Dear Diary: Installing OSX 10.9 on Late 2007 MacBook - Sun, Apr 13, 2014
Here’s my notes on how I approached installing�OSX 10.9 on my Late 2007 MacBook (MacBook3,1).
Note I did most of this on a current Mac running 10.9.
Also, this kind of worked. I got the install to run but it wouldn’t boot after install. I’m probably quite close to it working. I’ll update this post with notes if I work on this further.
Steps
\t- Create USB Flash OSX 10.9 installer
\t- Go to�/Volumes/Install OS X Mavericks/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/
\t- cp OSInstall.mpkg OSInstall.mpkg__ORIG
\t- pkgutil –expand OSInstall.mpkg OSInstall
\t- Find your board-id: oreg -l | grep board-id
\t- edit�/Volumes/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/OSInstall/Distribution
\t- Add your board-id to the platformSupportValues array in the Distribution file
\t- pkgutil –flatten ./OSInstall ./OSInstall.mpkg
\t- Edit the�/Volumes/Install OS X Mavericks/System/Library/CoreServices file to also contain your board-id.
References
\t- http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1598176&page=2
\t- https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=9728
\t- http://www.amongtech.com/install-mac-osx-mavericks-older-generation-mac-pro/