Can't boot ML from usb to install on PC

[johnitravolta]

hello,

i'm trying to do something here and i'd be very glad to get your help.
i followed one if the tuts to make a bootable usb with ML 10.8.4 with the lion diskmaker tool.

anyway, when i set the bios setting on my HP pavillion to boot from usb - it doesn't boot anything.
when i insert a windows 8 bootable usb it boots it perfectly.

so we know the pc is set to boot from usb fine.
i could not have been mistaken making the bootable usb because i just run the tool.

what is wrong then?

when i insert it and loads it on my mac, open up the disk utility and press on the info button - i do see it's bootable. and it's formatted as it should be.

need your suggestion.

2013-06-29 03:09:32 +0300:
Name : OS X Mountain Lion Install Disk - 10.8.4
Type : Partition

Disk Identifier : disk1s2
Mount Point : /Volumes/OS X Mountain Lion Install Disk - 10.8.4
System Name : OS X
System Version : 10.8.4
System Build : 12E55
System Copyright : 1983-2013 Apple Inc.
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : USB
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/P2P0@11/S4F0@3
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : C4B93EF0-F75A-35D1-A1DF-70CB84A4922D
Capacity : 15.17 GB (15,168,200,704 Bytes)
Free Space : 10.64 GB (10,635,583,488 Bytes)
Used : 4.53 GB (4,532,617,216 Bytes)
Number of Files : 3,817
Number of Folders : 582
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 2

 

[Stooby Mcdoobie]

Can you be more specific with what you're trying to accomplish? It sounds like you're trying to install OS X on your HP. This will not work. You cannot install OS X on non-Mac hardware (technically you can, but there's much more involved to it than changing BIOS boot priority).

 

[Dalton63841]

Mac OS'es are only directly bootable on a Mac. On PC you need to use a custom boot loader, like Chameleon v2(or whatever the popular osx86 boot loader is these days), along with necessary kexts and other files.

 

[johnitravolta]

What else has to be accomplished to be able to install mac on a hp laptop? It has same hardware old macs used to have.

About the custom boot loader- I will try that and let you know thanks for understanding what I needed.

 

[Stooby Mcdoobie]

http://www.tonymacx86.com/home.php

Dig around on that site and Google "hackintosh" to find instructions/guides. Like I said before, this is not going to be a simple endeavor.

 

[Dalton63841]

What else has to be accomplished to be able to install mac on a hp laptop? It has same hardware old macs used to have.

About the custom boot loader- I will try that and let you know thanks for understanding what I needed.

Possibly, except for the EFI v1.1, which is what Mac uses to boot. On a PC we have a BIOS, which hands over control to a boot loader before the OS can be loaded. On a PC, no boot loader, no booting the OS.