C.-BruShiS Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 If you use F12 method, please do not select USB-HDD in the list but first select Hard Disks and then select USB-HDD0. Thank you, that worked for me at least one time, but than i got errors on booting: and after that "still waiting for root device". i wanted to try another usb port, but the USB-HDD0 never showed up in the F12-Menu again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKORPI0 Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Thanks, successfully installed 10.7 but stuck using USB stick to boot. Used kexts and com.apple.Boot.plist from 10.6.6. Tried using..... Open up a terminal via the Utilities menu: CODE./finalize /Volumes/Lion Message says "no such file or directory". Using latest Chameleon, dual boot with SL 10.6.6 on a 500GB SATA drive (2 partitions), drive is mounted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
narcotico Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 When I try to prepare USB, I get an error with mkboot: sudo install/mkboot /Volumes/LION/ Password: /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app: No such file Usage: mkboot <Target volume> Which could be the problem? Thanks a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogger21 Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 When I try to prepare USB, I get an error with mkboot: sudo install/mkboot /Volumes/LION/ Password: /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app: No such file Usage: mkboot <Target volume> Which could be the problem? Thanks a lot. You need to make sure that Install Mac OS X Lion.app is in the Applications folder. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
narcotico Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I can understand that by the error message, but I don't see anything about it in the guideline and I don't know the app. Which software do I need install? or which is default directory if it is part of mac os? Thanks a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tseug Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 I can understand that by the error message, but I don't see anything about it in the guideline and I don't know the app. Which software do I need install? or which is default directory if it is part of mac os? Thanks a lot. You need to buy OS X Lion. That's step 1 in the guide. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
narcotico Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Hello again. I have a dmg image downloaded. I am afraid to spend money and I am not able to works all fine (I am newbie on Mac Os). In fact, mac store detects it installed if I have the dmg mounted. I unmounted the dmg and I try to buy it, but I get this error: This version of Mac OS 10.7 cant be installed in this PC. I get this error too if I try to run insall mac os from the dmg mounted and I dont know why (I have installed snow leopard with hackboot and original dvd, then dsdt, ...) Could you tell me anything else about this? Thanks a lot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkelis Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Intel Q9550 EP45T-DS3R 4x2GB Corsair XMS 1333 Powercolor ATI HD4870 1gb I am booting from the USB device. My graphics card is reported as working in that thread. I have included a tailor-made DSDT of my motherboard. Script ran ok. I rebooted from the usb, all the kexts were loaded and I get to the installation screen with the brushed metal background, and that's about it. It gets stuck there and there's no activity on the usb. I can only see the background. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex-nord-star Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 hi, i already have Leopard 10.5.7 installed in dual boot with Windows 7. Will it work if i upgrade Leopard to Lion? Or do i need to perform a clean install? thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkelis Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 hi, i already have Leopard 10.5.7 installed in dual boot with Windows 7. Will it work if i upgrade Leopard to Lion? Or do i need to perform a clean install? thanks! I think you need 10.6.6 in order to upgrade Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1731893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex-nord-star Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I think you need 10.6.6 in order to upgrade and can i upgrade to Snow Leopard without spoiling my current configuration? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1732748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkelis Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Intel Q9550EP45T-DS3R 4x2GB Corsair XMS 1333 Powercolor ATI HD4870 1gb I am booting from the USB device. My graphics card is reported as working in that thread. I have included a tailor-made DSDT of my motherboard. Script ran ok. I rebooted from the usb, all the kexts were loaded and I get to the installation screen with the brushed metal background, and that's about it. It gets stuck there and there's no activity on the usb. I can only see the background. Answering to myself, I hadn't placed the dsdt.aml in the correct folder. After I did that, setup booted fine, and installation went by smoothly. Audio wasn't working (ALC889a), so I used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to restore the original audio kexts and then (via [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] again) I installed the non-DSDT kexts, which just work. Everything else seems to be in order. Thank you tseug. and can i upgrade to Snow Leopard without spoiling my current configuration? You can't tell with certainty, but I'd guess that most probably no. Upgrades tend to break the installation or create issues with sound/graphics etc. Lots of things have changed with osx86 since 10.5.x. I'd go with a fresh install. Even if you can get it to work, you'll spend a lot of time fixing stuff. tseug's method is a piece of cake to follow and works like a charm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1733191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl_XII Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Thanks to this eminent guide I have now installed Lion on a EP45-DS3 board with ALC889a audio. Wifi works with a Netgear USB adapter, WG111v3, using the 10.4 installer from Netgears site (and booting in 32 bit mode). App Store works fine and Software Update also. A Magic Trackpad has been installed using a Belkin Mini Bluetooth USB adapter. Graphics card 8800 GT 512 MB works perfectly. Thanks and best wishes! Edit: So far the only problem is loss of bluetooth connection to trackpad after sleep. Will try modified kext for Broadcom chip and report back later. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1733483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketLynx Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Im stuck on installer boot with:"Bootcachecontrol: unbable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist Bug: Launchtl.c:2308 (24957):30: ....." I need help! Same error! Nothing happens after this.Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1734371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
it00x32 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 seems like 2 different errors on my laptop after booting the usb stick (lenovo t410s) i5 520m cpu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1734688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sickr1rider Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I have lion successfully installed but my dvi to hdmi does not work any more (have to use dvi to vga). It works great in my snow leopard partition. I use efi studio 1.1 to load in the string. Is there a better way to do it in lion? I can get full res in lion but anything graphics intensive stutters bad. Starcraft 2 is unplayable where as it plays great in snow leopard. I am thinking about getting the new 27' led apple thunderbolt display. I would also upgrade my graphics card. Should I get the mac edition of the ati 5870 or would the xfx 6870 work with the 27' acd? Any advice would be helpful Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1734802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketLynx Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Im stuck on installer boot with:"Bootcachecontrol: unbable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist Bug: Launchtl.c:2308 (24957):30: ....." I need help! Same error! Nothing happens after this. Does anybody know what generates BootCache.playlist so that I may look for a solution? Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1734856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_Ellis Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Cheers for the great guide mate, I finally got Lion installed on my computer. Ep35-DS3 with E5200 PowerColor 5450 1gb 2 SATA drives Had to change to the latest Chameleon. My graphic card didn't work well with the included Chameleon. I also changed the boot.plist to suite my setup. I can't get power management and sleep to work without nullpowermangement. But I don't care that much since I hate have my PC go to sleep . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0cks Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Hi all, just confirming this almost completely worked with my ASUS P6T. Not sure if that's bad or good, are there things I should do to ensure compatability? I've had almost zero problems so far. The only things that I had to fix were: Replace the existing AppleHDA with Marionez’ AppleHDA to get sound working. Everything else was working, but I couldn't login to the App Store so I added: <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> to my boot plist and everything was working 100%. I also installed with the DSDT.aml I found from here: http://trick77.com/2009/10/12/asus-p6t-64-bit-osx86/ Specs: i7 920 C0 ASUS P6T NVIDIA GTX 470 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardation Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Hey Team, Easily managed to get everything onto the USB drive. Unfortunately when plugging into my PC I get a screen which looks like: boot0: error My machine: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel Core i7 920 ATI Radeon 5850 8GB RAM Help would be much appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardation Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 boot0: error Boot0 Error Fix After searching the internet, solutions like this seemed to have changed the behavior of the PC. Although I'm unsure if it fixed anything. Now what seems to happen is when I plug in the USB device, the PC freezes at the BIOS Loading screen. Hmm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_Ellis Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Hey Team, Easily managed to get everything onto the USB drive. Unfortunately when plugging into my PC I get a screen which looks like: boot0: error My machine: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel Core i7 920 ATI Radeon 5850 8GB RAM Help would be much appreciated. Have you installed Chameleon to the lion partition on your hard disk? If not, Try to do that,,, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardation Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Have you installed Chameleon to the lion partition on your hard disk? If not, Try to do that,,, So If I was doing this from Windows 7 how would I do that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_Ellis Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 So If I was doing this from Windows 7 how would I do that? Do you come to a Chameleon boot screen where you can choose your lion Partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1735687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sickr1rider Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I just wanted to let everyone know that I updated to 10.7.1 without a problems through the standard software update. My 9800gtx still doesn't work dvi to hdmi which is did fine in SL. It does work fine dvi to vga tho. I am using efi studio 1.1 is there something better to possibly get hdmi going like it is in SL? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259068-guide-a-fast-and-easy-way-to-install-lion/page/16/#findComment-1736157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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