jlb0305 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Forgive me I'm a noob at the osx86 mod. I have an Acer Aspire ONE AOA110. I upped the HDD to a 60GB with a 34 GB (20 GB for XP and 1 GB for Bootloader) partition I plan on putting OS X on. I have a retail OS X DVD and external DVD drive. Downloaded kabyl bumby ISO and burned it onto a cd. Boot it up, put the do the DVD switch and goes to the apple logo for about 2 seconds then black screen (screen off). Tried booting with -v, -f. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to modify the initrd.img or what? I tried modding the initrd.img and got a "checksum error unable to boot" on the cd version and on my mac trying to make the boot USB drive it has a problem (Forget the error). If I have to mod the initrd.img, what type of kexts do i put in? Or just all of them for my computer? Is my problem possible due to me partitioning the drive with windows first (made the 3 partitions with windows but only formatted 2 of them both with FAT and loaded windows on 1st partition) thanx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177896-aspire-one-issue/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Hi When you hit the boot screen, type cpus=1 The vanilla kernel doesn't seem to support the aspire ones hyperthreading. If its that, install the voodoo kernel or speedstep kernel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177896-aspire-one-issue/#findComment-1215881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlb0305 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 Tried the "cpus=1" with no luck. Also noticed "System config file '/com.apple.boot.S/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found" flashes quick before the "boot:" prompt. It says to view advanced boot options type "?" but typing "?" does nothing. Can I switch the kernel and make a custom boot 132? Could it be that I made the partitions with windows and there is a windows MBR on there right now? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177896-aspire-one-issue/#findComment-1215946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlb0305 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 Ok I wiped the drive and now it boots with CPUS=1... however now it goes past the grey apple screen and sits at the star screen with a spinning beach ball/ wheel... what did I do wrong? (Note: Can still move it with the mouse) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177896-aspire-one-issue/#findComment-1216111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 The Star screen? Firstly, did you follow the tutorial on how to do it ? Theres plenty of them about, but I also noticed you said you're using an A110, did you use OS X Extended (Journaled). Journaled File Systems don't do SSD's very well (at least in my experience) and therefore i'd recommend using a file system that doesn't use journaling... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177896-aspire-one-issue/#findComment-1216286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlb0305 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 I followed the instructions for using the generic boot and retail DVD but it was not aspire specific. The star screen is right after the grey apple logo. Actually this isn't technically a A110 anymore... i replaced the SSD with a 60GB HDD and upped ram to 1.5GB. That sped up windows 10 fold. Only install instructions for the Aspire one i find rely mostly on non-retail installs (several gig installs from torrent sites) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177896-aspire-one-issue/#findComment-1216331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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