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Member #8,459 · 2010-03-31 → 2012-07-18
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@m28ew

InfiniteMac community contributor with 47 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 2,078,764 historical readers.

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Member Number #8,459 Joined 2009-07-15
Active Window 2010–2012 2010-03-31 → 2012-07-18
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Your kernel can really work with the LION 10.7.2 on my AMD Phenom II X4 965 · (32 bits mode of course) Doesn't work for my Athlon 64 X2 5200+
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#151 of 6,691 by Dispatches (47 notes) · #97 by Thread Reach (2,078,764 cumulative reads)
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Member #8,459 · Joined 2009-07-15
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AMD OSx86 (22) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (4) · AHCI / SATA (3) · Retail DVD / USB (3) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · ALC889a / Audio (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
24 (51%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @m28ew contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Lion with AMD
“I tried that, but it says i have to specify the kernel cache path. Then i tried building caches which gave me a kernelcache file. I put this file in root and booted with "Kernel Cache"=\kernelcache ...and instant reboot So i'm at a loss her…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-28
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@anonomys209 if the new system.kextcan run with your wireless card's kext then you don't have to replace it or you can also try to roll back the IO80211Family.kext (wireless) and the IONetworkingFamily.kext (wired) Fix one problem and creat…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@rizki_alkaf Thanks for the info mate You're right! The old system.kext (10.7.3) really does the trick Now I get a clean boot and my osx seems booting a bit faster than before NO ERRORS found! Here's the kext media fire.com/?444ib31p3384s5e”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-16
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@bronzovka Thanks for the update The new kernel seems running stable & smoother, no freezes till now But I still found these errors during the boot process of the osx 10.7.4 In interface com.apple.kpi.private of __kernel__, couldn't find sy…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“easily updated to LION 10.7.4 I just need to replace (rollback) the AppleSMC.kext with the old one from 10.7.3 but I found these kinds of errors during booting in verbose mode: In interface com.apple.kpi.private of __kernel__, couldn't find…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-14
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“@aaqib7 felipeunix is running the osx on his AMD Bulldozer FX 8120 which supports the SSSE3 instructions that's why he can run the 64-bits apps @felipeunix AFAIK (CMIIW) the -force64 has not been implemented in the legacy kernel yet and sin…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Is -legacy really 32bit? Becuz as you could see in video i posted before it detects all 16Gb of RAM... How can it? AFAIK, most modern O/S use PAE (Physical Address Extension) which allows 32-bits x86 processors to access a physical address …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-08
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Confirming that the FINDER can be replaced with the older one built for the LION DP2 (32-bits)”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Hmmmm, my mobo supports AHCI and BTW is enabled. I've tried a modded iAtkos L2, UniBeast with the modded kernel and xMove. Also, my cpu multiplier is 13.5, I thought that the busratio could be causing some trouble, I've typed busratio=135, …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Doesn't work for my Athlon 64 X2 5200+ machdep.cpu.family: 15 machdep.cpu.model: 107 It self restarts when Starting Darwin/X86. I guess the OSX LION doesn't support your nForce mobo (MoBo: MSI K9N2GM-FD, Chipset GeForce 8200 (MCP78)) Does y…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“an OOT question… Has anyone had success accessing their iCloud ? coz I keep getting this error message while logging into it FYI, I've tried to boot with: npci=0x2000 EthernetBuiltIn=Yes PCIRootUID=1 (or PCIRootUID=0) and I've even deleted …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Please try it is mach_kernel_lion_amd_for_10_7_3_fam-15-16_model-6 (media fire.com/?ontvl5nznf58n9h) ! No work on intel ! You should write in boot flag "-legacy" - it is 32 bit ! WOW... THANKS MATE... Your kernel can really work with the LI…”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-30
1,075,710 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“PLEASE TEST FOR ANY PERMISSION RELATED BUGS: copying files, LoginWindow.app etc. Testing your latest kernel (v0.9.30) with the Lion 10.7.5 DP2 (build 11G22) Most of basic operations (copying, login, samba, etc) seem to work normally on my A…”
Lion – Catalina2012-07-18
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Unless you have either an Intel or an AMD FX/Bulldozer, the lion installation DVD / UFD won't be able to boot properly due to the lack of 64-bits kernel support for AMD Athlon & Phenom (cmiiw) So you have to install it by running the modifi…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-26
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“I installed your kexts to my Lion 10.7.4 USB stick, but i am stuck to the sbin/launchd kernel panic. What i must do? Some kernel flags? I am doing something wrong with the installation of the Lion 10.7.4 to the USB stick? Unless you have ei…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-25
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@m28ew, What's your motherboard? What kexts did you used? stock kexts from 10.7.x + FakeSMC + VoodooPS2Controller + VoodooHDA + VoodooPState + RT73USBWirelessDriver + Lnx2Mac's RTL81xx”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-25
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Confirmed that R:A:W:X86's 11.4.0 legacy kernel is still able to work with the latest osx 10.7.5 (build 11G15) (Y) The only issue I got was related to the AppleSMC and it can be easily fixed by replacing the kext with the old one from 10.7.…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-25
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Can you please also try to boot without -legacy flag + 32-Bit launchd + sysenter traps patched in dyld & libsystem_kernel.dylib (osx 86.co/f100/10-7-4-amd-kernel-t7687/post57870.html) ? Unfortunately, I already did all those tricks with lio…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-08
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Yes more testing!^^ Some idea that came across my mind: launchd works 32-Bit on the old AMD machines. So why the hell not just run it 32 instead of 64-Bit? : Please someone try the following: sudo -s cd /sbin cp launchd launchd_backup ditto…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-08
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“. In order to verify: You are sure that you have NOT been using the -legacy flag, when taking that screenshot? (org.chameleon.boot.plist etc) but I could boot into the single-user mode only with the -legacy flag without it, the boot would r…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-08
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“Someone concernd around here, who has a CCC-Back-up or similiar & could do some testing? Cause I wonder if launchd would come up during Boot-Up when using the Snow Leopard one... Be warned that testing this will make the system unbootable (…”
Lion – Catalina2012-06-08
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“update : I have changed the CPU identification methods with those written by mercurysquad & AnV. The aim is to make the Kernel work on most AMD and Intel CPU that at least support SSE3 (including Vanilla Kernel compatible). At the moment th…”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-29
486,363 dossier reads
10.7.4 AMD Kernel
“@R:A:W:X86 Thanks for the legacy kernel 11.4.0 (Y) Confirmed! It also works on my AMD + system.kext 10.7.4 (no boot-errors found)”
Lion – Catalina2012-05-19
486,363 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Any progress with the new legacy kernel for the lion ?”
10.X Core2011-12-09
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“here are the debug ones autopatch cl .ly/28380m2u2f3h0N0a1x1K no autopatch cl .ly/3x3V2A2a1V1I2g2n133a hope we can get anything out of these So test Guys still no luck :'( with your autopatch kernel @ 32-bits with your no autopatch kernel @…”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“For the usb messages, did you disable the usb legacy support (In BIOS)? If doesn't work, maybe using usb kexts from 10.6.8 can do the trick After patching both dyld & libSystem.B.dylib the usb error doesn't appear anymore but I get a new KP”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“After patching both dyld & libSystem.B.dylib I got a new KP :'(”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Should be there under the source... amd_insn_patcher... thanks Andy when I patched the dyld, I got these messages: but when I pacthed the libSystem.B.dylib, I got the "No patches found, not generating output file" message ? are those report…”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Fixed amd_insn_patcher... :-| It's IOHIDFamily that causes the misery allright... Decompiling + checking... EDIT: Removed check for interval (which causes the failure). The problem in this case is VoodooPS2 in fact but the kext I posted sho…”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Did changing the scheduler change anything? still no luck :'( How about booting the installed product? This is the install DVD, right? all testings were done by booting the osx from DVD (BSD Root=disk1s3) & HDD (BSD Root=disk0s2) and they a…”
10.X Core2011-11-10
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Can you boot into single user? Then you could get the dmesg to me... I could use it to look up what goes wrong... A new hope... :-d unfortunately, with: arch=i386 (-force64) -s I still got stuck at the same line :'(”
10.X Core2011-11-09
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“and wich kernel did u use for that ? bit more specific if u dont mind:-d I tested all those 5 kernels of yours & Anv's NoAutopatch & Autopatch @ 32 & 64 bits compiled kernels and I added them all into the iATKOS L1 disc”
10.X Core2011-11-09
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I've tested those new kernels on my AMD P-II x4 965 with flags: arch=i386 ; arch=i386 -force64 there's no KP, but I got stuck at the "No interval found for . Using 8000000" line with flag: arch=x86_64 I got this KP”
10.X Core2011-11-09
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“10.7.2 Sources are out FYI i compiled it with only patching it with the old diff from 10.7 no changes made to it patching went tru fine so i thought i compile it with xcode 4.1 maybe someone is eager to test it i havent yet its compiled onl…”
10.X Core2011-10-13
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“I have one more request. Could somebody please zip and upload the dyld from Lion GM? Here's the file mate MD5: 14acaee6a4e4f19b2cb1392bcebfaebb”
10.X Core2011-08-23
165,733 dossier reads
Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support
“Yes but that guy, geek (with a number behind it) would have a kernel that works in 32bit mode too. is that him ?”
10.X Core2011-08-11
165,733 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“@ blackknight : thanks for the new patched kernel 1. in 32-bits mode (using flag: arch=i386 ) : all kexts & applications run OK 2. in 64-bits mode (using flag: -force64 ) : + both 32 & 64-bits kexts run OK + only 64-bits applications run OK…”
10.X Core2010-04-19
90,162 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“Could you please post your system specs? I noticed that you have 64 bit mode working, which I haven't been able to do with snow 10.6.2. Also, the darwin 10.3.0 kernel sources haven't been posted yet, so we can't make new kernels yet. thanks…”
10.X Core2010-03-31
90,162 dossier reads
Blackknight (AnV/Qoopz-based) kernel w/corrected Phenom FSB detection
“@ blackknight : could you build a new patched mach_kernel 10.3.0 for the AMD system ? fyi, now I'm running the Snow Leo Server 10.6.3 with your latest patched kernel (the blackknight's darwin 10.2.0) thanks for your great efforts”
10.X Core2010-03-31
90,162 dossier reads
10.6.2 Kernel - Pcj XNU Release
“JaS: If you want to experiment with 64bit mode, boot with -force64. True 64bit kernel space doesn't boot into a gui(as seen above). Please correct me if I'm wrong But on my AMD, by using "-force64", I can still boot into the GUI in 64-bit m…”
10.X Core2010-04-21
76,126 dossier reads