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

I have successfully installed iATKOS L2 10.7.2 lion on Intel boards in just 35 minutes but I m stuck on evga 780i ftw 3way sli mobo. The problem is iATKOS L2 10.7.2 lion installer does not detect sata hard drives. I have read all threads regarding evga 780i mobo on insanellymac forum and followed other experts but all in vane. I have tried every option in bios as well.

My other hardware is as under:

Evga 780i FTW 3way SLi Motherboard with nforce sata/lan chipset
Intel Q9450 core to quad processor
sata Hdd 80 Gb seagate baracuda 7200 rpm
sata Hdd 1Tb seagate baracuda 7200 rpm
2gb x 2 =4gb corsair xms2 ram
Nvidia geforce 8500GT 512 Mb

Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.


Solved see post # 4

Well no body helped me. However I solved the problem by inserting nForce chipset kexts into iAtkos l2 (S/L/E folder), which recognized my HDDs and now am posting this from my hackintosh running lion 10.7.2

How did you insert the nforce kexts?

I opened the iAtkos L2 USB drive in another mac (used show all files application) then copied nforce ata and nforce lan kexts in S/L/E. After install booted from windows drive (dual boot) and in windows opened my mac drive (used macdrive 8 software, just google it) and copied both kexts in the S/L/E. Then booted from my mac drive and installed other kexts for my sound and vga cards. Thats all.

Now I have updated to 10.7.3 without any issue.

Thanks!

I am having the same exact issue... I got the waiting for root device forever. What specific kexts did you use... could you email them to me?

Xathor at Gmail dot com

I was almost going to give up on my 780i motherboard...

E8400, evga 780i, 9800gtx, 3x wd black 640gb

Mhhh Hello imtiaz !
Your solution may help me ! (See my topic http://www.osx86.net/10-7-lion/14310...ba-laptop.html If ever you are interested in..)
To sum up, I can't get the kexts of Iatkos working good for my PC specs.. (My PC specs are mentionned on my topic, first post)
I feel a bit embarassing to ask you that, but, could you advise me about the kext I should select ? Are the original kexts of Iatkos enough for my laptop ?
Or should I inject some others in the Iatkos dmg ? (using Transmac ?)

Thanks in advance for your help ! Have a nice day/night !

I just had luck booting the 10.7 installer and getting it to recognize my hard drives on a 780i chipset. It's currently installing right now.

I took a Hazard 10.6 ISO that would boot and see the hard drives, extracted the entire extensions.mkext and put it into my iAtkos L2 USB drive. After deleting the AppleNForce kext and fooling around with different kexts I got it to boot using the Verdant boot disk using only -v. I'm not exactly sure of the specifics on what kexts I changed because I have been fooling around with it so long. Once it is installed and booted I can give better specifics. So excited!

Just download all the kexts from this link and use 64bit kexts in s/l/e. also read the first post thoroughly.

nForce OS X Lion (10.7) APP STORE DOWNLOAD INSTALL GUIDE on a Series 6 or 7 nForce chipset / Intel CPU MOBO - InsanelyMac Forum

U need to be a registered user to download.

after install use multibeast 4.2.1 for sound, vga and other fixes.

xathor

for 9800gtx dont use any kext, just use graphic enable = yes command in boot playlist file through multibeast 4.2.1. This card works out of the box.

I hope U people know how to install kexts and use multibeast.

I have just uploaded all the kexts and my dsdt, smbios.plist & org.chameleon.boot.plist files here:
use dsdt file in multibeast 4.2.1.

http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2431

You have been a great help. It allowed me to install and I moved the files via Windows to the mac drive.

However I keep getting a kernel panic during startup right after the ATA drivers are loaded... so unsure at this point.. time to tinker more.