Problem with retail on atom

[canuda10]

Hello,

I expose my problem here:

I have dumped the 10.5.6 retail image to a 8 GB usb stick, where I have installed then chameleon 2 rc1, as well as Disabler.kext and AppleDecrypt.ketx, nothing more.

The mainboard is the old intel 945gclf, with the single core atom (which worked wonderfully before, with kalyway).

It boots without problems and I can do the complete install (of course I get at the end the error saying it cannot be made bootable).

After the reboot, it boots from the usb stick, I select then the hard disks, and starts to boot normally, but when the moment arrives to show the login screen (well, the welcome screen as it is a fresh installation), all I get is a grey screen with the mouse cursor, which can be moved freely, but nothing more happens. I've let it like that for some time (a couple hours) but nothing happens.

I've tried to boot with -f, -x, -v, but it's always the same, and I can't see any kind of strange error message.

 

Has anyone experience instaling retail this way to this or some similar board? Is some other extension needed? (that would be strange, as the installation runs perfectly)

[Mark VdB]

I was able to get the system to load successfully on Vostro 1500, and all but system sleep works. I used a USB drive with iPC 1.5.6 loaded, used the Chameleon 2 RC1 to boot, and was able to get screen working after using the .kexts from Dell download 1.3.1. The later versions didn't work. Now although I can get the screen to work up to 1600x1000 without issue, the CI/QE doesn't work. Better to have screen than no screen, but QE would be nice.

 

When you format your drive, make a time machine partition, it will allow you to experiment with different configurations.

 

One thing I noticed was that in all of the forums I read to get this thing working there was a lot of flailing but little effort to systematically collect information as to what combinations worked and for what make/model of intel chipsets. x02a02 x0000 is the version of the GMA x3100 my system uses and Dell Bios version 6.

 

Delete all other video card kexts, GMA950, all GMAX3100, all NVidia, all ATI. The only 3 video kexts you should have in the /System/Library/Extensions is AppleIntelGMAX3100, AppleIntelGMAX3100FB, and Natit. After I got these loaded, I enabled the Sleep Corners in Expose' and finally repaired permissions. Rebooted and -f on start-up to get going. Screen went blue then black, I moused to corner, and up came the image. It took me three weeks to make it work with experimenting and trial and error. I did reinstall the other two x3100 files to see what the impact would be but they shut down the monitor when reinstalled. Delete them and the screen comes back.

 

So we still need to figure out which kexts for which x3100 card, why we need the sleep trick, and what files allow for CI/QE.