Help needed - iAtkos installation freezes at Apple logo

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  1. indigofury

    indigofury

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    Hi everyone. First of all, thanks everyone for posting on this forum, it's been very helpful so far.

    Now, I have the new Aspire One with HD 11.6'' screen, 1 GB ram, 160 HDD, bla bla...
    I downloaded iAtkos v5, bought a 4 gig USB memory stick (don't have external DVD drive, nor disk and buying is not an option).

    I followed the instructions from this thread: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11408
    Everything worked fine until I rebooted and watched Darwin boot up and installer start. The Apple logo appeared, swirling thingy started to spin and I started to think "oh, finally, after so much trouble, it's finally gonna work" and it stopped. Of course. Just when I had hope again. The swirling thingy stopped to spin. HDD activity LED and the one on the USB stopped blinking. Nothing. No activity. Restarted, tried again. 4 or 5 times.

    So I'm kinda desperate to get it running.

    Thanks to everyone in advance.
     
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    restart but at boot options, type -v
    then report back with the last things it says, or even better, a picture
     
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    how can i access boot options? f8?
     
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    Ok, I did.

    The last two rows are:

    localhost diskarbitrationd [44]: unable to mount /dev/disk0s2 (status code 0x00000047)
    localhost diskarbitrationd [44]: unable to mount /dev/disk0s5 (status code 0x00000047)
     
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    how is your hdd partitioned?
     
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    i have two partitions, c drive has windows xp on, d drive is empty and i don't really need it since i don't want a dual boot
     
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    so what partition is os x on?
    you named 2 partitions but there must be 2 more...
     
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    None, I cannot get to the install part since it won't get past the Apple logo.
     
    indigofury, Jul 3, 2009
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    Btw, I deleted the second partition, I only have one now, since I want OS X as my sole operating system.

    I tried typing in -v, rd=disk0s2, -x, -s... anything I was able to google out.
    So far nothing. Won't get past the Apple logo.
     
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    What graphics chipset does it have?
    I just realised youre on a 751h
     
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    751h uses the Intel US15W chipset (codename : Poulsbo), so that's a GMA500 graphics chipset - Not compatible with OS X afair. Definitely not supported by the GMA950 kext, since the GMA500 graphics chipset is a PowerVR core deriative, and not developed inhouse at Intel.
     
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    Auch... does that mean I can't install OS X? :cry:
     
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    Afraid GMA500 is not supported by OSX, yet ... :oops:
     
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