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- Gigabyte GA-Z77X-DS3H
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- i5 3400
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- ATI 6700
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I've been running OSX on my desktop for about 2 years. I've been running Lion on my desktop without any issues now for about 6 months and can't wait for Mountain Lion. I recently bought an Acer Aspire V3-771G and would love to run Lion (and hopefully Mountain Lion when it comes out). Here are the specs for the laptop
Intel i7 3610QM
HD4000 Graphics
NVDIA GT650M
6GB Memory
750GB HD
I have had great success with all the great guides and support forums on this site, however, this laptop is a bit of a challenge. From what I have read, there is no native support on Lion for the HD4000 or the Ivy Bridge, but did come across the Ivy Bridge guide here but no success.
I've created the USB (32GB) boot drive as per the Unibeast guide. I've also applied Bridgehelper 5.0 as per the Ivy bridge guide. The first problem I ran into was that I could not get the USB drive to get past the initial boot screen. Using the -v flag reviled that it was hanging on the NVDIA graphics card. This was solved by using the GraphicsEnabler=no & PCIRootUID=0 flags.
After getting past the first issue, I ran into a second issue. The loader start, but would hang at "Still waiting for root device" the message would appear several times. I was able to get past this point by adding the cpus=1 flag.
This is what the entire boot flag looks like:
GraphicsEnabler=no cpus=1 PCIRootUID=0 -v
I am now at a roadblock where it hangs at "DSMOS has arrived" well, it actually gets past this point and it spews out the following line:
AtherosL1cEthernet: Ethernet address e9:32:f5:ac:df:99
This is where it hangs. I've let it sit for about an hour but doesn't get past this point.
I did some reading on the forums and someone suggested recreating the USB boot drive. I did recreate it (using another USB drive) followed the procedures but still arrived at the same road block!
See the attached screenshot
One thing that I see that causes concern is this line:
WARNING: IOPlatformPluginUtil : getCPUIDInfo: this is an unknown CPU model 0x3a
Could this be causing my issues? If so, anyone have any suggestions?
I am not too concerned about the GT 650M video card, it uses the NVIDIA Optimus which from what I understand it is different from the auto switching technology Apple uses in there laptops. If I can just get OSX loaded and working with the HD4000, I'll be happy. I really don't care if the wireless works because I will buy a USB WIFI card that works.
Thanks in advance!
Intel i7 3610QM
HD4000 Graphics
NVDIA GT650M
6GB Memory
750GB HD
I have had great success with all the great guides and support forums on this site, however, this laptop is a bit of a challenge. From what I have read, there is no native support on Lion for the HD4000 or the Ivy Bridge, but did come across the Ivy Bridge guide here but no success.
I've created the USB (32GB) boot drive as per the Unibeast guide. I've also applied Bridgehelper 5.0 as per the Ivy bridge guide. The first problem I ran into was that I could not get the USB drive to get past the initial boot screen. Using the -v flag reviled that it was hanging on the NVDIA graphics card. This was solved by using the GraphicsEnabler=no & PCIRootUID=0 flags.
After getting past the first issue, I ran into a second issue. The loader start, but would hang at "Still waiting for root device" the message would appear several times. I was able to get past this point by adding the cpus=1 flag.
This is what the entire boot flag looks like:
GraphicsEnabler=no cpus=1 PCIRootUID=0 -v
I am now at a roadblock where it hangs at "DSMOS has arrived" well, it actually gets past this point and it spews out the following line:
AtherosL1cEthernet: Ethernet address e9:32:f5:ac:df:99
This is where it hangs. I've let it sit for about an hour but doesn't get past this point.
I did some reading on the forums and someone suggested recreating the USB boot drive. I did recreate it (using another USB drive) followed the procedures but still arrived at the same road block!
See the attached screenshot
One thing that I see that causes concern is this line:
WARNING: IOPlatformPluginUtil : getCPUIDInfo: this is an unknown CPU model 0x3a
Could this be causing my issues? If so, anyone have any suggestions?
I am not too concerned about the GT 650M video card, it uses the NVIDIA Optimus which from what I understand it is different from the auto switching technology Apple uses in there laptops. If I can just get OSX loaded and working with the HD4000, I'll be happy. I really don't care if the wireless works because I will buy a USB WIFI card that works.
Thanks in advance!