Gateway CX2610

[verbul]

OK so i've tried a leopard retail disc with pirate EFI, and rEFIt. Pirate has acpi kernal panic. And rEFIt hangs at flashing cursor and does nothing. Started with hazard 10.6.6 and realized snow leo probably isnt gonna work on the laptop i want to use. tried Kalyway 10.5.2 multiple kernel panics. So i tried Ideneb 1.3, with speedstep kernel, gma950 under video, and with kexthelper. goes through install great, says successful, and reboots. I get the apple logo with the spinner for a few seconds.....then bluescreen.

 

I have searched these and other forums for a week now, tried external monitors, and the paperclip. othe kernels, and other combinations of all of the above. the mercurysquad and andy fixes i cant try because i can get into leopard to change any kexts. any ideas?

 

using this:

 

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gatewa...0/5374sp3.shtml

[BenGman]

Did you try booting with verbose feedback and safe mode (-v -x) to check what is causing the blue screens?

 

I have a Gateway M280 Tablet that I thought might never get Mac OS X on.. so I am wishing you success to give me hope.

 

Have you looked at this http://gsbd41316.wordpress.com/ ?

[verbul]

Tried the paperclip trick first, along with external monitor. even forced with "graphics mode"="1024x768@60" it did not work. figured out how to delete kexts with -s and some commands, so i tried the delete buffer trick, it didnt work either. there are a few other things i would like to try. Is there a command from -s to add kexts from a flash drive? And which kexts would someone recommend for this laptop? The install said it went fine, and it boots from the HDD, it seems to just not have the correct video kexts. I made a homebuilt win 7 box and it had a similar issue, the boot screen would roll and flicker on my TV until it actualy loaded windows. I'm guessing this is the reverse.

 

sorry about the bad pics, if i went out any further, you couldnt read them

[BenGman]

Your CX2610 is GMA915 (900) and not GMA950/945

 

 

 

 

 

I just installed iATKOS S3 V2 on my Gateway C-14* / E295 Series tablet (still some small issues to work out) but I find the iATKOS disc gives easy options to install.

 

Today I will try this disk on my Gateway M280 tablet.

[verbul]

yea, i tried it with and without 950 drivers. without drivers it goes blue, with drivers i got the endless apple icon screen. But i did figure out that if i used -x i got back into the install disc and could use terminal and try to mount a usb

 

http://osx86.co/f5/how-to-install-kext-fro...stick-in-t1890/

 

to switch video kexts with these:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1004281

 

but if i read the error correctly it says that my 8G flash drive is to large to mount.

 

So now i'm downloading the iatkos version, might as well try this version too. Which options did you use for the install?

[verbul]

Ok tried Iatkos, and macdotnub. Only ideneb seems to go through to a complete install. found a smaller usb drive, gonna try to mount that and hopefuly make some fixes.

 

ok so my new snag is with copying kexts from a flashdrive. first when i creat a drive i get that disk1s3 is write protected. if i read my google right, its trying to mkdir on the install cd? But then it tells me that /volumes/usbstick allready exists. ok onto mounting part, try to mount /usbstick, i get: can't add repository (not a directory). then when i try to copy it tells me that /volumes/usbstick/elliotappleintelgma950legacyenabler.kext: no such file or directory. Also when typing msdos in the mount -t command, i get mount_msdos: msdos filesystem is not available

 

So:

 

1: it didnt create /usbstick?

2: cant mount what doesnt exist, with a filesystem that doesnt exist?

3: it cant find, what isnt on, what doesnt exist, with a filesystem that doesnt exist.

 

this is what i typed (omitting aforementioned errors)

 

/sbin/mount -uw /

mkdir /Volumes/usbstick

ls /dev/disk*

(then plugged in usb stick)

ls /dev/disk*

(noted new entries: /dev/disk2 & /dev/disk2s1)

mount -t msdos /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usbstick

cp -r /Volumes/usbstick/ElliotAppleIntelGMA950LegacyEnabler.kext /Volumes/OSX/System/Library/Extensions/

ElliotAppleIntelGMA950LegacyEnabler.kext

[verbul]

ok, so if you eject the install disc, it clears all errors with the mounting and copying. Next i booted back in with my install disc using -x, and repaired permissions on my hdd (osx), then rebooted from hard drive. And......

 

that gave me a 2 sec bluescreen then onto.........

 

a bluescreen, and a catchy little tune. with external monitor saying frequency out of range

 

So i rebooted again using : "graphics mode"="1027x768@32"

with same result.

 

making progress, any ideas now?

 

here is the last few lines before it goes blue from -v