Lenovo G560 Boot Issues

Hi Everyone,

I installed Snow Leopard using iBoot and then copied it to another partition using Carbon Copy Cloner so I can still boot and alter my system if I mess up one partition. As far as I know I have an Arrandale processor but for some reason I get a kernel panic when trying to update to 10.6.8 unless I use UpdateHelper which is meant for sandy bridge users only.

Anyway, I updated to 10.6.8 with this method and ran Multibeast 3.9.1 with a DSDT which I extracted with DSDT editor by El Coniglio and fixed all its compile errors with DSDT Fixer from EVOx86. In Multibeast, I ran System Utilities and UserDSDT Install. I also upgraded Chimera to 1.6.

This partition now hangs on boot. I've read that it may be because my graphics is unsupported but I'm pretty sure this problem can be fixed so I can boot with a low resolution and no graphics acceleration but I don't know how to do this. I've attached the kernel.log file which may help explain why I can't boot.

kernel.log

The last message where it says the NTFS volume is dirty is because my windows hard drive is encrypted and can't be read properly (I think) but surely this shouldn't stop me booting.

I just want to be able to boot so I can run xMove or UniBeast and install Lion. Afterwards I will worry about making everything work. I posted this in the Lion section because when I used EasyBeast I could create a Lion installation partition with xMove but I couldn't boot to it. It is my understanding that hacking the DSDT and doing whatever else should allow me to boot into 10.6.8 and the Lion Installer Partition so I can install Lion. In terms of hacking the DSDT I know how to download and apply hacks to the DSDT using DSDT Editor but not much more.

I also want to know if to delete a kext you just delete it and run system utilities in Multibeast of if there is a special way of doing it and do I just change the DSDT in my extra folder to update the DSDT I boot with.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Peter

UPDATE: I have managed to make everything boot and install Lion 10.7.2 by deleting AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext and AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext from /S/L/E. Most of my questions still apply though.

Did you resolve this and if so how? Also how do you delete kexts?

I got Lion installed using Unibeast following this guide http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/10/ ... using.html

Once I'd created the bootable USB I deleted the two kexts mentioned above simply by dragging them into the bin. Once this was done I'm pretty sure I could boot into the USB and install Lion (I may have also run Multibeast(Lion Edition) with System Utilities selected on the USB from my Snow Leopard partition. If you can't boot try this).

Once you have Lion installed and with every system update you need to delete(drag to bin) the two kexts I mentioned above from S/L/E and then run Multibeast. You will need to boot into a separate partition to do this once Lion is installed but with each system update you should be able to do it before rebooting.

I'm not sure if my method for deleting kexts is right but it seems to work and so far I still haven't come across a better way to do it. Now I pretty much have everything working in 10.7.2 except the graphics card which I've read a lot about and as far as I can see unless someone modifies the kext it won't work.

Thank you will try this. I've been having such a hard time trying to install on Lenovo g570 looks like close to same specs. Do you have a dsdt for yours?

Ok here is where I am at. Your problem seems to be as close to mine as I can find. Currently I have snow leopard 10.6.8 but can only get into safe mode right now because messed up after I ran multibeast. I have no ethernet and I'm sure nothing else is working correctly either. I dont care about snow leopard. I have made a lion installer USB from that same link u posted but can't boot to it. In SL I deleted those 2 kext and rebooted to try and boot to my lion installer USB but it's no longer holding up at white screen it just instantly reboots. I am unsure Of what to select in multibeast and about dsdt and all that. Trying to get this installed for my nephew for Xmas I feel as if I am so close I just need some extra help haha. Since Im unable to boot to my flash drive is there anything else u can suggest that u did? Am I missing a step? Thanks again

Can you please give me your full hardware specs. If you have windows installed use this
http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html (download free version) and generate a system report in html and send it to me. Otherwise if you have the original documents that came with the laptop one of them should have the specifications and you could scan that.

I think you may have quite a different cpu along with graphics and I can't do much without knowing what hardware you have.

Also, make sure you ticked laptop support in Unibeast.

Thanks for response again so quickly here are my specs. i also attatched a text file from the program u had me DL.
core i3-2330m 2.20GHz Sandy Bridge
intel HD 3000 Graphics
I think its an atheros Wifi
unsure about ethernet and all that

i swapped HDD with one with Windows 7 to run this program so the actual HDD i use is 500GB Seatgate i hope this helps you help me thanks so much once again here is a link to the lenovo i bought

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246194

now that you mention it i dont think i remember any laptop option in unibeast...since i dont have ethernet working properly on the laptop can i recreate the lion installer thumb drive in a friends mac or will that not work because its not my puchased lion? thanks again

oops here is the file of the results from that program

im a tard i see the laptop support..however again im curious since my SL only works in safe mode as of now and i dont have lion downloaded (already purchased it for this product. at one point had ethernet & appstore working) can i create the installer on a friends lion os? thanks again for your help hope i can tackle this by xmas...

Ok I think it should work from your friend's Lion OS. It's definitely worth a try. I've also looked at your hardware and it's actually very different different to mine. You have a second generation intel core i processor whereas I have the first generation. For future reference, your processor is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2330M CPU @ 2.20GHz and it's from the line of processors codenamed Sandy Bridge (mobile). Mine is from the Arrandale line.

You also have Intel HD Graphics 3000 which is very different to my Arrandale Intel HD Graphics (each line of intel processors have different intel Graphics as well). This is actually quite good for you because your graphics are supported whereas mine will most likely never work. To get your graphics to work you should only need to select the MacBookPro8,1 system definition when you get to multibeast. It should not stop you booting into Lion or the Lion Installer.