ergosteur Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Just had a bit of an adventure installing OSX on this laptop, thought I'd share in case anyone else is interested. Also, sorry, but this is copy-pasted from my blog, so links are missing. I'll fix them eventually, but meanwhile see here for the kexts Obtain the excellent iATKOS 7 DVD ISO. Burn to disc. Boot from the install DVD. (You may have to use an external VGA monitor to prevent the “Blue screen”) Use the Disk Utility to format the drive as a single large HFSJ partition, using the MBR partition table. (I use a partition label without spaces because of some past experiences.) Install; select appropriate drivers. Don’t reboot at the end of the installation. None of the audio or video drivers work, so uncheck all of them. VoodooPS2 with trackpad plugin works great Intel ICH IDE driver? Cardbus driver causes kernel panic, so UNCHECK that one Voodoo kernel 9.5.0 is necessary, as this machine only has SSE2 (Intel Pentium M 715) I selected the Broadcom wifi driver for a Dell 1370 MiniPCI card; my laptop originally came with an Atheros AR5005G. (The AR5005G works with Leopard, however last I checked it needed to use the old kext from Tiger, which breaks WPA support) [*]Now comes the fun part. Download the GMA900 Leopard kext package. (source) Extract it and put the kexts on a FAT32 or FAT formatted USB drive. [*]Plug the USB drive into the Aspire. Reboot; at the chameleon boot menu press any key to bring up the boot flags prompt (at the bottom of the screen), then type -x -s -v to enter single-user, safe mode with verbose boot. [*]You will see a lot of scrolling text. Finally it will drop to a shell prompt with instructions about fsck and mount -uw. Do as it says. [*]cd to /Volumes. mkdir usbdrive. [*]mount -t msdos /dev/diskXsY /Volumes/usbdrive, where X and Y are the disk and partition numbers of your usb drive, respectively. This may require some trial-and-error, but getting the wrong one won’t harm your system in any way, it will just display an error message. [*]Once you have the drive mounted, cp -Rv /Volumes/usbdrive/*.kext /System/Library/Extensions. Then cd to /System/Library/Extensions and make sure the two new kexts are owned by root:wheel. [*]reboot. The system should now boot with QE+CI! [*]Once you’re at the desktop, you should now install the AC97Audio.pkg and (optionally) the fixed version of VoodooPS2Controller.kext that gives you back the ~ key. I also recommend the VoodooPower.kext from superhai to allow SpeedStep to work. And that should be it! Note that I am writing this guide from memory, so I may have missed a few steps. DO NOT upgrade to Safari 4 on this machine, it causes kernel panics. Also, I have NOT tested the 10.5.8 update, so YMMV there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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