#72 by Dispatches #532 by Author Reads #392 by Thread Reach Member #6,734 AMD OSx86 Chameleon / Boot-132 Retail DVD / USB
@lunfai
InfiniteMac community contributor with 95 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (21,267 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,151,447 historical readers.
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Joined 2009-05-15
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2009-05-15 → 2012-06-01
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MBP 2011 (Oct) - Mountain Lion DP 3 12A206j - i7 2.8 GHZ -
Intel ''Hack - Mountain Lion DP 3 12A206j - i3 2105 -
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- #72 of 6,691 by Dispatches (95 notes) · #532 of 3,454 by Author Readership (21,267 reads across 2 dossiers) · #392 by Thread Reach (1,151,447 cumulative reads)
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Distribution across 5 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @lunfai (2)
21,267 cumulative reads on threads started by @lunfai
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Recommendation? / Advise I've tried expirementing before but I only successfully installed once; Now I really need some help because frankly, I just click random boxes and as far as that got me was one successful install that didn't work quite as I expected since… | Leopard 10.5 | 11,826 reads 2009-05-15 · 24 notes |
| Nividia 8600GT 256mb Artifact Problems Nvidia 8600GT 256MB I've installed Ideneb and it's going smooth but when i move, resize, scroll down windows it suddenly reflects/flips the content of the window upside down. It's strange but graphic accelration is enabled and quartz is… | Leopard 10.5 | 9,441 reads 2009-05-25 · 14 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @lunfai contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Lion with AMD “Any chance there's a way to get lion onto my machine? AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ASUS Crosshair V Formula (990 chip) ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6950 2gb Onboard Realtek HD Audio OR Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium if that can be used. Intel Gbit LAN…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-26 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “i dont know if this is stupid question but... its possible to change/replace dsdt of niresh lion cd installation with dsdt of iatkos v7 cd installation? i bealive if replace it all work ok, beacause acpi driver is collegated with dsdt file.…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-25 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “ok now the installation it's next step... i replaced mach_kernel and now get error of acpi... unable to find driver for this platform... how to? i tryed to turn off in bios ACPI but dont work hdd is set on AHCI Niresh doesn't work imo. I've…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-24 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So I've been playing around with Lion a bit, trying to get everything working. There are 2 crucial things I need running: Wifi and Sound. In SL, I get wifi from an app called "Ralink Wireless Utility". It installed correctly in Lion, but wh…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “RRTN = I have a similar system...tried the custom kext but wouldn't start... did you remove the other sata kexts? ... I've tried the older snow kexts but they won't boot either... Make sure you repair your system files and verify permission…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-23 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Huh, seems like most kernel users are having video issues. I can't boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, otherwise the monitor loses the signal when entering the gui (GeForce 9800GT). Same result with the G92 enabler in iAtkos, rom injection, efi …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-22 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 – Catalina | 2012-04-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “WOOOOOOHOOOOOO! That "clean install" business really did the trick, thanks lunfai! I have a Lion installation running, but I've got a lot more post-installation work ahead of me, one major thing being Finder. Could anyone walk me through th…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So, even if I had a supported graphics card, it wouldn't have booted because of that IntelCPUMonitor? Also, shouldn't it say "systemShutdown False"? I'm in the process of finding a good graphics card, would the GT320 be OK? No matter what I…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-20 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “OK, I installed Chameleon on my 16 GB SanDisk Cruzer using Chameleon Wizard as instructed, and the boot process went way further than before! ^_^ The infamous kernel panic is gone, but another problem as risen, as you will see below and in …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “OK, I installed Chameleon on my 16 GB SanDisk Cruzer using Chameleon Wizard as instructed, and the boot process went way further than before! ^_^ The infamous kernel panic is gone, but another problem as risen, as you will see below and in …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-19 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Yeah, pretty much... Do you have any clue as to what exactly is preventing Lion to boot at this point? Everything up to that point is normal, can you install chameleon on another usb stick using chameleon wizard. If you updated the Snow Leo…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-18 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Should I delete the SleepEnabler.kext... in my Snow Leopard installation? I did a complete search of both the /Extra and S/L/E directories on my Lion partition and there's no such "SleepEnabler.kext". To lunfai; I updated Chameleon using Ch…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-18 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “@lunfai can you use my Finder.app that I uploaded in the guide that you posted or you shouldn't? It works, I used the one from OSX86 on page 9. Thanks for the suggestion! I will begin removing the previously mentioned plugins ASAP. How shou…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-18 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “OK, I'll try to take a pic of the problem using my iPad. For now, I got the boot process to go a little farther by adding the flag: pmVersion=0 By adding this flag, the "Mac Framework" successfully started, but it still kernel-panicked. I t…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I made a video with QuickTime capture flags without arch = i386 and I'm pretty amazed at the operation. the only problem I have is my apps crashing one by one except Safari, the idea to solve this problem is to let all apps open http://www.…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “The instant reboot would load the kexts but would never reach the black screen. It doesn't instantly reboot anymore; It loads the kexts, then continues on to a black screen, which is where the kernel panic appears. I've replaced the v5 kern…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “@dwash hello , hack-my mac.fr/index.php/forum/24-problemes-dinstallation-pc-amd/19491-iatkos-l2-sur-pc-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.insanely…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “OK, I have not yet rebooted into Lion but I have replaced the mach_kernel with the v5 one. I am using Chameleon v2.0-RC5_699 (please note: this is located on my Snow Leopard partition, not my Lion partiton. I think I'll have to use fdisk to…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Using a newer version of Chameleon might of been the problem, what build is the one your using? Let's add stuff. -legacy -x -v arch=i386 npci=0x3000 USBLegacyOff=Yes GraphicsEnabler=No” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I have an existing Snow Leopard installation and am interested in installing/upgrading to OS X Lion. I followed your guide step by step, but every time I try to boot from my Lion partition, it instantly reboots the PC. During the post-insta…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-17 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=278181 Here's the guide, anyway yes it still crashes, sadly.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-16 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Well, It's not finished. I will post them up when I finished the write up. EDIT: Formatted, it's being currently being approved on Insanely. As for iCloud not working it's because we're using a self-compiled kernel meaning we won't be able …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-15 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Can you help me out with instruction as well? Thanks. sure sent, if you already have Snow Leopard running, use method 2. Anyone got iCloud to work?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-15 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Hi, thanks for your help. What kernel do I need for Amd Phenom IIx4 965? Does a kernel exist for that? And how do I just drop the kernel in? Is there a new folder that will be created on my snow leopard side that has Lions operating system …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-14 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “put all 3rd party kexts in S/L/E There isn't any third party kexts outside system /library/extensions The thing is one time it boot really close but it was just luck, I have no idea what's wrong. Using latest chameleon and the amd kernel fr…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-08 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “cl .ly/100f3O3E2n2E3u1Q3n2u This is what I get, just gets stuck loading. This is restored L2 on hard drive with chameleon on USB stick. Booting with -v -legacy npci=0x2000 GraphicsEnabler=yes I just don't know what's wrong. It's not the fak…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-08 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “my boot flags are -v -legacy npci=0x2000 graphicsenabler=Yes I had the USB problem to so I used multi beast to fix that, or maybe I deleted AppleHPET.kext from System/Library/Extensions/ You used multibeast to install Chimera or Charmeleon?…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-06 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “@lunfai What are you stuck on? I did clean install of iATKOS without customize and then used chimera bootloader to load it in, but get FAKESMC. share you boot flags too? Charmeleon refuses to boot when I put it on USB, don't know why.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-06 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Man my system freezes right when I see the Before you Begin part (where you set up the "unknown" keyboard). Fixed it, now everything works, except Finder and some other apps. What did you select in iATKOS L2 as customize?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-06 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I think if I let this run overnight I run out of disk space So yeah, a fix would be awesome. I get like 2 crash reports per second at the moment. Otherwise it's really nice to run Lion though, I use Path Finder as my file browser and I can …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “That's correct, but you need an Intel machine in order to install it. Then you just put in the kernel and it works. At least for me. Glad you've finally got native resolution What model/family was your processor?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “FYI I don't use the UseKernelCache on my kernel flags and it still boots fine You used pure Lion 10 7 3 and installed it on drive then replaced kernel? (then installed charmeleon?)” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Do you use -legacy? It does that for me when I don't use -legacy. Yes all the time, -legacy UserKernelCache= No -v when im not using this line im stuck at major minor make sure there's no space in UserKernelCache=No and it's Use not User. U…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Yes, that one sure fixed that problem I got past waiting for DMOS once, basically it loaded the graphics driver but didn't budge further.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “YAY! I finally fixed the instant reboot! but get stuck at the waiting for DSMOS Did that kernel fix it? try and use my boot flags, I put them in previous post.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Thanks for the info, gonna try again and lets see:) osx 86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2584&page=7 Try to top one if you still get force reboot, I get force reboot on the bottom one, and the closest I've been is with the top one (zip file)…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “thanks a lot:) but will it work with this phenom ~snipped There isn't a way we can know for sure unless you try it.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Can anyone upload the OSInstall.mpkg? cl .ly/3P2j1O0u0w2P3o173A0k from L2 Taken from System\Installation\Packages” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-05 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “I'm already using those settings (GraphicsEnabler=Yes npci=0x2000 and -legacy), and keeps happening Also using the Natit/VBIOS/Nvidia rom gives me the same result. Looks like I will need to wait for a boot cd/distro/kernel improvements in o…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-04 1,075,710 dossier reads |