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Hello,

 

I would like to install Lion on this computer.

I have installed Snow Leopard on it using the retail DVD and Nawcom's boot CD.

I was able to update to 10.6.8.

 

Using the SL build, I created a Lion installer USB called [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (www.tonymacx86.com).

 

Using the USB drive, I was able to get to the Lion install screen; however in Disk Utility, I only saw the USB drive, no hard drives were listed.

 

I was looking at some of the pinned guides to install Lion, but they seemed a little over my head or mentioned DSDT files (which I don't have).

 

Could you please help me by pointing to the correct way to install Lion on this computer?

 

Thanks!

Deb.

 

My Hardware:

System - Dell Studio Slim

CPU - Processor, E7400, 2.8, 3MB Wolfdale, 65W, R0

Memory - 4 X Dual In-line Memory Module 1GB, 800, 128X64, 8, 240, 1RX8

Graphics - ATI Radeon HD 5000

Hard Drive - 640GB, S2, 7.2K Western Digital, XL320

DVD Drive - PLDS DVD+-RW DH-16A6S

There is some success with installing Snow Leopard, see here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=215753&st=56

 

The guide talks about BIOS settings and using a specific DSDT to get the SATA drives to be recognised.

Sysyphus, thank you for your help; I really appreciate you pointing me to that guide.

But .... I already have Snow Leopard installed; I'm trying to install Lion.

 

I stumbled upon this thread, where it talks about IOATAFamily.kext version 2.5.1 to allow the installation; this gave me an understanding now.

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=266182

 

This point to MaLd0n's guide for installing Lion:

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=256729

I added IOATAFamily.kext using Kext Wizard.

 

Now I get a kernal panic (see image).

 

I've used these boot options without success:

-v -x cpus=1 busratio=20

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Deb.

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I looked at the kernel panic and thought it could be the firewire (since that's roughly where problems occur in the boot process, I think).

I disabled firewire in the bios and now I am getting further.

Now I get the white screen with the spinning beachball and it just sits there.

Any advice on how to figure this out?

 

Thank you,

Deb.

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