Joel_Ellis Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 I have followed Maldon's guide, Xmove and Kakewalk and get the same problem. Everything goes well until all kexts are loaded from the Lion USB stick. After this is done the system restarts and I can't get the installation to really start. If I run regular boot from the latest chimera bootloader I can see the apple logo a fraction of a second before the system restarts. My spec: GA EP35-DS3 with Intel E5200 4 gb ram ATi HD 5450 1gb Two SATA hard drives: 2 TB WD with 10.6.8 (almost clean install, no DSDT patch) works like a charm and another partion which I intend to intsall Lion on. 1 TB SEagate with a number of Ubuntu version on it. I have tried removing all my USB stuff but still the system restarts. I took away my PCI cards (Sound and Wifi) but no change. I only had the 2 TB hard drive connected but still no change. I have also tried a number of boot flags but nothing have worked so far (can't really remember all flags I've tried). Finally I have tried other installations such as Xmove and Kakewalk but I got the same behaviour. Please somebody help me, I'm going insane!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noam AA Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 I have followed Maldon's guide, Xmove and Kakewalk and get the same problem. Everything goes well until all kexts are loaded from the Lion USB stick. After this is done the system restarts and I can't get the installation to really start. If I run regular boot from the latest chimera bootloader I can see the apple logo a fraction of a second before the system restarts. My spec: GA EP35-DS3 with Intel E5200 4 gb ram ATi HD 5450 1gb Two SATA hard drives: 2 TB WD with 10.6.8 (almost clean install, no DSDT patch) works like a charm and another partion which I intend to intsall Lion on. 1 TB SEagate with a number of Ubuntu version on it. I have tried removing all my USB stuff but still the system restarts. I took away my PCI cards (Sound and Wifi) but no change. I only had the 2 TB hard drive connected but still no change. I have also tried a number of boot flags but nothing have worked so far (can't really remember all flags I've tried). Finally I have tried other installations such as Xmove and Kakewalk but I got the same behaviour. Please somebody help me, I'm going insane!!! seems to me like GPU problem have you done any modification to run the 5450? as far as i know you need more then graphicsenabler=y for this card or simply buy another card that known to work 'vanilla' as they said (if you can. that at least what i did back when there was no support for 5450) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1733454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_Ellis Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 seems to me like GPU problemhave you done any modification to run the 5450? as far as i know you need more then graphicsenabler=y for this card or simply buy another card that known to work 'vanilla' as they said (if you can. that at least what i did back when there was no support for 5450) But it work OOB with my SL 10.6.8 with no patched DSDT or any injectors or kexts. Shouldn't it work with Lion than Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1733464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aufa333 Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 But it work OOB with my SL 10.6.8 with no patched DSDT or any injectors or kexts. Shouldn't it work with Lion than i have a friend with Ati 5850 ,if i add any graphicsenabler flag in boot.plist the fan just go crazy and u cant boot ,remove this flag or use graphicsenabler=no and check back ,btw u dont need to install any vga kexts as its already supported by default in Lion. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1733599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_Ellis Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 i have a friend with Ati 5850 ,if i add any graphicsenabler flag in boot.plist the fan just go crazy and u cant boot ,remove this flag or use graphicsenabler=no and check back ,btw u dont need to install any vga kexts as its already supported by default in Lion. In the boot list in the lion install partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1733630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanbk168 Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 in the com.apple.boot.plist.... i think you have to run in verbose (-v) mode to tell us what you see. If it stops at PCI configuration something, then you have to add npci=0x2000... but we will not know until you provide more information.... I have 3 SATA harddisks that run Lion, SL and Windows Vista... Normally, I have at least one working partition so that I can test the new OSX. Also, I have one duplicate OSX just in case there is software update to check the compatibility before I update on the main working OSX... The easiest is to follow the xMove method which is straight-forward, got the Lion working in 1hr... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1733660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
niknais Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I think Pentium E5200 is your problem! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1734980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RN95 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Finally I have tried other installations such as Xmove and Kakewalk but I got the same behaviour. Please somebody help me, I'm going insane!!! I went through a similar scenario with one of the DP releases. I then decided to download a different Installation package. Bingo! that worked straight away. Try a different package (the bootable one worked for me). Rgds Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1734987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_Ellis Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Cheers to all for the answers, I finally got it to work with Tseug's metod. It took alot of time. I had to do a little tweeking though. Had to change to the latest Chameleon. My graphic card didn't work well with the included Chameleon version. I also changed the boot.plist to suite my setup. I can't get power management and sleep to work without nullpowermangement. But I don't care that much since I usually don't want my computers to go to sleep. They don't need to sleep , I do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265332-lion-wont-install-im-going-insane/#findComment-1735290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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