How to make a bootable Lion DVD

[jspec]

1st off great disk. I am trying to install this on a dell d630. This gets me further then anything else I have downloaded but seems to lockup when osx goes to install the system to disc. It just says 20 minutes and then it freezes. Any suggestions?

[Cassio]

Try to move or click the mouse, sometimes only the video freezes.

[jspec]

actually it just sits until I move the mouse then it freezes. It says installing osx on disk hd1 and that is as far as it gets.

[NoService]

@Cassio

nevermind i got it sorted i had a hidden partition on the drive, i assume chameleon was getting confused

all running well, sound and network sorted now i need to find a fix for my ati firemv 2250 vid card

mulitbeast has been a bust

thanks for your help so far

[sabby777]

The current issue is the dvd gets stuck on apple logo and when i use -v it goes to the error of

/var/db/bootcache.playlist : 2 no such file or directory

nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2

nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2

Previous Shutdown cause : 3

ACPI_SMC_Platformplugin: Startforreal - WaitForService (ResourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

DSMOS has arrived

The machine is Dell Vostro laptop with i5 and 4 GB ram

I have enabled default settings in bios and ensured SCSI is set to AHCI mode

Please share what other steps could i try

[artur-pt]

hello

i think is a graphics problem

try -v -f -x GraphicsEnabler=No

good hack

[alme1304]

hey guys,

I'm stuck at the

"Still waiting for root device" error. I used -v and safe mode

[Extopia]

Listen , i took a lion OSX from a friend , it is a cd , the components in the cd are :

1.Install mac os lion

2.Library

3.Packages

4.System

5.Macosx_Media_background.png

6.Private

Please notify me if this will work and if it will , please teach me how cuz i didnt really get the tutorial :/

[Cassio]

If it's a dmg from App Store you should succeed building the DVD, but if it will work or not, depends on your hardware.

You can download the resulting ISO, join Olarila.com/chat and type "? liondvd".

[Extopia]

This could work?

and i just follow the steps and i get lion?

Greetings,

Extopia

[Cassio]

Burn the iso to DVD and follow steps in post 2 http://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=740#p7322

[Extopia]

I dont find it simple :/ could u please make a vid on how to , i have 0 knowledge in hackintosh

Greetings,

Extopia

[Cassio]

No, I won't make a video. There are many guides and videos about installing Lion, if this isn't good enough for you, I'm sure you can find a better one.

[Extopia]

Oh okay , sorry if i annoyed u :/

Greetings,

Extopia

[buoo]

Hi guys!

I've problem when I copy the folder Packages to the folder System/Installation in the image, It tell me there is no free space.

Could you help me please?

Thanks

[Cassio]

If you are using 10.7.4 dmg it won't fit in a 4.7 GB DVD, unless you remove some packages.

[buoo]

Thanks for the reply! I'm using ML 10.8

I've tried making a 8GB dmg with disk utility, It seems to work but when I burn the dmg I get an error like this: "medium write error"

[Cassio]

If you want to make it bootable, it must be an iso with el torito boot (step 15 in first post). The iso will be like 5 GB.

I believe "medium write error" is not related to this, though.

[Lord_Richard_2]

I get stuck at the pci configuration section. I have used the npci=0x2000 parameter but it still sticks. Why would this be? What would I have to do to get it to get past this?

[Cassio]

Some cases need old IOPCIFamily

http://netkas.org/?p=1053

Try this boot CD, burn to CD-RW, boot, once in boot menu, swap CD by Lion DVD, press F5 and boot DVD.

HackBoot.zip

[Lord_Richard_2]

I tried hackboot, but it complained about missing kernel (when i selected swapped in lion dvd) and hfs signatures and came to a "press any key to continue option" then if i pressed a key it went to boot options menu. How would i replace that specified kext? Repack iso and reburn?

[Cassio]

Did you press F5 after swapping discs?

You can install it in Virtual Box, then copy the iso to a flash drive and make it bootable http://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1279

This ML image can be copied to USB stick from Windows http://Olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1627

[Lord_Richard_2]

Hmm I guess f5 was necessary... It booted to the install program. What does f5 do anyways....

[Cassio]

F5 rescans DVD drive, used with boot CDs

Try this boot CD, burn to CD-RW, boot, once in boot menu, swap CD by Lion DVD, press F5 and boot DVD.

[Lord_Richard_2]

Well my install seems frozen... No graphical animation on status bar, no mouse and it says 17 min remaining. I see slight hard drive activity but no disc drive reads.