starkruzr Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 So, I installed 10.5.2 Kalyway on my machine tonight -- E6750, Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP, PNY Verto 7900 256MB, not a single hiccup. Network and sound worked out of the box, graphics worked perfectly after NVInject. My last questions are: 1) How do you tell if you are using the vanilla kernel? The install disc never asked me which kernel I wanted to use. I've seen dialogue boxes for that elsewhere on the site, but I never saw it during install. Phoenicis:~ jtd$ uname -a Darwin Phoenicis.local 9.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 SCT 2008; made by ToH:xnu-1228/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386 Does that help? 2) Is it possible to just use the Boot Camp Assistant to do dual-booting? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico1985 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 So, I installed 10.5.2 Kalyway on my machine tonight -- E6750, Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP, PNY Verto 7900 256MB, not a single hiccup. Network and sound worked out of the box, graphics worked perfectly after NVInject. My last questions are: 1) How do you tell if you are using the vanilla kernel? The install disc never asked me which kernel I wanted to use. I've seen dialogue boxes for that elsewhere on the site, but I never saw it during install. Phoenicis:~ jtd$ uname -a Darwin Phoenicis.local 9.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 SCT 2008; made by ToH:xnu-1228/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386 Does that help? 2) Is it possible to just use the Boot Camp Assistant to do dual-booting? Thanks. if you used Kaylway it did...when you chose which packages to install, you also chose a Vanilla or ToH kernel if you can't remember, the kernel size will help somehow (a vanilla kernel is around 10MB, a patched ToH kernel is about 5MB) yours seems to be a ToH kernel... by what uname tells you as for the 2nd question: I'd rather use the Darwin bootloader or GRUB for a bootloader (unless you installed EFI, in which case you can give BootCamp a try, but I can't help there!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-727087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starkruzr Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 if you used Kaylway it did...when you chose which packages to install, you also chose a Vanilla or ToH kernelif you can't remember, the kernel size will help somehow (a vanilla kernel is around 10MB, a patched ToH kernel is about 5MB) yours seems to be a ToH kernel... by what uname tells you as for the 2nd question: I'd rather use the Darwin bootloader or GRUB for a bootloader (unless you installed EFI, in which case you can give BootCamp a try, but I can't help there!) Interesting. It also didn't ask me which packages to install, not once during the whole process. Is it possible to change kernels now? What are the benefits of the ToH kernel? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-727127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeldDown Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 It is possible. Check the Kalyway readme (if you can't find it, boot the disc and read the main dialogue window. It outlines how to switch your kernels around.) When you installed it, if you had gone to "Custom" install and looked at what kernel it was set to, you would have been able to choose Vanilla. By default, 10.5.2 installs the "Sleep" kernel (which is obviously modded to enable sleep mode.) There are lots of other kernel options as well. Check the readme on how to swap to the Vanilla kernel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-727584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 SCT 2008; made by ToH:xnu-1228/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386 is the ToH Kernel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-727652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starkruzr Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 It is possible. Check the Kalyway readme (if you can't find it, boot the disc and read the main dialogue window. It outlines how to switch your kernels around.) When you installed it, if you had gone to "Custom" install and looked at what kernel it was set to, you would have been able to choose Vanilla. By default, 10.5.2 installs the "Sleep" kernel (which is obviously modded to enable sleep mode.) There are lots of other kernel options as well. Check the readme on how to swap to the Vanilla kernel. The readme on the disc, you mean? Regardless, I was not given the option of choosing a Custom install. The entire process was hands-off after partitioning and formatting the disc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-727764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starkruzr Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Bump. The Kalyway README says to type, e.g. "speedstepkernel" at the boot prompt, or "vanillakernel," etc. This doesn't appear to change anything; Terminal always says it's running the same kernel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-729803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Before you click the install button to install OSX you can click the "customize" button to the left. From there you can choose what kernel or drivers you want or need to install. Now I'm not trying to harp or anything, but come on! There are "readme files" with every disc that gets put out, just read it first before you try and install. Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-730641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveshaltz Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Hi guys, I know this is an old thread but if you want to know what kernel you are running you can use the "install or restore kernel" feature in OSX86 Tools. Click the button, and before it does anything nasty to your system it reports your current kernel at the bottom of the info pane. Under the heading "Detected Kernel Version & Make" it will say something like Vanilla 9.8.0 Kernel. Just my 5 cents. Steve. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-1383859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Bah. Just run terminal and type uname -a, then google the result if you don't know what it means. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-1383886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddy69 Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Hostinfo in terminal gives lots of good info, including the kernel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-1385612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Nice thanks, never heard of that one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101976-how-do-you-tell-if-you-are-using-the-vanilla-upgrade-safe-kernel/#findComment-1387253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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