April 2, 2011
Updated pcefi for lion
New beta for Lion.
new in this update:
- board-id spoof patch from cparm to make dp2 installer work without patching OSInstall.mpkg, add SMboardproduct to smbios.plist with proper board-id, e.g. Mac-F42C88C8
- backported fermi injector support from rc5, patch from cmf.
- rooting via chosen
This supports booting Lion only, but you can easily backport it for snowleopard.
p.s. don’t forget -usecache
Comments(46)
Still gives me double panic?
What do you need to actually release a proper chameleon for lion?
Still not able to boot with it (Double Fault)
Boot Args: arch=x86_64 -v -usecache
+1
use cold boot kthxbai
can’t perform kext scan: no kext summary ? ??? ?????? 🙁
kp but at least pcefi is full res. it was stretched until now
Hi Netkas – I was wondering if you have looked at the 64bit checks in the kernel (I assume in the kernel) at all? DP1 ran great on my CD Macbook so it would be a shame to leave it out in the cold
for those who have some problems to login into their mac app store account with the DP2,
please follow this topic on projectosx (since krazubu have deleted his tutorial from insanelymac, petit coquinou va !!! 🙂 ) => http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?s=41cf3a4fc192c77be8fc22a307f0822f&showtopic=60,
in addition, you may also need to follow this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=bc2d25bb175c2c0bc98d72315a0a33f9&showtopic=140085&view=findpost&p=999206
hi, for those who have some problems to login into their mac app store account with the DP2,
please follow this topic on projectosx (since krazubu have deleted his tutorial from insanelymac, petit coquinou va !!! 🙂 ) => http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?s=41cf3a4fc192c77be8fc22a307f0822f&showtopic=60,
in addition, you may also need to follow this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=bc2d25bb175c2c0bc98d72315a0a33f9&showtopic=140085&view=findpost&p=999206
cold boot still does not work
hi,
for those who have problem to login to the mac app store with the DP2, you can follow this topic: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=60,
in addition, you may also need to follow this post:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=140085&view=findpost&p=999206
Guys, would you please stop murmuring around ?
Patience is a virtue, I’m sure Netkas will make it when HE decides, so please stop complaining.
I also get the DF-panic almost every boot, that is from around
10 restarts after the kernel panics, only one boot is successfull, and mostly to single user mode, through
-usecache -v -s.
Thank you, Netkas, for your continuous support and dedication !
Can someone give an idea why this boot (and the previous one for lion) shows “Wrong Multiboot magic” mesage and then it restarts compute? No problem with 10.5/6 boot for SL.
Does lion boot assume to be plased on the same HD with Lion?
I use boot from Chameleon_v2.0_RC5_Lion and it starts lion just fine.
Thank you.
Thanks, MacFanatic76 for saying what I wanted to say.
There are a few real dedicated developers that work endlessly on these projects. The rest complain. I don’t complain because I don’t have to actually work on these issues, like they do. Like most of us, I don’t know enough to figure it out. I don’t even know C. 😉 Some issues are more difficult to deal with than others and I’m sure the DF KP issue is one of them.
I’m grateful for all netkas, cparm, et el have done so far. They make this all possible and it is not even their job. They do it because they enjoy the challenge, difficult as it may be, and contribute their work-arounds.
But, don’t _expect_ anything from them just because they are the few that are capable of working it out – it’s not their job.
MAJ
Well said MAJ, I have ofter ranted about the very topic here, but people will not listen. They do not realize that this is a MESSAGE BOARD, not a how to guide. People, if you WANT/NEED help, go over to Insanelymac.com and ask there!!! If you have any relevant news or finding in relation to the topic, then by all means, post away, just stop being bedwetters!!!
that’s why netkas is always mentioned in my signature:
“in nomine riws et Stefe et netkas et osx86 sancti”
People just do NOT realize, that there would be NO OSx86 and that all this beauty we ALL have here on our desktops would simply be NOT possible without the extreme knowledge, patience, cause-dedication and tolerance of such a great individuals like Netkas. And, of course – of that of all the other extremely dedicated people all around the globe.
People…could you please instead of murmuring “DON’T WORK”
just supply details about your config, what you tried, what steps were included, so you would really support our generous devs that made it all possible for us ?
That will be of a tremendous help to them, instead of complaining !
Thank you all, I would also like to thank again so much all these people that made this possible, as well !
Greetings and long live Mac OS X !
So I would like to feed back our generous host Netkas with the following :
– Hardware is GA-X48T-DQ6, Q9550, Corsair Dominator DDR3 8GB,
Gigabyte GTX285
– used this new “boot” on a USB-flash (MBR-partitioned), where
the latest Chameleon-trunk was used (rev.750)
– I have 4 internal SATA II-drives (all of them are GPT)
and Lion resides on /dev/disk1s2 in the MBR-part (had there Winabooze7 x64 for gaming, but I wiped it out, hehe)
– I confirm, starting over from a USB-drive with this “boot”
worked successfully – Mac did not complain again “Cannot
install on this computer” and installation went successfully
– With copying over the “Extra”-folder I use on Snow, on either
the install USB-flash and the Lion-partition, even after
install, it seems the “Extra”-content is not loading at all,
or at least HD-audio and EFI-strings for GTX 285 do not work
as in Snow.
Support for RTL111C (Realtek 8169 GLAN) is truly dropped,
so copying over IONetworkFamily.kext from Snow 10.6.7 fixes the problem, confirmed.
I can confirm, Gigabyte GTX 285 1 GB does not work, whatever I tied.
With ether a proper EFI-string in com.apple.boot.plist, situated on the root of Lion/Extra,
the graphics card is not seen at all. Even after removing all Lion’s drivers, as :
– rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/Ge*
– rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/NV*
and installing the official Nvidia-drivers (which work ok in 10.6.7), no QE/CI could be achieved. Copying over the drivers from 10.6.7 made also no difference.
Installing NVEnabler.kext – same thing.
I hope this would further help you for your work on the Lion’s boot loader !
Thank you again, Netkas !
To avoid double fault I do some change on BIOS so DMI gets updated and Lion boots on first run.
About this so called board-id spoof patch. Why do you need that? This is done by the smbios patcher already.
And good to see people picking up rooting via chosen, which for your info was introduced by me in RevoBoot (previously known as Revolution).
doesn’t wrok again here….
everytimes reboots…. i can’t get even come in the select screen… i get it only work with iboot only string doesn’t seem to work
Still can not boot the system never, had to return to the use of XPC
It works but it’s extremely slow..
Asapreta,
What do you set in your BIOS that fixes reboot?
iBoot 1.5a and XPC from .82.27–.82.30 boot Lion just fine. I have done 3 fresh installs to verify.
I have 3 saved setups for my board. My default one for Snow and Windows with overclock and so on. Lion NEVER booted with overclock so I made a “DEFAULTS” setup to get it running. I made a third setup, a fake one, mixed the elements of both mentioned. So, I need to get on one not the “defaults” one, boot till DEL message again, enter BIOS and choose the one for LION, DMI gets updated and system boots on first try.
Using XPC-0.82.31
I Installed only by copying the file PlatformSupport.plist from DP1 to DP2.
in DP2 this file is missing.
http://img9.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110404at012.png/
http://img576.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110404at012.png/
Guess it’s time for the annual “Thank you so much for the continuos sharing of your knowledge and work!”
cant perform kext loading
Wonderful work netkas. I can confirm that it works. I am running Lion on a GA-EX58-UD5 with 12 gigs of ram and using a Zotac GTX-285.
I pathced my DSDT extensively so I am using only 2 kexts in S/L/E. FakeSMC and IONetworking.
I have sound, full QE/CI, etc. The only issue I have at the moment is restarting as I do not use kexts for this in SL.
Sleep and shutdown works as well, the benefit of DSDT patching.
Keep up the good work 🙂
@Asapreta – Blz Asa! Qual sua placa mãe? Eu tenho uma ASUS P6T com i7 930 e só da DF o tempo todo, não importa quantas vezes eu reinicie.
@Digital_dreamer very true what you say, it is not their job and they enjoy taking a challenge, most people who come here just take the knowledge and leave, more takers then givers. When you tally how many people appreciate netkas, cparm, nawcom and others work in the osx86 community, not many are really grateful, but i am as people like these people i look upto and learn off, if i have the chance to give back i will.
@roger_cwb I got an GA-EP45-UD3R
Hello netkas,
there are some news on ps3 scene, you can dump lv0 of 3.60 with all hardware info of the ps3, look here: http://psgroove.com/content.php?939-Exploit-for-Dumping-LV0-From-3.60-Revealed-Will-Lead-to-3.60-Keys
in near future it will possible to install Snow leopard on the ps3?
Thanks Asa for the info, I think the problem is ASUS MB or Core i7, the most people that have success installing Lion, it seems they are using Gigabyte motherboards.
I have Asus P6T motherboard, Core i7 950, Nvidia GT 220 2GB vram and 20 GB DDR3L ram. Ihave success installed Lion DP2 and it boots in 8 seconds.
asapreta?what EXACT change are u making in GA-EP45-UD3R bios “so DMI gets updated and Lion boots on first run”?
Can you list the exact changes on what pages of the BIOS settings please.
@Surchy – Are you using Chameleon with Netkas boot file? Or iBoot?
Could you explain how you did?
Im stuck here.
@unknow stupid idea, not worth it. not made for it why use it, it’s a gaming machine thats it, not a PC 🙂 i know it’s fun but not worth it end result.
@ roger_cwb
Iam using boot 1.4. but don’t forget to delete PlatformSupport.plist. Go to your Lion hardisk >com.apple.recovery.boot and delete PlatformSupport.plist . Good luck
So does this work for anybody 100% of the time? If so list your specs, boot.plist, and boot args please
@ roger_cwb
=)))
Nothing is not necessary to remove
Type in your motherboard in PlatformSupport.plist
Good luck
Hint for Sandy Bridge Users, there is a AnVAL build for Lion, for me its the only way to get SL and Lion running smooth.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=249135&st=640#
Thanks, with this pcefi I was finally able to get Lion running on my machine. I have a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard and Core i7-950 CPU. I used an image of Lion DP 2 with the system update, copied from an iMac. (I had to add fakesmc.) I get the double kernel panics, but roughly ever other or every third time it works. Cold boot does make a difference, and you do have to use -usecache.
I use Grub 2 to run Chameleon, and the binary download didn’t work for me. I got the “”Wrong Multiboot magic” error. But when I rebuilt it from the source, without making any changes, the error went away. The binary boot download is 332K, but for some reason the boot I built is only 152K.
By the way, if you need to rebuild kernelcache (such as when you add fakesmc), this is the command Lion uses for that when S/L/E is updated:
kextcache -a i386 -a x86_64 -l -r -K /mach_kernel -prelinked-kernel /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache -volume-root / /System/Library/Extensions
I issued that in single-user mode (with the current directory the root directory.)
http://mirror.netkas.org/ is down.
I can’t download the files from the mirror…
http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/?target=http://mirror.netkas.org/&o=2&save=true
=>> Invalid host name.
///the server and files are lost
Hello Netkas!
I wish you put new links to the source and binaries for the pc-efi Lion. I am looking to create my own boot cd based on his pc-efi so that it can go through: BootCacheControl: Unable to open / var / db / BootCache.playlist: 2 no such file or directory error. Or you have an idea how to do it otherwise? Can you show me the way?
Thank you!