dkash Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Here are my system specs Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H Socket 1155 Intel Z77 Chipset Dual Channel DDR3 1600/1333/1066 MHz 3x PCI-Express x16 GigaLAN 7.1-CH HD Audio 5x SATA 6Gb/s 2.4 x SATA 3Gb/s 6x USB 2.0 10x USB 3.0 VGA/DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort ATX CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 Quad- Core Socket 1155, 3.4Ghz, 8MB L3 Cache, 22nm (Retail Boxed) Gen3 (BX80637I73770) Case: NZXT Phantom WHITE w/RED Enthusiast Full Tower Case (NZXTPHAN003RD) SSD: OCZ (VTX4-25SAT3-128G) Vertex 4 2.5" 128GB SATA3 6GB/s Solid State Drive, Read: 560MB/s, Write: 430MB/s RAM: 64.99 G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series DDR3 1866MHz (PC3-14900) 8GB (2x4GB) Dual Channel Kit (F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL) PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX850 V2 850W 80PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2) CPU Cooler: Corsair (CWCH80) Hydro Series H80 High-performance CPU Cooler -- for Intel 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 & AMD AM3/AM2+/AM2 I have tried all the OSX versions i have. I have tried retail 10.7.3, Lion l1 & l2, Leopard and Snow Leopard... with rBoot All times I see some initial lines and in the iatkos I see the stuff after that(with grey background). When the GUI should come up it does not. What shows is black screen. I have installed windows 7 on the system and partitioned the drive to install the osx but I cannot get to the GUI so nothing is happening. My BIOS version is F8, It have tried most of these in F5(came with it). What settings does my BIOS need to be? I was told that all my specs work, so it should be the BIOS settings. If pictures could be provided that would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I assume that you have a working mac since you have attempted a retail install. Follow my install guide here and when it refers to Mountain Lion change it to Lion. For the BIOS make sure ACHI is turned on for your Sata ports. Report back with the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Are you using the on-board graphics? If so you most likely need to use a smbios that supports hd4000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 For Ivy Bridge on Lion don't you need the kernel from the 2012 MacBook update to run vanilla? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkash Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 I assume that you have a working mac since you have attempted a retail install. Follow my install guide here and when it refers to Mountain Lion change it to Lion. For the BIOS make sure ACHI is turned on for your Sata ports. Report back with the results. No, I do not have a Mac. I just got the retail from PB. And all ports are ACHI Are you using the on-board graphics? If so you most likely need to use a smbios that supports hd4000 Yes, I am using onboard graphics. How do I do this? For Ivy Bridge on Lion don't you need the kernel from the 2012 MacBook update to run vanilla? I am not sure. How would I go about checking this and then doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 For Ivy Bridge on Lion don't you need the kernel from the 2012 MacBook update to run vanilla? Yes, I over looked that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 If the ivy bridge kernel doesn't get you going try the smbios attached (place it in /extra on your USB) SMBios.plist.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkash Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 If the ivy bridge kernel doesn't get you going try the smbios attached (place it in /extra on your USB) I used Transmac to burn the DMG to dvd. It is in ISO form. So I will not be able to do that. Can you open the DMG in Tranmac and add it in? I have tried using another graphics card. The sapphire 6450 but the same thing happens. When i verbose boot, some lines come up CPU, RAM stuff. Before I able to read the last lines it turns black. It is like it is switching screens and them it settles to to the black. I ran iatkos l2 in virtualbox in my windows 7 partition. I get stuck at "Starting Darwin x86". Is there something to fix for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkash Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 I ran iatkos l2 in virtualbox in my windows 7 partition. I get stuck at "Starting Darwin x86". Is there something to fix for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkash Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Hello? Is there something about Darwin x86 that is special? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 x86 is 32 bit kernel, you want x64. iAtkos will try to boot 32bit by default. First you need to verify your version of VMware can run Lion 64bit...... I'm not going to get into reconfiguring iAtkos to do the same because it's a waste of time. Spend a week trying to get a "distro" to work that's supposed to make things easier, or make a installer that works in 5 minutes yourself. So also in response to your other new thread on the same topic, I highly suggest getting access to a Mac or Hackintosh and making an Installer that will work native using the supported Kernel that is not included on ANY distro. Since Mountain Lion already has Ivy Bridge support in the kernel, your best bet is to wait a week until it comes out and then install it, by getting access to a Mac and following the guide I linked in the other thread. Otherwise 2 weeks from now you'll still be trying to get Lion working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkash Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 I asked one of my friends to see if he can do it. But there has to be a better guide then the link you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 there's a bunch of them in the Genius Bar section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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