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macpip
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Good news guys!

 

There's still some hope. I finally got the Snow Leopard installer to boot in my 1101HA.

As soon as I get to complete the installation process I will try to describe the steps I followed.

However I have found another showstopper :pirate2: I can't get the SATA hard disks to be recognized by the Mac OS X Installer.

I am currently trying with different .kexts, but haven't found the right one yet. Any suggestions?

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Hey Macpip,

 

Does mac os x already work on your Asus 1101HA?

 

I have a 1101hA too, I' ve tried so mutch, almost every thing, bu nothing works.

 

Witch copy of mac os x did you put in? iatkos, ideneb, ipc, kalyway, orsomte thing witch empire EFI of NetbookCD or Rebel EFI or somthing with usb?

 

Cause i even can' t boot up and get into the setup.

 

Greets, alex

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Hey Macpip,

 

Does mac os x already work on your Asus 1101HA?

 

I have a 1101hA too, I' ve tried so mutch, almost every thing, bu nothing works.

 

Witch copy of mac os x did you put in? iatkos, ideneb, ipc, kalyway, orsomte thing witch empire EFI of NetbookCD or Rebel EFI or somthing with usb?

 

Cause i even can' t boot up and get into the setup.

 

Greets, alex

 

Hi Alex,

 

Yes, it's now working!.

It took me ages, and I had almost given up until the other day when at the nth try I was shocked to see the install screen.

 

As you will imagine, everything boils down to get the right combinations of .kexts.

I used plain Snow Leopard retail, on a USB stick, with Chameleon NBI and a bunch of very selected .kexts. They key ones for me were:

 

- VaioPEnabler (PCIFix did not worked for me). This one is included in recent releases of Chameleon.

- AppleGeneralPCATA. This is to get the internal HDs to be detected. I have the feeling that this is not the most appropriate .kext, but it's the only one I' got to work. I believe that any .kext for IDE disks should do.

 

NOTE: 1366x768x32 only works if the boot loader supports it. For example, latest Chameleon RC4 has a small bug and does not provide this video mode, rendering resolutions to just 1024x768. Look for NetbookInstaller, a great OS X tool that will take care of making your USB bootable on a non-Apple machine.

 

Mind you, I still have things to fix though, like audio, wifi and lan, but I guess it would be more of the same trial and error with different .kexts. But the 1101HA boots now in Snow Leopard quite all right.

 

OH, another thing, I resisted to power on my Macbook pro to do the magic, but finally end up using it for the easyness shake.

 

However, I am amazed of how far you can get using a live linux distro for the preparation and maintenance steps. Look for RIP distro, bootable from a usb stick and with HFS+ (Macintosh) support. This would allow you to tinker with your Mac OS X stick until you get it to boot decently.

 

Be patient, read a lot, and good luck.

 

Happy new year to everyone

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Hi Alex,

 

Yes, it's now working!.

It took me ages, and I had almost given up until the other day when at the nth try I was shocked to see the install screen.

 

As you will imagine, everything boils down to get the right combinations of .kexts.

I used plain Snow Leopard retail, on a USB stick, with Chameleon NBI and a bunch of very selected .kexts. They key ones for me were:

 

- VaioPEnabler (PCIFix did not worked for me). This one is included in recent releases of Chameleon.

- AppleGeneralPCATA. This is to get the internal HDs to be detected. I have the feeling that this is not the most appropriate .kext, but it's the only one I' got to work. I believe that any .kext for IDE disks should do.

 

NOTE: 1366x768x32 only works if the boot loader supports it. For example, latest Chameleon RC4 has a small bug and does not provide this video mode, rendering resolutions to just 1024x768. Look for NetbookInstaller, a great OS X tool that will take care of making your USB bootable on a non-Apple machine.

 

Mind you, I still have things to fix though, like audio, wifi and lan, but I guess it would be more of the same trial and error with different .kexts. But the 1101HA boots now in Snow Leopard quite all right.

 

OH, another thing, I resisted to power on my Macbook pro to do the magic, but finally end up using it for the easyness shake.

 

However, I am amazed of how far you can get using a live linux distro for the preparation and maintenance steps. Look for RIP distro, bootable from a usb stick and with HFS+ (Macintosh) support. This would allow you to tinker with your Mac OS X stick until you get it to boot decently.

 

Be patient, read a lot, and good luck.

 

Happy new year to everyone

 

 

You are cool, Bro)

How status your Osx now? Do you can upload *.tib or *.vhd backup of your system Osx ?

Thanx for reply)

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You are cool, Bro)

How status your Osx now? Do you can upload *.tib or *.vhd backup of your system Osx ?

Thanx for reply)

 

 

Hi mate!

 

There's any chance you can post a full guide on how you managed it?

 

Including bios settings?

 

 

Cheers!

 

Good job

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ExisGamer
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wow macpip, thank you so much.

 

i'm sorry for the late response and you too a happy new year macpip and al the others.

 

you know i'am trying this for about a half year now, and i asked a friend to join me and we realy wanted to get this work. I actually tought that this isn't gonne work, because no body said he had a good woked hackintosch on a Z520 CPU.

 

I really gonne try this out, i'll post the results. oh and for network, they've got something for it on www.kext.com, look for Altheros wireless cards.

 

I hope you enjoy your ASUS iBook 1101HA, and fix the audio, wlan and lan.

 

greets, alex

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hey macpip,

 

I've tried your solution, but it didn't work

 

this is what i did: I bought a retail cd with snowleopard on it and made a dmg from it in mac. Than I partitionate my usb sandix cruzer U3 in mac os x extanded, and option master boot record, Restore the dmg on my usb and used the NetbookInstaller, witch included cameleon bootloader, to make the usb bootable.

 

the bootloader boots up but when it will boot mac os x it stucks by:

 

Enabeling ramdisk

 

No preboot ramdisk, not loading postboot ramdisk

 

UHCI controller [8086:8114] at 00:1d:0 base 5c4(b881)

 

UHCI controller [8086:8115] at 00:1d:1 base 604(b881)

 

UHCI controller [8086:8116] at 00:1d:2 base 624(b881)

 

 

 

Did I something wrong?

 

I don´t know if the kexts are already on the bootloader installed, or I have to put them self in the bootloder, and if that´s so how can I do this?

 

I hope there is a solution for this problem.

 

greets, alex

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mornin everyone

 

since david was able to install osx with the bootimage i made for my vaio p, i decided to put it in here

the image may be not perfect - but it works - and that is the important part

 

well - i also want to give you a few hints for setting up the snow kitty on you eee - BUT - do everyone a favour and read it (twice is the minimum)

 

the image i made is for 512mb (or larger) pendrives (or sd cards - or whatever your computer will boot from) - it has enough storage room for applications you might want to use - such as chameleon - i uploaded the rc3 install package - it's the Chameleon 2 RC3 r658 package by dr. hurt

the kudos are going to all the people from the paio p topics - especially ryuu123 for his hard work

 

the main guide was written by padebije

 

here comes padebije's guide - my little guide, based on my boot image, will follow

 

[Preparation]

1. ryuu123's files (vaiop20090910)

2. Chameleon 2 RC3 with installer

3. Kext Helper b7

4. USB Memory A 8GB above

5. USB Memory B

6. OS 10.6 DVD

 

[Making Installation Disk]

1. Format USB Memory A (HFS+, MBR)

2. Restore OSX DVD on USB Memory A

3. Install Chameleon 2 RC3 on USB Memory A

4. Copy ryuu123's files to USB Memory A

/boot

/DSDT.aml

/Extra

 

[Preparation USB Memory B]

1. Copy ryuu123's files to USB Memory B

/System

2. Copy Chameleon 2 RC3 with installer to USB Memory B

3. Copy Kext Helper b7 to USB Memory B

 

[installation]

1. F11 -> Boot from USB Memory A

2. Install -> Reboot

3. F11 -> Boot from HDD/SSD with "cpus=1 -v -f"

4. Set up

5. Insert USB Memory B

6. Install Chameleon 2 RC3 on OSX

7. Open Terminal

8. Copy the following files/folders as superuser

/boot

/DSDT.aml

/Extra

 

Now you can boot without USB Memory A.

 

9. Install 2 kexts (GMA500BacklightDisplay.kext and VoodooHDA.kext) with Kext Helper b7

10. Open Terminal

11. Delete AppleHDA.kext as superuser

 

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here are my changes in the workflow

 

my boot image containes all the stuff for both memory sticks, so you only have to copy the stuff from the boot drive to the setup drive

 

most install guides are for existing mac users or people with access to a mac

but not everyone has those fancy computers on their desktop - that includes me

i made it without a mac - the only thing you will need is transmac (shareware)

 

after you installed transmac, put in your sl dvd and usb drive a and b then start transmac :D

 

(hint:the pendrives must be mbr partitioned)

you will see the drives on the left side and some kind of explorer on the right side

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(a little important note - activate the show hidden files in mac options)

 

now make a image of your sl dvd:

 

click on your dvd drive - you will see a hfs partition, right click on it and save the dmg image to your hdd (will took a few minutes)

when this is done, right click on the 8gb pendrive and select "format with disk image"

select the sl image and format the pendrive with it (i hope you have a fast pendrive - this could took "forever" with a slow pendrive)

the next step is formatting the boot stick with the (unrared) boot image (same steps as above)

when you have both pendrives formatted - the will no longer be recognized by windows - windows will ask you always to format the drives - do not do that :)

 

now you can right click on the needed files from the boot drive (you know - the stuff mentioned in the original guide), extract them to your desktop

now click on the pendrive with the setup files and drag the extracted files from your desktop to the setup dvd (don't forget to drop them)

 

since the vaio p uses a 1600x765 resolution you have to change something in the com.apple.Boot.plist (it's in the "extra" folder) - but be warned - i don't have a 1101ha - so i don't have the chance to try it - change the resolution from 1600x768 to 1388x786 - as i said - be warned, i don't know if this will work, but at least you could try it

 

i don't know if the eee would boot from usb with F11 - maybe its like my 1005ha where you can choose between the plugged in pendrives - that is up to you to find out

 

 

the files you need are: transmac, some kind of "show all files" there are little apps for mac that can do this (or a comand line - google it) and of course the files i mentioned in the beginning of this almost endless topic :star_smile:

 

VaioBootImage.rar

Chameleon_2_RC3.zip

 

ahh - btw - if you want to keep windows on your eee - you have to change something on your sl dvd - the osinstall.mpkgand the osinstall

the osinstall.mpkg is in system/installation/packages

and the osinstall is in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Frameworks/OSInstall.framework/Versions/A/

 

i've found a package with both files - didn't tried them - so it's up to you (don't blame me if your eee would change into a coffemaker)

 

MBR_OS_install.zip

 

i hope that i was able to help a few of you with this little post - took me a few hours to write, search my hdd, insanelymac and a few other sites - have fun and play nice kiddos :)

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The problem is when I'm using standard Chameleon Installer pendrive don't boot. It's boot only when I use NebookInstaller. When I'm trying to replace only extensions whith this from post 35 it doesn't give any effect - hdd is not detected. Macpip post in this topic, that kext AppleGeneralPCATA turns alive internal hard drive, but wher I can get this kext? I've tried to google it, but without lucky. Please help.

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Ok, now it works. kext for this controller is popular AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext. I've tried it before, but it wont work until I put it in IOATAFamily.kext. I forgot that this kext is extension of ioatafamily, so puted directly into extensions folder it don't work. : )

 

EDIT!: OK, story is more complicated, I needed to extract AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext from Extensions.mkext for Dell Mini 10, becouse any other don't work. And it work puted directly to the Extensions directory.

 

Now, when I have this kitty on my 1101HA with os ver. 10.6.3 I want to enable sound and ethernet. I'm not intrested in build-in wireless wifi becouse I'll replace it with x264 video accelerator (with work on a mac). So for now, I need to get audio work. Please help. : )

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Hi, me again.

 

I have the Asus 1011 HA too and i defenetly want mac on my eee.

 

I've tried the NetbookInstaller too but is stuck by: Enable ramdisk, and than it stops loading.

 

This are the staps I done: Format sandix 8 gb flashdisk in HFS+, made an iso from the snow leopard retail disk on mac, than restore the iso on the flashdisk. Launch netbookinstaller and than try to boor, I saw the flashdisk load the filles but than it stuck on Enable ramdisk.

 

Do I have to change something in netbookinstaller or add a kext, and how?

 

I hope enyone has the solution.

 

By the way, kyvaith, you can try www.kexts.com there's maybe a solution for your audio problem.

 

 

 

greets Alex

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I've been following the guide made by Beermacht, but I can't get it working.

 

What I've done is making a image from an original osx 10.6 dvd and formatted it on my sdhc card.

Once that was done I've installed chameleon 2 RC3 on the card and at last added the Extra folder, boot and DSDT.aml.

 

After that I tried to boot but I get a cpu panic.

I will try it once more, maybe it will work then ;) .

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Hi, me again.

 

I have the Asus 1011 HA too and i defenetly want mac on my eee.

 

I've tried the NetbookInstaller too but is stuck by: Enable ramdisk, and than it stops loading.

 

This are the staps I done: Format sandix 8 gb flashdisk in HFS+, made an iso from the snow leopard retail disk on mac, than restore the iso on the flashdisk. Launch netbookinstaller and than try to boor, I saw the flashdisk load the filles but than it stuck on Enable ramdisk.

 

Do I have to change something in netbookinstaller or add a kext, and how?

 

I hope enyone has the solution.

 

By the way, kyvaith, you can try www.kexts.com there's maybe a solution for your audio problem.

 

greets Alex

 

maybe you should try my guide ;)

sorry - never use the nbi and can't tell you anything about it

 

 

I've been following the guide made by Beermacht, but I can't get it working.

 

What I've done is making a image from an original osx 10.6 dvd and formatted it on my sdhc card.

Once that was done I've installed chameleon 2 RC3 on the card and at last added the Extra folder, boot and DSDT.aml.

 

After that I tried to boot but I get a cpu panic.

I will try it once more, maybe it will work then ;) .

 

you make this with 1 card ??

what command did you use to start the installation ???

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Sorry I have had no time to get back to this forum earlier.

 

I have posted some lines and a zip package containing all the extensions and config files needed to boot the installation of Snow Leopard on the Asus 1101HA... including support for the internal hard disk.

 

http://www.corsino.com/blog/?p=73

 

Hope that you find them useful.

 

1101HA_Snow_Leopard_Boot_Package.zip

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artix123
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First of all thanks for all the information here :D

 

I can't seem to boot off the USB after following beermacht's steps.. I formatted my 8gb usb disk with the snowleo dvd, and I couldn't find a way to install Chameleon without a Mac, so I copied all the files from the usb boot disk that beermacht created to the snowleo usb (boot, dsdt.aml, extra folder). My P15G detects the usb but couldn't boot it and went straight to windows. Anyone knows why?

 

edit: i followed the exact steps, installed chameleon using a mac, but still didn't work. :( why ahhh

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