Phenom: Positive feedback using Chameleon 1.0.11

[z3f]

Hey guys,

With Kabyl we're looking for more Phenom users, but finally i got a tiny email today about a success:

"just to let you know chameleon allows phenom to run 9.3.0 kernel
before couldnt run any efi kernels thanx a million"

Could you confirm this too?

[diskeeper]

Yes, I use 10.5.2 with 9.3 kernel and AplleSMBIOS.kext 1.0.13 on my machine

[cgsheen]

I was able to install the 10.5.3 Update on my 10.5.1 install after I installed chameleon. So now I'm using chameleon. 9.3 modbin kernel, smbios27, and the 10.5.3 Update installed with Zeph's ASU...

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM S2H
AMD Phenom 9550 (2.2GHz quad core)
2GB DDR2 PC6400 (800MHz) RAM
onboard Radeon HD3200 IGP

[z3f]

Thx guys, just found the other topic with the positive results

[cgsheen]

Am I the first person in the Universe to have 10.5.3 running on a Phenom?
Is there some kind of medal for that?
:-P

[diskeeper]

Updating now to 10.5.3

[cgsheen]

Gook luck! And THANKS!
You're the one who spurred us on. I probably wouldn't have tried this otherwise.

(on mine, after Zeph's ASU was complete (and I only ran the 10.5.3 update, none of the others so far) it stalled booting the first time. That made me nervous... I restarted it again and used -f at boot and it fired right up. I've booted and/or restarted it a dozen times since (without any "startup options") and it's always loaded just fine since then.)

[diskeeper]

Yes, finished updating! Working fantastic!

[LawlessPPC]

@z3f
that was my mail but diskeeper was the 1st to take the leap and its him and yourslf I thank once again. Also as a side note since I am now using chameleon it has allowed for the first time the AMD software update to download and patch the files for the 1st time. So am I brave enough to run it or do i build a quick and nasty disk to try on??????

L8rs
LawlessPPC

[zephyroth]

A test partition seems to be the better solution if you don't like surprises.