Update on kernel from Bronzovka..
http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2584
"NEW KERNEL mach_kernel V4 supported all old Intel AMD core but without emulator Ssse3"

Whee! Now we need some source code! :D This is getting exciting...

This is cool, now it supports old intel proccessors too. But is that all it does in this update, just more support to old proccessors.

I gave up on Niresh's DVD. No matter what I did, it would not boot.

I just installed a clean copy of Lion on a flash drive and replaced the kernel with an AMD version. It boots but I get a kernel panic saying: "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\"..."

Any ideas?

You are not using a kernel compatible wit your system. Did you get the right kernel?

Yes, I'm using the second kernel on this page:

http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?d...d=2584&page=10

I did the same thing and it's telling me that it can't find legacy_kernel

Well, I managed to get a couple of lines farther but now I'm stuck on:

"RTC: Only single RAM bank (128 bytes)"

What does that even mean?

I managed to get a little bit farther using rBoot. Currently, I'm stuck at: "Failed to load com.apple.driver.ApplyUSBOHCI -link error"

What can I do to resolve this issue?

Use the mach_kernel_V4 one at the top of his page
Or this page: http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2584
to get it to boot install your favorite chameleon flavor, then at the chameleon promp type -legacy cpus=2 busratio=16 arch=i386 GraphicsEnabler=Yes PCIRootUID=0.

At least that is what worked for me.
Doesn't have a working Finder though, because that one is 64bit only.

Asus M4A78 motherboard with AMD Athlon II x2 250 processor.
ati SB700/770 chipset.
ATI RadeonHD 4350 enabled using ATI4350.Fix.v2.kext. In /Extra/Extensions/

VoodooHDA273 for sound.

Disabler.kext in /E/E
EvilAppleACPIPlatform in /E/E
IOPCIFamily from the install in /E/E ( I think this one is for 10.6.2 or 4)


And in org.chameleon.Boot.plist I put -legacy -v cpus=2 busratio=30 (mine required this) arch=i386 -force64 (for when the kernel will support this) GraphicsEnabler=Yes PCIRootUID=0 into kernel flags.
Notice the changed numbers for cpus and PCIRootUID. Seems to make a difference, and is what our Russian friends are doing to theirs.

I got the 32bit finder at page 40 (or something, just look around and you will see the download link I made).

boot niresh dvd with cpus=1 busratio=11 -legacy "Kernel Cache"=amd Graphicsenabler=yes PCIRootUID=0 -v and I received " still waiting for root device.

:( Any help?

I have amd turion x2

I have not heard of a successful install with Niresh's dvd yet. lol.

How I can update to 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 xD? I really don't know, any help is good :).

As I've said (for the 7th time, just counted!) many times, you need to use iAtkos L2 or a real mac. You don't really "update", but you install it to it's own partition via Snow Leopard.

Run OSInstall.mpkg from iAtkos L2 dvd and you should be set, pick an empty partition and just drop in the kernel afterwards. :)

Try adding idlehalt=0 as boot flag

Thank you very much, I'm sorry, my english is so bad and I don't read all post :(.

Alright, thanks to the posts above, I've gotten a couple of lines farther but still no luck.

I'm currently stuck on:
"USBF: 0.949 AppleUSBEHCI[0x80x40800]::CheckSleepCapability - controller will be" and then it's cut off and the system freezes.

Any ideas?

It freezes to that part if I either

1) Have no working GPU drivers in use
2) I don't use -legacy

how I open the dmg file for view the contents?:(

can u please upload xpchelper from dp2 in show hidden files

root/usr/libexec/xpchelper

i would like to see if it fixes endless crash thats consuming cpu.

There is nothing wrong with the xpchelper, It's a kernel bug.

Making the XPCHelper issue slightly better...
 

Hey everybody,

When I saw that an attempt was being made to create an AMD compatible kernel of Lion, I dug out an old PC (all my newer systems are actual Macs) and installed 10.7.3 on it. I ran into the same xpchelper issue that everyone else here mentioned. Although I'm not a good enough coder to improve the kernel itself, I did manage to make the problem less annoying.

First up:

This AppleScript is very simple. It just launches Activity Monitor (so that you can see when xpchelper goes crazy. Then, it unloads the crash reporter (both from the user and as root) so that when xpchelper DOES crash, crash reporter doesn't go crazy creating system logs and writing them to disk. The downside is you can't get crash reports of other crashes, but for now, it's a huge help. You obviously need to replace adminuser and adminpwd with your administrative username and password. Then save the code in AppleScript Editor as an application. You can either save it to the desktop for quick access or use the login manager to set it to autorun. The downside is you still need to watch Activity Monitor for when xpchelper goes crazy, but simply clicking it and hitting the Quit Process button takes care of it until the next time it goes nuts.

I'm trying to make it so you don't need to do that:

This is a basic script that runs as an idle process and simply kills all xpchelper processes every two minutes. It does keep you from having to watch Activity Monitor but in my experience killing the process when its not going crazy leads to more app crashes, so its not ideal. Still, if you want to use it, again replace aminuser and adminpwd with the necessary details, compile and save in AppleScript Editor. This time you need to save as format Application, and check the box next to keep open.

I'm working on a method where it looks at CPU Utilization of the xpchelper processes and kills only the ones that have gone crazy. I don't have that quite working yet though, and it may need to kill all instances as the bad ones are crashing and reforming too quickly.

Anyway, hope that helps. On my system 10.7.3 is fairly useable on an old AMD system, which is pretty impressive given that none of it was possible just a couple weeks ago.

Or you can just chmod -x it :) so it's not executable, and crash dumps wouldnt be written AT ALL. It's not the xpchelper which is eating the CPU here, It's the ReportCrash (or whatever) process.

Hey guys,

I have an AMD Athlon II X4 645, and my "About this Mac" used to say "Unknown CPU 3.1 GHz". When I installed OS X, I didn't have a dsdt.aml; However, when I finally extracted and compiled my own, my processor now says "3.1 GHz Intel Core i5". Is it possible to install Lion now that it displays an Intel CPU? I've attached a screenshot of my current "About this Mac".

Thanks,
Lacedaemon

[quote=JadedRaverLA;57074]Hey everybody,

this works but most apps crash after bout 10 min except safr,and afew others
but when activitymon.app crashes cant run it any more



it still runs activitymon. but mess. is access denied over and over
so then it wouldent boot with out it so.........single user boot
chmod 755
got so excited. thanks thou.

No, it's just a text string :)

Any news on a newer kernel yet?

Hi, thanks for your help. What kernel do I need for Amd Phenom IIx4 965? Does a kernel exist for that? And how do I just drop the kernel in? Is there a new folder that will be created on my snow leopard side that has Lions operating system in it that I can browse and drop the kernel in some how? Thank you my friend. I can install Lion on Snow Leopard side with iAtkos L2, do I need to be at Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or is being at 10.6.6 for Lion disc alright too or you are unsure?


Anyone have any Iatko's Lion Wallpaper? Iatko's has a pretty cool looking lion logo.

PM'ed you with instructions.

Please help~~
 

Can you help me out with instruction as well? Thanks.

Wow, v5 is out!
Fix for old 1 core AMD cpus

sure sent, if you already have Snow Leopard running, use method 2.

Anyone got iCloud to work?

I hate to be a pest, but could i get a copy of those instructions as well? I already have a copy of SL running and would not mind trying out Lion. Thanks for the help.

Yes, could you also PM me with those instructions?

Anyone here working in getting LION on a VM? This is my primary usage...

Why instructions via PMs?

Post them here, please.

Well, It's not finished. I will post them up when I finished the write up. EDIT: Formatted, it's being currently being approved on Insanely.

As for iCloud not working it's because we're using a self-compiled kernel meaning we won't be able to use it.

Does xpchelper still crash with the latest kernels? :)

Yep :(
But only a few apps use xpchelper (TextEdit, Preview, etc)

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=278181 Here's the guide, anyway yes it still crashes, sadly.

Hi,

I have an existing Snow Leopard installation and am interested in installing/upgrading to OS X Lion. I followed your guide step by step, but every time I try to boot from my Lion partition, it instantly reboots the PC. During the post-installation phase, I didn't quite understand you when you said, "Install Chameleon using Chameleon Wizard on the harddrive." So I went ahead and used my existing bootloader to try and boot Lion, of course with your boot flags. I also tried using a USB stick to boot from it, but no success. Could the existing bootloader be the problem, and if it is, should I attempt to find the previously explained "Chameleon wizard" to install the proper one, then use fdisk to make my Lion partition my active one?

Thanks,
Lacedaemon

Well, Thanks for getting this kernel going.

I have installed and gotten a FX4100 AMD chip to boot/install Lion. Finder works and Itunes works and appstore works. It doesnt seem to like to run 32bit apps. DYLD needs to be patched so it seems and many more things. This has a way to go.

Many OSX86 devs are on a IRC server that i use. Including nawcom and others.

I have started a chan for AMD. irc.sojugarden.com #amd-hackintosh also people are in #hackintosh

Hello! Did you replace the mach_kernel file in the root of the installed Lion partition? If your machine reboots without showing any verbose (after kexts are loaded on screen and kicks into the system boot, your machine is either unsupported or your using wrong mach_kernel.

Try v5 or the one at the bottom (of the 5, the oldest one), but shouldn't make a difference. Charmeleon Wizard is a program you can get for Mac (Snow Leopard/Lion) that installs the latest version of Charmeleon (or update), with ease. It's a small application that downloads the latest trunk build and then even does the dirty work for you.

But, reading from that you need to replace mach_kernel. Open your Snow Leopard partition OR macdrive and replace the mach_kernel (it will be hidden, use showallfiles) on your Lion partition.

Thanks for replying, lunfai. Yes, I did replace the mach_kernel with the one in your guide, and the system did in fact list a bunch of kexts before rebooting. I'll go ahead and try the different kernels you described and report back. Thanks again! ^_^

Using a newer version of Chameleon might of been the problem, what build is the one your using? Let's add stuff.

OK, I have not yet rebooted into Lion but I have replaced the mach_kernel with the v5 one. I am using Chameleon v2.0-RC5_699 (please note: this is located on my Snow Leopard partition, not my Lion partiton. I think I'll have to use fdisk to make the Lion partition active if I want to boot from there.) Thanks for those updated boot flags, I'll try those out later once this version thing is sorted out.

The great thing about Chameleon Wizard is, it'll actually be able to upgrade your snow leopards chameleon to the latest build by picking partition, and you won't need to install it on the lion partition. :)

Hi I need help installing Lion. I am currently running snow leopard 10.6.8 on a Dell Inspiron M5030, AMD Athlon II P360 Dual Core Processor. I am a newb so please help with an easy solution.

I have 8gb ddr3 ram, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 series

CPU-Z TXT Report
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Binaries
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU-Z version 1.60

Processors
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2

APICs
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0 0
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0 1

Processors Information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
Codename Brisbane
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
Package Socket AM2 (940)
CPUID F.B.1
Extended CPUID F.6B
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping BH-G1
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 1908.7 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 9.5 x 200.9 MHz
HT Link speed 1004.6 MHz
Stock frequency 1900 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64, AMD-V
L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
Max FID 9.5x
Max VID 1.300 V
# of P-States 3
P-State FID 0x2 - VID 0x12 (5.00x - 1.100 V)
P-State FID 0xA - VID 0x0D (9.00x - 1.225 V)
P-State FID 0xB - VID 0x0C (9.50x - 1.250 V)


K8 Thermal sensor yes
K8 Revision ID 6.0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3


SOMBODY HELP NEED TO GET LION IT HANG AFTER FINDING BSD ROOT DEVICE FROM OSINSTALL PKG AND FROM USB INSTALLER SAME THING