OSX Lion on an Atom CPU

[MalibuJack]

I've had my first success getting OSX Lion to install with minimal headache using a patched OSX Lion 10.7.1 kernel and TonyMac's UniBoot USB kit.

I installed the Uniboot and OSX 10.7 (App Install) to an 8gb thumb drive, The UniBoot installer has an option to install laptop support, that has the Intel GMA and several other drivers that are used by the Acer Revo (and the Lenovo S10 also shares most of the same hardware)

I then downloaded and copied the patched 10.7.1 kernel to the boot stick so it'll make it through the install.

When the install completed, I rebooted into the boot stick, and instead of reinstalling, I went into the Terminal console and copied the mach_kernel file from the boot stick, to the Revo boot disk.

Next you'll have to reboot from the stick, but choose a verbose boot from cameleon for the INSTALLED OSX Lion disk on your Netbook/Nettop

It should now boot, The one thing I noticed is you DO NOT rollback the USB drivers, as they recognize the USB ports properly.

Next steps are to get HDA Audio drivers, (On the Revo, the Nvidia ION LE drivers) And Video so I can get native resolution on the Nettop, on the S10, it should recognize the native resolution.

The issues I've had with the S10 (first generation) that have prevented a complete install (kernel panic) is driver selection is trial and error, with the patched kernel, it gets almost to the installation, it seems to fail with a kernel panic on the SATA driver, but I'm almost past that, I just want to get the first ATOM steps documented and completed. And the Nettop didn't need too many "Non-Vanilla" drivers to start.

I want to try doing a combo update to 10.7.2 and then rollback the kernel to patched 10.7.1 to see if it works okay before I go any further.

[MalibuJack]

Update:
10.7.2 update worked fine, replaced updated Kernel with patched 10.7.1 before reboot (I actually had a backup of the kernel and did a chameleon boot of "mach_kernel_atom" that I have backed up along side the /mach_kernel and then replaced the old mach kernel.

Started applying kexts, had several kernel panics, but VoodooHDA recovered audio, now working on the nVidia ION acceleration, and just native display detection and support as I have it manually set to 1920x1200x32 in the com.chameleon.Boot.plist (This used to be the com.apple.boot.plist file in the /Extra directory) but the newest versions of Chameleon and Chimera use that file instead)

[MalibuJack]

For what its worth, Lion runs too slowly on a 1.6ghz Atom single core (even with hyperthreading and 64bit mode enabled) to be very useful.

I really hope Apple releases an iCloud client for older versions of Snow Leopard for Legacy systems. Aside from XCode 4.2 I don't see much reason to upgrade an already working Netbook.

[rolf]

Hi there!

Congrats! Nice work! May I ask you which hardware you used to be exactly?



Regards

Rolf

[imacosiris]

hi
Can you please post the links to the software that you use to patch the install ?
Also can you tell us the complete specs of your lenovo ?
thanks in advance