Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #20,166 · 2009-12-21 → 2010-05-23
#481 by Dispatches #134 by Author Reads #787 by Thread Reach Member #20,166 Chameleon / Boot-132 AMD OSx86 AHCI / SATA

@ushpiy

InfiniteMac community contributor with 16 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (77,719 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 799,913 historical readers.

Dispatches 16 Ranked #481 of 6,691
Author Reads 77,719 Ranked #134 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach 799,913 Ranked #787 in reach
Lead Dossiers 4 19,430 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #20,166 Joined 2009-12-14
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-12-21 → 2010-05-23
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
This is my first attempt at a guide on installing Snow Leopard on AMD Phenom II processors. This is how it worked for me on my PC and I am not sure if it will work on your PC or not. I am not responsible for any damages (highly unlikely) which you may have. i have a perfectly running SL install on my AMD Phenom II x4 920 Biostar TA790 GX 4 gb ram with internal gfx ati 3300 machine · i want to know if i should update and by which like directly from asu? · BTW I am using qoopz kernel and am currently on 10.6 and want to upgrade to 10.6.2
Archive Standing
#481 of 6,691 by Dispatches (16 notes) · #134 of 3,454 by Author Readership (77,719 reads across 4 dossiers) · #787 by Thread Reach (799,913 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #20,166 · Joined 2009-12-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (6) · AMD OSx86 (4) · AHCI / SATA (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · ATI Radeon (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6
16 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @ushpiy (4)

77,719 cumulative reads on threads started by @ushpiy

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on AMD Phenom II 920
This is my first attempt at a guide on installing Snow Leopard on AMD Phenom II processors. This is how it worked for me on my PC and I am not sure if it will work on your PC or not. I am not responsible for any damages (highly unlikely)…
Snow Leopard 10.662,613 reads
2010-05-13 · 10 notes
reducing sl (hfs+) partition size
the title is pretty self explanatory can anyone help me reduce the size of my sl partiton so that i can add the space freed to my windows drives ntfs i dont want to use gparted as then chameleon starts showing partition as a linux one…
Snow Leopard 10.65,519 reads
2010-01-26 · 5 notes
pre update sl 10.6.2 query
i have a perfectly running SL install on my AMD Phenom II x4 920 Biostar TA790 GX 4 gb ram with internal gfx ati 3300 machine i want to know if i should update and by which like directly from asu? BTW I am using qoopz kernel and am…
Snow Leopard 10.65,277 reads
2009-12-30 · 2 notes
Some Questions
1. Is it ok to remove Leopard after Snow Leopard is up and running safely? 2. I want to know that if I copy the entire files of Snow Leopard volume, and if anytime I want to reinstall it, then can I copy those files back, so will it work?…
Snow Leopard 10.64,310 reads
2009-12-24 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (12)

Direct links into threads where @ushpiy contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install
“Update: Used Apple Azalia Audio kext for sound and it works great. Thank you everyone for helping me setup SL on my system. ----- thanks (everyone in the osx86 community) SL is working fine. though had some very tough KPs and issues but man…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-21
694,068 dossier reads
Install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on AMD Phenom II 920
“My BIOS settings are default and the only thing which is changed is the "AHCI" thing.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-23
62,613 dossier reads
Snow Leopard by Hazard Problem
“@erigz Did you try the files located in the "DVD_Boot_Mac_Only" folder? @stanca I am sorry but can't help you except saying that you should also try the "Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD" edition as that's what worked f…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-15
11,158 dossier reads
Snow Leopard by Hazard Problem
“It has the option of instaling the server version. So its not neccessary that you will have to install the server version.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-14
11,158 dossier reads
Snow Leopard by Hazard Problem
“You should try using this "Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD".”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-13
11,158 dossier reads
Hackintosh on Intel, Freeze on »Loading Darwin/x86 …«
“do u have the latest chameleon installed? correctly? sorry if this is not applicable to u as i was also getting this error but resolved it by installing chameleon rc3 rc 2 was breaking my install”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-19
6,010 dossier reads
Snow Leopard won't boot.
“are you sure that you are using latest chameleon because i had this same error and the problem was that chameleon was not the latest”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-28
5,988 dossier reads
reducing sl (hfs+) partition size
“update: it worked! thanks for helping my leopard work again and helping me reduce the size. Thanks again! --- thanks a ton mate i will try out ur solution and report thanks for taking the time to write out”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-29
5,519 dossier reads
reducing sl (hfs+) partition size
“actually its mbr win 7 leopard and snow leopard are all on the same drive but in different partitions the problem with gparted is that after using it on osx (leopard) chameleon recognizes that os (leopard) as a linux one and doesnt allow me…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-28
5,519 dossier reads
Help installing Snow Leopard 10.6.2
“Install the latest version of Chameleon to the drive from where you "boot" (in this case, I guess its Leopard).”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-30
4,970 dossier reads
Some Questions
“thanks for taking the time to help me out i ll reply again later if i have any more questions merry christmas!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-25
4,310 dossier reads
Install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on AMD Phenom II 920
“Reserved by the original poster.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-13
62,613 dossier reads