Again, make sure your SnowUSB is no longer plugged in when the machine reboots during this process, your BIOS will still be looking for USB keys first.ġ0) Using KextHelper7, install VoodooHDA to get speakers working (I don't have mic working yet) and SleepEnabler to allow sleep (though waking makes my machine reboot anyhow I can live with that.) Use OSx86tools to Repair Permissions, then reboot.
Then mount 10.6.2 combo update image and let it do the update. Note: Pull SnowUSB out during installer's reboot, or else you'll just boot back into the USB key again.ĩ) Immediately install NetbookInstaller and let it finish. Use the installer's Disk Utility to reformat the drive and put the requisite HFS+ formatted partition in place. SL installer should start - follow steps as usual. Of course, plug it in, turn on Acer, hit F2 immediately and tell BIOS to boot from THAT USB key, hit F10 to save and reboot. You can, however, have a just-fine stable 10.6.0 system.Ĩ) Boot from SnowUSB. Your update to 10.6.2 will fail if you do not update the BIOS. Disk Utility may miss hidden EFI partition and if you have a bootloader from a previous attempt it can interfere.ħ) Update Acer D250 BIOS to 1.25!!! This may require an hour of work itself just to make bootable DOS key, but I just used the instructions here and they worked like magic.
Save yourself headaches of kexts for Atheros and just f'ing upgrade the card. I can't write a perfect how-to, but I do have a running 10.6.2 on a D250:Ģ) upgraded wireless card to DW1510 - works works works no question.
Anyone else have this problem? I really need to fix this as I got this netbook for my fiance for med school and it needs to sleep or I have to go back to windows.and from what I have seen windows 7 is really slow on this computer.ĭoes anyone know if Snow Leopard runs on the Acer Aspire One D250? What would be the correct way of installing it (kext combination)? It just repeats like this constantly and the only way I can get it to stop is to pull the drive out and mount it on my other computer. It will "sleep" (actually I think it shuts down), then it goes through the Acer boot screen, then instantly tries to restore the desktop (its all greyed out desktop with the white bars at the bottom showing the progress), and then turns back off right before it loads. Its did this before updating bios, sleepenabler, and from 10.6 to 10.6.2. From that install I just removed the two PS2 kexts and installed the voodoo PS2 controler, and I removed the reltek kext and installed voodoohdaĪlso forgot to say, my aspire goes through a weird loop when I try to get it to sleep. My wifi card worked out of the box using NBI 0.8.3 RC5. Still no sleep though, but sound and everythig else worked. I currently have bios 1.25, sleepenabler for 10.6.2, and an acer aod250-1584. i did same install and what kexts, bios settings, and did you use sleep enabler for 10.6.3 (he has a prerelease) or 10.6.2 I would also appreciate any information on this. For mic, i use voodoohda.kext and use the prefpane to adjust the monitor level for the mic. For sleep, I updated the bios to 1.25 and use sleepenabler.kext for 10.6.2. I used NetbookBootMaker 0.8.3 to create the os install.