I know it's not supposed to happen this way, but I couldn't help trying to install the Mountain Lion developer preview on one of my Hackintosh machines. I purposely chose one of the systems which has been very compatible, so far, for this experiment.
The chosen one is a Gigabyte P35-DS3L, a bit older, but as I said, has been very compatible thus far. The system has a core 2 duo e4800 3.0 Ghz CPU, an Nvidia 8400 GS video card, with 4 Gb of system memory.
I first tried to install the actual ML DP1, downloaded from a source which was posted online, but I could not get the image copied to a flash drive for the install attempt. I later searched the bay filled with pirates for another version, and found an image someone had made specifically to install on a Hackintosh.
After several unsuccessful attempts (I could get it to boot and begin to install, but it would KP each time early into the installation), I decided to play around with some of the kext in the /Extra/Extensions folder to find a combination which would allow this version to be installed onto the hard drive.
Once found, I was able to install the system on to the hard drive and then boot using the flash drive to boot from, but so far I have been unable to get ethernet to work. I do have sound and full screen resolution, complete with QE/CI, but with no ethernet I have not been able to get online.
Once I find the proper spell to cast over the system, ethernet will work and I will have a fully functional machine. Not that I would ever use a beta OS for any productive system, it's just kind of neat to get it working on a Hackintosh.
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