Then I start the Mountain Lion installation.Īll goes well until the process gets to 'Select the disk where you want to install OSX'. I've checked and I can run Disk Utility, and Safari loads nicely. The Mountain Lion install disk (InstallESD.dmg) works and the install options appear. The process pauses for a while but then seemsto boot fine. (I have a screenshot, but this is my first post so I can't provide the link yet).
I get an error during the boot up process which reports:īootCacheControl: Unable to open var/db/aylist: 2 No such file or directory I've located the installESD.dmg and copied it to the desktop for the installation process. I've previously purchased Mountain Lion so I could download it from my Purchased list on the App Store. I'm attempting to install Mountain Lion as a Guest with Sierra 10.12.6 as the host. I'm new to Virtual Box and new the forums so please forgive me if I get something wrong here or appear dim.
#Mountain lion osx dmg forum mac os x#
And the easiest way is to use program Lion DiskMaker, But once again, you must have fully working version of Mac OS X and of course Mountain Lion DMG file bought in AppStore.Hello all and happy 2019! But, you can install Mac OS X on Hacintosh or on virtual machine (VMware, VirtualBox). Instead, you'll have to distros like iAtkos, which is currently the most popular distro for Mountain Lion. IAtkos ML2: Unfortunately, the standard method for installing OS X Mountain Lion on PCs (which uses a paid copy of the Mountain Lion installer) doesn't work with Virtualbox. VirtualBox 4 supports DMG files natively, and InstallESD.dmg is bootable. To SATA port 1 (the first free one), attach 'InstallESD.dmg' from inside the Mountain Lion Installer package (right-click in the finder to show the package contents, and drag the.dmg to the file-picker dialog in VirtualBox). Instead, you'll have to rely on pirated 'bootable DVD' copies of Mountain Lion, also known as 'distros'. Mountain Lion bootable DVD: Unfortunately, the standard method for installing OS X Mountain Lion on PCs (which uses a paid copy of the Mountain Lion installer) doesn't work with Virtualbox.
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