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@NebKiwi
InfiniteMac community contributor with 55 recorded dispatches, 6 lead technical dossiers (465,762 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 899,979 historical readers.
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77,627 avg reads / dossier
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Joined 2009-04-26
Active Window
2009
2009-04-26 → 2009-08-28
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Previously known as NebulOSX. MacBook, 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo Penryn, 2GB RAM, x3100 Graphics. - Mac Nano ↗ (Benchmarks) (browse.geek bench.ca/geekbench2/view/107704)- Gigabyte GA-GC230D, Intel Atom 230 1.7GHZ (Overclocked), 2GB 533Mhz RAM, Mac OS X Leopard: Boot132 Method. ULTRAcheap build. With desktop GMA950 graphics fix. ↗
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- Archive Standing
- #140 of 6,691 by Dispatches (52 notes) · #36 of 3,454 by Author Readership (465,762 reads across 6 dossiers) · #633 by Thread Reach (899,979 cumulative reads)
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- Member #6,360 · Joined 2009-04-26
- Location
- Christchurch, NZ & Devon, UK
- Interests
- Darwin/Mac OS X/*BSD/OSx86, Linux, Art, traveling...
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- Chameleon / Boot-132 (10) · DSDT (9) · Retail DVD / USB (8) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (6) · AMD OSx86 (3)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 6 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @NebKiwi (6)
465,762 cumulative reads on threads started by @NebKiwi
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion Right... the story is.. The AppleTV hardware is essentially a very low end Mac, it uses EFI. AppleTV software is basically Tiger (10.4.7 If I remember correctly) with a fancy GUI. I know you can install a replacement Finder or… | 10.X Core | 229,460 reads 2009-05-01 · 48 notes |
| HOWTO install Retail Leopard on Intel, near retail on AMD. Inclusive of Chameleon 2.0 NOTES: I would be very grateful if an AMD user could let me know how this works, I tried this on a Intel Celeron with success, So I assume its much the same on an AMD CPU. I have taken a load of info from a load of different places to… | 10.X Core | 218,685 reads 2009-04-27 · 15 notes |
| DSDT problem - very grateful if someone could with this one.. OK, to make a long story short.. Back in October I built my Hac (specs in sig) and the GMA950 GFX chip didn't work particularly well on leopard at all. It was latter determined that it was a DSDT issue. So, the solution was to hardcode the… | Leopard 10.5 | 7,056 reads 2009-05-06 · 7 notes |
| I'm back and I have things to tell Thought this might interest some people, I know most of you as "internet friends" and you may like to know what I'm doing or would like to learn about another country(?) OK, best to start from the beginning... I decided to hop onto a plane… | General | 4,806 reads 2009-07-17 · 7 notes |
| What do you think? Is this the Apple Tablet OS Click here for full thread and details over on MacRumors.. Click me! To sum it up, some guy claims to have the development platform machine and has 3 pictures and two videos.. Video 1 Video 2 Seems a bit fishy to me! One of the notable… | General | 3,798 reads 2009-08-13 · 2 notes |
| Look what my dad bought me Click me The most awesome desk buddy for the Mac nerds | General | 1,957 reads 2009-04-27 · 5 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @NebKiwi contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “I mounted the disk image, but I am not seeing the watchdog kext. Is there any other info or procedure needed? I'd really like to play with this. EDIT: Nevermind, I see it. So basically, just copy over the Leo kexts we use and that's it, eh?…” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-17 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “Download the image direct from Apple's servers Click Me. (mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-5816.20090224.At23V/2Z694-5587-18.dmg) Switch the kernel with the one in the thread that Andy posted and copy over all the default Leopard kexts, obviously…” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-17 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “would really appreciate any volunteers willing to help with this.. Anyone with a few GB's to spare? The OS is booting fine in initial stages but getting some minor errors which we think is just my hardware. PM me if your interested. Thanks.” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-10 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “How are the tests progressing? Any luck on making it boot properly? Hey Andy, I'm off to bed now.. exhausted! Will be having a play tomorrow If I can get this damn prelinked kernel working.. Will see how far I can get by just putting kexts …” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-09 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “Maybe you should add a modded version: AndyTV If anyone has a suitable installer this would be great. Do you think it would work from an USB stick or an USB harddisk? I think the plan is to build it into a pkg and add it to a Leopard DVD, t…” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-08 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “I will try it as soon as I get home! At college at the moment. Thanks Andy, Without further delay I announce: The AppleTV OS kernel... Get it from: rapid share.com/files/230399705/AppleTV_Kernel.zip” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-08 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “Making great progress here... Had to create a custom SDK to build dyld though... Work continues... W00T.. Thankyou for doing this!” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-07 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “OK, I have a full system image (2.3.1) and restored to a designated partition. All ready to go” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-05 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “OK I'll slightly mod the kernel build procedure then to enable building of an embedded style kernel for AppleTV OS take2 with custom dynamic linker... You could afterwards prelink the needed parts (kexts and drivers) into the mach_kernel (h…” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-04 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “If you think about making a custom AppleTV take2 OS for PC I'm willing to rebuild the kernel set for embedded AppleTV style parts... Mac OS X 10.4.11 install DVD I don't have anymore though so it will be hard to prelink the needed drivers i…” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-04 229,460 dossier reads |
| Booting the AppleTV OS on a generic PC - Discussion “It is possible but you need a full image and a custom prelinked kernel... ATV take2 is also possible (take into account that this is actually an embedded xnu 10.5.6 kernel...) Extra kexts are also needed for HW support... Also needed is to …” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-04 229,460 dossier reads |
| HOWTO install Retail Leopard on Intel, near retail on AMD. Inclusive of Chameleon 2.0 “Would the above method work for the set-up in my sig? I tried last week to do the iPC install and got Panic Kernals. Tried several things and couldn't get it to install completely (panic kernals came at very end of installation). Wouldn't h…” | 10.X Core | 2009-06-04 218,685 dossier reads |
| HOWTO install Retail Leopard on Intel, near retail on AMD. Inclusive of Chameleon 2.0 “I'm afraid you will have to stick with near retail for a pentium 4 (With the voodoo kernel) except if you have a dual core Pentium I think, can't be sure, only have Core 2 Duo and Atom hardware.. the worst thats going to happen is that it j…” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-02 218,685 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released “AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext IOGraphicsFamily.kext IOPCIFamily.kext IONDRVSupport.kext System.kext (obviously) IPFirewall.kext (obviously) are all new. My MacBook with X3100 graphics was really choppy with …” | Releases & News | 2009-05-12 99,651 dossier reads |
| 10.5.7 Update for iPC “true, but I feel like I have a responsibility to have the newest stuff xDD, im like a neat-freak that way I am exactly the same, as bad as that is. My vanilla hac is updated with no problems” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-05-12 49,747 dossier reads |
| Next Chameleon bootloader to have a fully customizable GUI “Yeah, Chameleon 2.0 is pretty damn good, got a slightly weird bug with it though, If I set the CDROM as the first boot device, and then load up chameleon, all the drives are multiplied by two so, I have Mac HD, Mac HD, Backup, Backup etc.. …” | Releases & News | 2009-04-26 48,139 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “It seems like this, but we never made a meeting. I'd like a real OSx86 convention somewhere, C64 and Amiga users have large regular meetings in Europe. We NEED a convention sometime, I will certainly come OSx86Con @NebKiwi: I've always want…” | General | 2009-05-01 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “New Zealand... we OSx86 users are really spread all over the world I heard you can live through each season a day because the weather changes so often, is that correct? Sounds more like the UK! The weather in NZ is pretty stable (In the sou…” | General | 2009-05-01 41,477 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “Kia Ora, Haere mai, Ko tenei te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa o te ao. I was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, currently in the United Kingdom, soon to go back to the homeland! (55 days to be exact )” | General | 2009-05-01 41,477 dossier reads |
| Is this how the OSx86 scene is going “As I said in this thread having a community thats split into tribes as if there's some civil war is ridiculous, how are we going to tackle the challenges of OSx86 as a community if part of our community is at war. Many of the long timers at…” | 10.X Core | 2009-04-30 36,845 dossier reads |
| Which Mac(s) do you use or own “I have a MacBook as my everyday computer, especially for college and traveling etc, then at home use my Hackintosh, specs are in sig It's really solid, all perfect!” | Hardware & Dev | 2009-04-27 35,779 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “Hmm, your DSDT doesn't make a lot of sense You have to run the patcher on a boot without any other DSDT's, otherwise the patcher is influenced by info injected on boot, are doing a clear boot? If not, then I am not sure where to go next, I …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-28 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “Can you run the patcher on your hardware and then send me the DSDT.aml? I will attempt to decompile it and add in the neccessary code in, once optimized for your own hardware it should work.. I'm going to get some shut eye now, will do it s…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “let's try this one, send me your DSDT.aml sand a list of what's kexts i had to replace. so i can check against mine. Ok, no probs.. DSDT is attached... the kexts are as follows.. AppleIntelGMA950GA.plugin version 1.5.36.25 AppleIntelGMA950G…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “That is very weird Well, theres not much I can think of now” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “Ok, so have you got the DSDT file at the root of your boot drive? if yes, are you definitely sure that you have the stock kexts and only the stock kexts? (no natit etc) I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work :s it works with my card, a…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “Sorry about asking this, I know it sounds like I am treating you like a noob, so I apologize, but sometimes it takes the simplest solutions... where have you put the DSDT file? in chameleon 2.0, it doesn't go at the root of the drive like i…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “What device ID do you have? Mine is 0x2772.. and after the DSDT fix, its all perfect. check out this” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “so, are you telling us, if we use DSDT patch, we can use stock kexts without patching it? Yes. On desktop versions of the GMA950 only though. EDIT: If you use this fix, you NEED to use the stock kexts, not the frame buffer from tiger, other…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-27 30,083 dossier reads |
| GMA 950 stuck at 1024 x 768 “I had the same problem on my atom board desktop, what bootloader are you using? If your using chameleon or pc_efi you can load a DSDT.aml file on boot and it solves all GMA950 problems on desktops.. enables full 3d acceleration, res change,…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-26 30,083 dossier reads |
| Which cpu are you using “I have an Intel Atom in my nettop, running vanilla kernel and then, Core 2 duo in my MacBook (obviously).” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-05 14,806 dossier reads |
| Snow Leopard Released “Lined up this morning at Apple store, second person in my area to get it, running it now. Launching apps is so quick!” | 10.X Core | 2009-08-28 14,409 dossier reads |
| Installing leopard on an External USB HD “My motherboard is a little flakey with booting off USB devices.. With Chameleon 2.0 RC1 I was able to plug my USB-HDD in, and it would detect it and I could boot off of it, without going through the BIOS. Nifty.” | 10.X Core | 2009-04-26 12,093 dossier reads |
| Mac Pro In the making :D “Leave the OSx86 scene?! why? You will probably still need us all, just because you go retail doesn't mean its like a real Mac and you won't have problems Retail is just a little bit cleaner and a bit more straight forward to update Anyway, …” | Software & Kexts | 2009-05-01 7,705 dossier reads |
| DSDT problem - very grateful if someone could with this one.. “Ok, shutdown works, unlike the one you gave me before this one.. but still no sleep” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-05-12 7,056 dossier reads |
| DSDT problem - very grateful if someone could with this one.. “Doesn't work The screen just goes black but the computer is still running... same as last time.. thanks anyway.. EDIT: Shutdown doesn't work either...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-05-12 7,056 dossier reads |
| Help Wanted to install Leopard “First off, I personally wouldn't touch one of the distros, but it really depends on how easy you want it to be... I much prefer retail installs, they are far cleaner and easier to update.. + you know exactly what drivers are running on your…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-30 4,633 dossier reads |
| Install from original Leopard DVD “Alreadypossiblebuddy. Been around for a few months now That's just my tutorial, there are loooads of different variations all over the web, research boot132 and chameleon” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-01 4,476 dossier reads |
| Apple Logo @ Boot “If you use chameleon 2.0 bootloader, all you need to do is change a png in the theme folder. Look up a chameleon 2.0 tutorial” | 10.X Core | 2009-05-11 4,237 dossier reads |
| Intel Support “Ok! no problem! I have a fairly busy week this week, I will get the tutorial done the end of the week! I will PM you when its done As for ubuntu, I havn't a clue, I have my osx86 machine for OS X only, Ubuntu and BSD are on my MacBook , I'l…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-04-26 3,439 dossier reads |