superpimp Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Hello, I recently bought a new laptop and today I figured it was about time to install OS X, as I did with my previous one. I had a perfectly working Snow Leopard setup running so I am not a complete newbie to this thing. I downloaded the iATKOS L2 distro (I wanted to run Lion :-) ) and tried various options for installing. First: I burned the image (checksum verified) to a dvd and booted off it. The iATKOS start shows up, then I have to press F8 for boot options or any key to continue. When I do this (F8 or something else) the installer freezes and doesn't respond, so there is no way to go into verbose (-v) or safe mode. Second: I expanded the image file to a usb drive with transmac and booted it using a mac bootloader (this). The bootloader starts fine but when I select the usb drive to boot (it is recognized) my laptop restarts without any warnings. I'm guessing it has something to do with my laptop because my older Leopard distros are not working either, which is very bizarre because there are users with identical specifications posting working results (here). Any ideas? Specifications: Sandy bridge Intel i7 2630QM AMD Radeon HD6770M 8GB RAM Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 If you have a snow partition, boot to it, then use a retail Lion image to create your boot media (USB stick). Install chameleon 2.1 to the boot media. Add your kexts and dsdt from the SL partitoin to the Lion install media. Reboot and select USB as your 1st boot device. Chameleon 2.1 should load, type -v for verbose, hit enter, see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superpimp Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 I don't have an OS X partition anymore, my previous laptop broke and I lost all data. For the moment I don't have any access to a working OS X partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonu42 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Just boot using the iatkos L2 disc. It fits on a regular DVD, there shouldnt be a problem here...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Do a retail install, ONLY USE DISTROS IF YOU HAVE NO OTHER OPTION! First thing to do is install snow leopard. You will need snow leopard (or another mac) to prepare the boot media. Start off with nawcoms mod cd and a 10.6.3 retail disk. Get snow installed and updated to 10.6.8 (this will give you a better idea of what you will need to run Lion) Use the app store to download the Lion installer and then restore that to a USB stick using disk utility (there are a few steps here that you will need to research) Install chameleon 2.1 to the USB stick Add necessarry kexts and dsdt from your SL partition to the Lion installer. Reboot with USB as your first boot device Type -v at chameleon to boot verbose, hit enter, see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superpimp Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Just boot using the iatkos L2 disc. It fits on a regular DVD, there shouldnt be a problem here...... That's where the problem occurs, the dvd doesn't start, it freezes at the main screen, so I can't even go into boot options.. I'll try the nawcoms method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
air6199 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 i have the same hp g6 except mines i5 and 6gb off ram and mine does the same thing i insert the dvd disc (iatkos l2) and try press f8 or any key to boot to the installation and it freezes and stays there. so we cannot even get to the apple let alone the installation options. Any help would be appreciated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
air6199 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 managed to get it working with niresh, just need help with the wifi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetizer Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 how exactly did you get it working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carljammers Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 well I can say I am having the exact same problem, I have a dv6-3033cl, specs i5 450m intel hd3000 4gb ram broadcom 4313 <-- which looks like won't work so I got a AR5B93 half mini on order. same issue, I boot off the iATKOS DVD, hit f8 or anykey and it freezes. This computer has a uefi startup system with InsydeH20 bios. Inside the bios you really have no setup options. Have any of you found a solution? I guess I'll try a different bootlader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberAkash Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 u can try using rBoot (latest one , tonymacx86) to boot into the distro , by booting into rBoot removing the rboot disc n insert the distro by pressing f5 (i guess, onscreen), then go about installation , u'll be stuck for keyboard(lion hates p/s2 of ur keyboard) u'll have to either use macdrive on windoze , or my method in comments at http://kat.ph/iatkos-l2-mac-os-x-lion-10-7-2-t5989819.html , still if u manage to do it , u'll not be able to boot , if ur HDD is of WD, they havve problem with chimera bootloader (block size something , too large 4k..blah blah), u'll have to use rBoot disc everytime , or make urself a bootable usb from the rboot image.. CHEERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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