UniBeast
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| Developer(s) | tonymacx86 MacMan |
| Initial release | October 31, 2011 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Website | UniBeast.com |
| Download | [1] |
UniBeast is a tool by tonymacx86 and MacMan to create a bootable USB drive from the Mac App Store purchased copy of Install Mac OS X Lion or Apple Store purchased OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive. This all-in-one bootable USB drive can also be used as a rescue boot drive for system recovery.
Official Information
UniBeast: Install Mac OS X Lion Using an All-In-One Bootable USB Drive
Recovery Partition
Users without a large USB or other flash drive, or who wish to create a recovery partition can use Unibeast to create one on the system drive, then install Lion from there.
The benefit of this method is not only having a more stable copy of the Installer, but also being able to copy the kexts before first boot, and being able to make essential edits in case of emergency.
- Using Disk Utility, shrink your OS X partition to create a new HFS+J one with at least 4.83GB of space, and name it "Recovery HD"
- Start Unibeast, and choose Recovery HD as the destination.
- [Optional] Reboot into Single User mode and copy any necessary kexts into the /S/L/E folder on Recovery HD, and customize the contents of the Extra folder.
- [Optional] Reboot into Recovery HD and check your settings to make sure the kexts and boot options are operating normally. If necessary, reboot into Single User and make changes.
- Using Terminal, run "sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype Apple_Boot" where disk0s3 is the location of Recovery HD, to assign the partition type to "Apple_Boot"
- Run the installation process, erasing the OS X partition if desired. You may be notified about the inability to use FileVault or add a Recovery partition, this is normal for this method.
- You can walk away while the installation proceeds, your hackintosh will reboot to Recovery HD's boot screen and wait.
- [Optional] Boot into the Recovery HD again, and using Terminal copy any necessary kexts and Extra files to Lion's /S/L/E.
- Reboot into your new Lion installation, and run MultiBeast.
If you ever wish to mount the Recovery HD in Lion, run "diskutil mount readonly /dev/disk0s3" in Terminal, where disk0s3 is the partition location.
