How can I install OSX on my LG X130?
its an Atom processor (SS3), but otherwise, I'm not sure about hardware components.
Also, as a netbook it doesn't have a DVD. Can I install from a disk-on-key into my HD ?

TIA,

Hi,

Your laptop seems to have similar specs as my Samsung N120... confirm that, N270, Intel GMA950 etc. then take a look at my post and the guides for some clues...

Take care!

thanks for the info. I downloaded iATKOS, and used DDMAC to put it on its partition.
I have a boot menu with "Windows XP" and "Mac OSX".

However, if I select the Mac, it returns to the menu in less than a second. I tried many times to press "enter" and then "F8", but it doesn't help - it gets into the Windows' "Advanced boot menu" (with Safe Mode, etc)

any idea ?

dror

Try also F8 with the WinXP choice in the menu. I know F8 brings the Advanced boot menu but somehow I was always able to find the submenu somewhere... seems ridiculous to point out but you may not be pressing F8 fast enough so it's intercepted when you're back to the 2 choices so you go to the advanced menu instead of a submenu... F8 has to be pressed a fraction of a second after pressing enter, before you loop back to the initial menu.

When I first read about dumping Iatkos to a hdd partition, there was also talk of using a logical partition instead of a primary one... so that can be tried also...

I hope you find a way!

Ok, now I managed to start the iAKTOS installer (the F8 had to be REALLY QUICK after the Enter...), and install the OSX.
however, when booting into the OSX (again, using the above fast F8, and then selecting the OSX instead of iAKTOS), it starts to load, but reboots itself after ~10 seconds of loading. when I add "-v" to the boot, it dumps a lot of messages on the screen, but I can't stop it, so I can't tell what was the last thing that caused the failure...

Well, you're getting closer!

After installing, when you reboot there is no need for F8, you should have the cameleon bootloader and it should load OSX by default! What happens when you let it load without F8?

Try -s at boot for single user mode and see if you reach a command prompt!

I'm not very good with unix messages and I don't know much about it but try posting the boot log.... maybe typing 'dmesg' at the command prompt with some switch can show it to you page by page... try posting some of it here...

Also, what did you check in the installer when you did 'Customize'...

I don't think you're far from booting...

Good luck!

p.s. I thought... when you boot, if you don't have a bootloader, graphical, with the cameleon image and the bar that load backward, that means the bootloader wasn't installed or can't be found... maybe in your BIOS there's an option that protects the boot - I have that option... 'boot write protection' or sth... this has to be disabled maybe for the bootloader to be installed, because when you check 'customize' when you install, one of the first thing that is checked by default is the cameleon boot loader... so it should be there when you reboot... check it!

It will look like this or something : http://louise.hu/poet/wp-content/upl...n-v2-osx86.png

If I do F8 myself at the boot loader where there is XP and Iatkos, I don't think it will boot... I tried once...

You must have the bootloader and it should be there after you install OSX. If it's not, then maybe you have something in the bios that prohibits the boot loader from installing.

Also, me I erased the whole drive before installing XP etc.. I removed the restore partition created by samsung etc. But again, as I said, it's the chameleon bootloader that will load OSX and not the little bootloader used before install!

Hope this helps!

I tried installing any of the 3 bootloaders, but after reboot, I always get the Windows boot menu, and selecting "Mac OS X System" (with fast F8).
then I get "Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132", and a menu of partitions. I select to boot my OSX partition. After few seconds, I see a white screen with an "apple" sign in the middle. few seconds later the machine reboots.

if instead I give a "-s" boot option, I see a lot of drives load up, with Mac paths (e.g. /System/Library/Extensions/ xxx)

After few seconds of loading many things (its runs extra-fast, so I can't really tell specific drivers), the screen clears, and I see about 10-20 lines in smaller font, and less than a second later, the machine reboots.

my understanding, is that it really starts to load the OSX, but then there is some problem with some driver, and it crashes -
do you think Chameleon would get me better? anyway, LG bios doesn't have any "bootloader" option.

the problem is that I don't have any boot.log, to understand where it failed. I don't know what boot options will force it to create a log.
scanning the OSX drive after such crash, I see that the install.log is the last file written - nothing is written during the boot sequence.

BTW - the XP is the original LG-created partition. my harddisk has the LG install partition, my XP partition, a backup partition, iACKTOS partition and OSX (iACTOS and backup are logical, all other are primary partitions)

I just tried now... when I boot, I have the chameleon bootloader, then I chose my NTFS drive, then I have the same menu you have, then I choose MacOsX and F8, then OSX, hd0,4... this won't boot for me... it loads stuff, then freezes. Yet, when I use the bootloader, it boots everytime. I'm sure if I did -s, it would freeze too. The fact it reboots with -s is weird... i'm not sure it's driver related in this case... your hardware is simple, like mine, and I can't see what would make the LG so different...

I'm not a great tech, but I think we can conclude that the chameleon boot loader is essential for you and me to boot OSX in the way we installed it. I can boot and not you, and this is the same hardware almost. So what's different between you and me? You kept the initial partition install from LG, and I erased everything before reinstalling XP. I can only speculate, but I think this has to do with the master boot record and partition table. I'm pretty sure the LG and Samsung install are made to insure nothing will overwrite the mbr, that's why they have a hidden partition etc. Maybe chameleon can't be written on that partition... I don't know how to solve this technically, I knew something like that would happen for me that's why I erased everything to make sure it's a clean slate. I'm sure someone somewhere knows the quick fix for you but it's not me. Most likely it involves installing chameleon manually and modifying some config file for it.

I can tell you one thing. But here I can't emphasize enough to be CAREFUL. When you start the Iatkos installer, you know in the GUI there is a menu Utilities, with Diskutil etc.. also, there is an item Chameleon... I think it can be installed manually from there... I've tried once, and after playing with it I COULD NOT LOAD ANY PARTITION - 'ntldr is missing' or 'no boot device' - so I warn you. But I think we can assume that the bootloader gets installed by default when you install so there must be something preventing it from installing... so maybe installing manually wouldn't make a difference after all. If you ever play with it, backup your data to an external drive before. If you ever play with it, it asks the id of the drive etc... so before using it, use Terminal in the utilities and do a 'diskutil list' to figure it out... I don't know where the boot loader should be installed, I guess on the LG partition in this case? or the root of the OSX install? that's also why playing with it will ruin your partition table... I'm not familiar enough with this stuff...

So aside from finding a quick fix, I think only 2 things remain:
1- I would try upgrading my bios to the latest, then rebooting and doing 'load setup defaults' in the bios, then fix one or 2 things maybe (look at the settings before flashing). Or maybe just leave the settings to default after flashing and trying to reinstall OSX and see if you you have the chameleon bootloader. Flashing is easy nowadays, me on my samsung I install a program in XP from the samsung site and it checks to see if there is a new bios and flashes it if so. Be careful when you do this, close programs and never shut down, make sure you're on AC etc. Honestly, I don't think this will work, unless you had an option boot protection that was enabled but you say you don't have that. I conclude the issue is the LG rescue partition.
2- Back your data elsewhere, erase all partitions and data, and make a new partition scheme.

You may be right, it may be a driver issue, but I think it must be related to the bootloader.

This is the best I can do.

Search google, when I found out you could install iatkos to a partition etc, i read some comments someone did it preserving the manufacturer partition... but because I couldn't be sure I erased everything. Anyway I can reinstall xp by myself using a usb key now, even though I don't have a dvd drive. Yeah, that means I don't have the original copy of XP running. But hey, I have an oem license lollll.

Good luck!

Also if you think it's driver related, you don't need to reinstall iatkos everytime to ADD a driver... read the help before you press Agree in the installer...:

You have to UNCHECK everything
Then only check the driver you want to install
Then start installation
After a few seconds there's an error msg
Click on reboot.

But you cannot REMOVE using this technique, if I understand properly.

Take care!