can't boot from 1015PE HD but can from DVD

[N00b_un_2]

I have successfully installed iATKOS S2 V3 (Snow Leopard 10.6.3) on my Asus EEE PC 1015PE. It took several attempts, but I finally got it installed and has working keyboard, mouse, VGA graphics and sound. That's about it.

Regardless of which boot loader I choose at install (chameleon, PC-EFI, AnVAL, and the whatever the default one is) I can not get it to boot from the hard drive. However, if I have the iATKOS disk in the drive at boot, press F8 and then select the partition with OSX installed on it I can boot without any problems. Obviously, since this is a netbook needing to boot from DVD is less than optimal.

if anyone has successfully installed osx on their 1015PE please let me know what the trick to booting from the HD is.

[Iamcushman]

I have successfully installed iATKOS S2 V3 (Snow Leopard 10.6.3) on my Asus EEE PC 1015PE. It took several attempts, but I finally got it installed and has working keyboard, mouse, VGA graphics and sound. That's about it.

Regardless of which boot loader I choose at install (chameleon, PC-EFI, AnVAL, and the whatever the default one is) I can not get it to boot from the hard drive. However, if I have the iATKOS disk in the drive at boot, press F8 and then select the partition with OSX installed on it I can boot without any problems. Obviously, since this is a netbook needing to boot from DVD is less than optimal.

if anyone has successfully installed osx on their 1015PE please let me know what the trick to booting from the HD is.

 

I just installed Tiger 10.4.6, but i'm pretty sure it could work the same.

1.Boot into osx with the dvd (i was doing this before i learned about this trick lol )

2.Once your screen is up go to the terminal

now follow this link............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFirQxxwfD8

 

 

3.do what he does. if fdisk says "there is no such directory"......type /dev/rdisk"your number" instead of /dev/disk"your number"

4.All the rest works okay.

[N00b_un_2]

I just installed Tiger 10.4.6, but i'm pretty sure it could work the same.

1.Boot into osx with the dvd (i was doing this before i learned about this trick lol )

2.Once your screen is up go to the terminal

now follow this link............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFirQxxwfD8

 

 

3.do what he does. if fdisk says "there is no such directory"......type /dev/rdisk"your number" instead of /dev/disk"your number"

4.All the rest works okay.

 

followed the instructions in the video. boot flags have no effect. What happens when I try to boot without the DVD is the apple screen will appear, but the spinner never does. if I boot with -v, it takes longer and seems to load more drivers, but then at the point when it should change resolution in verbose mode the screen goes black and the system becomes unresponsive... have noticed that when I boot from DVD it pops up with a message about EFI injection right before it goes to apple screen. Maybe something to do with DSDT?

[N00b_un_2]

OMG after like a week of beating my head against the wall over this one I finally have it properly booting. Apparently all I needed to do was pass the argument 'arch=i386' at boot for some reason. the problem I ran into was that the fact that despite selecting /Extra folder at install, there was no /extra folder and therefor my com.apple.boot.plist was missing. I downloaded the NetBookInstaller for Snow Leopard from http://osx.mechdrew.com/ and then selected ONLY install the bootloader. After rebooting, resolution was fixed and my /Extra folder was there along with the missing com.apple.boot.plist. Then I brought up the terminal and added the string

arch=i386

in the empty <string></string> below the kernel flags key. after that the computer booted as normal!!! Fixed resolution to 1024x600. Now I just need to sort out the wifi and ethernet and I'll be in business

[Iamcushman]

Way to go! sry I couldnt help so much.

oh yeah.....do you have any idea how I can get my wifi cards to work? this is my post i have here on Insanelymac:

 

Alright so heres the deal. I have installed Osx Tiger on my laptop and I have been using linux for my previous os. Have been using my card slot and Belkin f5d7011 and Airlink PCMCIA cards for my wifi. LOVE MAC. But i cannot find any ktexts anywhere for my slot to work. would love to get this going. For the moment i am using puppy linux on another partition so I can get online.

[N00b_un_2]

Everything works now! step by step here is what I did. I installed iATKOS S3 v2 (Snow Leopard 10.6.3) leaving the default settings as they were except for selecting 'Atom Kernel' and the 'ApplePS2' option in the driver section.

I was actually able to get the computer to boot without the DVD at this point by typing

cpus=1 arch=i386 -v -f

at the bootloader (hit F8 and then tab to get to the CLI). The computer booted into safe mode. I had to plug in a usb mouse because the track pad did not work in safe mode. setup my account and rebooted.

 

*** In retrospect I'm willing to bet that just passing the argument 'arch=i386' would have done the trick, but hey... it worked.

 

Booted once again this time only passing

arch=i386

to the bootloader and the computer booted up just fine.

Then I installed meklort's Netbook Installer for Snow Leopard, selecting ONLY the chameleon bootloader. Then I rebooted. The reason for this step is that the netbook installer will fix the resolution to 1024x600 (no QE though...) AND because in order to prevent needing to type 'arch=i386' at boot, I needed to modify the com.apple.boot.plist which was missing from my install initially. The netbook installer fixes that problem as well.

 

*** another thought is that possibly selecting '32 bit' under the bootloader options could possibly fix the arch=i386 issue.

 

after installing the netbook installer, I reboot the computer once again. now the /Extra folder was there and the com.apple.boot.plist was too.

open a terminal and and type

sudo -s

Now that you are logged in as root

nano

and then click and drag com.apple.boot.plist to the terminal window (I didn't really look for the explicit path to the file, drag and drop works just fine... So I'm a lazy hacker)

in the empty <string> just below the <key>kernel flags (or something to that effect) type arch=i386 and then hit ctrl+o to save. close the terminal and reboot again. The computer should boot on its own now!

 

Now to tackle wifi. just google for two files -- WIFI_AR9285 and kextutility. make sure you get kext utility that is Snow Leopard compatible.

 

once you've downloaded these files, copy them to your hackintosh and then delete the file

/system/library/extensions/IO80211.kext (or whatever its called, something to that effect...) and copy the new IO80211.kext from the WIFI_AR9285 zip to /system/library/extensions. Make sure you delete the old one first and don't just copy the new one over.

 

Then install Kext Utility and run it. It took about 20 minutes to run on my EEE PC, but afterwards I rebooted and I nearly did a backflip out of joy when I saw the new airport wifi icon on the task bar! I connected to my home network without any problems.

 

Now the only only thing I have found that does not work yet is the battery status. I am in the process of installing the 'voodoo battery' patch under power management as I'm typing this. I'm also trying out the 32 bit boot option to see if it changes anything. Let you all know how that goes in about 20 minutes.

 

What works now -- everything except QE. Waiting on drivers at this point. The system is still pretty snappy, and disabling the parametric zoom and genie effect on the dock makes the computer every bit as fast and smooth as Ubuntu and Windows on this netbook.

 

What has not been tested - ethernet and VGA output. I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually but neither are deal breakers. Wifi is the number one thing that has plagued me with my various hackintosh's over the past couple years. This is the first one I've gotten to work without some serious hacking.

[N00b_un_2]

nope. the voodoo battery thing just causes a kernel panic right when it starts loading kexts. I was able to boot into safe mode, but whatever. I'm just going to do a fresh install for arguments sake and test my steps again.