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Member #39,737 · 2011-01-26 → 2012-07-28
#45 by Dispatches #3,109 by Author Reads #84 by Thread Reach Member #39,737 AMD OSx86 Chameleon / Boot-132 NVIDIA GeForce

@Unrealized

InfiniteMac community contributor with 176 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (2,844 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 2,241,401 historical readers.

Dispatches 176 Ranked #45 of 6,691
Author Reads 2,844 Ranked #3,109 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 2,241,401 Ranked #84 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 2,844 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #39,737 Joined 2011-01-26
Active Window 2011–2012 2011-01-26 → 2012-07-28
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
My Hardware
CPU: Intel Celeron G530
Memory: 4.00 GB DDR3 1333Mhz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
OS: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 - Vanilla kernel
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2-B3
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#45 of 6,691 by Dispatches (176 notes) · #3,109 of 3,454 by Author Readership (2,844 reads across 1 dossiers) · #84 by Thread Reach (2,241,401 cumulative reads)
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Member #39,737 · Joined 2011-01-26
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 5 technical boards

Lion – Catalina
103 (59%)
10.X Core
31 (18%)
Leopard 10.5
2 (1%)
General
1 (1%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Unrealized (1)

2,844 cumulative reads on threads started by @Unrealized

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
AMD Hackintosh 10.6.0 Updating and a few other questions
I don't know if this is the proper place to post this, but I'm sorry if it isn't! So, I installed Snow Leopard on my laptop, which has AMD CPU. The system works quite nicely, except with a few problems. First of all, I can't start my…
General2,844 reads
2011-01-26 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @Unrealized contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Lion with AMD
“I'm using Chameleon from Niresh's dvd I haven't touched it and my system runs fine, maybe there is something wrong in the disc and it's software instead? Personally I have seen 2 ways for making a successful install: - Using the retail disc…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Always instant reboot Other solutions? Here is my cpu-z I think that model is not supported at the moment. Which bootloader do you use? The latest version?”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Did you realize a way to get it working? I'm on Amd Turion 64 x2 Turions have always been problematic.Their architecture is a bit different from others. Have you tried cpus=1? If that doesn't work then the kernel doesn't have support for yo…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Tried on VirtualBox and it worked (except finder). Just tried with real hardware, instant reboot:( It's because VirtualBox emulates a Intel chipset (ICH). Ontopic, I'm still looking for the Lion DP2 Finder, I'm not downloading DP2 for it!”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You must write "Kernel Cache"=\amd arch=i386 -v at boot Did you try it personally? I doubt it works. I wouldn't trust a random noname releaser (which cannot even use punctuation when writing). And I bet he didn't fix the kernel himself it i…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“how did u replace the finder with the path finder? You don't replace it. You just download and run it. Better alternative would to use the DP2 Finder. But so far noone has uploaded it.. i have tried that, when you type those lines, i only g…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“And that is absolutely illegal, I don't think board rules allow linking to warez Ontopic, Lion DP2 Finder, anyone?”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You reccomended me update or I must continue waiting for other update to kernel? I have a turion x2 16/5 You should wait, this has a lot of problems and is mostly meant for bug hunting.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Any news? New kernel would be nice; xpchelper still crashes and is trashing my hdds with this speed. Actually it seems to be ReportCrash which nukes the CPU usage up, but all crash reports are related to xpchelper Attached a lot of crash du…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-06
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“+1, the damn problem is consuming 80% of my cpu. I think if I let this run overnight I run out of disk space So yeah, a fix would be awesome. I get like 2 crash reports per second at the moment. Otherwise it's really nice to run Lion though…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thanks, but I just think that the and is just making the "Waiting for DSMOS" get stuck, so I'm really despirate for this to work. Check up your GPU kexts.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“checked and is this supported? family: 16 model: 2 If it boots, then it is. If it reboots immediately then it isn't (or you are having a old boot loader) Offtopic: Just tested a few games, all of them work fine. Modern Combat Domination and…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Glad you've finally got native resolution What model/family was your processor? The one in my sig. machdep.cpu.family: 16 machdep.cpu.model: 5”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You used pure Lion 10 7 3 and installed it on drive then replaced kernel? (then installed charmeleon?) That's correct, but you need an Intel machine in order to install it. Then you just put in the kernel and it works. At least for me. The …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“FYI I don't use the UseKernelCache on my kernel flags and it still boots fine”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Yes i was fighting this problem and still havent find any solution to avoid DSMOS problem using chameleon 2.1 r1914, and iatkos l2, if someone finds the solution PM me thank you amd friends Do you use -legacy? It does that for me when I don…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Instant reboot? Be sure to use a up to date boot loader. I got this running finally, by borrowing my friend's mac to install 10.7.3.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“does anyone have a guide of installing iatkos l2 on the AMD processor? You need to run the installer on Snow Leopard. That's pretty much it. Then you just drop the kernel to the installed System.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Clover does not work on my system, don´t know why… What about Chameleon?”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“cl .ly/3P2j1O0u0w2P3o173A0k from L2 Taken from System\Installation\Packages Thanks, will see if it works after I get home.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-05
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“personaly dont understand why people bother downloading a pirated copy with something they allready know its only half working anyways..plain stupid to me .i mean if you get caught for that how many times would u slap yourself for it ...jus…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“There's a "AMD 10.7.3" iso floating around. Hope someone who downloaded it could tell about their experience with it. I'm personally downloading the 10.7.3 installer from App Store.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Have you treid forcing your resolution? Graphics Mode=1280x1024x32 Replace the bolded with your native resolution. It won't fix QE/CI but will have native resolution. Yeah, I did, it reverts to 1024x768 Anyways, back on topic, xmove worked …”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“for gfx did you tried nvidia driver for 10.6.8 Yup, but GTX 550 Ti is only supported from 10.7”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“I've heard that you can install on another partition from using the Lion Install WITHIN Snow Leopard, so you don't need to boot the Installer. Also look at this: tonymacx86.blog spot.co.uk/2011/07/xmove-multibeast-install-os-x-107-lion.html…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“With Snow Leopard on AMD or Mac Machine. How?Since one cannot boot with the installer. Any steps? Do I use my 10.7.0 install media or do I download it elsewhere?”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Could someone tell me if my 10.7.0 install media works if I upgrade through Snow Leopard? And why it removes all files when I pick restart in Lion installer? I'm a bit confused here. Any help is appreciated or do I need to download 10.7.3 i…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Ok ! You try fix it ) I'd love if someone added it for me as I have a barely working OS X system at the moment. (You know, Snow Leopard and GTX 550 Ti don't like each other so I'm stuck at 1024x768) I'll be waiting for a updated kernel.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Thank you for the source code! Let the exploration begin Yes should work ! You Family only 15 , no 16 Sysctl says 16. :S all I get is a instant reboot. Same on Linux, cat /proc/cpuinfo says 16.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“machdep.cpu.family: 16 machdep.cpu.model: 5 Mind adding support for these? It's an AMD Athlon II X3 450.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“----ing idiots!sry for bad words but i saw that and a huge smile came to my face!BUT...as u said some guys are trolling so much!FOR NO REASON!IDIOTS! I agree. People are just plain stupid. We should all just unite and get the work done. Ins…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Gee, I'm not that serious about it...it's just normal protocol to release source. All kernel devs have done that in the past... I'm also thankful for all the work done. That's it.”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Doesn't look like bronzovka is going to release the source code... Yes, It's very sad if he doesn't do so, as APSL says: The license does, however, require that if any derivatives from the original source are released externally, that the s…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-03
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“You need delete AppleIntelCpuPowermanagement*.kext and delete cache ! And try it is bootloader iBoot and start LION 10.7.3 ! ) IBoot - clover or xpc ) Source code? We asked for it, you give it. That's the license of it. Not trying to be mea…”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-02
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Could someone create a boot cd? I don't have a working OSx86 system at the moment, so it would be really helpful. About kernel sources, I think he has to release them because of the license if someone asks for them. And sharing is caring”
Lion – Catalina2012-04-01
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Should have went for an older graphics card, hell my old computer that I gave to my brother which is like an Amd athlon x2 3.0ghz with a 8800gts 320mb card with 2 gigs of ram is still maxing out games on his resolution like 1600x something(…”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-21
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Snow Leopards fine for time being. I'll stick with Amd because they're cheaper and just as good. Agreed. Spending extra $$ just to get Lion or MLion doesn't make sense… I have a feeling kernel for AMD for Lion might come out… The problem fo…”
Lion – Catalina2012-03-18
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“There are ways to emulate cpu extensions, so yes, it could be possible. Personally I'm a bit puzzled about the fact I cant run osx86 at the moment because snow leo doesnt support the gtx 550 ti.”
Lion – Catalina2012-02-15
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Nope, the kernel has both i386 and x86_64 parts, but you can't run it without -force64 (If you are booting with arch=i386) because application binaries are only x86_64 :-| Yep, That's it. Finder, etc do not start without a 64-bit kernel.”
Lion – Catalina2011-12-04
1,075,710 dossier reads
Lion with AMD
“Still nothing on the Lion front? I wonder why it takes so long. I guess it's because of the 64-bit.. AMD kernel runs in a hybrid mode on SL..:(”
Lion – Catalina2011-11-12
1,075,710 dossier reads