Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #3,537 · 2008-11-25 → 2009-01-19
#513 by Dispatches #858 by Thread Reach Member #3,537 📍 Timisoara, Romania AMD OSx86 AHCI / SATA NVIDIA GeForce

@Misi

InfiniteMac community contributor with 15 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 685,539 historical readers.

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Member Number #3,537 Joined 2008-11-25
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-11-25 → 2009-01-19
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Misi
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#513 of 6,691 by Dispatches (15 notes) · #858 by Thread Reach (685,539 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #3,537 · Joined 2008-11-25
Location
Timisoara, Romania
Interests
ski, beer, motocross, mac
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (8) · AHCI / SATA (6) · NVIDIA GeForce (4) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
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@Archangel47
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@LawlessPPC (9) @ChrisH (7) @nfoav8or (6) @nexusmac (3) @jazZbaR (2) @Jib (2) @How to: Setup SB600 Windows XP AHCI driver - by Martin953 (2) @Voyn1x @zipboing @varunbtech @vina3517 @byteguy @ashi @endsinstatic

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
13 (87%)
10.X Core
2 (13%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (15)

Direct links into threads where @Misi contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device"
“i hope it's not a stupid question, but this commands ar entered before the installation or after if the "Still waiting for root device" problem appears ?”
Leopard 10.52008-11-25
538,220 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“Hmm I can see the folder, and I can see the Extensions.mkext...but the SB700 kexts you had me download won't copy over? What do you mean by mount it? I don't see anywhere in this program where you mount it. I don't know if I'm understanding…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-19
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“I got TransMac but I have no clue how to use it.. Is there any tutorial that will show me how to inject these ktexts? If you know please let me know what the address is...PM me if you want... it's not that hard, select in Options > Show Hid…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-18
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“Lawless any idea if the MSI DKA790GX (AMD 790GX NB) and (SB700 SB) work with your current build? I'm having reboot issues at initial install when the Rom Drive spins up, it just resets my system endlessly... AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition 4G…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-18
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“to run a different kernel you must install it. I dont mind answering questions but i feel you should be searching the forums for some of your answers as these have all been answered on a number of occasions. If i keep giving the answers so …”
Leopard 10.52009-01-14
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“you did read the readme that came with the iso? Because i think not k, so i have Modbin 9.4.0 Kernel SSE3 by default, then how can i run the voodoo rc1 kernel and why, after installing sucesfully 2nd time(first time crashed), when it boots …”
Leopard 10.52009-01-14
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“more than 1 core is working look in activity monitor you will see a graph for each core the memory reading speed is down to applesmbios.kext basically it doesnt see ddr so it doesnt double the figure it gets. Info about the motherboard? jus…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-14
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“Same problem for me if I set the Mac partition as the boot partition. So I reverted back to my XP partition (i.e. I boot OSX from my XP partition) For those of as with AMD SB600 south bridge OSx86 is easier to setup, when SATA controller is…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-13
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“i manage to install MAC OS X (lawless's version with some small changes ) but now i have to fix some small things : - only one core is working - the frequency of my memory is 400 MHz instead of 1000MHz - i don't know what to do with my audi…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-12
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“happy new year hey, i postedsome time ago that i couldn't pass the still waiting for root device (in IDE mode) i manage to download some sb700 kext from : www.esnips.com/web /nicholasblocksStuff and inject it on lawless disc (i couldn't fin…”
Leopard 10.52009-01-04
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“firstly sorry for my english. i´m from germany. i installed your LawlessPPC 10.5.4 on my system and it works great. but give it a way to update your distro from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5. That is very important for me, to install the GF 9600GT drive…”
Leopard 10.52008-11-27
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“... Also dont put a 125watt cpu in it they dont last long i have a 140 W processor is there a kext for the SB750 southbrige ? (i think i'm the only one with a sb750, only exia asked about it) here is my system: - AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Black Ed…”
Leopard 10.52008-11-26
91,699 dossier reads
sb700 Sucks
“and I want to say that ideneb didnt have SB400/500/600 support in fixes or patches. Lawless 10.5.4 has it when will the SB750 be released ?”
Leopard 10.52009-01-13
47,163 dossier reads
Will Leopard work on this
“Misi - I suggest you post over on the LawlessPPC thread and have a look through it. Have you read the systems its supported on? I know the Sb700 series has issues so you may want to look through those threads as well for more guidance. I al…”
10.X Core2008-11-26
8,457 dossier reads
Will Leopard work on this
“i don;t want to make another thread just for me so... here is my system: - AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Black Edition 140W - (has SSE4a too) - MSI DKA790GX - AMD 790GX , SB750 - OCZ Platinum 2*2GB 1000MHz - Asus Geforce 8600GT Silencer 512 DDR3 - Cre…”
10.X Core2008-11-26
8,457 dossier reads