Comments on: OS X on an MSI Wind

By: vdanen

vdanen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:04:47 +0000

No idea, sorry. I don’t have any Tiger systems to try on. I’m presuming you tried the above and it didn’t work? You really should have 10.5; Tiger won’t even run on one of these things so you need a copy of 10.5 anyways.

By: Iwer

Iwer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:52:27 +0000

How do you install chameleon to the usb drive, when running tiger?

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:53:00 +0000

vdanen, thanks for the tip! I was expecting some *** to appear while I tiped. Sory for the inconvinience

Excelent post, and support!

By: vdanen

vdanen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:18:09 +0000

@Nicolas: how do you know sudo is not taking your password? Are you expecting it print something to the screen when you type? It won’t. Type your password and press enter — you won’t see anything echo to the screen when you type.

I’d point you to the sudo manpage, but I think it’s kind of assumed you’d figure that out and I doubt it mentions this.

Hopefully that helps.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:34:09 +0000

Hi, thanks for the post!

I´m having a little problem when installing Chamaleon..

I type: sudo ‘/Users/nicolassallustro/Desktop/OSX86Tools.app/Contents/Resources/fdiskutils.sh’

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type “man sudo” for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

At that moment I cannot type my password, just Enter

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Nicolás.

By: nate

nate — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:56:26 +0000

thanks for this! there are so many confusing tutorials that don't seem to work. i did have to use the separate chameleon installer mentioned above (the latest osx86tools gave me that same black w/ blinking cursor as others) .. and also yr path is a little off for the patches, on mine it was /Volumes/USB/System/Installation/Packages/Patches/. also the realtek drivers you linked to didn't work for my U100, but the RT2860 drivers from ralink worked, and also i had to download and install the GMA950 drivers to get it to show the right resolutions. (found those both by googling and landing on this page.) thanks again.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:04:52 +0000

Many thanks! There are a lot of confusing guides out there. This one really works. I used MSIWindosx86.iso, OSX86Tools 1.0.149 (important NOT the new one 1.0.150). Just updated to 10.5.6 without problems.

By: vdanen

vdanen — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:46:19 +0000

joesmo: did you install the Chameleon EFI stuff as noted? That’s the only thing I can think of that might be why you’re getting that blinking line. I’ve never experienced that. Also, are you using newer versions of these things? I’ll have to check the version of OSX86Tools that I used, but maybe a newer one has something broken? The version I used was 1.0.149; if you have something newer maybe see if you can find that particular version?

By: joesmo

joesmo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:57:34 +0000

hey guys, i followed this step by step and all that i get when i try and boot with the usb stick is a black screen with a blinking line…Can somebody help me??..I have a msi wind U120 straight out of the box.

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