Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #526 · 2008-02-12 → 2008-02-20
#435 by Dispatches #805 by Author Reads #2,057 by Thread Reach Member #526 AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@zamboo

InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (14,129 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 119,212 historical readers.

Dispatches 18 Ranked #435 of 6,691
Author Reads 14,129 Ranked #805 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 119,212 Ranked #2,057 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 7,064 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #526 Joined 2008-02-01
Active Window 2008 2008-02-12 → 2008-02-20
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
cite crawle:I just selected the newer ToH-Kernel, MBR-EFI bootloader, NVidia drivers and AC97-Audio. Install went fast (about 20min) and my specs are:
Archive Standing
#435 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #805 of 3,454 by Author Readership (14,129 reads across 2 dossiers) · #2,057 by Thread Reach (119,212 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #526 · Joined 2008-02-01
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (8) · NVIDIA GeForce (6) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (3)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
18 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @zamboo (2)

14,129 cumulative reads on threads started by @zamboo

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
I couldn't even boot with Zephyroth LEO DVD rev1(tried all bootflag combinations-x -v cpus=1 -legacy -s -f). I get stuck either at "Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Fri Nov 16 14:50:43; made by ToH:xnu-1228.0.2~1/Build/obj/RELEASE_I386" or…
Leopard 10.510,338 reads
2008-02-13 · 44 notes
boot with -s flag
Sorry guys maybe it is a stupid question but when I try to boot DVD and press F8 then type -s,but it continues to boot, does not give me a command line so I can disable the Nvidia Nforce4 chipset to see if it is causing "still waiting for…
Leopard 10.53,791 reads
2008-02-20 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (16)

Direct links into threads where @zamboo contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@zephyroth Firstly I would like to say thanks for your hard work let us install LEOPARD on our AMD systems. But I have a very fameos error "still waiting for root device" :(( I couldn't get installed *JAS 10.4.8 AMD DVD *Zepyroth 10.5.1 AMD…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“[cite] crawle:I just selected the newer ToH-Kernel, MBR-EFI bootloader, NVidia drivers and AC97-Audio. Install went fast (about 20min) and my specs are: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ NVidia Geforce 6600GT VIA Chipset 400GB ATA IDE 160GB ATA IDE ... @…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-18
74,206 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“I would like to thank all of you for supporting this project, very special thanks and respects go to my hero ~Zephyroth~ It's my first time i wrote in the form, so sorry for any mistake. I gave my specifications below, rev1 DVD doesn't work…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-12
30,877 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“We would appreciate your help LohnenNicht, plz post a step-by-step guide for us newbies.. I tried changing my IDE HD connection from master to slave didn't help at all. If I don't use any bootflags it continues giving errors on "SAM Multime…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-14
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“[cite] damnesiac:Same motherboard here and everything went pretty smooth. Didn't have the 1 minute remaining issue or anything like that and I transferred my info from another partition and logged in straight away. I'm using an X2 3800+ wit…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-14
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“Good for you I will try that as soon as I got home (working at the moment). Did you download the image from Pirate as Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD SSE2/SSE3 (32bits)?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“thanks roisoft You said "LG DVD-RW first ide port (master) I don´t have more ide devices" then why did you advice me to use my DVD writer as "SLAVE"? and I couldn't understand why did you multiply everything with 2? You have 2 PCs?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“LohnenNicht, did you check your md5 hash of your iso? Did you download it from Pirate as Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD SSE2/SSE3 (32bits)?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“Plz, the community.. Anyone has the same branch of CPU (one core) and the same motherboard and as well got LEO installed successfully. Plz tell me where did you start to have problems, which steps did you follow to solve them? This guide wi…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“[cite] roisoft:there are 3/4 options behind the dvd, left-to-right order 1. Master 2. Slave (use this one for Slave) 3. Cable select (this works in windows but it cause problems in mac) No it isn't the problem, the jumper is set to second c…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“[cite] roisoft:I have this board too, the last Bios solves this kind of problems. Don´t use the "cable select" jumper for set to slave the DVD ok? Do you want me to take off the jumper that's behind the DVD writer?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“[cite] roisoft:I have this board too, the last Bios solves this kind of problems is it possible to have some other problems like BIOS options because I'm sure of that I got the latest version of BIOS. Do you remember how did you set BIOS up…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“[cite] roisoft:You must use the last Bios version if you still got this error reburn again the ISO (low speed) roisoft I updated the bios to its latest version before starting from scratch. didn't help at all”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“Ahaa, HCA plz could you post the steps to achieve this replacement? On my AMD platform, JAS 10.4.8 Tiger worked perfectly, just had some problems with video playing.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“Thanks for reply roisoft, I allready tried that with 2x speed, and checked the data via nero data checking, no error occured at all. Do you know what's the md5 of iso image of rev1 ? And should I try with -vanilla flag?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads
Boot stuck.A8n32SLI motherboard
“Yes plz, raisoft can you do that?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
10,338 dossier reads