Thread: help needed to install iATKOS L2 10.7.2 lion on evga 780i ftw mobo

did u installed all of the kexts I have supplied? If so, boot with the l2 usb (just like fresh install) go to disk utilities and repair your mac partition, after that quit installer, remove usb and boot with -v. U should be able to log in to lion.

Originally Posted by imtiaz_ali_rao

did u installed all of the kexts I have supplied? If so, boot with the l2 usb (just like fresh install) go to disk utilities and repair your mac partition, after that quit installer, remove usb and boot with -v. U should be able to log in to lion.

Yeah I have done that and now it hangs at

AppleNforceATA: found 0 units

It seems to be hanging because I am using 5 out of 6 available SATA ports... it finds the 5 but for some reason because it doesn't find anything attached to 6 it just freezes there and doesn't procede.

Wonder if I can disable that port in bios

Ok so for anyone that cares. I got it running.

I followed imtiaz's layout, but at first I was getting Kernel Panics before it would even get to desktop.

I found that it was the Default RTC causing the problem. So I reinstalled using the secondary RTC. After which I swapped my 64bit drivers over and repaired the disk as suggested by imtiaz. However the system kept hanging on AppleNforceATA: found 0 units.

I could not get past that for the life of me. Google did not help. eventually I realized the secondary RTC is 32bit... so I booted with arch=i386 and SUCCESS....

Thanks imtiaz for all the help.

U better remove (detach) all other hard drives except mac, then try to boot. I mean one drive please dont attach windows ntfs hard drives.

Originally Posted by imtiaz_ali_rao

U better remove (detach) all other hard drives except mac, then try to boot. I mean one drive please dont attach windows ntfs hard drives.

I tried that.. but like I said it boots now when using the i386 flag..

Unfortunately it doesn't want to install drivers in that mode haha .. One step forward and one step back :P

did u try mu org.chameleon.Boot.plist, if not just replace your file with mine and try.

I did, I tried your dsdt as well as I have evga 780i SLI board.

Then I tried multibeast and used easybeast (which messed up the entire thing). It is odd, boots fine in 32bit.. just not 64bit.

EDIT: Woot got network going finally.. Still only able to boot via arch=i386, but EVERYTHING works!

Anything you did special after upgrading to 10.7.3 just so I have a heads up

Sorry for the delay.

I did this way, and my System is running without any KP. You just follow these steps:

After Clean Install, Boot through USB, then select HDD with -v boot flag
Delete original AppleRTC.kext
copy only these kexts to S/L/E

1. AppleRTC.Patched.kext & AppleRTC.10.6.8.kext (Both)
2. nForceLAN.0.64.5..kext
3. AppleNForceATA.imk64bit.kext
4. EvOreboot.kext
5. FakeSMC.kext
6. IntelCPUMonitor.kext
7. NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
8. SuperIOFamily.kext

Copy provided DSDT.aml file to Desktop
Now run multi beast 4.2.1 for Lion and select these items

1. User DSDT Install
2. System Utilities
3. Drivers & Bootloaders/Kexts & Enablers/Audio/Universal/VoodooHDA 0.2.7.3
4.Customization/System Definitions/Mac Pro/MacPro 3.1
5.OSx86 Software

click install, don't reboot yet, Now install latest chameleon 2.0 RC5 r any version after 1200 on your os partition.

now remove usb and restart your computer with -v boot flag.

I hope You will be able to run osx without any kp

Note: I have to disable firewire port in bios (as it was not being detected by the osx properly) and enabled raid but kept disabled raid for all hard drives.

Compare your org.chameleon.boot.plist file with mine, better U replace it with mine.

After update to 10.7.3 just delete original appleRTC.kext and make sure AppleRTC.Patched.kext & AppleRTC.10.6.8.kext (Both) are in S/L/E. Just repair permissions also install Paragon NTFS 9.0.0 not 9.5

paragon ntfs 9.5 will crash your system at loading the desktop

My vga cards GeForce 8500GT 512Mb, 9800GTX+ 512Mb work out of the box without any extra effort. I used these cards separately not in SLI mode.

Hei, siliconeclone, I had the same problem like you did, use the guide from imtiaz_ali_rao above, and if you have a KP, boot from the usb stick again - before put in a temp folder the kexts above (specially those 2 AppleRTC.Patched.kext & AppleRTC.10.6.8.kext ) , when you got to the install part - Utilities - Terminal and :
Replace your ios partition name in the code below
1. Delete ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext - this is the KP cause.

Code:

rm -rf /Volumes/[your ios partition]/System/Library/Extensions/ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext

2. Copy the kext's from the temp folder

Code:

cp -Ra /Volumes/[your usb stick name]/temp/* /Volumes/[your ios partition]/System/Library/Extensions

3. Terminal - Exit

4. Disk Utility from the menu, select your IOS partition and click Repair Permissions

5. Reboot and you will get to Lion desktop.

This worked for me ( I had a black screen after boot but that was because of the video card - 260 GTX ). I fixed that removing NV kexts. You can see if your problem is from video card by trying to boot with -s option.
After figuring out how to resolve video card problem , I have a working IOS with full hardware acceleration , etc.

I will give it a try. ATM I do have it running 100% under arch=i386, but I am always willing to inch closer to perfection!