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[LonelyTV]

August 17, 2009 - I redid the tutorial, most notable is that I slimmed down rcfa's utilities and changed the dd step to just copy and paste in Finder. I've also fixed the sound issues.

August 5, 2009 - I've finally have gotten around to finishing this tutorial and updating it to reflect the changes in rcfa's EEEMac utility pack.

May 23, 2009 - As he has said earlier, rcfa has graced us with his fantastic set of tools to get the retail version of Os X installed on the 1000 HE. I've put together this step-by-step guide to help guide everyone to using them utilities to install it on their own machines.


This tutorial is written for anyone who wants to install the Retail version of OS X 10.5.x onto their EEEPC 1000HE. These steps will work for other EEEPCs, however there are other fixes needed to get everything working correctly. But, this should be a good starting point. I've chosen to stick with 10.5.7 because on 10.5.8 I've run into some issue, once I get them worked out I'll update the tutorial to 10.5.8. The tutorial is written step-by-step for those who aren't well versed in install OS X or working with the Terminal.

What you need:
An Asus EEEPC 1000HE (1000H's should also work)
An external DVD-Rom
A retail Os X Leopard DVD
EEEPC Boot-132 ISO
EEEPC 1000HE KEXT Pack
OS X 10.5.7 Combo Update
KEXT Helper b7
Chameleon 2.0 RC2 installer: Google it, I can't post the link.

A replacement WIFI card (optional, right now I don't know how to make the Stock card work)

Known Issues:
Wifi:
*The stock card to my knowledge isn't supported by Os X.
Sound:
*Low volume: This is a KEXT issue and will be fixed with the upcoming update.
*Mute doesn't stay muted when the machine wakes up: I'm not 100% sure what causes this aside from it being a KEXT issue that hasn't been fixed yet.
Keyboard and Trackpad:
*Tap-to-Click is always on: This is a KEXT issue, the VoodooPS2Controller kext doesn't have Elantech support for the trackpad.

Guide:

Step 1: Burning the Boot-132 Disc
Download the ISO from the link above and burn it with your favorite burning program.

Step 2: Booting the Boot-132 Disc
Put the Boot-132 disc into your external CD/DVD drive or plug your USB stick/hard drive in and reboot the machine. When you see the ASUS EEE PC splash screen and/or the POST screen press the F2 button to enter into the BIOS settings. Once in the bios ensure that under the "Advanced" tab and in the "On board Devices Configuration" section that everything is "enabled", under the "Boot" tab make sure that "Boot Blaster" is "disabled". Goto "Exit" and select "Exit & Save Changes", the machine should reboot.

Once it reboots, press the ESC button when you see the ASUS EEE Pc Splash Screen or the POST screen. You'll be greeted with a boot menu, select your USB Device and press enter. If it worked correctly you'll see "ISO Linux" boot and then you'll have a boot prompt waiting. Now, eject your boot-132 disc from your drive and replace it with your Leopard Disc. Wait for it to spin up and read, when it's done press enter and enter again (the default hexadecimal boot device is your DVD/CD drive) it might take two or three times to get it past the "boot: _" prompt. When you get past it you should see a prompt saying that it's booting Leopard and to press F8 for boot options. Press F8! Here you'll be back at another boot prompt. Type in:

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-f -v cpus=1Sit back and wait for the Leopard install to start.

Step 3: Installing Leopard

When you get to the install assistant you're ready to partition your drive and install leopard. Select your install language and click the arrow at the bottom. Once you get a menu bar click "Utilities" and select "Disk Utility" when that loads up you'll need to select your Hard Drive on the left hand side. On the right hand side select "Partition" and choose GUID.Once that's created click "Apply" and continue your install.  Select your options (I recommend deselecting the everything but X11) and install. The installer will work for about 30 minutes or so, however if you notice that the screen has stopped updating and the progress bar about half way or so move the mouse cursor to refresh it. Every other install I did stopped there, also you'll more than likely see that the 'Installation has failed' disregard this the installer couldn't force restart the machine. Click restart and it should restart on it's own.

Step 4: Booting Leopard for the First Time

You should now replace the Leopard Install DVD with the Boot-132 disc again and boot the machine using ESC again. At the "Boot:_" prompt this time press enter and type 80 for the first hard drive and press enter. Select your Leopard partition if you have more than one on your drive. Before you press enter put in the flags:

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-f -v cpus=1 and press enter. The boot process will commence and when it's done you should be greeted with a registration screen. Follow the steps until you get to the Os X desktop. When you get to the desktop you should update Leopard to 10.5.7. To update it, run the Combo Update and let it do it's thing. Once it's completed it'll need to restart remember to press ESC and choose your DVD drive and follow the steps above to reboot into Leopard. The machine will restart on it's own and you'll need to re-do the boot-132 steps. However, this time type:

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-v -f -x cpus=1at the boot prompt.

Step 5: Finalizing the Install

If everything goes well you should be in Os X. Unarchive the "EEEPC 1000HE Pack" zip file and copy over/download KEXT Helper b7 and the Chameleon Installer to your EEEPC. Run the Chameleon installer. Click through to the third screen, here you'll see a button show up on the bottle left hand side labeled "Customize" click it. You first want to choose "Chameleon EFI HFS" from the list then deselect "Extras" and press install. The script should work it's way through, once done you can close the installer. Now it's time to put the KEXTs and extras needed for booting onto your EFI partition:
Open Terminal and type:

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sudo -sEnter your password at the prompt and press enter.
Next, you'll type these commands:

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mkdir /Volumes/EFI
mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI
cd /Volumes/EFI/ExtraClick on the Finder icon and click on "Go" in the menu bar select "Go to folder..." in the text box type /Volumes/EFI and a finder window should open with your contents of your EFI volume. Open where you extracted "EEEPC 1000HE Pack" and copy the entire contents of "Chameleon" to your "Extra" folder inside the volume (don't copy the Chameleon folder, just it's contents). **Important: The DSDT in this folder is for the 1000HE it won't work on the 1000H or other EEEPCs.
 When the copying is done open Terminal again and you'll need to navigate to the extension folder in Extra:

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cd Extensionsand now edit the UUID.kext's info.plist:

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nano UUID.kext/Contents/info.plistin the plist you'll need to locate the Ethernet UUID key, it'll be the long string of 0's with "1234567890AB". Replace the last set of digits with your built-in Ethernet MAC address. To find that MAC address go to System Preferences>Network and click on the "Built-in Ethernet" on the left side. Click the Advanced button in the bottom right of the window and choose the Ethernet tab from the configuration sheet. The MAC address is given by the Ethernet ID field. You should type the digits in with out the colons. Once done press "ctrl-x" and say yes to everything.
We'll need to repair permissions to the extensions:

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chmod -R 755 *
chown -R root:wheel *Go back to the Extra folder and type:

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chmod 755 Extensions
chown -R root:wheel Extensions
kextcache -a i386 -m /Volumes/EFI/Extra/Extensions.mkext /Volumes/EFI/Extra/Extensions
Now add the correct permissions to the cache:

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chmod 755 Extensions.mkext
chown -R root:wheel Extensions.mkext
When you're back at the prompt you can close Terminal.

Almost done! Open, Kext Helper b7 and drag and drop the KEXTs inside the KEXTs folder in "EEEPC 1000HE Pack" type your password in the box and click "Easy Install" this will install your KEXTs.

Now you should be able to reboot!

The machine should now boot into Chameleon and then boot into Os X without any issues.

Congratulations! You now have Os X installed and ready to run!

Step 6: Fixing what's broken

The only thing that needs a fix is the sound. When the machine goes to sleep while the volume is muted it will wake up with the sound un-muted, however the volume icon will still show it's muted. This can be very annoying if you're in class, or somewhere quiet and you think your sound is off. To fix it, open up the "Fixes" folder in the "EEEPC 1000HE Pack" and then the "Sound" directory. Once inside, mount the sleepwatcher DMG and run both of the PKGs. When the installers are done, open terminal and type:

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sudo -s
and input your password at the prompt. Next, we'll need to copy the scripts into the /etc/ folder. Navigate to your folder where you extracted "EEEPC 1000HE Pack":

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cd /<path>/"EEEPC 1000HE Pack"and then to the Sound fix folder:

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cd /Fixes/Soundnow you'll need to copy the two scripts:

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cp rc.sleep /etc/rc.sleep
cp rc.wakeup /etc/rc.wakeupClose terminal and copy the "On Wake" application to your application folder, execute it and click on "Open On Wake Item Folder" keep this window open and go back to your Sound fixes folder in Finder, the Alias in the folder points to the Menu Extras folder on your system. Click on it and find "Volume.menu" copy it to your "On Wake Items" folder. On the dock you can right click on the On Wake coffee cup icon and select "Open at Login".

Everything is fixed! One side effect to this is that the Volume icon always resets to the first icon on the menu bar (far left) this is because when the KEXT unloads and OS X removes the icon the menu bar shifts to the right. The icon can be moved however, by hold down the ���€™��“ (Alt on the EEEPC) click and drag the icon where you want it.

Thats it!

Thanks to Thireus for the VoodooHDA KEXT and the scripts for Sleep Watcher, and thanks to rcfa for his work on the DSDT and KEXTs.

[GuyHersh]

Thanks!  I'm working on installing it this way right now.  I had to copy my leopard DVD to an external Hard Drive.  Then, I set it to the default HDD in the BIOS, and then I was able to use hexidecimal code "80" to boot it with the boot-132 disk.  Its currently installing!

By the way, I'm getting database errors when trying to view threads when logged in.  I was able to reply to your post by clicking on your user name, then chose show posts by this user, and then replied to this post.  It's a pain, but it works.  I just wanted to find a way to reply to this to let you know that your work isn't for nothing (and RCFA of course!)

[GuyHersh]

I hope you update this soon.  I'm hopelessly lost at what I'm supposed to do with all of these files in rcfa's Utilities.  Also, the first time I installed, and then updated to 10.5.7, my video was all screwed up.  everything was just black and white, but completely unuseable.  I did use the regular 10.5.7 update instead of the combo update that you recommended.  Wouldn't see why it would make a difference since I'm updating from 10.5.6 anyway, but we'll see.  Currently reinstalling.

Also, where the heck is the dsdt.aml file in the Utility archive?  He mentions it like 10 times in the 'EeeMacMods" text file, but I can't for the life of me find it, or know what to do with it for that matter.

[GuyHersh]

Well I still had the corrupted graphics problem, but I booted with "-x -f -v cpus=1" where -x invokes safe mode and I'm able to work in OS X.  I'm assuming that i'll have to replace the AppleGMA950.kext again, but I'll wait for the rest of your tutorial before I go screw things up 

[GuyHersh]

Alright, I'm finally up and running.   I kinda had to realize that RCFA's utitilities is more of a software/driver repository than an installation package (which is what I was thinking it was before).  I installed all the kexts, chameleon, software updates, and DSDT, and I'm able to boot without any commands (no need for cpus=1, etc).

GenericCPUcontrol finally shows 2 CPU's for me, and its throttling them like a champ.  RCFA was right, its nice having an install knowing exactly what kexts you replaced (Video and bluetooth) and what kexts you added (voodoo power, sound, etc.), and nothing else has been hackintoshed.  Seems to be much cleaner and problemless.

[pwm8]

Guy or LonelyTV, can you provide some more details on the post-install.  I have followed everything so far, and have an install and upgrade to 10.5.7.  In my first attempt, I think I screwed up the DSDT stuff because once I did that, my machine became unbootable (either in safe mode or otherwise).  The DSDT program gave me an error message-could that have something to do with it?  Can you provide more details?

I am at the point of having a working install with 10.5.7, all kexts installed, booting using the Boot-132 disk.  Also, can you confirm that we have to edit the com.apple.plist file?

[pootify]

I uploaded RCFA's latest file package here:

http://www.zshare.net/download/605611433d191175/

[GuyHersh]

Guy or LonelyTV, can you provide some more details on the post-install?

Hey.  Alright, to answer your questions in a nutshell, you do not need to edit the com.apple.plist file if you apply the DSDT patch correctly.

To apply the DSDT, extract the DSDT patcher folder first to your desktop or something.  It creates files in a subdirectory, so the patch won't work if you're running it from the RescueSD.dmg file.  (If you're running it on an SD card then you should be fine).

In the DSDT patcher on the right side, I hit the checkbox for "Apply DSDT patch to:" and then chose my OSX partition in the drop down below.  You can run the patch at this point without any of the other options selected. It should say that it was patched successfully.  If not, try the force compile option.

After installing the DSDT patch on my machine, I no longer needed any flags on boot (-f -v cpus=1 is no more), and it's working great!  As I said earlier GenericCPUcontrol also shows 2 CPUs and reports the CPU usage correctly.

Let me know if this works for you!

[LonelyTV]

Guy or LonelyTV, can you provide some more details on the post-install?

Hey.  Alright, to answer your questions in a nutshell, you do not need to edit the com.apple.plist file if you apply the DSDT patch correctly.

To apply the DSDT, extract the DSDT patcher folder first to your desktop or something.  It creates files in a subdirectory, so the patch won't work if you're running it from the RescueSD.dmg file.  (If you're running it on an SD card then you should be fine).

In the DSDT patcher on the right side, I hit the checkbox for "Apply DSDT patch to:" and then chose my OSX partition in the drop down below.  You can run the patch at this point without any of the other options selected. It should say that it was patched successfully.  If not, try the force compile option.

After installing the DSDT patch on my machine, I no longer needed any flags on boot (-f -v cpus=1 is no more), and it's working great!  As I said earlier GenericCPUcontrol also shows 2 CPUs and reports the CPU usage correctly.

Let me know if this works for you!

Phew, looks like database issues are fixed! Now I can reply and finish this up!

Guy and pwm apparently if you want to install your DSDT patch WITHOUT patching it to your install you can put the DSDT.aml that DSDT Patcher makes into the "Extra" folder that Chameleon 2.0 makes. It will auto patch every boot.

I'll get on it to get things finished up here shortly.

[pwm8]

Thanks guys!  Partial success-the key was taking the DSDT Patcher program out of the dmg and installing it on the desktop.  I did the method where I put the dsdt.aml file into the Extra folder.  First boot-good, no flags necessary. 

However, there must be a kext deal I need to mess with because I got a message that the machine could not find a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.  I think I need to reinstall the VoodooPS2.kext.

[pootify]

When you guys did the patch, did you check the new HPET option?

[pwm8]

Yes, that was the problem-at some point I had uninstalled voodooPS2controller.kext because the ReadMe file said it didnt work well with Boot-132.

Reinstalled and now I'm up and running.

Pootify-I did not check the HPET option.

[SheepNervous]

Quick question guys,

During the OS install did you have to repartition the HD in Disk Utility? If so is there a way to get around that, I would like to keep my XP installed and just install Mac on the second partition I have.

Thanks for any info!

[LonelyTV]

Thanks guys!  Partial success-the key was taking the DSDT Patcher program out of the dmg and installing it on the desktop.  I did the method where I put the dsdt.aml file into the Extra folder.  First boot-good, no flags necessary. 

However, there must be a kext deal I need to mess with because I got a message that the machine could not find a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.  I think I need to reinstall the VoodooPS2.kext.

I too ran into that problem, I can't remember exactly how I fixed it (which is why I'm slow on updating this post) but, I do remember installing the KEXTs to the main drive as well as reinstalling VoodooPS2.kext. Now, if only they would apply the Elantech patch to the driver we can have a fully working Trackpad with the ability to turn off and on tap to click!

[LonelyTV]

Quick question guys,

During the OS install did you have to repartition the HD in Disk Utility? If so is there a way to get around that, I would like to keep my XP installed and just install Mac on the second partition I have.

Thanks for any info!

You can use gpartd to repartition your drive. I would advise you to download Ubuntu (non-netbook remix) and boot into the Live CD. With that you should find something about partitioning in either Preferences or admisitration (something like that). There you can resize the NTFS partition (if you have only one) or resize the two stock parition without causing any damage to them. Then using disk utility you can "Erase" the partition you want to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and you're good to go!

Hope that helps!

***BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE FILE SYSTEM*** 

[SheepNervous]

Quick question guys,

During the OS install did you have to repartition the HD in Disk Utility? If so is there a way to get around that, I would like to keep my XP installed and just install Mac on the second partition I have.

Thanks for any info!

You can use gpartd to repartition your drive. I would advise you to download Ubuntu (non-netbook remix) and boot into the Live CD. With that you should find something about partitioning in either Preferences or admisitration (something like that). There you can resize the NTFS partition (if you have only one) or resize the two stock parition without causing any damage to them. Then using disk utility you can "Erase" the partition you want to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and you're good to go!

Hope that helps!

***BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE FILE SYSTEM***

Thanks LonelyTV,

I have tried those steps but unfortunately the OS CD wants me to redo the partitions with the disk utility, no idea why. Has anyone else been able to do this? Could this be a problem with the image that Asus gave us on these models?

[pwm8]

Uggh.  Kernel Panic while trying to record sound from mic-in port using Audacity on my new retail install.  Im going to try to reinstall Thireus' VoodooHDA kext instead of the one included in the install package, as that was working well before. 

Is anyone else having sound issues with the sound kext package on RCFA's install pak?

[pootify]

anyone having problems with VoodooPS2Controller? my power button no longer works, and the tilde key (to the left of the 1 key) registers a different character.

[evilscientist]

After updating to 10.5.7, I'm unable to actually get OS X to boot all the way up unless I boot with the -x flag. If I don't, I get the endless blue screen & HD light just flashes away. Should I reinstall the 950 kexts?

[ppar]

yes... that seemed to fix the same problem for me.

[Mailyfesux]

What are the benefits for installing the retail version other than it being cool? 

If it aint broke dont fix it?

[GuyHersh]

What are the benefits for installing the retail version other than it being cool? 

If it aint broke dont fix it?

The benefits as I seem them are:

1.  Being able to install any Apple update without it breaking the installation. (at most just reinstalling a kext).
2.  Knowing and understanding the only things that are different from your installation versus and actual mac.
3.  Possibly better performance as there are no-unneeded hackintosh items.

[LonelyTV]

What are the benefits for installing the retail version other than it being cool? 

If it aint broke dont fix it?

The benefits as I seem them are:

1.  Being able to install any Apple update without it breaking the installation. (at most just reinstalling a kext).
2.  Knowing and understanding the only things that are different from your installation versus and actual mac.
3.  Possibly better performance as there are no-unneeded hackintosh items.

4. Updating SHOULD work using the Apple Updater.
5. Bootup time is now somewhere around 40 seconds where it use to be a 1 minute 40 seconds.

[rcfa]

Couple of quick things:
a) my package contains a ready to use dsdt.aml file.
b) the entire EFI boot partition is on the disk image I provided, since it's an "entire device" image of a rescue boot SD card I made. So you can simply use something like

dd if=/dev/disk1s1 of=/dev/disk0s1 to install your entire EFI partition.

After that you only have to write the boot block. Saves a lot of time..

I'll leave the writing of detailed instructions to someone else

[rcfa]

Uggh.  Kernel Panic while trying to record sound from mic-in port using Audacity on my new retail install.  Im going to try to reinstall Thireus' VoodooHDA kext instead of the one included in the install package, as that was working well before. 

Is anyone else having sound issues with the sound kext package on RCFA's install pak?

Thireus' package is very noisy. The other works just fine, but you have to install the HDA Preference Pane, and set the sliders in there to the proper values, otherwise, by default, things are muted.