Question about upgrading from 10.6.x to 10.7

[indianajones]

I have a working 10.6.7 hackintosh that I want to upgrade to Lion. I assume that when I upgrade, the Lion installer will overwrite the network/audio/video/etc drivers and I'll have to re-load them again. The NVidia driver was epecially difficult to get working, and I'd like to avoid going through that again. Am I right that the drivers will all be overwritten, and if so, is there a way to save the configuration or something to restore later?

 

[ijhu]

answer to your questions.

a) Backup/backup using super duper or carbon copy cloner and clone your current working Snow Leopard to another drive.
b) Use Xmove method if you want to upgrade.
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/ ... -lion.html
c) Unibeast option is alternative to xMove.

10.7 is a completely new version, so it is highly recommend you test it out on a separate HDD install and leave your Snow Leopard in tact. That's the best of both worlds.

 

[indianajones]

Thanks for the great answers. I finally got time to follow the instructions last night. I managed to get the 8GB "Installer" partition configured, and successfully ran xMove to copy the Lion installer ("App Store Download") to that partition. I then restarted and booted off the "Installer" partition, but got stuck at the gray Apple logo with no progress animation.

So I restarted again with "-v" and found that it's getting stuck at "PCI Configuration Begin", after loading all the drivers. I have only one PCI card in the system, and it's the NVidia card that worked when I installed Snow Leopard. I reduced the RAM from 6GB to 2GB because I had to do that for the Snow Leopard install also. So I'm fairly stripped down, configuration-wise. Mobo is GigaByte X58-USB3 with i7 9xx series (forget the exact model). I've included a photo of where the boot procedure stops. Side note, I can still boot off the Snow Leopard partition without issues, it's the Installer partition that isn't working.

 

[indianajones]

Sigh, I'm an idiot. Just a few more minutes of grepping the forums and I found npci=0x2000, and that allowed the Installer partition to boot. Now to see if the rest works...

 

[neilhart]

I have a working 10.6.7 hackintosh that I want to upgrade to Lion. I assume that when I upgrade, the Lion installer will overwrite the network/audio/video/etc drivers and I'll have to re-load them again. The NVidia driver was epecially difficult to get working, and I'd like to avoid going through that again. Am I right that the drivers will all be overwritten, and if so, is there a way to save the configuration or something to restore later?

Please share some detail on your system. Question i7 750 to start. And question integrated graphics.

Thank you,

neil

 

[indianajones]

neil,

Apologies for the delay in responding. I used the xMove technique and it worked perfectly, except I also needed to learn about the npci=0x2000 boot flags.

To respond to your suggestions, I don't have integrated graphics, but a discrete NVidia 95xx series board, which all previously worked in 10.6.7.

MultiBeast plus my previous DSDT restored almost everything. I did lose the most important configuration, the NVidia configuration, but I saved all my previous settings in screenshots and documentation and was easily able to retore it. So I'm up and running now on 10.7.3. Thanks for the suggestions and assistance.

 

[akatx]

Thanks to this great forum, I was able to get my Hackintosh up and running with 10.6.8.
My last hurdle was booting off the HD, which I had to partition since it is a 2T dive.

Now I have upgraded to Lion and was wondering if there is the same restriction/recommendation to have a boot drive < 750GB.
(would prefer to have a single drive)

Thanks