Maybe I could also set up a Discord DM group for some more real-time conversations about how this should work. However, I'm pretty lazy and not the best at meeting deadlines like this, so I'd like contributions in this thread. I'd like to (hopefully) get a preliminary release of OS X86 out on July 20 (the 10th anniversary of Lion's release) or someday less than a few weeks after.
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Other than that, I was thinking that the OS X86 install media, as well as the recoveryOS it installs, could contain a tool that could be selected from the Mac OS X Utilities menu and would allow the 32-bit patches to be added, removed, and repaired (the repair function being mainly for if an update breaks the patches and prevents Lion from booting).
dosdude1 says it doesn't work very well and it's not worth doing. Requires a recompiling of the kernel (from Apple's publicly released source code) for the i386 architecture. Haven't been able to get it to work because of CPUID checks or 64-bit-only kexts? (theories from another Discord server) Worked just fine with the patches in my testing, except for some errors about the kexts when installing iTunes 11.4 and the 10.7.3 update. If 10.7.3 won't work, then 10.7.2 will have to do.
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If anyone knows how to get 10.7.3 working, please let me know. The closest I've gotten it to working is the system hanging after displaying the message in verbose mode " DSMOS has arrived", which someone on said Discord server said sounds like WindowServer failing to start. However, I haven't been able to get 10.7.3 to work on the 2006 Mac mini I picked up for this job. I heard people on a certain Discord server talking about how 10.7.3 was the latest version of Lion that worked on 32-bit Macs (with modifications), unlike what dosdude1 said about how 10.7.2 was the latest working version. It would be called Mac OS X86, and should be as modernized as possible, with every compatible update installed out of the box, like the latest 32-bit Mac version of iTunes (11.4?) and, if possible, OS X 10.7.3.
I was thinking of creating a modified version of the soon-to-be-abandonware release of OS X, specifically to run on 32-bit Macs that it doesn't support out of the box (maybe even the original Apple TV as well if the drivers are compatible).
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