OS X Lion on S10e

[HabsFan9]

Hi Rolf,
I'm sorry I kinda ditched this forum after we got the lion dp 1 bootable (I bought a MacBook and stopped using my ideapad). I was just thinking that if apple keeps the 32 bit binary's in the final release of lion and you manage to get it bootable, you might be able to replace the 64 bit finder.app with a 32 bit version from one of the dev previews. I have no idea if this if possible or not, and it would probably be pretty hard to do, but you could probably get it working.

[rolf]

Hi Rolf,
I'm sorry I kinda ditched this forum after we got the lion dp 1 bootable (I bought a MacBook and stopped using my ideapad). I was just thinking that if apple keeps the 32 bit binary's in the final release of lion and you manage to get it bootable, you might be able to replace the 64 bit finder.app with a 32 bit version from one of the dev previews. I have no idea if this if possible or not, and it would probably be pretty hard to do, but you could probably get it working.

Hello HabsFan9!
Well no problem, I was inactive for a quite long time, too However like I said: I want to wait until Apple releases the final version of Lion (probably they'll do on the 13th of this month).
If the final version is out, we'll see if they still did include the 32 bit binaries (however I don't think so ) - and depending on what decision Apple made, I'll further look into bringing it onto our Ideapads (by the way, I'm using a real Macbook as well ;D)

And thank you for your trust! I'll do my best! If the final version won't run, I'll try to get the last 32-bit capable developer preview to run on the Ideapad (should be DP3 or something).

Regards,
Rolf

[rolf]

small update here:

We won't be able to install Lion on our S10 and S10e's. The Finder.app is 64-bit only in Lion, meaning there will be no way to get 10.7 running on the 32-bit Atom CPUs (at least without heavily hacking everything I guess )

Haven't been able to run DP2 on my S10e so far, because of a not-working kernel :S


Regards,

Rolf

[mani]

Damn it! I hope a workaround can be found. It sure would be nice to have Lion up and running...

[HabsFan9]

Well we could probably find a way to run Finder in 32-bit mode or just replace it with Finder.app from dp2. I won't be able to though because my ideapad refuses to boot Mac OS at all (it just turns off after the booting process).

[maxb1963]

Dear All
Beside my S10e I also own a Intel D945gclf2 with Atom N330 processor. Recently I found the following manual for a installation of Lion. The D945gclf2 board is very similar to our S10e. I successfully installed Lion on this board and found out that my atom N330 was running with a patched 32bit DP4 atom kernel.

I tried to do the same with my S10e (adjusted DSDT together with all our SL kexts) but had no luck. Maybe due to the fact that I only own 1,5 GB ram.

Eventually somebody has more luck.

Cheers
Max

http://sites.google.com/site/nozyczek/h ... 2-atom-330

[humph]

... Intel D945gclf2 with Atom N330 processor

The 330 is 64-bit capable. So I guess that's why it works for Lion, whereas N270 etc is limited to 32-bit instructions..
(Even though the kernel & extensions is booting 32 bit mode, the finder etc is running as a 64 bit app. Same as my 1st generation C2D MBP does).

[goldenchan]

Rolf,

Based on your instructions, I use the GM version of 10.7 (11A550) disk image and edit the OSInstall.mpkg as in your paragraph in blue color, I can install Lion onto my S10-3c successfully, except the following issues:
1. system will have kernel panic whenever restart or shutdown (even during reboot just after Lion installation);
2. on-board Ethernet port not working;
3. built-in wifi not working; (so, there is no entry in my NETWORK system preference)
4. built-in keyboard not working after booting into Mac OSX, still working during booting in dark background in -v mode;
5. my onboard video card GMA x3150 support 800x600 in Lion only, but 1024x768 in Windows 7 Starter (32-bit);

I have run repair permission on my booting partition under disk utility, but still cannot fix the problems.

Any idea on how to fix the above problems? Thanks a million in advance. (As I do not have a DSDT file, is it the cause of the problems? If so, where I can get/download an valid one for my S10-3c?)

PS. adding extensions below from another post of MaLd0n seems fix the problem of restart / Shutdown:

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext

My Ideapad S10-3c configuration:
Atom N455 1.66GHz/2GB RAM/160GB HDD/x3150/Realtek Wifi card
Mac Using: iMac 21", MacBook Pro 17"

[goldenchan]

Dear all,

Anyone gets a 64-bit version of extensions:

_ApplePSController.kext
_AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
_VoodooHDA.kext

As there are still 2 major outstanding items that I cannot fix on installation Lion GM on my ideapad S10-3c with Atom N455 (core solo supports 64-bit with hyperthreading)

Keyboard not functioning after booted into 10.7;
Ralink 3090 wifi card not working (only connected to unprotected access point), even after installation of Ralink USB2080 or RT2070 driver and wifi utility.

Anyone know which internal 802.11n wifi card works with S10-3c on Lion, as I intend to buy such card from eBay. Someone said those for Dell 1510 will not work!! any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Golden

[brian_constante]

One quick question in regards to your Mac OS X 10.7 install. What are your specs. for laptop i.e., Type of processor, hard drive, and memory.

Thanks,

Brian