It is possible to unlock hardware-locked media, but this involves ripping the DVD, changing a file, and then burning the result back to a dual-layer DVD.

maybe i can dream of getting an installed Leopard partition on my EEE PC using the instructions.

will the OS X install play nicely with my existing grub2 ?

i suppose that Windoze still insists on being in the primary partition of the first drive…unless someone has found a way of tricking it..meanwhile it can stay in its VBox !

“I’m a PC, and removing the Windows partition from my hard drive was my idea.” – with thanks to KdotJ who is active on ubuntu forums tho’ his signature seems to have changed …

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475969 netbook/ desktop
http://guide.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474865 windows in VirtualBox

As trying to boot the DVD I’m left with “System config file /com.apple.boot.S/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist not found”. Any idea of what to do?

Thanks,
Marcus

AppleHDA should provide a better solution – but I was never able to get it working properly (at best, sound broke up to static all too frequently). Given the time that’s passed, this could well now be much more stable.

As I mentioned before, the necessary permissions on the EFI partition make accessing it as root to simplest way to interact with its contents – just stick to Terminal.app and remember to become root (‘su – root’ followed by root’s password or ‘sudo su – root’ followed by your password. Set root’s password from the installation media if necessary, and note that the latter only works if your user also has a password set).

I have updated to 10.5.7 as per your instructions without a problem but still have mic issue and skype not working.

I have also found a download to install AppleHDA ktext from Mystiquemac but am unable to open the Extension directory as it states that i dont have permissions.

Please can you help.

Regards
Andrew.

Everything is working except this mic and skype lockups up if you try and make a call – no call just text chat is fine.

I have downloaded AzaliaAudio2.pkg installed it then installed Audieee NC10.dmg

But the external and Internal Mic don’t work.

I hope you can help on this then I will try and leave you alone as everything else I need is fine. Ps I am still on 10.5.6 as i thought it might be best to stay put what do you think?

Cheers
Andrew.

No need to apologise – we all have to start somewhere… and especially in this case, where the fault is entirely mine! I had a few little utilities in my Extensions directory, which would work out the dependencies for a given kernel extensions or similar. So that these could still be run, there’s a line in the update.sh script which makes them executable again. The problem is, I stopped shipping these scripts and so the update script outputs this error. It’s definitely not a problem, but feel free to edit the update.sh script to remove the chmod line which reverts ‘*.sh’.

With older versions of OS X, deleting the kernel extension cache file from the Caches directory improved the reliability of booting after modifying kernel extensions, especially if their dependancies changed. I suspect that removing it is no longer necessary – but doing so does very little harm and should still improve reliability when extensions are modified.

Hope this helps,

Stuart

Thank you for the reply, I think logging at all the work that you put into helping people. I think that you should be knighted and I’m sure that lots of people would agree.

Right, just so you understand why i’m asking I have not used Mac OSX before only for basic web browsing functions. But I should pick it up with more reading which I will do, as I use to have a technical IT job but now only manage others.

Anyway, I have created and run the script as follows just to check that I’m doing it right, and I also have a question on why you have to run the rm command. I’m sure i’m not the only person asking as I thought that the update looks at the Extension folder on the EFI not OSX partition.

Please see what i did below.

andrews-macbookair11:~ Andrew$ sudo ./mountefi.sh
Rebuild caches by running “update.sh” in /Volumes/EFI, and
“rm Extensions.mkext Extensions/Caches/com.apple.kext.info”
in /System/Library/

Please remember to “umount /Volumes/EFI” once finished…

andrews-macbookair11:~ Andrew$ sudo /Volumes/EFI/update.sh
Updating EFI boot cache…
chmod: /Volumes/EFI/Extensions/*.sh: No such file or directory
Update succeeded

andrews-macbookair11:~ Andrew$ cd /Volumes/OSX/System/Library

andrews-macbookair11:Library Andrew$ sudo rm Extensions.mkext Extensions/Caches/com.apple.kext.info
andrews-macbookair11:Library Andrew$ sudo umount /Volumes/EFI

Why does it give and chmod error when updating.

I’m sure I’m missing the point somewhere.

Sorry for the lack of knowledge – but I want to get it working as I use it every day.

Regards
Andrew.

Great news – it’s always good to hear of an installation which worked!

(The NC10 seems to be very picky about what USB devices it’ll boot from, so a significant minority of people are finding the even the NC10′s BIOS doesn’t see a bootable device even with the USB keys plugged in – which gives the boot-loader no chance of working!)

The EFI partition is, by it’s nature, completely hidden until manually mounted.

There is a script to do this in the very first comment, but many people are unsure of how to make use of this.

If you open Terminal.app and type the following:

cat > ~/mountefi.sh
#!/bin/bash

sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/EFI
sudo mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI

echo "Rebuild caches by running \"update.sh\" in /Volumes/EFI, and"
echo "\"rm Extensions.mkext Extensions/Caches/com.apple.kext.info\""
echo "in /System/Library/"
echo
echo "Please remember to \"umount /Volumes/EFI\" once finished..."

… and then press ctrl+D, at which point the script will be created. Then type “chmod 755 ~/mountefi.sh” to make the script executable, and “sudo ~/mountefi.sh” (Mac OS no longer support SUID scripts) to execute the script and mount the EFI partition.

You must have a password on your account for this to work – ‘sudo’ will not accept blank passwords. If you don’t want to set a password, then become the root user (“su - root“) and repeat all steps to recreate the script as root. This, in turn, requires that a root password be set. The easiest way to do this is to reboot with the installation USB devices inserted, and once the Mac OS installer has launched look at the Utilities menu – one of the options here is “Password reset” (or similar).

Once the script has successfully run, a new disc icon for the EFI partition will appear on the Desktop – but I’d advise avoiding this. Instead, the partition is best accessed from “/Volumes/EFI/” and is best interacted with from a Terminal session – and for permissions reasons, probably as the root user.

Finally, as the script prompts, please remember to “cd ; sudo umount /Voumes/EFI” once you’re finished – Finder won’t allow you to eject the disc, and leaving the partition mounted could potentially lead to corruption (as the volume is not checked when the OS boots, or at any other point).

I seem to remember that I tried Skype, and it just worked – but bear in mind that there are a never-ending combination of graphics drivers and BIOS over-rides out there, so what works for one installation may not be good for another. Skype has also recently been updated, and I can’t say whether this is make anything different at all, better or worse.

Upgrading to 10.5.7 should be fine. 10.5.8 introduces changes which require additional patches (I’m afraid that you’ll have to Google it) which cause OS X to think that the NC10 lacks a battery, and there were some clunky work-arounds. I understand that there’s now an elegant fix which obviates the need for these, though. Even so, I’d suggest that 10.5.7 is the fastest and most compatible release of OS X to run on NC10 hardware. I’ve not looked in to running 10.6.x – but (certainly at least initially) this required a patched kernel in order to even boot. This would make an upgrade from an existing 10.5.x installation likely the easiest method to pursue – but it seems that there’s enough hackery involved that you’d actually need to research the current state-of-the-art and work out a plan of attack of how to get there yourself to have any chance of understanding what the system is doing, and how to fix it when it inevitably breaks

(And it’s probably worth waiting for the imminent release of 10.6.3 even then)

Thank you for creating this guide. I am writing this on my NC10 OSX installation.

When i performed the following step – MacOS Installer.dmg everthing worked fine and i can boot without the USB drive. However i cant find the partition EFI so cannot continue with the update steps.

Please can you help.

Also I have read the full 63 page blog but am still unsure which update to perform. ie. 10.5.6 etc…

One other thing is have you managed to get skype working?

Regards
Andrew.

I wasn’t using a retail version, but I’ve got it installed now.

I’ve gotten almost everything working, function keys for brightness, following Tea’s DSDT.aml, sound, wi-fi. The only thing I’m missing now is Intel Speedstep. It seems like I am stuck at 798MHz and CPUi only shows one processor. I’m not sure what’s wrong.

Any ideas?

With 10.6.3 due very soon, it’s probably worth waiting for that and then seeing what other people’s upgrade experiences are. Unless there’s any killer-feature which 10.6 has, though, my impression is that 10.5 will provide the smoother user experience for non-Apple hardware…

Snow Leopard takes more hacking to get working on non-Apple hardware, so the best approach is to install 10.5 and get this working properly, and then upgrade to 10.6 once happy.

Also, it’s always worth double-checking that EDB is enabled in the BIOS – Mac OS seems to be able to reset this setting if it crashes.

Here’s what I did.

- Format 1GB USB Stick as Fat32
- Put your “Mac OS USB Install files” on it.
- Run the “syslinux” command to make it bootable.

On another Mac (a coworkers).
- Open DiskUtility and restore image of Retail DVD to an External USB hard drive.

- Plug both USB Stick and USB Hard drive into my NC10.
- Make sure USB Stick is listed first in boot order.
- Check BIOS settings to match what’s needed.
- Reboot
- Let bootloader count down
- Get error message mentioned above.

Am I doing something wrong?

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Mischa