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Old 11-28-2008, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by mercurysquad View Post
AMD is identified as Core Solo or Core Duo on purpose. For that part of the kernel, we had the option to report the processor either as one of Apple-supported CPUs, or report it as Unknown. There is no way to identify the cpu as anything else. Unknown doesn't work for some apps (installers specially) so we went with Intel Core..
I'm not sure about this. In System Profiler the processor is detected correctly as AMD Opteron, in 'About this Mac' (I'll shorten it with 'ATM' now) is it Intel Core Duo. If a program/installer needs system information, from which source it will take them? From there where System Profiler gets it or from there where ATM gets it? What about the tools from zephyroth and PCwiz which could write custom text in the processor and memory fields in ATM? I never had a tool which doesn't working because of an unknown processor, and only the Parallels installer checked for an Intel CPU. But this was easily to remove. I think the most people would like a correct cpu name in ATM. An kernel option for this would be better, so that the cpu is detected either as 'unknown', 'Intel' or the correct type. BTW, what is the option to specify the maximal usable memory?

For users which have problems with a kernel panic directly at the start, try booting with -f to fix all kernel extensions, this works for me. I added it in apple.com.boot.plist, my system actually crashes nearly all ten minutes, no matter which kernel. It's rather frustrating.

2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

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