hackintosh_noob Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi all. I own a Mac Pro and would dearly love to own a MB too but finances don't allow at the moment. Thoughts have therefore turned to trying to get MacOS running on an old Acer Travelmate 800 series (803LMi to be precise - Centrino 1.6Ghz, 1.5Gb RAM, Radeon mobility 9000 gfx, Broadcom 4400 Ethernet, Intel 2200 b/g wireless). I have had some success with Kalyway 10.5.2, can get the OS installed and it runs but many of the standard built in apps crash including iCal and Address Book. I have therefore hunted around to find something a bit newer and come across iPC 10.5.6. iPC installs OK but on reboot the machine hangs after lines: MAC Framework successfully initialized using 6553 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers There doesn't appear to be any errors above this. I managed to upgrade the kernel on Kalyway to 9.5.0 voodoo and this brought a little more stability, but not stable enough to call working. I am a complete noob when it comes to the OSx86 scene and have only spent about a week trawling the boards trying to understand how all these bits fit together. I can't believe it is impossible to get OSX running on this machine as Kalyway installs and runs and iPC installs too. Apologies if I don't have much of a clue what people are telling me, I am learning about the innards of OSX and know my way quite well around Linux (to sysadmin level). Can anyone suggest what might be wrong and how I should go about fixing it? Many thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146131-post-install-problems-on-tm800-series/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintosh_noob Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Further to my last, if I boot from the iPC install disk and add the following boot options "-v rd=disk0s2", MacOS runs and initial investigations show built in apps appear mostly stable - iCal, AddressBook and iTunes anyway. Some drivers are missing - no mouse options in Prefs and resolution is limited to 1024x768 etc but I guess that is to be expected. Surely I am on the cusp of getting this thing running properly aren't I? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146131-post-install-problems-on-tm800-series/#findComment-1036474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintosh_noob Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Bump!! Anyone? The forum seems quite busy but does no one have any ideas where to start? For what its worth, I am not sure this is particularly TM800 related. Clearly there are some issues with drivers and I am happy to try and sort these myself if someone can tell me how to start stripping out the bits which aren't working enough to get the machine to boot. I am currently typing this on the machine in question having successfully booted using the iPC installation disk so I am absolutely convinced that OSX will run on this machine - sure, drivers might be missing but I can address this once the machine is booting OK. Any thoughts anyone can contribute would be much appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146131-post-install-problems-on-tm800-series/#findComment-1037053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
don123 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I have the same issue on a i855/SSE2 Gateway laptop. I've determined the next line in the boot order should be the ACPI state so it stands to reason (maybe?) the ACPI driver needs an update. Stay tuned I'll post more if I sort this out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146131-post-install-problems-on-tm800-series/#findComment-1064655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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