Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #3,809 · 2008-12-16 → 2009-12-19
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@biird

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,126,579 historical readers.

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Member Number #3,809 Joined 2008-12-16
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-12-16 → 2009-12-19
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#1,635 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #401 by Thread Reach (1,126,579 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #3,809 · Joined 2008-12-16
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (3) · AMD OSx86 (2) · DSDT (1) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
3 (75%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @biird contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install
“I finally upgraded my AMD box to SL. Everything appears to be working except About This Mac; it's crashing, logging out and logging back in like it would back on 10.5.2...I can't seem to find a fix for this on SL (tried the old patches, not…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-19
694,068 dossier reads
9.6.0 Kernel, Based on Voodoo
“probably com.apple.Boot.plist has hard stated entry to mach_kernel_voodoo? Just check this and change to mach_kernel. Then put in any kernel you want, andys 9.6 fits the newst system.kext and works, or just wait until xnu is ready to go! P …”
10.X Core2009-01-04
351,844 dossier reads
9.6.0 Kernel, Based on Voodoo
“Hmmmm I cant get USB mounted and I think it's because the System.kext is 9.6, but my kernel is still 9.5…mach_kernel.voodoo still shows as 9.5 and when I rename it to try to use just mach_kernel, I can't boot...Any ideas?”
10.X Core2009-01-04
351,844 dossier reads
10.5.6 Released
“I'm on an AMD w/ Voodoo 9.5 Kernel and I am posting from 10.5.6. I downloaded and installed the Universal OSX86 Installer and selected Install PC_EFI v9. After that, I downloaded and used the DSDT Patcher GUI and selected all the options. A…”
10.X Core2008-12-16
80,667 dossier reads