Lion Developer Preview 4 – build 11a480b.Lion Developer Preview 1 – build 11a390 – this was the last dev preview that had 32 bit kernel support.The 32 bit Mac in addition to a 64 bit Mac to install Lion DP4 onto.You’ll be editing and moving around some system files and you’ll need access to the following: ![]() ![]() This procedure is not for the faint of heart, and it isn’t the simplest process in the world. This is provided for informational purposes only and we are not responsible for your screwing up anything. Important: This is not supported by Apple or anyone else, and in the current state Lion is not usable on 32-bit Macs. Getting Lion DP4 to Boot & Run on a Core Duo Mac OK so enough blabbering, let’s go over the process that works right now to boot Lion on ye old Intel Macs. This is much less of a stretch than some of the other crazy Mac OS X installations out there (remember all those Hackintosh machines running on Atom, Pentium 4’s, AMD CPU’s and other unsupported hardware?). Lion DP4 is booting on these 32-bit Macs! This means that after the public release in July we will almost certainly see a modified Lion kernel and Finder that runs as expected on the oldest Intel Macs. This isn’t really a usable solution yet, because Finder.app doesn’t run (it’s a 64 bit application, therefore won’t run on 32 bit hardware) and launchd consumes too many system resources. That changed in later dev previews, and in Dev Preview 4 things get a bit trickier. In earlier developer previews, running OS X Lion on a Core Duo Mac was just a matter of deleting a plist file and then it would magically boot.
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