Install Lion On Lenovo Laptop Without Snow Leopard Using Unibeast

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• Still can’t UniBeast to install. The best I’ve got so far is a screen where it look like the screen has been stretched 8 times the size of the laptop screen!

  When you say “download Multibeast 4.2.1 and put inside idoglionunibeast folder then put idoglionunibeast folder inside Unibeast Lion USB flash drive” do you mean to take the *contents* of the idoglionunibeast and put it in the root of the UniBeast drive or do you mean to simply copy the entire folder to the root?

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  • Yes, I had the same problem, look at the picture of my screen. You need to plug the usb to the correct port, there are 4 ports, so keep doing it until you find the one that gives you the correct resolution. Download multibeast and all the important files to a folder (idoglionunibeast) and copy and paste (or drag) this folder to the USB unibeastlion (yes, simply copy the entire folder to the root or the empty space left in the 8GB usb. I’ll put some more pictures on this page, but if you can see the screen like the pictures I posted, you’re almost there… It’s extremly easy after this resolution part. You can guess and click and drag the missing part of the screen to load the unibeastlion.

  • Thanks!! Only saw your reply now, but I made some progress this morning. I reverted back to UniBeast 1.0.0 and copied the idoglionunibeast folder to the root directory of the UniBeast USB. For good measure I also copied the dsdt.aml file to both the USB root and the Extras folder! Using:
    GraphicEnabler=yes PCIRooTUID-0 -v npci=0x2000
    at the command prompt I finally got to the screen that can be seen at 4:33 of your YouTube video: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYl_j6MoY-0

    It did not seem to respond to the built-in keyboard or mousepad and plugging in an external keyboard caused a kernal panic.

    I’ll try what you suggested above and will report back on my progress in case anyone else is having similar problems.

  • at the keyboard and mouse detection, just hit space bar and it should move from keyboard to mouse, hit another space bar and it should work. The reason it doesn’t respond to the internal keyboard or mouse is because you may not have the Apple kexts for keyboard and mouse in the Extra folder. Check it. I’m glad you made it and thanks for the tip. I’ll try it tonight to see if it solves the resolution problem with GraphicEnabler=yes .

  • I had a *facepalm* moment this morning! I took what you said about trying the different usb ports. With the UniBeast 1.0.0 usb stick (as modded in my reply above) connected to usb port 4 (the usb port to the right of the keyboard) the UniBeast installer boots perfectly using just the parameter -v (I haven’t actually tried any other parameters from Port 4 because it worked first time). Internal keyboard and mouse worked perfectly and I was able to install after pressing the spacebar.

    Now I have a different problem! Booting Lion with the idogusbboot usb stick, it hangs at IOUserEthernetController when using the parameter -v (note that I have lion installed on an external hard drive). I’m going to try connecting it to the different usb ports to see if it’s the same problem as with UniBeast.

  • Tom, you can’t boot with the idogusbboot until you install multibeast because idogusbboot has the ethernetkexts and io in the Extra folder. Boot with unibeastlion then install Multibeast. You don’t need idogusbboot at all. Just boot with USB unibeastlion – click tab, select the external usb and boot from it. Now, you need external usb keyboard/mouse to clear the stupid wireless detection. Install multibeast 4.2.1 and select correct options, copy extra folder, install kexts and you’re done for the external. Congrats

  • I’m getting closer! I used UniBeast to boot Lion using -v (note that using -x -v results in endless “Still waiting for root device” messages). I can get to the wireless mouse/trackpad detection screen, but when I plug in a usb keyboard or mouse I get the following kernal panic:
    panic (cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80005dfb2a): “IOUSBDevice::_RESERVEDIOUSBDevice13 called.”@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/libkern/c++/OSMetaClass.cpp:907

  • Possibly more useful info from the kernel panic:
    Kernel Extension in backtrace:
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite(4.58)[8039…..
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(9.9.9)[53C9….

  • Did you modify the Extra folder in UNIBEASTLION USB? I never had this problem before, ever. When you finished installation, you should be home free already. Trace back, don’t modify anything in the unibeastlion usb drive. Unless your usb chips are different from mine. Either way, it should work. Remember this, the Extra folder with all the extensions in the UNIBEASTLION are there for you to boot correctly into the new installed Lion partition. Check my video to make sure all the extensions (kexts) in the Extra folder are the same. The org.chameleon.com.plist is important too, do not change anything.

  • By simply copying the idoglionunibeast folder to the root of the unibeast drive, I’m unable to reach the wireless mouse detection screen. I had to copy your dsdt.aml file to the Extra folder of the UniBeast drive to get it to install initally. I’ll try removing it to see if Lion will then behave correctly.

  • Success!! From Snow Leopard 10.6.3 I wiped UniBeast 1.0.0 and installed UniBeast 1.1.0 to the usb stick. I copied over your idoglionunibeast folder and copied the dsdt.aml from it to the Extra folder of UniBeast. With UniBeast plugged into USB Port 4 and the external HDD in USB Port 1, I was able to get to the mouse/keyboard detection screen with the boot parameter -v. I then inserted the wired mouse into USB Port 2 followed by removing the UniBeast drive and inserting the external keyboard into Port 4 (I could not be detected on the USB 3.0 Port 3). No kernel panics this time when inserting the keyboard or mouse. Lion then booted successfully. Now for the rest of the install! Many thanks!

  • Congrats, are you installing Lion over SL? Make sure you updates 10.7.3 straight, install all software and kexts, make sure everything works, boot straight from external (using F12), use it, then restore it to the hard drive.

  • I only installed SL 10.6.3 to be able to create the UniBeast USB key! I installed Lion on an external hard drive. Once I got MulitBeast installed and all the mods you suggest in your video done, I used UniBeast to restore the Lion partition to an empty partition I created on the internal HDD. I then managed to get dual working by using EasyBCD. I had to assign a letter to the MBR partition using disk management in Windows 7 so that EasyBCD could access the BCD file. Adding an entry under the Mac tab using MBR mode instead of EFI mode enabled dual-boot successfully!

  • I couldn’t get mine to work with easybcd, I didn’t know about assigning letter to the MBR partition. It’s great that you can use EasyBCD, is the Lion working now? Facetime works? It’s a great machine for little money. Cheers.

  • Facetime appears to work – at the very least I can see myself in it!

    Some helpful info for EasyBCD – while trying to modify the MBR with EasyBCD a second time I messed it up by hitting “Install BCD” under “Create Bootable External Media” instead of “Write MBR” under “MBR Configuration Options”. This made the hard drive unbootable! I fixed this with a Windows 7 install disc I had for another computer by booting into safe mode and using the automatic repair options. After the repair though, EasyBCD was unable to make changes to the BCD file on the MBR partition as it was locked by SYSTEM.

    To get around this I ran a command prompt as administrator (Start->Run->cmd – right click on cmd.exe and choose “Run as Administrator”). I ran “bcdedit /export test.bcd”, which created test.bcd in the current directory. I then opened this file with EasyBCD, made the addition for Lion, then saved by hitting “Write MBR”. I then restored the BCD file in the command prompt with the command “bcdedit /import test.bcd”. These steps would be necessary if EasyBCD reports that the BCD file is locked when it starts up.

    Hope this helps!

• Thanks for you awesome tutorials! I got my G770 up and running on 10.7.3. I was wondering if you have run into any battery drain issues? My laptop will use the battery incredibly fast when using it on the battery alone. Thanks!

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  • Josh, thanks for your nice comments, my battery is going out also, it only last less than an hour now. The best is to slide the brightness to the low level to save battery on the Lion 10.7.3.

    Cheers,

• iDog,

  I used UnitBeast to create a USB Lion (10.7.4) Install, however after Unibeast creation via S.L. the root directory of my USB only had the Lion Install package and a few other directories. It did not appear to have nearly as many directories as yours did in at the end of the UniBeast creation video. (BTW. I used UniBeast 1.1.0)

  Since I tried the above a few times and kept getting the same few files/dirs on the Unibeast USB, I decided to give the USB drive a try anyway. What happened was that I was able to boot off the USB (though the UnitBeast GUI looked a little weird like it was mirroring/overlapping itself). I did not see any command line but when I press a key I got a “boot:” prompt in the center of the UniBeast GUI window. So I entered -x and hit enter. While I tried several times with different external drives, each time I would use the -x boot param I would get an Apple logo screen for a while and then a small icon with a circle and a slash thru it. However, if I did not enter the -x boot param I would get to the beginning of the Lion instal where is asks for country. (I aborted and rebooted at that point since I assume that would have tried to install to the internal drive).

  So I guess my questions are:
  1) Is the lack of files on the USB normal or did I mess up the UniBeast creation? (I did add the dogmonkey w/Multibeast files afterwards into the root directory… BTW, should they be right in the root or in a directory in the root)
  2) Am I supposed to get a Unibeast GUI at boot or a simple boot command line?
  3) Did I miss some step in prepping the external drive since I get the circle (with a slash thru it)… I did not do anything special to the external drive at all. One poster mentioned somethig about making the external GUID… I jsut saw that and I am wondering if maybe that is the step I missed?

  Sorry for all the noob questions, but I’m kinda confused on where I went wrong.

  On the plus side, I did locate the right USB port to get the full and correct resolution (score one for the total noob :)) although I’m not sure why the boot UniBeast GUI seems all mirrored/tiled looking.

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  • Did you put the Lion apps in the applications folder of the SL? There must be something different about lion apps 10.7 and lion 10.7.4. Why don’t you try the myhack 3.1 to create the lion usb boot. BTW, always use an external USB drive and make it work before restoring it to the internal hard drive.

  • iDog,

    Thanks for the reply.

    I read your recent post regarding Lion 10.7.4 and it looks like that version is a no go for now. I did get further into the process but without wifi it’s kinda of a pointless for me to continue trying with that version.

    On another note, a few weeks ago (back when I was considering going with Snow Leopard), I recall seeing that someone had listed a thumbdrive (full retail version) of Lion 10.7.3 for sale (on CL, IIRC) and I was wondering if the Unibeast process can be done with a full version or if it has to be a MacStore app? If so, are there any additional steps required to go that route?

  • Hello Eh,
    Lion Apps is also a full version, the thumb drive is just for you to boot easily, but not for hackintosh anyhow as I understand. All you need is the InstallESD.dmg out of the Lion Apps to boot with MyHack 3.1 instead of Unibeast (requires Lion Apps).