Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

[Khan]

Article: Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

Another great guide! Very nice.

 

[ktpru]

Great Video!

 

[beelzebozo]

Article: Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

Does this also apply to general Snow Leopard installs after upgrading the BIOS to UEFI? I have had trouble with mine. I initially wanted it to install an M Audio program (Key Rig) that was PPC only, but they sent me a link to a free download of a newer program that works on intel Macs. Still, if I need another PPC program, I'd like to be able to install Snow Leopard again. I was able to do an initial install but couldn't get to the welcome screen after rebooting.

iBoot for Ivy Bridge is not meant for a Sandy Bridge system, which from what you wrote, I'm guessing is the case as none of the Ivy Bridge motherboards run BIOS as far as I know. You would need to use regular iBoot for a Sandy Bridge system.

 

[andrec]

thanks for this, another snolep lover here

 

[Simon42]

Article: Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

Anyone had success with an Asus Z77 motherboard? My Z77-I Deluxe just panics 2 seconds after trying to boot OS X with this method. Might be my BIOS settings or something but I feel I've tried everything (I have the right modified bios and GPU is removed). Or is it not intented to work with anything else than Gigabyte (inferior) hardware? Any help would be appreciated, because right now it means setting my previous Gigabyte Q6600 rig back up to OS X after I thought I was done with it... Great work still TonyMac and everyone!

 

[beelzebozo]

Article: Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

Anyone had success with an Asus Z77 motherboard? My Z77-I Deluxe just panics 2 seconds after trying to boot OS X with this method. Might be my BIOS settings or something but I feel I've tried everything (I have the right modified bios and GPU is removed). Or is it not intented to work with anything else than Gigabyte (inferior) hardware? Any help would be appreciated, because right now it means setting my previous Gigabyte Q6600 rig back up to OS X after I thought I was done with it... Great work still TonyMac and everyone!

iBoot for Ivy Bridge should work with your ASUS. You may need to use some additional kernel flags. Look around the forum for similar builds.

 

[Simon42]

Article: Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

iBoot for Ivy Bridge should work with your ASUS. You may need to use some additional kernel flags. Look around the forum for similar builds.

If anyone has experienced a working install, please share your boot arguments. I've toured the forums and tried the boot arguments suggested there but none were for Asus and none worked.

 

[BoomR]

Article: Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion: An Ivy Bridge Installation Video Guide

You GO, beelz!!! Great job!!!!

 

[Fanuelz]

Thanks that is very helpful and thanks to the iboot for ivy bridge it very helpful

 

[yokerbloke]

I followed this brilliant tutorial although you should make aware that the Unibeast may fail because 10.6.8 may not allow you permission to do so if you don't follow this fix:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/unibeast/73498-unibeast-troubleshooting-notes.html

Once I applied the update it worked just great
Thanks to defbref for this