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rcfa:
Hi,

I'm quite familiar with Unix and Mac OS X, but not with all the hackintosh stuff.
Got myself an eeePC 1000HE because I need something cheap (not a disaster if someone spills a coffee over it when I sit in a cafe, or when the luggage gets lost) that can run without AC power for 6h+, and that's good enough for e-mail, web, and iApps.

I have a 160GB drive that came with the machine, and it has an XP install on it, which I want to keep as is as a backup.

I further have an empty 500GB 2.5" drive that I want to use for OS X, plus potentially a small XP partition (VW car maintenance manual is a Win-only app).

Traditional retail installations seem to have issues with the eeePC 1000HE. Are these history with the new boot loader, or do I still have to use iDeneb 1.3 plus upgrade to 10.5.6 afterwards, as the only description of a successful OS X install on the 1000HE I could find suggests? (http://eeemac.blogspot.com/2009/03/install-os-x-on-eee-pc-900a-901-1000.html then look for Norm's comments)

Also, 1000HE specific issues aside, what's the procedure to create an Chameleon 2.0 based retail install?
How to install two OS?

In essence, I'm not clear as to
a) the sequence of partitioning, installing which OS, installing of the boot loader
b) if chameleon by itself patches issues with retail installations of OS X, or if the OS needs to be patched separately
c) what needs to be on the EFI partition, and which parts thereof Chameleon installs, and which I have to take care of myself.

Hey, I said I was a noob ;)

I should just add: I can install/prep the disk on an intel Mac, and then just toss it into the eeePC 1000HE, there's no need from my side to do it all on the PC. So if doing most/all of the disk prep on a Mac makes things simpler, I'm all for it...

n1ght28:
Foolish human hahaha,

only joking,

From one noob to another, its the easiest thing i ever did once i figured it out after two weeks of installing os's and formating pen drives,

I've got a triple boot 1000he going using these easy easy steps,

1) use the guide that this norm chap you speak of was obviously talking about to install OSX http://smallcomputing.net/2009/02/25/how-to-install-os-x-on-asus-eee-pc-1000he-netbook/

but instead of making the one partion with the disk utility make how ever many you need, i have a setup of this,
i)OSX partition 20gb
ii)xp partion 20gb
iii)easy peasy (linux) 20gb
iv)swap for linx 2.9 gb they say it should be twice your ram but i'm 1gb ram soon to upgrade to 2gb and i couldn't handle the pressure so i flipped out and went with 2.9,
v)the rest is just fat32 where i keep all my music documents and the like (osx can read ntsf but i'm lazy and disk utility can only format fat32 or osx formats,

2)so you have installed osx in the first partition now install any other os's starting with a windows one (vista or xp) i love cut down versions of xp and hate vista so xp it was,
the a linux os if your going down that road, and make sure you install GRUB (the linux bootloader on the linux partition) dont worry this is easy there is a options or advanced button right beside the last "install" button, which is nice,

3) use boot-123 to boot into osx and then just install the chameleon 2.0 package and your done, take out the boot-123 disk and pee dowwn your leg with happiness,

hope this helps,

n1ght28:
forgot to say if your doing this all without a external dvd drive use these,

http://www.msfn.org/board/install-USB-WinSetupF-t120444.html

for xp

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

for linux (make sure you format the pen drive before using this one and the osx one, the xp one has a formating tool in it, its called hp something something)

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=110388

for OSX,

rcfa:
Thanks for the answers. Since I posted my question I got quite a bit further, same trial and error method you referred to ;)

Anyway, what I have now is this:
3 partitions on a 500GB drive:
- EFI reformatted to HFS+ with Chameleon 2.0RC1 on it  => ~200MB
- Mac OS X with iDeneb 1.3 install upgraded to 10.5.6 and most things working (ethernet, web cam, sleep, screen resolution, but not WiFi (although after I put the WiFi card from my AppleTV in, it works, of course) and not sound (yet)) => ~410GB
- another HFS+ partition of precisely 64GB in size. I use this to store installers, etc. while I'm at risk having to re-install Mac OS X from scratch. Eventually I will dd the 64GB partition from the original 160GB drive (I shrank the XP partition down to precisely 64 GB before), and hopefully Chameleon will then recognize that as a bootable XP partition, but time will tell. Windows is the lowest of my priorities.

In other words, my system is workable, but it's not "clean", which means I would like to have a vanilla install on the OSX partition and any required driver mods, etc. on the reformatted EFI partition, such that I can upgrade the system safely and don't have to wait for some hacked up upgrade package to show up (or not).

To test vanilla bootability i dittoed an original Mac OS X 10.5.6 install DVD onto the 64GB partition. That works because ditto won't delete other files/folders unless there's a collision, so all my hacking tools I have in a separate folder. Chameleon also lets me boot from this partition now, but unfortunately the boot won't complete successfully.

In other words, I need more/different stuff in my Extras/Extensions folder on the EFI partition. Hopefully it's just a matter of time until I figure out what, because once I can safely boot that DVD disk copied to a partition, I should also be able to boot a regular install. Once the former works I can do an archive&install of the vanilla OS onto the iDeneb partition, and if all works, I can delete the "Previous Systems" folder and have a full vanilla install.

Hopefully that will happen sometimes soon, because I rather use computers than hack them ;)

rcfa:
First the good news: I have a Mac OS X retail install on my EeePC 1000HE, booting with Chameleon 2.0RC1 from an HFS+ reformatted EFI partition on a GUID partitioned disk drive.
I had to hack some extensions to put in the EFI partitions's Extra/Extensions folder such that they override the extensions in /System/Library/Extensions. This was sufficient to get the system to boot.

To get proper screen display and BT that can be turned on/off unfortunately overriding from the EFI partition didn't seem to work, so there are three extensions that need to be replaced on the root partition. The good thing is, even if these get replaced by an OS update, the system likely will still boot, just at a lower screen res, but that's good enough to put the required kext's back into place.

Other than that, there are of course a bunch of extra kexts required, but since these don't overwrite/replace Apple kexts, that's not any worse than any number of third party driver kexts that one might install on a real Mac.
So the total extent of hacking the original install currently is replacing three kexts that are not essential for booting the system.

Now the bad news. After some trials and tribulations I also have now a WinXP partition on this drive. I can access it from Mac OS X (even read/write thanks to the Paragon NTFS driver I have installed on my system).
I even get it to start to boot, just enough that the WinXP boot screen flashes for a second, and then I'm back at the BIOS, and then Chameleon.

If my intuition is correct, WinXP has trouble with the GUID partition scheme. So, NOW WHAT???

If anyone has an idea on how to convince WinXP to boot from a GUID partition, such that I can dual boot my EeePC 1000HE, I'd be golden, and could then start documenting what I did to get this all working.

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