Loved my macbook air, but needed something cheap and smaller in size so i got a hackintosh netbook (samsung n150) from ebay. It was working great, until I saw an application called osx86tools, which had a tool to change the cpu name. I decided to click ‘set to default’… once i restarted it no longer worked and said the cpu family was unsupported (edit – not actually 100% sure if that was the cause…). Bit of a stupid mistake, but posting this here because it might help someone fix that error.

When booting up, press tab and you should get boot options. press tab again to get the command line and enter (no quotes) “arch=i386 recovery=y” and hit enter. doing it with just one (either arch=i386, or recovery=y) won’t work (didn’t for me anyway) – it has to be both.

It should work. Hopefully. Might have to do it every single time though…

note to self… don’t play with useless settings that won’t even do anything… also gotta get sound working on it now…

http://code.google.com/p/netbook-installer/issues/detail?id=311 for more

Update: under /extra there is a com.apple.boot.plist. Add this: (no quotes) “arch=i386 recovery=y” to kernel flags ( in terminal cd /extra;sudo vi com.apple.boot.plist; then edit (press i to enter insert mode) – add ‘arch=i386 recovery=y’ between the two >< under kernel flags)

If none of your kexts are loading (no sound, no wifi, and there was), might be worth checking if the kexts are installed. if not, find them again (they were in some auto made backup dir) and put them into kext helper b7 (which will auto install them)

also, try rebuilding the kext cache. there was an app called something updater that did it for me, but i can’t remember the name… i’ll try and edit this when i’m back on that machine.