Reason: Mac-F4208EC8” the “Mac-F4208EC8” is a unique ID for your Mac, so copy that down.Ħ. It should say “Incompatible Mac detected. Restart the MB White and hold down “CMD + V”. Now, remove the HDD from the compatible Mac, pop it into the MacBook White. Get everything set up, until you reach the desktopĥ. I have no FireWire to do target disk mode, so i removed the HDD from the MacBook White, pop it into the ML compatible Mac and install Mountain Lion like normal.Ĥ. Make sure you have a Mountain Lion compatible Mac, Im using a MacBook 2.4GHz Aluminum 2008ģ. If you’re not a dev, maybe you can get it at “the bay full of pirates”Ģ. Get a copy of Mountain Lion, I got mine from Apple.
Here are the full instructions according to hackerwayne on MacRumors forums:ġ. Regardless, you’ll need a fair amount of patience. You’ll need access to the Dev Preview, an officially supported Mac in addition to the unsupported Mac to copy some files over, the guide calls for switching hard drives but you could do the same with target disk mode. If you want to try this yourself, be prepared to get your hands dirty, and backup your Mac before beginning. The method has reportedly been tested on MacBook 2007 MacBook2,1 and MacBook 2008 MacBook3,1 but presumably will work on other unsupported Macs as well.
Not only does OS X 10.8 run on the old MacBook, it reportedly works very well and with full graphics acceleration. A crafty MacRumors Forums member has managed to get OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview working on an officially unsupported mid-2007 white MacBook, a model with the unsupported Intel GMA 950 GPU, 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, and just 1GB of RAM.
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