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

Using -v I can see Darwin loading HFS+ files etc but it was going too fast to read what was being done just before the screen went blank and the system rebooted. By the way the ? switch was not recognized.

If this doesn’t help then you could try booting by typing ‘-v‘, which should produce verbose output. You’ll have to be quick, but the final output before the system reboots might be significant…

Any ideas what could be causing the sudden reboot?

Any help would be ace.

Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.

thanks.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that you’re going to have any luck with the projector – I’ve not come across any GMA950 driver which works in Mirror-mode. You can have your projector running as a separate display alongside the built-in panel, but as soon as you switch to Mirrored mode (which is what you want) the output will corrupt on both displays. The problem then is that you can’t see anything with the external display connected, yet the option disappears when the display is disconnected (but at least you can see again).

When testing, I removed Mirrored mode by disconnecting the display and turning on keyboard-navigation and Voice Over, and then tabbing around the Displays Preferences pane to see what it sounded like, then plugging in the external monitor (corrupting the display) and navigating by ear(!) until I found the Mirror check-box and disabling it.

I think that the best you’ll be able to do without Apple hardware is to run with two separate displays, and then drag the windows of interest from the internal panel to the projector display.

Larry

http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/31/hackintosh-netbook-users-take-note-snow-leopard-10-6-2-update-kills-support-for-atom-processor/

So we are talking a pre-release beta build here – but then, I’m surprised that Apple hasn’t moved against the hackintosh community before now.

It won’t lose GMA950 support, though – there are still shed-loads of (original) MacBook Air and pre-nVidia Mac Mini owners out there.

I’m sure there will always be fixes (10.6.x userspace on 10.6.1 kernel, custom kernel modifications, etc.) so the game’s not up… but the barrier to entry just got that much higher.

There’s always Ubuntu

I have been reading that the new 10.6.2 update with removing support for Atom CPUs and Intel 950 GMA support.

Do you know if the new system update has affected your system if you are on SL or anybody elses system that has SL and on NC10 or MSIWind?

I hope to hear from you soon.

All the best

NSCXP2005

I followed this guide : http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=515 and made a dsdt.aml for my N310. This solved the EDB problem permanently (no need to enable EDB in bios anymore). The brightness problem is still pending.

Cheers,

EW

Thanks for this wonderful guide. I followed it (and some MSI Wind guides) to install Snow Leopard onto an N310 (EFI booting). Most things are working fine (or the compromises are expected). However, one irritating problem is that the bios changes (screen brightness; Enable EDB) are always reset after shutdown or sleep so that I have to change them every time I start. This is especially a problem because I am configuring this for use for someone else (who is not the sort to remember to keep resetting bios every time she logs in).

Any suggestions would be helpful.

EW

Thanks for everything

This is because the screen itself still runs at full brightness, but Shades overlays a grey transparent layer in software to reduce the apparent brightness – the backlight isn’t being altered at all.

There are apparently now DSDT updates which, when used with certain input drivers, will allow full control of the backlight with Fn+F11 and Fn+F12 – but I’ve not managed to get these to work (probably because I’m not using the same input driver – the one which is supposed to work also had a habit of becoming unresponsive and needing a reboot to fix when I last tried it. This may well now itself be fixed).

Hmm – I’ve never heard of a screen changing like that, but wouldn’t a lose cable be more likely to make it go black rather than white? It always pays to be careful in the innards of machines, though ) I’d re-open the case and make sure that nothing got trapped or caught…

As I understand it, USB microphones should just-work(tm), but I don’t have one to test with

Also, should most external mics work when plugged in? Assuming they are OS X compatible?

Thanks again Stuart!

Just wanted to say I love my NC10 with OS X! I have discovered a nice little programs called shades that installs into system preferences that basically allows you to adjust display brightness with hotkeys or in system preferences. The display thing has been bugging me a lot but this works perfectly!

http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades