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Mountain Lion Running on AMD Processors

There has been at least one report of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion booting to desktop on an AMD Phenom II x4 640! Please don't give me credit for any of this; Sinetek, AnV, The Connactic, Deltac0 and all the other folks at InsanelyMac did all…

Primary Author
@instant idiot Published 2012-12-31
Collection
Lion to Catalina (10.7–10.15)
Archival Footprint
27,045 historical reads · 4 curated field notes (from 5 dispatches) · 2012-12-31 – 2013-02-05
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@Godofwar (2)@instant idiot@akimoa@Lacedaemon

There has been at least one report ↗ of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion booting to desktop on an AMD Phenom II x4 640!

Please don't give me credit for any of this; Sinetek, AnV, The Connactic, Deltac0 and all the other folks at InsanelyMac did all the work. I'm just reposting.

DL Link: speedy share.com/JEwUY/mach-kernel

Synthesized Community Field Notes

4 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @akimoa 2012-12-31

u shouldnt give only half advises ...just because excitement m8

if people want to test they need also the patched corecrypto from AnV -> cl .ly/0o3s0d2c001A

Field Note #2 @Godofwar 2013-01-17

Someone got it to work with my cpu! ^_^

I've been doing stuff on my Windows 7 side for about over a month, I haven't even used my Mac side for a Month. I probably forgot how to do all this. I hope a decent guide comes out soon.

Buggy, they need to fix the graphics card problems. I think they say it won't work with the majority of Nvidia cards and some Ati cards... Well, were still headed in the right direction, I'm sure they'll fix that sooner or later. As of right now I'm sticking with my buggy Hackintosh Lion that acts strange and requires me to shut off computer incorrectly before I can boot it.

Field Note #3 @Lacedaemon 2013-01-23 ↳ Re: @Godofwar
@GodofwarAs of right now I'm sticking with my buggy Hackintosh Lion that acts strange and requires me to shut off computer incorrectly before I can boot it.

Same here! Have to force-restart at least once (normally twice) for it to boot, and it sometimes doesn't load my sound. :

Field Note #4 @Godofwar 2013-02-05 ↳ Re: @Lacedaemon
@LacedaemonSame here! Have to force-restart at least once (normally twice) for it to boot, and it sometimes doesn't load my sound. :

Mine does same thing, but as of right now I been falling out of love with the look of a Mac anyways. It's just that most of the Software I use is in Windows anyways. Also, I'm a bit disturbed that Apple tries their hardest to make their operating system only compatible with certain cpus, graphics card and etc. A Mac is an OS not a computer in my opinion.

Sources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #7930)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@GodofwarContributor22013-01-17 → 2013-02-05
@instant idiotPrimary Author12012-12-31
@akimoaContributor12012-12-31
@LacedaemonContributor12013-01-23