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[Veritas1]

I have a hackintosh (see specs below) that I have Snow Leopard on that runs great. However, when I try to install Lion I can't get past the apple logo on the install start up.

I have tried the -v and it always gets stuck on "Beginning PCI Configuration" or something to that effect.

I have tried Kakewalk, IAKTos, and Iboot install methods to no avail.

If anyone could help that would be awesome.


Thanks in advance!

GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD4-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
EVGA 01G-P3-1372-TR GeForce GTX 460
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz

[Gringo Vermelho]

There's a sticky post right here in this forum titled "PCI Configuration Begin".

[Veritas1]

I have tried -kernel flag npci=0x2000 -v -x -cpu=1

The only change I get when I try them (which I have tried different cominations of them) is it goes to a point where is tells my system uptime in Milliseconds but still will not boot into the installer screen.

[kklumz]

I tried kernel boot flag: -v -f cpus=2 npci=0x2000

and it booted for me. It took awhile and seem like it kernel panic, but I waited and it was able to boot. After Lion install and restart. I installed MultiBeast with PCI Configuration Fix

[bigpoppa206]

Most likely at that stage of the boot startup, its a problem with a graphics driver.  Seems like a lot of folks who had flawless SL installs are experiencing that.

[Veritas1]

bigpoppa206, on Oct 21 2011, 03:44 AM, said:

Most likely at that stage of the boot startup, its a problem with a graphics driver.  Seems like a lot of folks who had flawless SL installs are experiencing that.

I have tried swapping my video card with my old Geforce 9800+ which worked like a charm in my old rig with Lion and I still get the same issue.

kklumz, on Oct 21 2011, 01:59 AM, said:

I tried kernel boot flag: -v -f cpus=2 npci=0x2000

and it booted for me. It took awhile and seem like it kernel panic, but I waited and it was able to boot. After Lion install and restart. I installed MultiBeast with PCI Configuration Fix

Okay so I tried this and I got further then ever before but not it hangs on "waiting for root device"

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[Veritas1]

Even though the picture doesn't show it, it keeps saying "can't find root device" and it scrolls that

[dolgar]

Have you tried to place the HDD where you have installed Lion in first place in boot order? perhaps changin Disk type to a different type would do too, AHCI... etc