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- Sep 18, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z68 AP D3
- CPU
- Intel i5 2500k
- Graphics
- AMD Radeon HD 6870
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Jacko's Build: GA-Z68AP-D3 - i5-2500k - HD 6870 - Lion
Components
Apple OS X Lion @ Mac Apps Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12
Gigabyte Z68AP-D-3 Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005M2AQQY/
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Processor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EBUXHQ/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
XFX Radeon HD 6870
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005C31F2M/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 MemoryCMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CRSM4I/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233144
Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200rpm hard drive
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IZN3YI/
Sony Optiarc AD-7261s DVDRW
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003SM3HH0/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118040&Tpk=Sony%20Optiarc%20AD-7261s
OCZ Fatal1ty 550W Modular PSU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTYS06/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341022
Cooler Master CM 690 ii Advanced case
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00336EM0W/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119216
CommentsOCZ Fatal1ty 550W Modular PSU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001MTYS06/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341022
Cooler Master CM 690 ii Advanced case
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00336EM0W/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119216
Comments
This was an extremely straight forward process with these components thanks to tonymacx86’s UniBeast: Install Mac OS X Lion Using an All-In-One Bootable USB Drive. I will walk you through step by step with what I did.
First, I downloaded Lion on my MacBook Pro and prepared the UniBeast USB stick by following step 2 of tonymacx86’s UniBeast Guide. (TIP: If you are already running lion and want to get access to the Install Lion app for UniBeast, go to the app store and click Purchases while holding down the option key, you can then download Lion again and get the Intall Lion app.) I also downloaded MultiBeast 4.1 and the DSDT for my motherboard’s version which was F3 and copied these onto my USB stick.
I then built my machine and plugged everything in, yes that included both sticks of ram and the graphics card. I know there are some guides out there that tell you to only plug one stick of ram in and not to plug your graphics card in at first but I tried it with everything plugged in and it worked for me.
Next I switched the machine on and made the necessary changes to the BIOS. These were:
- - With the UniBeast USB plugged in, I set the boot priority so that this USB was first followed by my hard drive
- Changed the SATA control mode to AHCI
- Enabled HPET support and changed HPET mode to 64 bit
My machine then booted into UniBeast, I then followed tonymacx86’s UniBeast instructions for Step 3 exactly and arrived at the Lion desktop with no problems.
I then copied MultiBeast and my DSDT file to my desktop. I renamed the DSDT file to DSDT.aml. I ran MultiBeast and selected the exact same options as in Step 4 of tonymacx86’s guide. With the USB stick now unplugged, I rebooted my system and lion booted from my hard drive successfully.
Everything worked apart from sleep which caused a CMOS reset. To fix this I copied this code into terminal:
Code:
sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x75\x30\x44\x89\xf8|\xeb\x30\x44\x89\xf8|; s|\x75\x3d\x8b\x75\x08|\xeb\x3d\x8b\x75\x08|' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTC.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleRTC
I have also successfully managed to get dual booting to work with windows 7, I will update this build description with instructions if anybody wants them.