Acer AOD-150 Crash-Reboots at First Boot Video

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installing on Acer AOD-150
2. First boot, video loads, and then reboot

What netbook are you using this on?
Acer AOD-150

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest 8.2 for Snow Leopard.

Please provide any additional information below.
I thought 80211 or ATA kexts might be to blame so I removed them, but same
issue.  Will now do a manual install from another drive.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by NighTa...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 4:03

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Let me know how the manual install does.

I dont know what the problem might be. The only thing I can think of is that on 
the Mini 10v, the latest bios 
version has problems during the install and it won't complete.

Original comment by Meklort@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 1:59

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Thanks for the quick response.  I didn't have time last night.  The install 
appears
to go fine.  I wonder if I'd have any issues if I just bypassed initial setup by
touching whatever that file is.  I should try that before I reinstall again.

Also, I don't have the latest BIOS, because the latest BIOSes don't let me use 
my 3G
card.  (they seem to only allow Option cards and not Sierra Wireless cards to 
initialize)

Original comment by NighTa...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 2:02

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OK, I successfully installed via retail.  If you give me your e-mail address, I 
can
send you a list of the kexts I'm using along with my com.apple.Boot.plist.

In brief, I installed build 10A432 from a desktop onto my netbook hard drive.  
I used
the shortest GMA 950 GFX/EFI string I could find.  I used 27ae patcher on the 
Snow
Leopard kexts.  It turned out that in order to get them to load, I had to put 
them in
S/L/E instead of Extra; I also deleted the non-patched kexts that lingered.

I haven't tried to get sound working.

When I started, with only the VoodooPS2 and fakesmc kexts, I couldn't boot 
since the
CPU wasn't recognized.  I used your NullCPU kext to resolve this.  Then I had 
an ATA
error, so I used Netkas' IntelPIIXATA kext.  That wouldn't load without your 
IOATA
kext, although I might be able to use an original copy from S/L/E.

I upgraded to 10.6.1 successfully, and patched my DSDT.aml.  I am using 
Chameleon RC3
with your nice Netbook-oriented theme!

Thanks for all your help.  I now have an Acer netbook (AOD150) running Windows 
7 Pro,
SnowLeo 10.6.1, and Ubuntu, alongside a storage partition.  I have installed a
touchscreen, Bluetooth, and a 3G modem.  My netbook kicks ass, in part thanks 
to you.

Original comment by NighTa...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2009 at 10:53

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Hi NighTalon

I am having the same issue as you with the reboot after install. 

I restored a Snow Leopard retail DVD to en external USB hard drive while running
Leopard on the system. I then used the Bootmaker on the USB drive, rebooted off 
it
and installed SL to my AOD-150. Reboots every time it launches video. 

I would be grateful if you could please send me your kexts and describe to me 
how I
go about solving this. 

Many thanks
Roger
roghae@hotmail.com

Original comment by rogerha...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2009 at 1:10

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I have got the same problem with a D150, any chance you can send me your kext 
list and Boot.plist too?

Many TIA
Nick
nk00@live.com

Original comment by nicolai.amter@googlemail.com on 15 Oct 2009 at 2:00

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I need any help or instructions you can give me. The install seemed to go fine, 
but I
am stuck rebooting and rebooting. Any help or explanation would be greatly
appreciated. Why are we seeing so many problems when the D150 is said to be the 
most
supported system?? Email me if necessary  lrodriguezvodak@gmail.com

Original comment by lrodrigu...@gmail.com on 19 Oct 2009 at 8:49

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To all having trouble with the automatic restarts... Make sure you have the 
latest BIOS from Acer, Version 1.11. I 
was having the constant reboot loop as well but after I updated my BIOS, it 
worked perfectly.

Original comment by jaromirr...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 1:47

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So, funny story: I deleted a kext I thought I didn't need anymore, rebooted, 
and now I 
kernel panic.  I think I restored all the necessary ones, so I don't know which 
it is.  I was 
also having some trouble with the Intel GMA kexts, so I reinstalled SnowLeo 
after 
deleting the system folders, and I still have the same issue.  I'm going to try 
the beta of 
this netbook installer and hope I don't permanently destroy my Windows 
bootloader...oh 
no.

Original comment by NighTa...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2009 at 8:20

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Updating BIOS to the latest version solves this problem.

Original comment by tomas.sa...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2010 at 11:23