Download Mountain Lion 10.8 from App StoreĤ.
With this boot CD, I was able to achieve the following without access to a computer running OS X.ģ. Use the default iBoot + MultiBeast guide, but simply substitute iBoot Haswell for the default iBoot. So we made a new boot CD just for Haswell CPUs called iBoot Haswell. Users have had mixed results using the (now ancient) iBoot Legacy for a fresh install, as shown in the Simplest Mac OS X Installation Guide. As a matter of fact, the 2nd gen Sandy Bridge CPUs were only supported starting with 10.6.8. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guideįor those of you looking to run Snow Leopard on Haswell CPUs, know that official kernel support and CPU support is not in the OS at all.
