Lion with AMD

[gils]

Originally Posted by lilmofo812 I read about 75% of the pages on this thread and I have yet to come across any sort of guide on how to install Lion. Here are some specs that might be pertinent in getting me updated to Lion AMD Phenom X4 64 Model: 2 Family: 16 ATI Radeon HD 4650 (was a pain to get this working in 10.6.8..guessing lion won't be better) I use apple's usb to ethernet adapter for internet (Realtek 8185L wifi and Yukon 88e8071 are installed but couldn't find a fix to get them working) 4GB DDR2 Ram (have 4 more Gigs I'd like to use if anyone knows a fix for this in lion or even snow leopard) I have no access to the app store in snow leopard (I've tried every fix possible with no luck..if you have new ideas here i'm listening ) so I can't get the update to lion that way. I don't have an Intel PC to work off of so that route is out. Wasn't sure if I would be able to download a retail copy of lion along with some combo updates and get the install working that way? Also I am not sure how I would go about applying the kernel (once I know which one I need to download). I used nawcoms ModCD to get my snow leopard install working (if that helps at all). Thanks!!

hello ,

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=278181

http://www.hack-my-mac.fr/index.php/...-l2-sur-pc-amd

[majicones]

How Are you guys installing lion? I've tried to do iatkos l2 inside of snow leopard but it gives me an error half way through. I have also tried Niresh Lion 10.7.3. Any help would be greatly appreciated. An in depth guide would be pretty awesome. I have an AMD Athlon II P360 dual-core processor (64-bit). Also I have my wireless card working but it only sees networks that are extremely close unlike in windows and Ubuntu. Please assist if you can.

[tejaswi.rohit]

Originally Posted by silverkid Anybody knows how to use kernel cache with AMD? It takes a while for my system to load every kext each time i boot... and i believe niresh did it with his boot flag ("Kernel Cache"=\amd)

I just added KernelCache=Yes in the boot.plist file. No problems as such,everything works fine and boots real quick

[rizki_alkaf]

Originally Posted by tejaswi.rohit I just added KernelCache=Yes in the boot.plist file. No problems as such,everything works fine and boots real quick

woww! can you give me your spec, what lion version and kernel version you are using?

[silverkid]

Originally Posted by tejaswi.rohit I just added KernelCache=Yes in the boot.plist file. No problems as such,everything works fine and boots real quick

I tried that, but it says i have to specify the kernel cache path. Then i tried building caches which gave me a kernelcache file. I put this file in root and booted with "Kernel Cache"=\kernelcache ...and instant reboot So i'm at a loss here, please help

[m28ew]

Originally Posted by silverkid I tried that, but it says i have to specify the kernel cache path. Then i tried building caches which gave me a kernelcache file. I put this file in root and booted with "Kernel Cache"=\kernelcache ...and instant reboot So i'm at a loss here, please help

run this command:

sudo kextcache -v 1 -a i386 -a x86_64 -m /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions

then boot normally ( without: -f )

all kexts have to be located in /S/L/E

EDIT:

if there're some kexts located in /E/E, then you can run this command

sudo kextcache -v 1 -a i386 -a x86_64 -m /Extra/Extensions.mkext /Extra/Extensions

[tejaswi.rohit]

Originally Posted by rizki_alkaf woww! can you give me your spec, what lion version and kernel version you are using?

AMD X6 1090T
AMD XFX 5770
Gigabyte 890-GPAUD3H

Mach_kernel V4
Lion 10.7.2
Chimera 1.9 bootloader . I haven't specified any kernel cache folder but it works o.O

I have run pfix in myHack. That must have created the the cache for me in the correct folders just guessing

[m4f1050]

Ok, let me get this straight... Those of you running non Bulldozer CPU's have it working but 32-bit? (no Finder app?)

[R:A:W:X86]

Originally Posted by m4f1050 Ok, let me get this straight... Those of you running non Bulldozer CPU's have it working but 32-bit? (no Finder app?)

Bulldozer CPUs can boot with 64-Bit enabled.
Finder is a pure 64-Bit App in Lion, so yes it works.

Running 32-Bit software requires the SYSENTER opcode, which is not avaible on AMD CPUs when 64-Bit is enabled & software beeing lunched in compatibilty mode.

There is no workaround for this atm.

[MadMungo@iinet.]

Hey guys

I am getting I/O errors from my Harddrives under Lion. Just wondering what kexts ATI/AMD SATA people are using.

All is working ok with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.