[Yuusou]

Originally Posted by xiaogwu

I just did the install for SL as outlined by these instructions and things work great for the most part expect for a few things:

1. As stated, audio does not work. No input or output device is found.
2. The main hard drive icon appears orange. I believe this is a common problem in other hackintosh forums I have read and there are fixes for it. (See attached snapshot)
3. Battery icon in the menu bar works but when I select it it tells me I need to "Service Battery". I hope this is not the real case. (See attached snapshot)

Answers to some Common Questions:
1. For those who were interested about OS footprint, my install was 8.46GB. No printers, no foreign languages (See attached snapshot)
2. I can’t really seem to notice any speed increases on the mini 9 as I experienced with my MBP. This is of course is related to the move to 64-bit in SL but the mini only does 32-bit.
3. Sleep and restart works assuming you disable legacy USB in the bios once you’ve finished doing the install. This includes just closing the clam shell approach to sleep.
4. I did rerun the NetbookInstaller for good measure and ran the “About this Mac� package fix.

Well, do you know where is that fix? I'm not liking the glaring orange icon. Also why was your install so tremendously huge? Mine was 4.1GB after install and now stands at 6.6GB after installing some stuff on it.

Just a note, the new NBI seems to have gotten rid of those pesky error messages on boot up I talked about on the earlier post. Then again, I've seen those go away and come back before.

[xiaogwu]

Originally Posted by Yuusou

Well, do you know where is that fix? I'm not liking the glaring orange icon. Also why was your install so tremendously huge? Mine was 4.1GB after install and now stands at 6.6GB after installing some stuff on it.

Just a note, the new NBI seems to have gotten rid of those pesky error messages on boot up I talked about on the earlier post. Then again, I've seen those go away and come back before.

I believe the fix is using a custom kext that I didn’t want to find and install. I just figure merkot will find a fix.

I just rechecked my install after deleting the sleepimage file from /private/var/vm and now my install is down to 4.6 GB which is more inline with what you report.

I also want to recant what I said before about reboot working. It worked once and then when I did a permissions repair in disk utility and tried it, the screen just went black and didn’t reboot.

[ocean223]

Was pulling out my hair following all the instructions to the tee and monitoring this thread religiosly.
Always got a kernel panic after the "apple" appeared.
I've downgraded bios to A04 then back to A05 with same result. I noticed the little guy was very warm after being on for many hours.
OSX 10.5.8 was very sluggish at times.
I just returned home and ran the latest NBM from page one and VOILA!. Finally got it to boot into the installer.
YEAH!
Will see how the install goes.

Thanks for all the hard work all!

[alaskasteve]

Latest update seems to be working pretty well. Sleep works with legacy boot disabled.

only problem is every time i reboot, my bios gets reset, so legacy boot is back to enabled so no sleep.

Vostro A90 running bios a04

[tzztmm]

Originally Posted by xiaogwu

2. I can’t really seem to notice any speed increases on the mini 9 as I experienced with my MBP. This is of course is related to the move to 64-bit in SL but the mini only does 32-bit.

This is not true! The common Macs (and also the MBP, except the server version of SL) run a 32bit kernel also. Apple deactivated the 64bit by default as the normal user doesn't have any advantages in speed or function (except HUGE amounts of RAM, which can't be addressed by the hardware). On a real Mac, you can force the 64 bit mode by pressing 4-6 at startup - But it changes nothing...

[Yuusou]

Originally Posted by tzztmm

This is not true! The common Macs (and also the MBP, except the server version of SL) run a 32bit kernel also. Apple deactivated the 64bit by default as the normal user doesn't have any advantages in speed or function (except HUGE amounts of RAM, which can't be addressed by the hardware). On a real Mac, you can force the 64 bit mode by pressing 4-6 at startup - But it changes nothing...

Apps run in 64-bit mode. So you will see a speed increase on some apps. We'll never experience that slight performance increase on the minis because apps are forced to run in 32-bit mode.

[mario65]

For those with kernel panics I believe you had to have made a USB that did not complete the instal, is broke or was not setup correctly. I have a 100% system with BT and USB legacy off on a 10v with A05. Once the desktop icons are fixed its done.

By the way if you are doing all this fresh why not partition the drive so you can have 10.5 in one drive before try 10.6 in the other. Chameleon will let you boot between 2 osx systems.

I used a an imac to do all the below.
I used disk utility to make the 8gb stick I have guid and mac os journaled.
I used Carbon copy cloner(instead of restore) to copy the image from the DVD or your image to your stick(It is an exceptional app).
I used the latest netbook maker to bless the USB stick.
I stuck it in and started up the mini on the USB stick and loaded a fresh system (took forever) and it was perfect.

I do think all the software up on this page is working, it must be in the process or your stick is broke.

Meklort you are a badass. I sent you money and anyone reading this needs to do the same.

[csnplt]

I also got a kernel panic after the apple appeared when trying to boot into the installer, due to AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement. I used the latest netbookBootMaker from the first page, just an hour ago, and it didn't work.

I then looked through the thread, and Carlos had mentioned that it was a permissions problem. I followed the instructions to go to the /Extra/ folder, change the permissions of GeneralExtensions to Read/Write for all, and used mkextmaker to make an mkext with all those kexts. Then, I dropped the mkext into the /Extra folder, and I can boot now.

So I don't think the latest version totally fixed this problem.

[straulino]

Following a post from Meklort, I started to play around kext.

IOAudioFamily was in SLE and I moved to Extra/mini9ext.
someone reported that IOAudioFamily is missing. it can be found in S/L/BackupExtensions.

VoodooHDA.Kext is attached, install it into Extra/mini9ext.
Move AppleHDA.Kext from SLE into S/L/BackupExtensions.

Run Update Extra and Disk permission. Reboot and cross your fingers.

I had a problem rebooting the mini, I do not know if related but my os 10.6 in on external USB HD, the SSD has 10.5.8. During reboot, the mini stopped at the Apple logo without spinning wheel. I had to power cycle but once I logged in I had sound.

There are 2 entries in System Preference for sound input but none of them works.
Also headset jack works but not the mike jack.
There is another VoodooHDA By Thireus but, it did not worked for me.

May be I miss some other kext ?!?!?!?

MS

[jfrank]

I know that in order to get sleep to work you have to disable the USB legacy support under BIOS. The problem that I am having is that my mini will not disable this feature. I disable, exit saving changes, boot up into SL and sleep still does not work. I then reboot back into BIOS and USB Legacy support is still on. Why won't it disable? What can I do to fix it?