Phenom: Safe kernels
Ok after having a nice working 9850 Phenom install of 10.5.2 i tried to put efi on only to find out that EFI wont work on phenoms. No if I'm right certain kernels are wrote for efi (correct me if im wrong). So any phenom users out there…
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Ok after having a nice working 9850 Phenom install of 10.5.2 i tried to put efi on only to find out that EFI wont work on phenoms. No if I'm right certain kernels are wrote for efi (correct me if im wrong). So any phenom users out there what kernels are you running.
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last kernel i used was modbin 9.2 for amd (32bit!) everything was running fine. Then when I tried to install efi it broke the whole lot. So what are the recommendations. My idea scenario is efi with latest kernel which is the best way to go about that.
Thanx in advance
LawlessPPC
bhast thats what i thought and found out to my cost. I thought thats the reason why the other dvds rebooted due to the efi.
So blast which kernel would you recommend. By the way what are your specs
depends on chipset if its sb600 then zephyroth amd 10.5.1
i dont know of any sb700 support check on osx86 forums
I am hoping to get a 9.2.2 AMD kernel thats 64bit thats non EFI anybody know the right direction to look
Thanx in advance
LawlessPPC
diskeeper i hope this is my holy grail already tried chameleon on a now defunked partition and booted fine so gonna rebuild a partition and try.
Thanx for the much needed info
hmmm well I can confirm that cameleon does allow 9.3.0 kernel thanx for neing braver than me. I was all ready to build a fresh disk just to try this. Guess now it time for the fresh applesmbios.kext. This should be in announcements.
Thanx Again
LawlessPPC
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EFI is installed on my system with a modified kernel (9.2), I tried with every kernel you can found on the net and it works with EFI.
The kernels you referred to must be the vanilla kernel (unmodified) but it works only for Intel cpus.
there are non efi kernels out there i have all of them backed up if you need them
but you have to install leopard with out efi to make them work
As far as I know every kernel works with or without EFI, but you must take care about AppleACPIPlatform which can be original if you use EFI but modified if you system is non-EFI.
you can't have efi on phenom systems
that is why it messed up
to beable to install leopard on your system you have to install it with out efi and don't install efi after you install leopard
Install Chameleon Bootloader v1.0.11, after install 9.3 kernel for AMD. Working flawlessly!
[cite] LawlessPPC:diskeeper i hope this is my holy grail already tried chameleon on a now defunked partition and booted fine so gonna rebuild a partition and try. Thanx for the much needed info
And now You can update the AppleSMBIOS.kext to the newest version!
Ya, worked for me too. 10.5.1 with the 9.3 kernel. I hope I get time over the next day or two to see what else will work... I need to try smbios and 10.5.2, 10.5.3
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @LawlessPPC | Primary Author | 10 | 2008-06-03 → 2008-06-19 |
| @bhast2 | Core Contributor | 4 | 2008-06-03 |
| @zephyroth | Contributor | 2 | 2008-06-03 |
| @diskeeper | Contributor | 2 | 2008-06-19 |
| @cgsheen | Contributor | 1 | 2008-06-20 |