iBoot 1.5a or XPC or Clover or Netkas RC3 support for Lion
Has anyone been able to find a place for support for these 4 bootloaders, that are suppose to boot Lion in the future? I had tried IRC, but it seems there are "people" there, but no one replies..
- Primary Author
- @kocoman Published 2011-04-13
- Collection
- Lion to Catalina (10.7–10.15)
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- 16,220 historical reads · 4 curated field notes (from 9 dispatches) · 2011-04-13 – 2011-07-07
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- @kocoman (3)@Wayang-NT (2)@ricola (2)@Lordadmiral Drake@fantomas1
Has anyone been able to find a place for support for these 4 bootloaders, that are suppose to boot Lion in the future?
I had tried IRC, but it seems there are "people" there, but no one replies..
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Follow-up dispatches by @kocoman
What about for MSI mainboard users?
The systems I have "heard" from the forums working
Asus
Gigabyte
Sony Notebook
I have the correct CPU, but not the right board..
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I have tried both XPC latest and iBoot
I don't know where to get help for bootloaders like xpc and iboot, I tried the irc, but there is no body reply to my message there.
is there any way to load smbios.plist into the iboot 1.5a? I am getting this error:
can't locate smbios protocol, not found
then
there were errors converting smbios system table : not found
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there are at least 3 version of Iboot
1) the one from Osninja
2) the tonymac86 one
3) xiezhy in beijing one
Its hard to search in google because they don't match up.
I did try that, but after "DP2" then "Update 2" it does not boot into GUI
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4 technical responses curated from 9 original dispatches
i use iBoot 1.5a to handle Lion DP2 with no problem ...
@kocomanWhat about for MSI mainboard users? The systems I have "heard" from the forums working Asus Gigabyte Sony Notebook I have the correct CPU, but not the right board.. there are at least 3 version of Iboot 1) the one from Osninja 2) the tonymac86 one 3) xiezhy in beijing one Its hard to search in google because they don't match up.
at last i try to use xpc 0.82.33 (download135.media fire.com/18zwaf58jwzg/7zz5auzknab66nz/XPC-0.82.33.rar) from MF and it's boot to my system …. (i've tried some XPC version before without any luck )
install it in my Kingstone 4GB DataTraveler (DTIG3/4GBFR) put kexts in extra_kext folder (i used in E/E in my SL Server ….just try too put them there… …and yes you're right..there's no information to config); then edit the system.plist inside XPC folder with something like this
<key>SmbiosTables</key>
<dict>
<key>Table</key>
<dict>
<key>Type</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>BiosVersion</key>
<string>MP31.B05.0801021250</string>
<key>BiosVendor</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
</dict>
<key>Table</key>
<dict>
<key>Type</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>Manufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>ProductName</key>
<string>MacPro3,1</string>
<key>Family</key>
<string>Mac</string>
<key>SerialNumber</key>
<string>G8829559XYL</string>
<key>SKUNumber</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>Version</key>
<string>1.5</string>
</dict>
<key>Table</key>
<dict>
<key>Type</key>
<integer>2</integer>
<key>Manufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>ProductName</key>
<string>Mac-F4208AC8</string>
<key>AssetTag</key>
<string>MacPro</string>
<key>SerialNumber</key>
<string>CK0020DZE1D</string>
<key>LocationInChassis</key>
<string>None</string>
<key>Version</key>
<string>0.0</string>
</dict>
you can edit it what you want ….
and here's is the result in my system
for me Snow 10.6.8 et Lion_GM boot with PC EFI 10.6
I just added EvOReboot because I could not reboot automatically :-d
Sources & Contributor Provenance (5 credited usernames · Thread #7100)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @kocoman | Primary Author | 3 | 2011-04-13 → 2011-05-03 |
| @Wayang-NT | Contributor | 2 | 2011-04-13 → 2011-04-14 |
| @ricola | Contributor | 2 | 2011-05-02 → 2011-05-04 |
| @Lordadmiral Drake | Contributor | 1 | 2011-07-06 |
| @fantomas1 | Contributor | 1 | 2011-07-07 |