It runs

Apparently, the Chameleon boot loader is not a must - the simple Darwin bootloader works ok. the trick is to put "cpus=1" in the boot options.
Now I just have to figure out why it doesn't recognize neither ethernet nor wireless.

thanks for the help!

Great!

I'm happy to see it works!! Also surprised to see you can do it without chameleon!! The darwin bootloader won't do it for me, as I can boot under chameleon with or without cpus=1. I added cpus=1 to my *boot.plist in order to not have to type it everytime...

As far as wifi and ethernet, lots of stock wifi on the netbooks don't work on OSX, mine was an Atheros 5007 I think, works great in XP but you can't make that work right under OSX, what will work in OSX is something based around the broadcom chip, so I bought exactly this one from this seller for 20$ :
http://cgi.ebay.com/Wifi-wireless-BC...item5ad3f4b9f8

Works without drivers on OSX and works in XP too, although I had a hard time finding an xp driver.

I would really appreciate you'd post something about temperature during usage as I find my Samsung to be quite warm under OSX compared to XP... let me know. And did you use speedstep or not?

Thanks in advance and enjoy!

Strangely, it stopped working.
I probably added some conflicting driver, while trying to make the network work, and it stopped booting.
No problem- I started the installation from scratch.
Still, it always freezes some 20 into the boot, even plain vanilla installation.

This is quite unusual. Make sure you're not installing on top of OSX i.e. make sure the partition is reformatted. You say it freezes 20 seconds into the boot?

Maybe redump iatkos to the partition with ddmac to make sure the source hasn't been altered or anything.

Did you change something in the BIOS?

I have to admit installation didn't yield always the same exact result i.e. as I've explained in my other posts, the trackpad thing, working oob sometimes and some other times needing more configuration but I installed many many times Iatkos v7 with different kexts and it would boot to the GUI almost everytime.

I don't know how to help...

Hope you find why it does that!

Ok, got it to work again...
not sure what caused the problem - I even re-installed iAKTOS, and reformatted the OCX partition several times. at one point I noticed the OSX partition is OVERLAPPED with some another (backup) partition on the disk...

Anyway, I have OSX running, with display driver at 1280x600 (thanks for the instructions!)

My problem is now networking: it recognizes my wireless chipset (Ralink RT2860), but keep thinking it is "disconnected". statistics shows that the only traffic is received packets (1 per second) but all are CRC errors.
the Wired network (Realtek 8102) is not recognized at all.

Minor problems:

1. sleep mode: it goes into sleep, but doesn't wake up... I have to reboot to exit the sleep mode.
2. Trackpad: click on it doesn't trigger mouse. the System Preferences says I don't have a mouse, so it doesn't show the mouse tab, only keyboard and bluetooth...

Hi,

Well, great!

The overlapping of partitions is scary. I had that issue when I played with installing chameleon manually. There was overlapping and the partitions became unacessible, couldn't be mounted. That was the case of my ntfs partition and even the XP setup repair mode (fixboot, fixmbr, bootcfg /scan) couldn't repair it. I erased all partitions. Be careful with this. If you do the XP setup and use repair and end up at the command prompt and try a 'dir' on the drive and you have ascii code in the listing (garbage), then that's bad.

Sleep: yeah, same here, I disabled going to sleep in the options, so that it only shuts down the screen.

Trackpad: Reinstall VoodooPS2 0.98.pkg(you'll find it easily), then reboot and in the mouse/trackpad options, make sure to enable 'clicking' which was my issue and explained why the trackpad worked but not the clicking. You should have a trackpad icon and the VoodooPS2 pref pane in the system configuration. Me, when I install with Iatkos, I now only check 'Voodoo with trackpad plugin' (make sure the Voodoo(alone) is NOT checked).

Network: I spent lots of time on that. My opinion is, if it's not a chip that's compatible with the OSX hardware list, then it won't work. And if it does work, you need to play with a tool to scan networks and it's all very funky ( like this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=138351), well that tool is a hacking wifi network scanner (Kismac), to kickstart or hook the network, then use the airport config to 'grab' it... this is too much playing around for me. Even when I got kismac to see networks I couldn't 'grab' one. Swapping the card for the one I suggested did the trick: I installed and airport was there, no need to check the driver bcm43xx, no config whatsoever.

...

Trackpad:
I installed the Voodoo drivers, and they work, but tend to block mouse movement every few seconds. - is this normal behaviour of this driver? besides that, it works great (tap for mouse click, scrolling)

No, this is not the normal behavior but I had that exact same symptom at some point... I don't have that now, I was doing 'circles' with the trackpad for 10 secs + no jerk.

I don't know exactly what causes it. Is it that you need to boot with -s, remove the voodoo kext with rm- r (a bit like what you do to install the GMA) then reinstall the driver with the pkg or use the update procedure in iatkos to upgrade only that? (you'll need an external mouse at reboot if you try to go in the gui after removal).

I also though when that happened to remove speedstep, or use cpus=1. But at this point I use speedstep with cpus=1 and I don't have the problem. The voodoo.pkg installs the same thing as checking 'Voodoo with trackpad' during install but sometimes it yields different results. My intuition is that it's related to installing a driver on top of another one...

Seems you solved almost all your problems!

didn't try speedstep yet... what will it do? improve performance? (and more importantly, what kext to remove from terminal in case it cause boot problem?!?!

Anyway, my main issue is network: my Realtek network adapter is not recognized at all. The wireless IS recognized (rt2860), but it receives "bad CRC" on all packets.
maybe I'll order the BC eventually (its usu 3-4 weeks delivery time from HK...) - BTW, there are eBay sellers which sell it for $15..

Speedstep just throttles down the CPU under certain circumstances, to reduce power consumption etc... could help battery life, I seem to get around 4 hrs under OSX and 5-6 under XP, with no tweaks. No I thought you had that installed that already with the installer, so it thought DISABLING it might change the trackpad behavior, but I doubt enabling it would help. I don't really know what kexts are involved. I know there's 2 elements about speedstep in the installer... one adds a little program to see CPU temperature. But it shows 2 cpus, even though Atom is a single core. So I put cpus=1 and now the little app still sees 2 cpus, but one has ridiculous values and one lists the real values. I think maybe even I did a cpus=1 at boot before installing Iatkos and the behavior in the app remains the same. Whatever.

I can't help about the realtek really. I know the wired ethernet may work but is not so stable, depending on the chip. I don't use it. My wifi was also detected properly in the System profiler, mine is Atheros 5007 if I remember, but it just wouldn't work. I know some chips do work, and if you make it work post your method. I know my atheros is useless for this, even though it worked great under xp. The replacement wifi, great if you can find it cheaper, and yes it took about 20 days from HK, i just wanted to state the bcm94321mc works out of the box for me without driver. Other chips work too, I think one can refer to this, in the hardware compatibility section :

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

or on the Iatkos for recommended netbooks infos...

http://iatkos.wikidot.com/recommended-osx86-netbooks