Burpethead Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hello all, I have a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L motherboard with a Q6600 Quad working fantastic in 10.6.8, everything recognized in System Profiler. However the Lion Installer restored to USB disk with Chameleon RC5 will not boot with the instant kernel panic of: "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@/SourceCache/*... " I have tried different versions of Chameleon RC5 and currently have RC5 r1095. The bootloader works great if I choose my current Snow Leopard partition. However, I get this message when choosing Lion's Installer Disk. I have also tried changing the PStates & CStates argument, as well as HPET to 32-bit in the BIOS. I have my good DSDT from Snow Leopard in the /Extra folder on the USB disk. I have been following the standard USB Thumb Drive installation guide. Any ideas? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilWarning Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hi This may sound stupid but which of the dmg files did you use to create the USB Install? You should use the BaseSystem.dmg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Try using "UseKernelCache" with "No" in the <USB Disk>/Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burpethead Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hi This may sound stupid but which of the dmg files did you use to create the USB Install? You should use the BaseSystem.dmg. Stupid is as stupid does! That was the issue, silly me. However, I could only get it to boot past a white screen at GUI initialization by using this Extra installer: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=258606 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Yes, thanks, I wasn't aware of this either, I've been attempting to boot a restored InstallESD.dmg all last night and all evening today like an idiot. BaseSystem.dmg has no kernel, you have to copy mach_kernel from InstallESD.dmg to it, otherwise Chameleon will halt with "can't find mach_kernel". BaseSystem.dmg by itself can't be used to Install Lion though. I finally bought 10.7.2 from the App Store yesterday and I can boot basesystem.dmg with the same Chameleon config that I use to boot 10.6.8, no extra tweaking needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkcas11 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Where do i find that BaseSystem.dmg? I can't seem to find it. Have same problem atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 It's a hidden file. Use your preferred method of enabling view of hidden files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkcas11 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Thanks man i found it, about to try and install now. I have will keep my fingers crossed as much as possible for this to work now!! Damnit!.. I still get the same error. I have absolutely no clue why..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 as I said in post #5, you can't install Lion from BaseSystem.dmg. Besides the kernel, you need to copy some other stuff to it first (which I don't remember). Google it - people are doing the same thing on real Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkcas11 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Ah right, i got it now. I followed some instructions from Regae, he showed what you meant Anyway, i got it working using an alternative method by installing 10.6.8, then upgrading using a Lion DVD which i burned myself. Running smoothly now Thanks for the info, finally i got my Lion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leozino Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 YO! thanks for the copy the mach_kernel from image, fixed the problem for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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