Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #13,750 · 2009-10-23 → 2009-12-23
#547 by Dispatches #717 by Thread Reach Member #13,750 Chameleon / Boot-132 ALC889a / Audio Retail DVD / USB

@Sweaty

InfiniteMac community contributor with 14 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 850,517 historical readers.

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Member Number #13,750 Joined 2009-09-21
Active Window 2009 2009-10-23 → 2009-12-23
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Ok cheers mate, had to add the other bits on my board (asus p5ql/epu) to get it to compile, I'll try the simpler way later.. At least it did work the way I bodged it :)
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#547 of 6,691 by Dispatches (14 notes) · #717 by Thread Reach (850,517 cumulative reads)
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Member #13,750 · Joined 2009-09-21
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · ALC889a / Audio (2) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · DSDT (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
10 (71%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (14)

Direct links into threads where @Sweaty contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Various DSDT mods.
“Ok cheers mate, had to add the other bits on my board (asus p5ql/epu) to get it to compile, I'll try the simpler way later.. At least it did work the way I bodged it EDIT: OK fixed code as you suggested I needed to use 0x830, also got rid o…”
10.X Core2009-12-21
625,378 dossier reads
Various DSDT mods.
“With this and new restart patch chameleon booter from Duvel (strong beer that) I have only fakesmc as an added kext, although I'm about to reinstall voodoohda so I can hopefully have two soundcards working.. anyway this is mm67's work I jus…”
10.X Core2009-12-21
625,378 dossier reads
Empire EFI, now with AMD support
“thats the $1000000 question innit, on insanely mac several threads have been blitzed http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=200170&hl=”
10.X Core2009-11-30
83,044 dossier reads
Empire EFI, now with AMD support
“Strange that thebig osx86 site is deleting all threads about Empire EFI, hope it brings more traffic this way”
10.X Core2009-11-30
83,044 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on P5K
“Any SATA hard-drive is OK, 500gb is nice size Like I say I would just disconnect your windows drive and follow a guide for your motherboard, you do the partitioning of your OSX HD during the install process (with disk utility) - a good tip …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-26
76,456 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on P5K
“crobo you're already here ha Personally I find it easier to have two hard drives, you can GPT partition the mac one and MBR partition windows one and chameleon bootloader will boot windows off another partition with no configuration, you ca…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-26
76,456 dossier reads
Two Problems Away From Having A Perfect Snow Hackintosh
“I don't know about GMA950, I reckon just run in 32 bit. Latest voodooHDA 0.2.5.2 is meant to fix sleep issue http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=355&st=0&start=0”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-13
29,598 dossier reads
Why can't i flash my bios and install leopard and snow leopard
“But you've tried other things since that screenshot? Like I say ALWAYS use -v, that way we can have a clue what is causing the hang. I think the hanging at mac framework thing has to do with ACPI, using iPC I needed to choose ACPI fix to ge…”
10.X Core2009-12-02
10,844 dossier reads
Why can't i flash my bios and install leopard and snow leopard
“always boot with -v flag, this gives verbose mode if you print what that stops at when you boot someone might be able to help. Also maybe you can skip installing Leopard & go straight to SL by using Empire EFI, worth a go.”
10.X Core2009-12-02
10,844 dossier reads
Help! ICH9 internal? (fixed)
“I know mate just posted up the relevant bit so ppl wont have to search through your DSDT, found it was a bit of a pain to find this exact info when I was looking before”
10.X Core2009-11-27
8,196 dossier reads
Help! ICH9 internal? (fixed)
“Detail is you need to add ICH7 device ID to your SATA -ICH7 has no hotpluging so OS thinks drives must not be removable (IE its a bodge), you must have method DTGP added as well as this code to your SATA section: Method (_DSM, 4, NotSeriali…”
10.X Core2009-11-26
8,196 dossier reads
installing
“What disc? What computer? Details. Else no one can help really.”
10.X Core2009-12-23
7,468 dossier reads
Partition hosed...
“Had a similar problem, tried to format a exfat partition to fat32 (to use between OSes) in SL and it wiped the whole hard drive. Chameleon wouldn't boot from the other drive or USB key until I unplugged that drive. Then it was fine. If disk…”
10.X Core2009-10-23
5,585 dossier reads
Noob Updating to 10.6.2 Can't even find /Extra/Extensions
“try using spotlight (top right of screen magnifying glass icon) to look for a kext you have in there, fakesmc or sleepenabler?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-30
3,948 dossier reads