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Member #90,038,339 · 2011-12-30 → 2013-03-03
#37 by Dispatches #71 by Author Reads #41 by Thread Reach Member #90,038,339 AMD OSx86 Chameleon / Boot-132 Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@gils

InfiniteMac community contributor with 194 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (155,364 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 2,758,111 historical readers.

Dispatches 194 Ranked #37 of 6,691
Author Reads 155,364 Ranked #71 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 2,758,111 Ranked #41 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 51,788 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #90,038,339 Joined 2011-12-30
Active Window 2011–2013 2011-12-30 → 2013-03-03
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Macmini early 2006 /blanGsak 10.7.2
Acer 8930 G / core2duo T6500 / NV 9600 GS m / Lion 10.7.3 / ML 10.8.2 / w7/8
Asus M5A97pro / FX 8350 / Asus HD 7950 CUII v2
GA-78LMT SP2 / FX 6100 / P x4 960t / Sapphire HD 4850 1024
MSI K9neo v1 / Atlon 4800+/ Gigabyte HD 5450 512
test kernel 12.0 AMD ;)

Tuto : hack-my mac.fr/index.php/forum/48-pc-bureau/28494-tutoriel-amd-fx-buldo#28896

CG opérationnelle : HD 5450 512 / HD 4850 1 / GT 610
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#37 of 6,691 by Dispatches (194 notes) · #71 of 3,454 by Author Readership (155,364 reads across 3 dossiers) · #41 by Thread Reach (2,758,111 cumulative reads)
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Member #90,038,339 · Joined 2011-12-30
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AMD OSx86 (82) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (26) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (26) · Retail DVD / USB (18) · ALC889a / Audio (13) · ATI Radeon (11)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 5 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @gils (3)

155,364 cumulative reads on threads started by @gils

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
kernel 12.0 AMD SVP
goodnight, The good news is that Niresh ML 10.8 moved through OSInstall. mpkg, I tested a vein attempt with kernel RAWX86 11.4, it was expected that it will not start but I still say that the processor is recognized with the FSB, maybe a…
Lion – Catalina124,114 reads
2012-09-14 · 59 notes
kernel : AnV_kernel
hello, I confirm works very well on my core2duo kernel AnV, I said that I run on a version ML10.8.3! kernel-log Dec 11 19:10:12 localhost bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1355249412 0 Dec 11 19:10:34 localhost kernel[0]: rtclock_init: Taking bus…
Lion – Catalina20,026 reads
2012-12-11 · 6 notes
HD 4850 1024 en 11.5 no CI/QE
I post a little trouble graphics acceleration, phew: silly: I got my 11.5 with a kernel SHIFT AMD RAWX86 4.11, the result is very good, the gear reacts even faster than version 11.4, in short, I have kept the same method to install than…
Lion – Catalina11,224 reads
2012-09-22 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @gils contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Lion with AMD
“What is best Flash Version for 10.7.3? I notice in Safari my video is stopping and playing on youtube videos, I need to know which Flash Version is best. you disabled the C1E in the bios, it just so that your sound card is not installed is …”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“OK then... I have 5770 and exotic works for me...have you tried that? houla ! la HD 5770 est ootb avec GE=No ou Yes !? et pour la HD 4850/4870 , il suffit de copier le devid dans ATI4800Controller.kext/contents/info.plist , ( 0x94421002 pou…”
Lion – Catalina2012-11-07
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thanks, but your tutorial is in French and google translate is not translating it that good. Edit: those instructions look like they're for 10.7.4 as well. ok , je ferais une traduction en anglais ce weekend .”
Lion – Catalina2012-10-25
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Can I do the same method installing Lion 10.7.3 dmg as I did with the Itakos L2 dmg? I thought someone sent me a message telling me to use the Itakos L2 dmg for it. You're saying use the official 10.7.3 dmg file? If I replace the finder and…”
Lion – Catalina2012-10-25
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNNl19GvSs&feature=youtu.be c'est ton voodoo qui plante ton système , essayes avec -legacy pmVersion=0 -f -v , avec Macdrive de ton win , essayes de le virer .”
Lion – Catalina2012-10-24
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“IATKO's L2, and my mac side failed again. This is weird, I went on my windows 7 side and ran utorrent to finish up a download on it, I also ran Jdownloader to copy links from it so I could download from my mac side. So I saved those links a…”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-24
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Godofwar, try these tutorials for Lion: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=278181 (I got it to work using this one) hack-my mac.fr/index.php/...fx-buldo#28896 (this is very good also) Back up your Snow Leo before trying an…”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-17
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yes, xmaniak! You'll have full 64-bit app support with a Buldozer CPU. Only the kernel will be 32-bit, therefore some hardware devices that relies only on 64-bit drivers (kexts) won't be usable. I don't remember any that falls in that categ…”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-08
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I compiled a 10.7.4 kernel with a mix of patches with R:A:W 's patches and the anv's legacy kernel 0.5.1 for on the fly patching, it boots up for x86_64 and i386 without instant reboot. but gives a kernel panic near where launchd would star…”
Lion – Catalina2012-08-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“First of all, thanks to RAW x86 for his great job. Get the (still) latest osx on a (relativelly) cheap AMD machine is the pinnacle of hackintoshing. I have lion 10.7.2 running 32-bit on an Athlon II x2 250 with bronzovka v4 kernel. It's nic…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hi. I registered on this forum just to reply on this topic. I've got Lion 10.7.2 running on AMD. 32-bit only though... I installed it to another partition from my Snow Leopard, replaced the kernel, added kexts and replaced the Finder.app wi…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@R:A:W:X86 hello, ok, this info was not clear in my research, the FX is 3SE. Will we one day run correctly the K10 as a 64-bit? Or will you join the circle of it missing processors like the IBM PPC? It is true that with a E1220 processur Un…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-02
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“It is about SSSE3 not SSE3 support. Only the following CPU are capable (SSSE3 + 64-Bit extensions): • Lion Vanilla-Kernel compatible Intel • AMD Bulldozer • AMD Bobcat (mobile APUs / embedded CPUs, most likely graphics won't work) • VIA Nan…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-02
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I'm not sure if this is against the rules or not. But does anyone know of a VM in existence that has a working boot up for AMD? I don't currently have the time to spend trying different things out. All I want it to do is run xcode to develo…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“….. Also, ich habe mir die beiden Patch-Dateien von Dimitrik und R:A:W:X86 intensiver miteinander verglichen und festgestellt, dass sie zwar den AMD Prozessor mit aufführen aber nicht explizit den K10, kannst du mir zustimmen GILS ?. Mir is…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-29
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“gils can u tell me the steps u took for your 10.7 installation on Asus M5A97PRO / Phenom x4 960t / yep ! hack-my mac.fr/index.php/forum/24-problemes-dinstallation-pc-amd/19491-iatkos-l2-sur-pc-amd”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-29
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@frisco2 hallo, Es ist wahr, dass die Google-Übersetzung nicht groß ist, habe ich nicht alles verstehen? Welches Programm sprichst du? Handel und was Sie erreichen wollen? ist es am besten, dass Sie Ihren Job mit jedem teilen, wie Dimitrik,…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-29
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Merci d'utiliser la traduction google . Je viens de tester la distro blanGsak v4 équipé de kernel AMD traité sur ce site , pour confirmer le non boot sur les processeurs AMD k10 en 32 bit et encore moins 64 bit comme prêtant frisco2 ! j'ai …”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-28
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“as told i tried this boot: -legacy -v PCIRootUID=1 didnt worked, still same problem hello , bizarre !? c'est quoi ta carte graphique ?”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-27
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“thanks gils and wastez... i have updated chameleon to build 2.1 r1927 now it lets me boot lion … but stucks on hdd partition ntfs version 3.1… here's the screenshot i forgot to mention…i am using guid partition table and snowleo works fine …”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-26
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hi..i followed these guides http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=278181&st=0 hack-my mac.fr/index.php/forum/24-problemes-dinstallation-pc-amd/19491-iatkos-l2-sur-pc-amd#24625 i had a working sl 10.6.8 with chameleon bootload…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-25
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“i got SL 10.6.8 working using nawcom's modCD…can i make lion work too. If so ..plz suggest the steps. My Specs: Mobo: AMD 890GXM-G65, BIOS - v1.13, mfg: MSI Proc: PhenomII X4 955, 3.2GHz, Graph: PCI ATI Radeon HD 4350, 512MB DDR2 (mfg: MSI)…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“It appears to be launchd that makes use of SSSE3, which is actualy open-source (I haven't yet looked it up) - but even if we could patch it, there might be other (closed source) parts of the OS that make use of that instructions set, so an …”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thanks to you for the small info I needed to get OS X 10.7.2 going on my AMD Phenom II X4. I did need to add to my flags "pmVersion=0" (is it because I installed a kext that's not supported?) Everything seems to work (except Final Cut X <--…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Where can you please upload your kext? De iatkos L2”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“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. salut , Essayes ce kext .”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-30
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“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 H…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-27
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“For my part, when I was working CS5 with 10.6.8 with my SL x4 955.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-27
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“If it works, and in 32 bit application on crash with Leo 10.7 and works fine on 10.6.8 SL with 64 bit kernel Nawcom's legacy.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-27
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“hard ware.fr/articles/682-1/architecture-amd-k10.html zik mao.net/2011/10/amd-nouvelle-architecture-k15-bulldozer.html http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices le Phenom 2 x2 x3 x4 x6 = k10”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-26
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“yep ! http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25858.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-25
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“In summary, I restart my 10.7.4 Update on my Untel with a vanilla kernel 11.4.0, I added the kernel of R:A:W: X86 by renaming it "custom" and then with the flag custom -legacy GraphicsEnabler=No PCIRootUID=1 -v (EAH 5870) Nikel!”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-20
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You have to replace AppleFileSystemDriver.kext with the 10.7.3 version or it will not work. There's a post and a link to download the next a few pages back. the problem is not there. Despite replacing the kext, the messages remain the same.”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-19
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Merci , je teste ça demain , je n'ai pas tout suivi , avec google traduction , ce n'est pas simple !”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I write latest mach_kenel and i end job on kernel ! You download mach_kernel_v6__Lion_10_7_3 (letit bit.net/download/36523.3bc43424e8c386d930a260d31ce4/mach_kernel_LION_v6_bronzovka.zip.html) ! It is kernel work standard programm. If stop w…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X (LION) 10.7.X on AMD CPU,i have see that someone rellese mach_kernel 10.7.3 for AMD but i do not know how to use it,what to do whit it,there is no descryption how to use this kernel,on what to use it ;/. . . You have…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-22
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“perhaps also the fact that there is no graphics acceleration, the processor is solicited and avoids the shelving of certain application. it's still odd that Safari is not concerned. Someone has tested a Lion DP2 to see if the phenomenon was…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-21
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I noticed with the HD 5450 graphics without accélaration, after 2 hours walking copy / paste still working and I had only three applications that bugger. As soon as I replaced the HD 5870 (native) bugs were almost immediate. the problem doe…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-21
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yepp, it's good for browsing web and instant messaging, but there's a bug that's causing xpchelper to crash when it's booted for around 10 minutes. You won't be able to configure the file system either, so word documents won't be able save …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-17
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hey that guy used a part of my guide, he even linked it. hehe, awesome! (: Here's a link to the guide once again. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=278181 For those who are wondering, you CAN'T just BOOT and install lion …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-17
1,075,710 dossier reads