Hackintosh Lion 10.7.3 update with Kakewalk
I have a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard. Yesterday, after a few days of struggle, I managed to install Lion 10.7.0, and updated to 10.7.3, and it works fine now.
The problem that I had was mostly due to the fact that Snow Leopard was installed using Kakewalk, but I tried to use Unibeast and Multibeast when I installed Lion. Hackintosh is always a delicate system, since you are installing an OS on a machine that is not supposed to have that particular OS. Then you mix two different solutions and two different versions of OS, and something is bound to go wrong.
So, I formatted the hard drive and started from the scratch with Kakewalk. I had excellent result with Kakewalk in installing SL, and I also had an easy time with it in installing Lion. If you have one of the motherboards that is supported by Kakewalk, there is really no reason to use other solution.
To install Lion using Kakewalk, you need a copy of Lion, Kakewalk, and a USB stick(you also need a mac, because Kakewalk is Mac-only program). Basically, you choose your copy of Lion, and the motherboard, and Kakewalk does the rest, including formatting the USB stick. Kakewalk downloads drivers for your motherboard, so your mac should be connected to the internet.
Once the USB stick is ready, just plug it in, and boot from it. Then you will be able to install Lion as if you are just installing it on a Mac. Once the installation is done, basically your Hackintosh is ready to be used. Of course, there might be some tweaking to be done. For example, I installed USB 3.0 Lacie kext (Patched by Modbin) to enable USB 3.0 port on my Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0 board (by the way, the old version of Kakewalk had problem with this particular board, but now it works fine).
Then, I applied 10.7.3 combo update that was released just a few days ago. Once I did it, as the Kakewalk manual says, before I restart the computer, I run Kakewalk and chose update, so that Kakewalk magic will not be broken by the OS update. Now I have a solid 10.7.3 Hackintosh.
With Kakewalk, building a Hackintosh is almost as easy as buying a Mac. The only thing to remember is you should choose the right mother board and graphic card. I recommend choose one of the motherboards that is supported by Kakewalk. Unibeast and Multibeast method seems to support more kinds of motherboards, but I think Kakewalk is a more elegant solution.
