tantalus1983 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Hey! I tried installing Mac OS X for the first time on my Acer Travelmate 290. The first time, i tried to boot, the kernel hung up after "using 2621 buffer headers and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers". After investigating in this, i found that there is a problem while setting up ACPI - no wonder, ACER has the worst BIOS around! So i tried and tried for hours until i found that the only way to get Mac OS X running is with the Extensions.mkext from the CD and NO Extensions folder, which renders the system pretty unusable, as most drivers are missing. When i create the folder Extensions, Darwin looks for the ACPI Platform, when extracting the files from the CD´s Extensions.mkext in Extensions it crashes again, altough these are the SAME files! Happens with different kernels (Intel from the CD, Generic ones from CD, downloaded ones from IRC). Now i don`t understand anything To deobscure a little bit, i tried booting with debug=0x144 io=0xffffffff, i grabbed somewhere. But these bootoptions (debug i can figure out, but what is io?) are nowhere explained (should download darwin sources...). Does someone know how to get the debug output into the system logs? Did i get it right that platform=X86PC has no effect? The last lines of the debug output are: config(4): creating config(15d33b4): starting on 8529-ic, 10 config(15d33b4): terminating config(some_number): starting on AppleACPICPUInterruptController, 10 config(some_number): terminating config(some_number): starting on AppleACPICPU, 10 config(some_number): terminating I searched for this problem, but failed. Probably because there are just a few Mac OS X hackers around... Has anyone experienced this problem? The Laptop is one of the first Centrino Systems: Pentium-M 1400 (no SSE3!) Intel 855 Chipset 810 Graphics. Thanks in advance, Alex Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57078-uphuck-1049-v13-on-travelmate-290/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I got a 291LMi Laptop from the same 290 series. I had no luck getting the Upuck to install either. Jas 10.4.8 is the most stable release around for my system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57078-uphuck-1049-v13-on-travelmate-290/#findComment-407815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Change the sleep mode in the BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57078-uphuck-1049-v13-on-travelmate-290/#findComment-408230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantalus1983 Posted July 15, 2007 Author Share Posted July 15, 2007 Sorry, i forgot to mention, that i can chance nothing serious in the BIOS. But i found this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=57078 "Warning amd users if you have such errors - "using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers", so you need to use 10.4.8 ACPIPlatform.kext." It should be worth a try. And Mark also got it with 10.4.8 working. Unfortunately i can`t update the intel update i got from the apple site (clicking on the .dmg does nothing) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57078-uphuck-1049-v13-on-travelmate-290/#findComment-408404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 tantalus1983, you linked to yourself there, chief! try uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3...i know the 10.4.8 ACPIPlatform.kext is in his installation options. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57078-uphuck-1049-v13-on-travelmate-290/#findComment-408543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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