Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #3,405 · 2008-11-18
#2,131 by Dispatches #89 by Author Reads #1,893 by Thread Reach Member #3,405 Chameleon / Boot-132 Voodoo / XNU Kernel AHCI / SATA

@munky

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (118,590 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 144,585 historical readers.

Dispatches 3 Ranked #2,131 of 6,691
Author Reads 118,590 Ranked #89 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 144,585 Ranked #1,893 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 118,590 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #3,405 Joined 2008-11-16
Active Window 2008 2008-11-18
Archive Standing
#2,131 of 6,691 by Dispatches (3 notes) · #89 of 3,454 by Author Readership (118,590 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,893 by Thread Reach (144,585 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #3,405 · Joined 2008-11-16
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · DSDT (1) · AMD OSx86 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
2 (67%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @munky (1)

118,590 cumulative reads on threads started by @munky

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
EFI Partition Booting - Zero Modification installs on Intel SSE2 or better
*** Special thanks to Turbo, Dense, dfe, zef and the rest of the chameleon team for making this possible... *** ** DEPRECATION NOTICE: This functionality is coming to a Chameleon release very soon. Once Chameleon supports this approach,…
10.X Core118,590 reads
2008-11-18 · 15 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (2)

Direct links into threads where @munky contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
EFI Partition Booting - Zero Modification installs on Intel SSE2 or better
“Finally, the beef! So, best practice is to use a boot-132 disc and install a fresh Leopard installation onto a GPT disk from retail. Lets call this 'Phase 0'. You find or create a boot-132 disc capable of booting to the installer from a ret…”
10.X Core2008-11-18
118,590 dossier reads
The one that boots the retail DVD
“how is this any different from normal boot-132-dfe discs we've all been using for half a year? how come you changed your name? have you ever provided any proof of your EFI project actually working? other than hastily edited kextstat output …”
Software & Kexts2008-11-18
25,995 dossier reads