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Folks,

 

I was trying to reinstall my Hackpro to 10.7.2 with iATKOS-L2.

Got help from couple of guys here having the same setup with 10.6.7 and everything works flawlessly.

 

Dell XPS 420

6GB RAM (So I need 64-bit mode)

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256MB

 

So far, I could get it installed on USB external drive.

Networking is okay.

Can't make the 7900GS to work (only in 1024x768 mode, no QE/CI)

 

When turning off the BIOS "RAID ON" mode, I tried to installed it on my internal hard-drive. But got the "waiting for root device..." problem.

In the "RAID ON" BIOS setup, which is the working mode of my 10.6.7. iATKOS can't see my internal hard disks.

 

With the same machine, I restored it to 10.6.7. Everything works.

 

The NVEnabler will cause kernal panic.

Tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 4.2.1 and no dice either (from time to time I got installation failure from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]).

 

Any other options I could try? DSDT? EFI String Injection?

 

:wallbash:

 

Thanks!

Salado

Some update:

 

1. Got the NVidia 7900 GS work. Not NVEnabler, should be NVEnabler64 to support LP 64

2. Got the QE/CI work by adding device/vendor ID.

3. Switched off "RAID ON", now my USB based installation can see internal hard drives. I do believe this has to do with the DSDT.

 

Problems now: Can't login iCloud and App Store. Tried to tweak boot.plist couple of times but no luck.

My PCI network board is at "en0" but got "IOBuiltIn" always equal to "false".

 

Note: My current 10.6.7 installation is under BIOS setting "RAID ON" and disk speed is blazing fast.

But under "RAID ON", 10.7.2 can't work with my internal drives.

 

The disk slows down quite a lot if I change BIOS setting to "RAID Auto-Detect/ATA".

 

Does this have anything to do with DSDT?

 

Duh....

Started to install 10.7.2 with iATKOS L2 on internal hard drive.

 

Got "waiting for root device...". Switch back to 10.6.7, everything works.

I copied all AHCI related KEXTs to SLE and no luck.

 

Next will try to run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] on the Lion partition to see if there is any good.

At this stage I am out of options about how to install 10.7.2 directly to the internal hard drive.

But I could run it from USB hard-drive with:

  • NVIDIA 7900 GS, Full Resolution, QE/CI enabled. (NVEnabler 64)
  • Internal network fully supported.
  • BIOS SATA set to "Auto Detect RAID/ATA", I could access all the internal hard drives (but slower speed)

There are two issues left:

  • Can't access App Store & iCloud [sOLVED]
  • Installing to Internal HD

[sOLVED] AppStore & iCloud login problem ("... computer cannot be verified ..." sorta)

 

Attempted many options as the following (tried to list here, gave up, just way too many and too much time wasted)

 

Here we go the right way (should work for other MB and NICs)

 

1. Use EFIStudio to find the "DevicePath", something like

 

<key>PciRoot(0x4)/Pci(0x1e,0x0)/Pci(0x4,0x0)</key>

<dict>

<key>built-in</key>

<string>0x01</string>

</dict>

 

2. Add above section to your com.apple.Boot.plist and /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist

 

3. Add the following KVs to both com.apple.Boot.plist and /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist

 

 

<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>PCIRootUID</key>

<string>0</string>

 

4. Remove /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist, remove all network interfaces.

5. Reboot and re-add all the network interfaces.

 

That's it. Nothing to do with DSDT.

All set.

 

1. Internal Audio

2. Internal Ethernet

3. Full resolution, QE/CI for NVidia 7900GS

4. AppStore & iCloud login

5. SATA support under BIOS "RAID-ON"

6. Boot from internal SATA-HD

 

Woohooo... SATA controller recognized perfectly...

 

:thumbsup_anim:

 

Here is the KEXT solving the SATA issue for BIOS set to "RAID ON".

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LegacyAppleAHCIPortIntelICHx.kext.zip

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