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 Upgrading Advent 4211 / Wind from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5
Vanseb
post Nov 7 2008, 22:27
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Hi everybody.

Many thanks for this short information topic, and for the topic about the installation on a Wind.

Here I give my experience with the 10.5.5 update.
Doesn't work tongue.gif
The problem is simple ; everything seems to be allright, bu after the reboot, I have no finder... If I relaunch it, nothing appends. After watching the restart box, I saw the Finder process reboot, without command from me.
I'll try three installations, a few modifications by removing kext, disk repair, but the problem is the same. I precise the computer is a Medion E1210.

For the moment I'll stay with 10.5.4, I'll try later a new installation, maybe 10.5.3 to 10.5.5

Have a nice day !
Sébastien.
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post Mar 20 2009, 21:18
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Paul,

Works like a charm - just need the bump to 10.5.6 now!

I only got my Advent 4211 yesterday, within 5 mins I had the extra 1gb ram in and an hour later my Hackingtosh was done.

Only £199 fort he netbook, £10 for the ram and no need for a new wifi card thanks to the native drivers I found here also.

A Mac Netbook for £209 + OS X

I'm a very happy bunny :^)

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post Apr 11 2009, 11:39
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Spot on once again Paul, there was a little worry when it restarted before I got into the OS, then got a Kernel panic style dialogue the next boot, but third time's the charm! Reinstalled all the kexts to be safe, and I'm away.

Much like johnwin; Refurbed 4211 for ~£200, RAM for £10 and OSX (I'll also be buying a copy of Snow Leopard when it's released) which will be ~£80. Not a bad little machine!
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post Jun 12 2009, 17:21
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QUOTE(dan-k @ Sep 18 2008, 08:34) *
Which kexts need to be re-installed? All or just the GMA950?

I loaded the GMA950 and rebooted. The system hangs during boot. I can boot into safe mode, so I repaired permissions to see if that would help clear the hang. No good. System still hangs.

Any ideas ?

Thanks



Ok, The upgrade to 10.5.5 worked and like everyone else I only had 800 X 600 so I ONLY reinstalled the GMA950 kext.

Rebooted and system hung on the gray apple logo screen, the cursor would change from a black pointer to a color pinwheel. I let this go on for about 5 mintes before giving up.

I rebooted into safe mode (use -x at the boot: prompt) and, like asae, reinstalled:

- gma950
- appleintelframebuffer
- clamshelldisplay

rebooted and I am again in 1024 X 600 mode. biggrin.gif
battery indicator is working
photo booth works (but cuts the bottom off @ 1024 X 600? Anyone know a fix for this?)

So the upgrade is not as straightforward for some (like me) but isn't that hard to fix..

Funny, the whole reason I upgraded to 10.5.5 is so my audio out jack would work. The wind speakers aren't that loud so I like to use headphones or speakers... I'll repost when I get around to trying out the auido out jack.

Thanks again for everyone's help!
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post Jun 16 2009, 11:27
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Hello there paul, i'm new here so be gentle!

I'm about to try and get os:x going on my Advent 4211 and would like to know if installing from scratch (as i am) would i begin the steps you've listed in this thread here after step 38 in your main guide?

36. When you have booted back into OSX, insert the disk containing the 10.5.4 delta update.
37. Double click the 'MacOSXUpd10.5.4.dmg' to mount the image.
38. After the image has mounted, run 'MacOSXUpd10.5.4.pkg' and step through the installation process. Restart when prompted.

if so do i restart first after getting to 10.5.4 or do i start installing 10.5.5 straight after 10.5.4 is finished?

also if you or anyone else reading this knows of any solutions to the audio jack problem and the wificard problems you listed in your main guide i'd very much appreciate it, thanks

like i said i'm new to all this and this is my first go at installing leopard on my machine
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post Jun 25 2009, 14:37
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hi i need some help. i have installed mac os 10.4.8. it was installed grand but i open the applications or open kext files. i need to know how because i have no sound or video and i cant get onto the internet either so could you please help me

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post Jul 5 2009, 18:38
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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 18 2008, 10:38) *
NOTE: I have assumed that you have installed via my guide, any other setups will probably work but are untested biggrin.gif

Pre-requisities: Working system on 10.5.4!

1. Download 10.5.5 from here
2. Mount DMG
3. Run Terminal
4. Type 'sudo passwd' and enter your password
5. Set your root password (and confirm)
6. Type 'su root' and enter your password
7. Type 'while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done' (the terminal window should just 'freeze' (it's processing a loop))
8. Run the updater (MacOSXUpd10.5.5.pkg) from the volume you mounted earlier. When it completes do NOT restart
9. Switch back to the Terminal window
10. Press Ctrl-C
11. Type 'exit' (and then again) to close terminal window
12. Switch back to updater and press restart
13. Party on down! biggrin.gif

NOTE: When the system boots, you'll need to reinstall the video drivers, just drop the kexts back onto the kext helper and reboot when prompted.

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PS Kudos to netkas for the handy command line!
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post Jul 5 2009, 19:17
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Device(s): Advent 4211/OSX10.5.7
Pre-requisities: Working system on 10.5.4!


I never managed to get the Kalyway version to update to 10.5.4 successfully, I tried half a dozen times & each time was left with a broken machine. A friend pointed me at the WindOSX86 image, which is 10.5.4. I loaded that & it worked fine. Just to be safe as I knew it all worked, I added all of Pauls kexts etc. I had got the realtek wireless working under the kalyway image, but couldn't get it working with the WindOSX image (but suspect that was me...) I had bought a Broadcom airport card anyway when I first started playing with OSX, so I fitted that & I had a fully functional system ! I wanted to run iLife09, so I needed to get to 10.5.6, so I hit the "update software" button & ran the apple updater. I ended up with an updated system but had lost the keyboard & mouse. I went on the web, found this is a known issue & there is a package to fix it. Not wanting to start again, I tried pluging an external keyboard & mouse in which worked ! I downloaded the package, ran it, rebooted & the internal keyboard & mouse worked again. I now have a dual boot WinXP/OSX10.5.7 system & only boot windows to use my 3G dongle. My system has 3 partitions, WinXP, Leopard & a Shared FAT32 partition for music, photos etc. It has 2GB RAM & a 320GB disk - Its a beaut !
I bought a refurbished 4211 off PCWorld & built another for my daughter, I bought the family pack leopard & ilife09 as I am going to buy the Intel Atom PC chassis off Aria.co.uk & build a desktiop using the same image. I am a convert, shame Apple can't do a reasonably priced system like this !
I bought a 12V car adaptor & am about to order the 9 cell Wind battery I found on ebay, so I am fully mobile.
Regards,
Mike.
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