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Simple Troubleshooting guide: At times  after installation , your system may not work properly as in > it may restart, not boot at all or hang at a certain point. These are quite normal and there are some steps to be taken in these cases. It varies from one case to another. This basic troubleshooting guide may help you to solve most of the common problems. - If you're facing hangs, freezes or kernel panics (which is present as a shutdown symbol on the grey screen just after boot) type "-v" (without quotes) at the boot promt and press enter. This would give you verbose output which is useful for the solution. You can take a photo of the verbose screen at the point of freeze and post it on our forum or on other OSX86 development platforms to get help. - To pass the freeze/hang or kernel panic, you may try boot with "-x -v" (without quotes) which boots the computer in safe mode. Then you may have the chance to reach up to OS X GUI to solve your problem. - White,...

Multiboot: iATKOS ML2 has no integrated procedure for multibooting but preparing a multiboot GPT or MBR system with this release is easy. Here is a ''How To'' for GPT and MBR triple boot including Mac-Win-Linux. iATKOS ML2, Debian GNU/Linux DVD and Windows7 DVD installers are used in this example. - MBR (Master Boot Record) triple boot - - Nearly all PC's work on MBR partitioned harddisks. Check it with Disk Utility and if so do no touch it. If it is GPT then you need to repartition your harddisk that will cause to loose all the data in it. Click to partitioning options, select MBR and do the partitioning. - Create 3 or more partitions by using iATKOS Disk Utility or Parted Magic Live CD. Mac OS Extended Journaled (HFS+) format for OS X target, MS-DOS (Fat32) for the others. OS targets must be one of the first 3 partitions creating with Disk Utility. - Add boot flag to Windows or Linux target and install the operating systems in any order you like. For windows, make...

Software RAID: Information: - Software RAID combines two or more physical harddisks or their partitions (RAID slices) into a single logical unit. RAID's various designs involve two key design goals: increase data reliability and/or increase input/output performance. - You can create RAID volumes and install Lion on RAID using iATKOS ML2. - RAID levels or types for OS X: Striped RAID (RAID-0):  A RAID-0 set splits data evenly across multiple disks with no parity information for redundancy. RAID0 is normally used to increase performance for both read and write. It can also be used as a way to create a small number of large virtual disks out of a large number of small physical ones. Simply it is a way to use the disks like using the dual or more channel RAMs, so it increases the read and write performance more than a bit. RAID0 sets are advised for the main system volumes to increase the performance of the OS. Mirrored RAID (RAID-1):  A RAID-1 set creates an exact copy of a set o...

Before Installation: - BIOS settings: - Set your BIOS to its default settings. - Execute Disable bit: Enabled - XD (if exists): Enabled - Limit CPUID Max: Disabled - Set all cores of the CPU active/enabled. - Virtualization (if exists): Enabled or Disabled, try it. - Hyper-threading: Enabled or Disabled, try it. - HPET (High Precision Event Timer/PCH): Enabled - SATA Mode: AHCI - Set all the Overclock/Performance/Turbo etc. values to Auto. - Set the UEFI mode settings (if exists) to compatible mode - Preparing a Target for installation: - A target partition or disk will be needed for installation. -  If you are not an advanced user , I advice you to use a clean harddisk with no personal data/OS as for target and unplug all the other harddisk drives connected to your motherboard just to be safe. -  If you are not an advanced user  and if your target disk includes personal data and/or any OS, I advice you to  backup your data before anything. -  Parted Magic ...

  Here is the solution for non-working ALC888 onboard sound chip: Install this package which includes Toleda's ALC888 AppleHDA legacy version. It will do all the needed operations, just install it after installing iATKOS ML2 for your failed ALC888.

It means that: - You may have a faulty dmg file >>> check md5 if it is correct or not. if so download the iATKOS ML2 again. - You may have a faulty burn/DVD-Blu-Ray/read. This may be due to your faulty DVD/Blu-Ray drive or low quality DVD/Blu-Ray >> Burn at the lowest speed. You may have to burn it on another computer. - "Install Failed" error may be faced on some laptop computers due to overheating of the cpu >> Place the laptop in a refrigrator or a deep freezer during install 

Main System Updates: Using software updater to apply main system updates is easier with iATKOS ML2 for most computers. Some drivers and patches will be overwritten and some will be non-functional, so computers that need these drivers and patches will need to take some actions after updating. These packages are: - SSD Trim support:  You will have to reinstall /Library/Temp/IOAHCIFamilyTrim.kext after updating. - Sound:  Delete /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext after updating before first reboot, otherwise you may face kernel panic. - nVidia's 10.8.2 drivers:  They will be overwritten after the update. If you need nVidia's drivers then download them from nvidia.com (if exists for your new updated system) and install after update before reboot, or do not update your system until nvidia releases drivers for the new 10.8 update. - OpenCL RAM 2GB+ patch:  This patch may be non-functional after update. You will have to wait/follow OSX86 world for the patch for the ne...

Customize: - This is the most important part of the installation. - There is already a basic default profile chosen and adding 2 or 3 packages to default profile will probably be enough for most computers. - You may have to try plenty of times to find the best configuration for your computer if you don't have enough experience on target hardware, so don't come to the forum complaining like "I installed 3 times but it still does not work..". - Please read the descriptions of the packages carefully. Here are the common and important ones for customizing your installation: Bootloader Options - Graphics Enabler:  This should be selected for most VGA cards except for some newer models like nVidia Kepler GTX 6xx series, some ATI 6xxx/5xxx series gpus. Booting with additional "ATIConfig=xx" command may let some of these ATI cards work with GraphicsEnabler. "xx" is the ATI framebuffer name for target model (search it on google).  - Kernel Cache:  This flag...