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“Thats nice, but there is a slight misunderstanding here. It is really about how you release. One might be interested to try someting, but on a reasonable efford basesis. Remember OS X is very much liked cos of it's useabillity, even if we a…”

“A propper manual/description of your works Andy would improve a lot. To my disapointment (for the better or worse) I must say I stopped checking out your developments, cos I am really left in the dark and only can figur some out when I read…”

“With Voodoo kernel according to munky: Yes. I had a retail EFI partition install on my old AMD machine. Best I had except for my new Intel. Edit: Woops you where faster NebKiwi:)”

“Is really necessary the Retail disk for this method. And i had other question, kind newbie but i want to be sure. Course that i had to reformat the entire disk i had MBR partition scheme? There's nothing like migrate or something, eh? Yes y…”

“Use the OSx86 tool of pcwiz. And read some more on the basics of whats going on. See, without knowing what your doing you end up with wasting a lot of time on reinstalling and frustration.”

“Depends of what the ALC268 solution consists of. If it had a patched AppleHDA.kext then it got overwritten. Just replace it back again and see.”

“Your EP45-UD3R is one of the most compatible boards. 10.5.7 works now native on ICH10 (P45/X58...), I only neeed the LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage.kext to avoid the orange drive icons. Also had to switch back to 10.5.6 sound, for the time being.…”

“C64 and Amiga users have large regular meetings in Europe. C64 and Amiga? That was way back in time when I started. So yes, lets do a convention for Mac OS X Hacintoshes according to the C64 and Amiga scheme. Lets all meet when Mac OS X Hac…”

“I was born in Göttingen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göttingen) and I still live there (in the country, though) - I love it. : Göttingen, Kassel, Eschwege. Funny, must be the Silicon Valey of Hackintoshes.:) And I thought this was an inter…”

“Kassel, somehere around the middle of Germany... Greetz to Puttabong and creative_ 60 km away from Kassel.:) Greetings.”

“Great! A. Does it still exist in OS X 10.5? B. Are there any OSx86 compatable input devices?”

“I still got the original one bought in '94. Got it out 3 month ago and was still impresst by the concept, even though the first one was too slow and not much of use in daily life. Realy had a Star Trek feel to it in '94.”

“Beware they are also here Edit: Oh, and Andyvand is 24.”

“nice to see other members in the 30+ years of age range At least it adds some sense”

“Well actually I was not to fond on all the hardware we had in the 80's. What we admired was a Cray 2. Now we all got several times more computing power than that (and since OS X it actually feels like that ). A dream came true in sort of no…”

“You're from Germany, like me? Quite near actually: Eschwege. Microdrives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive) of the Sinclair Spectrum and QL? Never used those, switched from Sinclar ZX81 (1KB ) to C64 in 82/83. Sir Sinclair was qui…”

“No, that's Andys French/Dutch and my German variant spelling of disc drive, were are talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc”

“Yeah and later on making it into a binary and storing to tape or disk What disk?:) Teenagers had no disks then Or maybe 1 in 20.”

“And the nicest fun part in the early C64 days was typing 4 to 10 pages of hex value listings from a magazine into your machine. Thank god we later on had checksums.”

“Im using Windows 7 - and believe me it's not so bad as you may think Only Windows! I know 7. It's getting more and more like OS X:)”

“Well I agree with 98% said above, but the main thing is OS X. Apple means choice. Linux isn't really a substitute for Windows, OS X definatly is and even more. Can anyone now imagine how crapy it would be not using OS X and having to use on…”

“Funny, Rum on the opposite gives me thoose symptoms.:) Enjoy:)”

“No insult here, but it must be some high class weed your smoking. Unfortunatly you can't send me some via email.;)”

“Hmm.. I am not really getting what you are pointing at. Chammelion 2 is quite suitable on booting for all kinds of setups. What are the partion schemes on your disks? GUID/MBR? For more info on EFI partion boot please see: EFI Partition Boo…”

“Broadcoms BCM4321 chip is the one to google for. It's used in Mac books.”

“You have 3 options now. A. Find out what the last verbose information was and maybe have a clue to a solution. B. Change bios option (AHCI, or power management ACxx (what ever:)) C. Check out further boot flags. Please see attached Voodoo k…”

“Well to put it right: The "begining" is not the terminal, it's the boot prompt and you can't put in commands but only boot flags. Flags for example like -v -f -s -x and lots more. -v-s lets you boot into the unix terminal try that for a sta…”

“Ahh overlapped posts again. What's the "bunch of stuff" exactly?”

“Well my last thought then is (if you by no means can get into the promt (F8)) that the kernel doesn't like someting. A far as I know it's Voodoo as a default. The only thing you then can do is fool around with some bios settings and hope th…”

“More help than you wanted.:) Maybe the disk is corupted. Have you burned it on a R- with slowest speed (x4)? Yes I know DVD number 6.:)”

“Well ok it's Dell. Doen't mater at this stage anyway. OK, at that early stage no kext is loaded. The bootloader has been loaded. I guess the kernel is loaded or about to load. Is there no way to get to the darwin prompt, so you could enter …”

“Yes but if you get the Apple screen, then you should get something when booting in verbose mode. A message like booting Darwin and else. What motherboard?”

“What do you see before it reboots on your screen, when booting up in verbose mode? (F8 on startup then issue -v on prompt) What spec does your hardware have?”

“You might want to try the Voodoo kernel on AMD: http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/”

“Hm... And I oiled the hinges of a door once. Now it doesn't squeak anymore.:) Ok, it's the lounge and free speech for all, but what's the point here please?”

“No, sorry:) But try pcwiz computer.com/osx86search/”

“Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device"”

“Like I said it all depends on if the distro supports the southbridge (Nvidia nForce3 250 MCP) at DVD boot up. The "boot up OS X" and the "installation OS X" are not the same. The DVD boot up extension.mkext you tried held no Nvidia nForce3 …”

“Thought so. I found some specs of the board The soutbridge is a Nvidia nForce3 250 MCP mother boards.org/reviews/motherboards/1463_2.html Question is what is the Sil3114 doing? Your IDE? PNY 6200 is no problem by the way:)”

“Ok then Voodoo kernel should work fine. But the Sil3114 could be troublesome. It is likely that a installed system will work perfectly, but the problem lies in that not all southbridge chips (merly a few) are supported at DVD boot. I would …”