Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #2,750 · 2008-10-06 → 2009-03-15
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@MegaZJ

InfiniteMac community contributor with 5 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 65,776 historical readers.

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Member Number #2,750 Joined 2008-10-06
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-10-06 → 2009-03-15
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
iPC 10.5.6 w/ Voodoo Kernel | AMD Athlon X2 5000+ BE @ 3.01 GHz | Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H | 780G North & SB700 South | ATI Radeon HD 3850 | 2GB DDR2 800 | 2 x 500GB SATA HDD | 1 x DVD-R DL SATA
Archive Standing
#1,474 of 6,691 by Dispatches (5 notes) · #2,622 by Thread Reach (65,776 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,750 · Joined 2008-10-06
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · ATI Radeon (1) · USB / EHCI (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
3 (60%)
10.X Core
2 (40%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @MegaZJ contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
What's your average boot up time
“My boot times are terrible probably close to 3 minutes or so mainly because of the IOKit delay as well. We could start a wiki page for this, but we'll need some more people for this, who volunteers? I agree. The size of the Extensions folde…”
10.X Core2008-10-06
31,845 dossier reads
OSx86 on Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
“I have the same motherboard but with an Athlon X2 (running Leo4All 4.1). I would recommend LawlessPPC as well since it installs the Chameleon bootloader by default which is needed for Phenoms. Leo4All 4.1 has a Chameleon option as well but …”
Leopard 10.52008-10-14
14,978 dossier reads
How to: iPC OSx86 on GigaByte GA-MA78GM-S2H
“I have this same board with iPC 10.5.6 Final running great. Even on real Macs OS X can be picky about ports so first I would try different ports as some of them might not be running at 2.0 specs. Generally the ports on the front are not 2.0…”
10.X Core2009-03-15
12,006 dossier reads
Unnecessary Kernel Extensions...
“After reading the "What's your boot time?" thread I decided to delete some kexts myself to try and get somewhat closer to the claimed 15 sec boot. Out of fear I only deleted the obviously unnecessary (Intel, GeForce, PCCard) but everything …”
Leopard 10.52008-10-08
3,596 dossier reads
Strange issue with installing osx
“This issue really isn't strange at all since it's probably a 'still waiting for root device' error (boot with the -v flag to see what it really is). I would definitely try iPC though -- I just installed it on an AMD and it's pretty much the…”
Leopard 10.52009-03-12
3,351 dossier reads