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Post 8 : Boot Into Mountain Lion 10.8.2

Plug in your ML2 usb drive in usb 2.0 port of your system(usb 3.0 don't always work) OR Insert your ML2 DVD media in DVD Drive. Restart Your System.If all goes well, your system will boot into ML2  instead of booting from normal hard drive. You will then be able to watch the Mac OS X menu. If you do not manage to reach the Mac OS X menu, check your motherboard's BIOS settings to make sure that the changes you made in  were properly applied. If they were, but you still cannot boot from ML2, go back to post on  (Creating bootable media if using  Mac or Windows)  and try again with a different USB drive or dual layer DVD. At the Mac OS X menu, select the name of your ML2 USB drive/DVD, by using the left/right arrow keys on your keyboard, and then press the enter key (or return key) to start the OS X Mountain Lion installer. In the worst case scenarios, instead of loading the Mac OS X installer, you may end up at a dark gray screen that tells you to rest...

Post 7: Setting System Parts

Unplug all USB-connected devices from your system before you begin the setup (don't unplug  your keyboard and mouse). A faulty external USB hard drive can cause your Hackintosh bootloader to give you EBIOS errors on startup. Open up your computer and unplug any extra internal hard drives that your computer has, besides the hard drive that you're installing OS X on. (Just unplug the hard drive SATA cables from your motherboard.) If possible, connect your monitor to the DVI port of your computer's graphics. The Mac OS X installer sometimes has problems with HDMI and VGA. NOTE: If you're installing Mac OS X on a computer that already has Windows installed, you may have to enable AHCI for Windows beforehand. Otherwise, Windows won't boot afterwards. Also, after installing Mac OS X, you should also sync your clock on Windows with Mac OS X 

Post 6 : Create ML2 Bootable DVD Media(on Windows)

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Follow this step if you're setting up ML2 on Windows . Insert your dual-layer DVD into Windows, and open Transmac. Click File -> Open Disk Image. In the Windows Explorer window that pops up, select your downloaded ML2 disk image(Will provide download link later )See picture Your ML2 disk image will pop up in the left sidebar of the TransMac window. Right-click on it, and click "Burn to CD/DVD". Then burn the disk image . See Picture - This process may take up to an hour (or more, depending on the speed of your DVD burner). Once TransMac finishes, you will have a fully bootable DVD version of the Mountain Lion installer.

Post 5: Creating ML2 Bootable USB Media (on Mac)

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Follow this step if you're setting up ML2 on a Mac or existing Hackintosh. Plug your USB drive into Mac OS X, and open Disk Utility (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder). Select the USB drive in the sidebar of Disk Utility, go to the "Partition" tab of Disk Utility, and create a new partition layout with 1 partition. Set the format to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". Name the new partition anything you want. Click the "Options" button before applying your new partition layout. It should be set to "Master Boot Record" by default. Keep the same.Now click Apply. See Image     Now start Transmac , In the left pane, right click the USB Drive and select  Restore with Disk Image Point to your .dmg file and click Open. This will write all of the contents of the ML2 disk image onto your USB drive. It will take 15 minutes to an hour, depending on the quality of your USB drive Once done with tra...