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16,220 reads · 2011-04-13 – 2011-07-07
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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..

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @kocoman

Author Update #1 @kocoman 2011-04-13

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.

Author Update #2 @kocoman 2011-05-03

I did try that, but after "DP2" then "Update 2" it does not boot into GUI

Synthesized Community Field Notes

4 technical responses curated from 9 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Wayang-NT 2011-04-13

i use iBoot 1.5a to handle Lion DP2 with no problem ...

Field Note #2 @Wayang-NT 2011-04-14 ↳ Re: @kocoman
@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

Field Note #4 @fantomas1 2011-07-07

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

Corroborated & Participated: @ricola @Lordadmiral Drake
Sources & Contributor Provenance (5 credited usernames · Thread #7100)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@kocomanPrimary Author32011-04-13 → 2011-05-03
@Wayang-NTContributor22011-04-13 → 2011-04-14
@ricolaContributor22011-05-02 → 2011-05-04
@Lordadmiral DrakeContributor12011-07-06
@fantomas1Contributor12011-07-07