Create a bootable usb flash drive to install fresh Mountain Lion 10.8

LAST UPDATED: January 3, 2013


If you're interested in running Mac OS X, but you don't want to pay ridiculous prices for a normal Mac, then a Hackintosh just might be for you. Right now, the newest iteration of OS X is 10.8, known as Mountain Lion. Installing Mountain Lion on a PC is pretty much the exact same as installing Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). This guide is based off tonymacx86's method for installing Mountain Lion, except that we cover it with more detail (and pictures!).

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Well, time to upgrade to Lion...

1. Download the app from the store.
2. Install it on your hard drive
3. Boot back into your existing Snow Leopard installation.
4. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
5. Highlight your Snow Leopard drive in left column.
6. Choose the Partition tab, and Click the + to Add a Partition.
7. Name the secondary partition Installer with a size of 8 GB and click Apply.
8. Click Partition & then close Disk utility
9. Download xMove & mount your Lion InstallESD.dmg (otherwise I got a "failed" notification in xMove)
10. Double-Click xMove, and choose Installer as Destination. (be careful because the default is your hard disk drive that you have your Snow leopard installation)
11. Reboot- at the Chimera boot screen, choose Installer
12. It will boot directly to a familiar Mac OS X Installer complete with Disk Utility.
13. 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. Otherwise you must run the Multibeast in order for your installation to work flawlessly... Check here if you are doing this as a fresh install for the Multibeast options needed for my motherboard.

Fix Incorrect Clock Settings in Windows When Dual-Booting with OS X or Linux

In a previous post I had described how to make Ubuntu not change the clock in UTC so as to get the right time in both Windows and Ubuntu. Well, since this is an issue of Windows, as both OSX and Linux have another time setting I must say that this supersedes my previous post. Below lies a "fix" for Windows...

If you dual boot your Windows PC with OS X or Linux, you may have experienced a problem in which your clocks reset themselves incorrectly every time you boot into Windows. Here's a simple registry edit to fix that.

Essentially, the incorrect clock setting happens because OS X and Linux use GMT time while Windows tries to synchronize with your local time zone, getting confused when you reboot between the two. Apple's own Boot Camp drivers for Windows are supposed to fix this problem, though some users have noticed that it still happens even with the drivers installed, and some Linux users are left out in the cold. Furthermore, if you have a Hackintosh, you can't install the Boot Camp drivers, so you'll need to find another way around the problem.

To fix it, just hit Start and type  regedit.exe  in the search box. Hit Enter and navigate to  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation. Right click anywhere in the right pane and hit New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name it RealTimeIsUniversal, then double click on it and give it a value of 1. The next time you reboot from OS X into Windows, you should notice that your clock actually displays the correct time.


from lifehacker