Thread: Stuck at iAtkos L2 Screen. Please help me ...

hi. im new in this forum. i have a packard bell notebook with i7 processor.
i want to make a double boot windows 7 and mac os x lion , so i made partition disk and formatted it to FAT32 and named as Apple. Now, i burned iatkos l2 with transmac, when i boot from DVD, it always get stuck at iatkos Project grey screen. Although i try to press F8 or any other key (like it says me to do), nothing happens. please help me with this dual boot problem. i wonder selecting my Apple partition drive to install iatkos, can this be happen without damaging windows 7? thank you...

My system is:
Packard Bell EasyNote TS
Intel core i7-2630QM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB
6GB DDR3 Memory
640GB HDD

Try these flags:

-v -x GraphicsEnabler=No

or

-v -f GraphicsEnabler=No

When you install Mac OS X, you'll probably need to repair win7 bootloader and then make OS X partition active, in order to have working dual boot.

Originally Posted by noname

Try these flags:

-v -x GraphicsEnabler=No

or

-v -f GraphicsEnabler=No

When you install Mac OS X, you'll probably need to repair win7 bootloader and then make OS X partition active, in order to have working dual boot.

can you tell me how to ? what means flag ? how to do it ? what is win bootloader. how to activate that partition. please dont give me a link describing these. becouse they will not about my problem

Just press any key on boot or f8 and type one of these lines (you'll see it appearing on bottom left corner). When you, hopefully, arrive to install menu, go to Disk Utility and format that fat32 partition to Mac OS X Extended(journaled). Then install OS X.

To repair windows you'll ned windows 7 install dvd. Just boot it and use repair option....

hey.......i am too having the same problem...just stuck at the first screen...so i looked for chameleon bootloader for windows
and found this .iso file :

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&at tach_id=93717

after writing it to a cd and booting it i ejected the cd and put in the iatkos DVD and pressed f5 and tried

-v busratio=17 arch=x86_64 ncpi=0x2000

and it showed

"hfs signature not present"

and it also showed

"can't find mach_kernel"


plz help

I can't open that link. But if you are using some kind of boot cd, you'll need retail version of Mac OS X, not distro...

Originally Posted by noname

Just press any key on boot or f8 and type one of these lines (you'll see it appearing on bottom left corner). When you, hopefully, arrive to install menu, go to Disk Utility and format that fat32 partition to Mac OS X Extended(journaled). Then install OS X.

To repair windows you'll ned windows 7 install dvd. Just boot it and use repair option....

on which boot do you mean ? the screen which i stuck ? i press all the keys there but nothing happens in bottom left corner. in which boot should i press any key or f8 ?

oh sorry......

the corrected link is

Chameleon Install 2.1 Rev 1806 for Windows - InsanelyMac Forum

anyways just help me to get it thru that error while using iatkos l2

whatever i need to do to get iatkos installation running...

Originally Posted by denigu

on which boot do you mean ? the screen which i stuck ? i press all the keys there but nothing happens in bottom left corner. in which boot should i press any key or f8 ?

On Chameleon boot screen. When you see Chameleon loading, then type f8. HAve you enabled AHCI in BIOS? Do you use usb keyboard? These things could help too...

@abhiank209

Use -v -f or -v -x flags. Post your configuration.

well..i checked but didnt find any option of enabling AHCI in the BIOS

i checked in the device manager in win7 and i have this device :

Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller

and also i tried these in the chameleon bootloader menu :
-v -x GraphicsEnabler=No

and

-v -f GraphicsEnabler=No as posted by @noname

but even that didnt work!!!!

and yes ,
my config is :

*Intel i5 460m processor
*ATI mobility radeon premium graphics
*Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller - 3B30
*4GB RAM

its a HP dv6 3123tx running Windows 7 Ultimate