iATKOS L2 Installation Issues

[arivee]

I wonder if its worth having an iATKOS L2 super thread?? (I tried registering on uphuck's board to no avail).

 

Annnyyyywayy....I got the L2 install dmg and confirmed the md5 as true. I tried restoring it on an 8gb USB stick (using my 10.6.3 hackintosh - Dell Vostro 1500 4GB mem, NVIDIA display card working to highest resolution) -to no avail (after verifying the file, the md5 changed - if that's worth anything) - the thing wouldnt even launch into the boot screen.

 

After several attempts, I used UB (from TM's website - lion from usb + laptop assist button options - with apologies to the mod team - didnt realize certain things hash out) to install the boot on my usb stick - it worked - at least up to the disk select screen. When I choose the L2 install - it just hangs on the apple screen and the 'rotating timer'. (using -v shows it stops at a point when it identifies my vostro's firewire and some iousb has failed prior to that).

 

When I add an arch=i386 boot option it takes me to the welcome screen - where I choose english as main language - then it takes me to Mac OSx Utilities (joy beyond belief! - so much so that I let disk utility format my WORKING SL hard drive - no worries though I TimeMachined the 10.6.3 install).

 

The 'disk utility' and 'restore from time machine back up' options work (I can go in there and use the utilities).

 

HOWEVER - I get nothing when I press continue when I highlight 'Reinstall Mac OSx' AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH. ...

 

Some notes - I successfully installed SL 10.6.3 (using iAtkos S3 v2) only when I checked 32bit versions of drivers. Could this be a clue?

 

Does lion accept 32bit operations? I am guessing yes only for the simple reason that I see some netbook (atom) users claim successful instals.

 

Any help would be appreciated - including just pointing me to a good how to thread to update 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 (I kill my keyboard and mouse when I try to go up to those versions and yes I save my old IOUSBFamily.kext and IOUSBStorage(??).kext to inject into the new version - tried it without the kext utility but wound up with KPs that the kernel and CPU were incompatible).

[arivee]

Minor update - I was able to access the installer log - prior to pressing the 'reinstall mac osx button' I see that it is trying to establish a network connection...

 

...localhost confgd [111]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en0) failed: Networ is down (50)

...localhost confgd [111]: DHCP en0: INIT transmit failed

...localhost LCA [308]: Bookmark failed to issue extension for item (depth=4000): No such file or directory

...localhost OSIESpringboard [322]: Bookmark fialed to issue extension for item (depth=4000): No such file or directory

 

AFTER I click on the 'Reinstall Mac OS X' option, I get the following log entry...

 

...localhost Unknown [309]: 2012-03-05 15:23:01.507 Mac OS X Utilities [322:b203] Could not launch application. Exception: launch path not accessible

 

SO - does this mean that the install disk is looking to ping Apple (or whoever) before creating the directory? No idea - it does show that en0 is my wireless card which I could not configure to get on my network.

 

FWIW - I needed to launch the installer w/ arch=i386 cpus=1 -v - it will eventually hang up - but the second time I boot I just do arch=i386 -v and it will boot just fine *shrug* dunno why though.