Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #73 · 2008-01-11 → 2008-02-26
#333 by Dispatches #1,475 by Thread Reach Member #73 AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce Retail DVD / USB

@eard

InfiniteMac community contributor with 22 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 308,518 historical readers.

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Member Number #73 Joined 2008-01-11
Active Window 2008 2008-01-11 → 2008-02-26
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#333 of 6,691 by Dispatches (22 notes) · #1,475 by Thread Reach (308,518 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #73 · Joined 2008-01-11
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (4) · NVIDIA GeForce (4) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@zephyroth (8) @Puttabong (8) @DoiX (7) @roisoft (7) @megaargon1 (5) @naquaada (5) @cgsheen (4) @1207FX (3) @creative_ (3) @crawle (3) @Xxp/TuX (3) @subsonic (2) @laxattack (2) @Sergiales (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
14 (64%)
10.X Core
6 (27%)
General
2 (9%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (21)

Direct links into threads where @eard contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@mauror: I'm downloading the "Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI" from a torrent. Could you tell me if the system will work on my notebook Acer Aspire 5520-5912. It has an AMD TL-58, GeForce 7000M, 2 GB (RAM) and a Toshiba hard drive (160 GB). You…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-26
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I have one question, the mobo is a factor about install/not install leopard? I see that one guy with chipset nForce570 was able to install it but with mobo Asus in HD Sata. I have nForce560 chipset but mobo ... well its a strange mobo :S cp…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-22
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@eddie11c: eard and opacity, try this guy. Added both of your vendor ID's in AppleNforceATA. rapid share.com/files/93326293/Extensions.mkext.zip.html Well, i think i advanced a little more but still no result I added the extensions.mke…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-21
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@opacity: I've got a problem with my acer lap top installing leo 10.5.2 it doesn't see my sata hdd. i think because dev_id and ven_id of my motherboard aren't listed in info.plist and i cannot inject my edited kext into extensions.mkex…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I've finished the download and burned and testing :S no good result like with the 10.5.1 DVD i try to boot with -v and show me still waiting boot device or somethin like that then i use -f -v and load but when i try to find my hd in disk ut…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“puttabong one question men that Medevil kext is the kext that appear in insanelymac for recognize hd sata? I thought that the new 10.5.2 DVD had sata support :S or how is it? But if that's the case, i can't install tiger/leopard yet and i c…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“wohoo that's a very very good new waiting to the upload finish to start the download =) cya guys”
Leopard 10.52008-02-16
74,206 dossier reads
Beginners: Ask here first
“yea yea like he said just sit down or go to sleep or i dont know but just wait men its done when its done cya”
Leopard 10.52008-02-12
37,386 dossier reads
Great News! 10.5.2 Released! 341Mb Total Size, Time For Rev. 2
“woooohooo! tnx for the info megaargon, looks like the wait time its ending =) i hope that soon the 10.5.2 rev 1 could see the light =) go go zeph cya guys!”
10.X Core2008-02-12
37,343 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“wow thats cool wyatt i think you are helping to improve the osx's installations =) cya men, good job”
10.X Core2008-02-01
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“wo wo wo it looks like soon we can download the rev2 hope that finally i could have mac osx runing on my lap go go zeph! =) good job”
10.X Core2008-01-25
36,277 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“Yeah, i thik the same Maybe the quality of the DVD isn't good ;( Spend a little more buying a better DVD, that should work, also the slow burning, anyway, i've burned my tiger isos and the leopard rev1 at 6x and no problem =) (my only probl…”
Leopard 10.52008-01-31
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“Tnx for answer zephyrot =) If the id of the graphic card is founded in the same way of the hard disk The dev-id of my card is 0x0533. The card is a nVidia GeForce 7000M I think thats it, is compatible? Tnx for read me Cya!”
Leopard 10.52008-01-20
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“Well, i think we only can wait to rev2 see the light and stop to ask "when i can test…bla bla" its ready when its ready thats it and zephyrot, i have one question: i have a nvidia graphic card, but i didn't see it in the Vendor's Device ID …”
Leopard 10.52008-01-19
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“Starting to say thanks to zephyrot by all the work done in this rev.2 of his DVD. i think it will help a lot of users(me included :)) So, like others users here, i can be a tester of your rev2 if you want The first DVD that you made doesnt …”
Leopard 10.52008-01-11
30,877 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update First Impressions
“i vote to include them anyway, we will to downlad them later, so download the iso with the files inside is the same thing but more easy but @zephyroth: ok no cpuid for iLife and only one for QuickTime (QuickTime.components) so it shoul…”
10.X Core2008-02-14
21,943 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update First Impressions
“roisoft i have one question men, i've read in TPB that the patched kernel is for amd/intel, ok so, you have only uploaded the patched kernel? because i see that there is the vanilla kernel also patched but it say only for intel mobo and cor…”
10.X Core2008-02-13
21,943 dossier reads
Can not get to the installation (10.5.2)
“@marazi: i get the "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist not found" message when i boot the dvd... any suggestions to what might be wrong...? mmmm are you sure that you set the partition where do you wanna inst…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-21
6,510 dossier reads
Which forum do you visit the most? InsanelyMac or here
“Well, like many people here, like my main machine is an amd, i visit first this forum =) later, i visit another one in spanish(applesana), and later i visit insanelymac, but like i cant install leopard/tiger i dont post too much because i d…”
10.X Core2008-02-03
6,346 dossier reads
Leopard doesn't find my HD on my Acer laptop
“Mmm i think you need to inject the AppleNforceSata kext, i think that's his name or im wrong? Mmm i'm not sure, i wasn't able to make leopard detect my HD in my laptop acer too ;( but i think that with that kext it will recognize your HD, j…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-15
5,319 dossier reads
Member Nationalities
“im from Campeche, Mexico cya”
General2008-01-11
41,477 dossier reads

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