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Member #16,236 · 2009-10-22 → 2010-01-21
#970 by Dispatches #62 by Author Reads #1,660 by Thread Reach Member #16,236 Voodoo / XNU Kernel AMD OSx86 Retail DVD / USB

@kailm

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (229,304 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 235,259 historical readers.

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Lead Dossiers 1 229,304 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #16,236 Joined 2009-10-21
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-10-22 → 2010-01-21
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Need a pc cpus core2duo class and above. (AMD same class may work dont know) · Older cpus work, only with hardware virtualization (I believe p4 670 series and above)
Archive Standing
#970 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #62 of 3,454 by Author Readership (229,304 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,660 by Thread Reach (235,259 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #16,236 · Joined 2009-10-21
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (3) · AMD OSx86 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

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Leopard 10.5
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @kailm (1)

229,304 cumulative reads on threads started by @kailm

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
This is my first attempt to pass this mac installation knowledge down. So here it goes. Need a pc cpus core2duo class and above. (AMD same class may work dont know) Older cpus work, only with hardware virtualization (I believe p4 670…
Leopard 10.5229,304 reads
2009-10-22 · 30 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @kailm contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
“download an app called efistudio and edit it via that. You may be missing tags or editing the improper location for the file. (i have seen it in 2 places) Using the app, it makes sure you edit the right one the system booted from.”
Leopard 10.52010-01-21
229,304 dossier reads
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
“I stopped receiving notifications on updates to this thread oh well... @drummer wow thanks for that typo there, with all the switches out there, I must have blindly put the - in front of busratio. I fixed the first post. Cannot believe I mi…”
Leopard 10.52010-01-09
229,304 dossier reads
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
“you might want to try the vmx configs in the post above, or try selecting the voodoo 9.5 kernel during install. In short, if you can get the CD to boot and install, it should work on the real vm system. The cd when it boots to install it us…”
Leopard 10.52009-11-06
229,304 dossier reads
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
“thanh: try using the voodoo 9.5.0 kernel instead of the 9.7.0 kernel. There are some vmware vmx configs you can try also to get software exec stack working using these options. (edit your freebsd.vmx config in notepad ) Idea is to stay away…”
Leopard 10.52009-11-05
229,304 dossier reads
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
“your supposed to hit f8 at the chameleon bootloader screen and type in the flags. you may try any combo of flags if the initial does not work out. -f -v -legacy cpus=1 platform=86PC -x -x32 when you see the chameleon and hit f8 your flags w…”
Leopard 10.52009-11-04
229,304 dossier reads
iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto
“So your install goes completely through? I assume you picked the right options. What is the string you put in at the chameleon v2 boot loader after hitting f8? Go into your laptop's bios setting and verify that virtualization is enabled.”
Leopard 10.52009-11-04
229,304 dossier reads
iDeneb in VMware
“see my post on how to install iatkos v7 mac osx 10.5.7 on vmware. iatkos v7 leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on vmware 6.5 howto it might work with ideneb.”
Leopard 10.52009-10-23
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