony's best practices it should be much easier to troubleshoot with no worries of having to stop work. Can't wait for IT to finally be downloadable. :)
tonymacamd64
I'd love to install Lion but I can't even update 10.6.6, KP everytime. Think I'm gonna have to do some serious kext hunting and config.
FIRST THE ART WORK IS VERY CLEVER. GAVE ME A BIG SMILE
SECOND: Seems lots of wrong info mixed with the good. We will just have to wait & see. Also giving things a few days before installing may prevent lots of heartburn.
THIRD: Until the sw goes to production, little changes that might effect Hackintosh are possible.
IT works (almost) perfectly on both GA-P55-US3L and GA-X58A-UD3R!
Sleep + wake works, speedstep works, realtek lan works, audio works with rollback, gfx works, the only thing unsure is turbo boost.
Four things:
1. Can we see updated DSDTs on day 0? Including proper patch for the CMOS sleep reset problem? I currently have AppleRTC patched and that kinda solves the problem.
2. Any chance for ALC892 users (and any other ALC users) to have AppleHDA patched without rollback?
3. Network Utility is not reporting my realtek lan but it actually works. Any chance to get that fixed?
4. Not sure if this is chameleon's problem, but the PCI configuration begin bug really annoys me, especially when you love to see a verbose boot like I do! tried the npci fix as suggested by netkas but the system won't even boot! Besides it is a pain in the ass to have UseKernelCaches and abandon /Extra/Extensions in order to have speedy boot!
I LOVE Lion, and it seems that GM will be the retail version (as no GM2 is released after 1+ week, everything seems normal.)
Uh one thing strange though is that the Act Mon with i5-750 on the P(H)55 board have 4 cores shown in graph, while i7-950 on the X58 board shows only 1 graph! Is this normal? System Profiler reports correct info and GeekBench scores are normal. Thanks!
from what I can tell we will obviously have a new iBoot , one that will spoof all of EFI and stop the repeat power-cycle issue present in TonyMacMan iBoot.
There are updated tools however that don't have this issue. But they are far beyond everyday user skills.
Tony and MacMan have our back guys, wait for details. Users are correct a straight from DVD is the easiest CURRENT method. However I imagine this new iBoot will be as simple as... PIE !
Come on guys we don't need to let the cat out of the bag ! (hardyharhar!)
Great things are to come and be happy, I swear my experience has doubled with Lion. And I imagine so will yours !
installation doesn't look hard, but will finally the intel IG work in all resolutions? that's the question
come on Lion, we have been waiting for the Fermi support for ages ...
Fermi support has been here for ages , just need to patch it. But by far Lion's 270.05.05f01 nvidia driver gives a great boost on the cards I've tested. But as we are still lacking a updated CUDA.... Check out our forms on how to get your Fermi card working, I am assuming you are GTX 5xx ? This isn't fully accelerated however it is functional aka supported. And if your up to the challenge you can actually get full support and acceleration . I did so why cant you Google how to ?
well that is what I meant... and we have a whole thread on that in the forums...
SL rocks already in my book,surely 10.7 can't be that much of an upgrade in,performance
and stability ???
Still tossing up whether to go legit and buy a genuine mac pro,an imac with (thunderbolt) built in,(27" imac monitor) for that awsome resolution or a full blown kick ass custo unit, which regrettably wont support thunderbolt.
GTX 570 under Lion fully supported and everything works: acceleration, any resolution, dual monitors, OpenGL and OpenCL.
SL 10.6.8 and Lion GM work well with this specs....
ASRock P67 Extreme 4/A/ASR
Palit Nvidia 470GTX 1280MB
Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4 gHz
8 GB RAM 1333 DDR3 (Dual)
Logitech Webcam
Logitech wireless mouse
ALC892 built-in works
RealtekRTL81xx built-in works
Now, I'm excitedly waiting for Lion's release!
It's the 14th - any Lions spotted in the wild yet?
Trying to join tonymacx86 and it says I need the name of a moderator???
-help?
"It's the 14th - any Lions spotted in the wild yet?"
wrong day man
@Anonymous:
http://tonymacx86.com/memberlist.php?mode=leaders
what.......today is the 16th and no lion in the safari zone yet....
omgosh.....what a rotten apple.
Got "it" running perfectly on a GA-EP45-Extreme, dsdt, original AppleHDA patched easy for ALC 889a
Waiting for DSDT mod regarding the sleep CMOS reset.
Happly running lion GM :P glad i have a few people that look out for me:P
Hey guys,
Is time machine sufficient for backup or do you need to do a full blown Clone of it? Whats a good app for a full clone if required?
Cheers Tony, Lnx, and the rest of the hack community!
Chris
@Comewhatevermay
I used to SuperDuper! to clone my drive when I needed to upgrade for space. Only had to reload Chameleon as the drive wasn't bootable, but everything else was there.
Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said Lion, the new version of the Mac OS X operating system, will go on sale Wednesday.
He just didn't say which Wednesday...
Which Wednesday?
He said it yesterday, so I hope today - :)
coming out today =D...so excited
im getting an error in the app store " This version of Mac OS X 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer." help!!
Your device or computer could not be verified. Contact support for assistance. help!!
im getting an error in the app store "cannot be installed on this computer or device"
Wake up Tony :)
it installed from the appstore for me, but after the reboot, it just comes back to 10.6.8. It does not see the installation partition or whatever it does behind the scenes.
Do you use 10.6.8? You can only upgrade from the latest Snow Leo.
Me too
Was on working 10.6.8. Followed tonymac guide. Successfully updated to 10.7 but without sound. Installed HDA889 rollback drivers using Multibeast 3.8. All is running very well so far, including sound. Thank you to all who helped make this possible.
CPU i7 3.2Ghz 960, 6GB RAM, GA-X58A-UD3R r2 FE, Gigabit 5770 1GB
No Joy..
After selecting my install partition I get kernel panic with my Asus P8P67 Deluxe / Sandy Bridge. I followed all the instructions to the letter. Trying to upgrade from SL. :(
I must be honest - I didn't expect to see a guide so soon on upgrading to Lion. Excellent job on the tutorial, and on the success of getting this done!
I had used the CustomBeast install you helped me with prior to upgrading. I then purchased Lion and followed the guide exactly as shown. I did experience one thing when I booted to the Lion installer part - I had no USB. So I restarted to my SL install and ran Multibeast to install the IOUSBFamily kexts to the installer partition and rebuilt the permissions and caches. Then at reboot, I had the USB control I needed. I did try booting to iBoot to have USB in the installer partition prior to doing the above, but I guess iBoot isn't yet compatible with Lion, or I don't know what I'm doing, which is probably the latter.
Anyway, after I installed and started up, I was working like normal.
Thanks for the excellent help!
@Anonymous : Please give me your kexts for radeon 4850 1G ,
thank alot !!
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