Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #226 · 2008-02-06 → 2009-01-07
#458 by Dispatches #1,887 by Author Reads #1,710 by Thread Reach Member #226 Chameleon / Boot-132 NVIDIA GeForce AMD OSx86

@althon

InfiniteMac community contributor with 17 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (5,427 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 215,703 historical readers.

Dispatches 17 Ranked #458 of 6,691
Author Reads 5,427 Ranked #1,887 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 215,703 Ranked #1,710 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 5,427 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #226 Joined 2008-01-18
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-02-06 → 2009-01-07
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
P.S. · Mobo: ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe nForce4-4x · CPU: ADM Sempron 2800+ 64bit · Video: GeForce 7300GT PCI-E · HDD: Hitachi SATA1 160Gb
Archive Standing
#458 of 6,691 by Dispatches (17 notes) · #1,887 of 3,454 by Author Readership (5,427 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,710 by Thread Reach (215,703 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #226 · Joined 2008-01-18
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (4) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AMD OSx86 (3)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@roisoft (7) @zephyroth (6) @Puttabong (5) @DoiX (4) @WinLinMac01 (3) @laxattack (3) @creative_ (3) @mrburns05 (3) @Firewalk (3) @bhast2 (2) @megaargon1 (2) @1207FX (2) @eard (2) @agrafuese (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
12 (71%)
10.X Core
3 (18%)
General
2 (12%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @althon (1)

5,427 cumulative reads on threads started by @althon

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Restart after Darwin Loader from DVD
I got the ISO with the right MD5 sum. After booting from the DVD, Darwin Loader show's up, Loading Extensions.mkext and then - reboot. Any idea? Asus K8N4-E Deluxe nForce4-4x AMD Sempron 2800+ 64bit GeForce 7300GT PCI-E
Leopard 10.55,427 reads
2008-02-19 · 11 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (13)

Direct links into threads where @althon contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“After this ( what is on the picture ) my PC is restarting. Any solutions? Please help! P.S. I make this shot from VMware to show you the problem, but I am talking about for the PC.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“That is the problem. I have the right MD5, but no boot.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-18
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I can't boot the DVD MD5 is right. Burn it on a DVD-RW. After loading mkext - restart. P.S. Mobo: ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe nForce4-4x CPU: ADM Sempron 2800+ 64bit Video: GeForce 7300GT PCI-E HDD: Hitachi SATA1 160Gb”
Leopard 10.52008-02-18
74,206 dossier reads
mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD
“Is this kernel PC_EFI only? Couse I'm without EFI and when I use this kernel I get instant reboot system.”
10.X Core2008-04-01
29,851 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update First Impressions
“[cite] eddie11c:make sure you have EFI installed or it won't Same thing. However, I'll be waiting.”
10.X Core2008-02-14
21,943 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update First Impressions
“The new kernel doesn't work for me Asus K8N4-E Deluxe / nForce4-4x”
10.X Core2008-02-14
21,943 dossier reads
DVD bootloader makes reboot again and again
“@kael, Yes I had black screen each time I start the Leo. No new kernel, couse it want pc_efi, witch not work for me. Performance was the same, I think couse of using the old kernel.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
6,517 dossier reads
DVD bootloader makes reboot again and again
“@kael, I make a successful install of iATKOS patched for AMD, everything works fine with the kexts from 1-st release of Zephyroth. Update with no problem to 10.5.2 with eddie11's pkg , but GraphicUpdate doesn't work. Pc_efi on iATKOS not wo…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
6,517 dossier reads
Restart after Darwin Loader from DVD
“I can't make install couse I can't boot from DVD. There is my CPU-info below. @ kael I have the same problem as you. Can't use pc_efi with this CPU. Each time I install pc_efi I get restarting system.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
5,427 dossier reads
10.5.2 crashes and reboots itself...
“Same here: ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe/s.754/nForce4-4x AMD Sempron 2800+/64bit GeForce 7300GT/256Mb/PCI-E”
Leopard 10.52008-04-10
4,603 dossier reads
EFI v8 on Rev 1 with mbr
“After installing EFI and replace the AppleSMBIOS.kext reboot and at the Darwin I press F8. Than I boot with -v and after loading .mkext the PC just restart. I tried with all available options like -v -f -x -s. The only thing that I can do i…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-07
4,324 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c
“Thank you man! Its working for me without any problem”
Leopard 10.52008-02-15
13,226 dossier reads
iwork 09 no 10.5.3 install..10.4.11 works..
“Where did you find it?”
Leopard 10.52009-01-07
3,295 dossier reads