Snow Leopard kernel by qoopz/nawcom! [Intel/AMD]

[CrimsonAngel]

update: after installing the new fakesmc.kext from netkas and deleting dsmos.kext snow leopard boots and works.

have the same issues with this kernel, like with modbin test7 kernel. itunes account management and warcraft3 doenst work with lan/inet.

i guess this two things would be fixed with the famous cpuid patch things...

 

thanks alot and keep on !

Removing dsmos and installing fakesmc worked I can now boot

[sok5]

Thanks to hnak i got it running- will post a guide for Core i5 P55 soon... Full Audio/Ethernet/QE/CI/Updateable, etc...

 

I got it running too, P55 i7 9600 GT 512 Mb, still have some problems with sleep and wakeup, shutdown and reset.

 

Thanks

 

Sok5

[ptesone]

Removing dsmos and installing fakesmc worked I can now boot

 

same here! thanx C.A.! It was just a matter of installing fakesmc.kext in my Extra/Extensions folder and BOOM I'm in. . .

[mitch_de]

Q: Cant Intel i5 +i7 CPU users run vanilla kernels ?

I ask because perhaps i switch from C2D to i5 at end of 2009. Thanks for an comment of that little off topic question.

[MasterLen]

Q: Cant Intel i5 +i7 CPU users run vanilla kernels ?

I ask because perhaps i switch from C2D to i5 at end of 2009. Thanks for an comment of that little off topic question.

 

I7 CPU User can use Vanilla Kernel!

[_Enki_]

It work for me, but my ID said MacBook 3.1 and now changes to iMac 9.1 that I did wrong

[ptesone]

my hard drives are going to sleep now and then, what would be causing that??

 

EDIT: I think it was just one of my hard drives acting up. . .This kernel seems to be working rock solid so far, I haven't had any troubles. . .

[digital_dreamer]

Q: Cant Intel i5 +i7 CPU users run vanilla kernels ?

I ask because perhaps i switch from C2D to i5 at end of 2009. Thanks for an comment of that little off topic question.

You betcha!

 

MAJ

[CrimsonAngel]

Any news on updates for this kernel?

[JCP21]

Please say there is news!

[Bummskopf]

installed Snow Leopard on my USB-Stick with my Intel PC - works, copied this amd kernel, extensions and other SMBIOS.plist / com.apple.boot.plist to the Chameleon Extra folder. Now I can boot the Snow Leopard on my AMD Sockel 939 Athlon 64 3200+ with Gigabyte K8NF-9 Mainboard (nforce4). My only problem now is that i can't install Snow Leopard on the S-ATA drive of the AMD pc (on boot with DVD the install line is running through (like it does when it prepares for the installation, but not the installationprocess itself) i let it do this for ours, nothing changed. When i try to install it from within the USB-Snow Leopard system, the part where i can choose the drive on which i want to install, the whole frame is grey. Another thing is that i am not always able to format one of the partitions (or partition it) because it hangs up on "unmounting drive Snow" (for example). What is the problem? I thought about the nforceATA kext, i used a new version i found in a thread in this forum, but it did not work either.

[ptesone]

installed Snow Leopard on my USB-Stick with my Intel PC - works, copied this amd kernel, extensions and other SMBIOS.plist / com.apple.boot.plist to the Chameleon Extra folder. Now I can boot the Snow Leopard on my AMD Sockel 939 Athlon 64 3200+ with Gigabyte K8NF-9 Mainboard (nforce4). My only problem now is that i can't install Snow Leopard on the S-ATA drive of the AMD pc (on boot with DVD the install line is running through (like it does when it prepares for the installation, but not the installationprocess itself) i let it do this for ours, nothing changed. When i try to install it from within the USB-Snow Leopard system, the part where i can choose the drive on which i want to install, the whole frame is grey. Another thing is that i am not always able to format one of the partitions (or partition it) because it hangs up on "unmounting drive Snow" (for example). What is the problem? I thought about the nforceATA kext, i used a new version i found in a thread in this forum, but it did not work either.

 

I have an AMD setup w/nforce chipset and I've been using a AppleVIAATA.kext and an ATAPortInjector.kext for my harddrives. . .I used to use AppleAHCIPort.kext in Leopard 10.5.8 tho. Make sure you have you have your SATA settings set to AHCI not SATA or RAID in CMOS. . .

[Bummskopf]

the Problem with this is i think that my Ga-K8NF-9 Board hasn't got the option to "AHCI" (at least i didn't found it under that name), would this be a problem?

[3os's-the-charm]

Running on my amd machine brilliantly however restart isn't fixed for me

athlon x2

running both leo and snow leo on the same harddrive!

thanks qoops ur kernel rocks!!

[evgkursai]

thanks qoops!!!

on my AMD x2 run kernel ok!

 

please, help me, iWork 09 craches.. ((

 

 

 

 

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000020ede878
Crashed Thread:  8
...

Thread 8 Crashed:
0   libFontParser.dylib		   	0x97a17264 TFormat4UTF16cmapTable::Map(unsigned short const*, unsigned short*, unsigned int&) const + 232
1   libFontParser.dylib		   	0x97a16ae9 TcmapUnicodeTable::Map(unsigned short const*, unsigned short*, unsigned int&) const + 269
2   libFontParser.dylib		   	0x97a15ea7 TSFNTFont::GetGlyphsPerCharacters(unsigned short const*, unsigned short*, unsigned int&, bool) const + 69
3   libFontParser.dylib		   	0x97a12eb3 TFPFont::FillFontInfo(FPFontInfo&) const + 499
4   libFontParser.dylib		   	0x97a12b3c TFPFont::GetMetrics() const + 118
5   libFontParser.dylib		   	0x97a12ab7 FPFontIsMonospaced + 17
6   libCGXType.A.dylib				0x96c5ea84 get_font_info + 59
7   com.apple.CoreGraphics			0x97c96398 get_font_info + 59
8   com.apple.CoreGraphics			0x97c965d2 CGFontGetHMetrics + 33
9   com.apple.CoreText				0x993d01c2 TBaseFont::CalculateFontMetrics(bool) const + 144
10  com.apple.CoreText				0x993d00e1 TBaseFont::InitFontMetrics() const + 51
11  com.apple.CoreText				0x993cfee5 TBaseFont::GetStrikeMetrics(float, CGAffineTransform const*, bool) const + 81
12  com.apple.CoreText				0x993cfe57 TFont::InitStrikeMetrics() const + 55
13  com.apple.CoreText				0x993d399b CTFontGetAscent + 49
14  com.apple.AppKit				  0x92ebe23c __NSFontInstanceInfoInitializeMetricsInfo + 48
15  com.apple.AppKit				  0x92ebe1f0 -[__NSSharedFontInstanceInfo _defaultLineHeight:] + 40
16  com.apple.AppKit				  0x92f65087 -[NSATSTypesetter _layoutLineFragmentStartingWithGlyphAtIndex:characterIndex:atPoint:renderingCont
ext:] + 1079
17  com.apple.AppKit				  0x9310964f -[NSSingleLineTypesetter createRenderingContextForCharacterRange:typesetterBehavior:usesScreenFonts:hasSt
rongRight:maximumWidth:] + 451
18  com.apple.AppKit				  0x92f6fe4f __NSCreateRenderingContextForAttributedString + 324
19  com.apple.AppKit				  0x92f6f988 -[NSAttributedString(NSExtendedStringDrawing) boundingRectWithSize:options:] + 1377
20  com.apple.AppKit				  0x93063c1b -[NSAttributedString(NSStringDrawing) size] + 73
21  com.apple.Keynote.sfinspectors	0x026a285f ImageForFontName(NSString*, NSString*, NSDate**) + 281
22  com.apple.Keynote.sfinspectors	0x0265adc9 -[SFIFontCache imageForFamily:face:] + 969
23  com.apple.Keynote.sfinspectors	0x026a25c3 -[SFIFontCache _backgroundThread:] + 609
24  com.apple.Foundation			  0x95f90964 -[NSThread main] + 45
25  com.apple.Foundation			  0x95f90914 __NSThread__main__ + 1499
26  libSystem.B.dylib			 	0x977cdf39 _pthread_start + 345
27  libSystem.B.dylib			 	0x977cddbe thread_start + 34

 

 

I use AMD Marvin's patcher, but after patch /System/Library/Frameworks iWorks crash again.

[unii]

Hi all,

I have:

1. a working Leopard install on my Intel sse2 based dothan system

2. a retail Snow Leopard disc

3. a USB stick with retail Snow Leopard copied onto it

 

I know how to burn a Boot 132 disc.

I have backed up my working Leopard install and have a drive partitioned with a blank partition and a Leopard one.

 

How can I best begin trying to install Snow Leopard onto my Intel SSE2 system with this kernel?

 

Much thanks

 

I would like to know that, too

Can someone give us a hint, please?

[ThirdSmile]

Thanks. All in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 works fine (=

My Configs are:

• ASUS P5LD2 VM DH
  
• Intel Pentium 4 631 Cedar Mill 3.0GHz 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 86 Single-Core Processor
  
• integrated Intel GMA 950
  
• ALC882
  
• ST3160811AS (SATA) (GUID)
  

[flyguyjake]

Does this work with PC EFI V10.5 or only Chameleon's RC3 boot?

[ThirdSmile]

Does this work with PC EFI V10.5 or only Chameleon's RC3 boot?

I have used Chameleon`s RC3 ...

[gandem]

Features of the Kernel :-

 

* Bulit-in kernel blacklister – automatically blacklists bad kexts from loading. Therefore you don’t need to use a disabler to disable it manually

* bigger dmesg – Which translates to a larger log file so that you can troubleshoot easily

* uuid patching/fix – Eliminates the need of UUID kext or specifying manually

* fsb detection – Do I’ve to say more on this

* cpu cache detection – Again , I don’t have to explain on this

* reboot fix – Eliminates the need of OpenHaltRestart and fixes shutdown/reboot issue

* sse3emu -SSE3 emulator for SSE2 processors . Bear in mind that most of the applications in Snow Leopard run fine with this emulator. However there are some reports of Safari and certain applications that may crash or behave weirdly. It will not be enabled if you have SSE3

 

For AMD users , it doesn’t include on the fly CPUID patching – which means that you’ll have to patch your CPUIDs manually by using a third party tool. You could read more about this in my Snow Leopard guide and in other AMD for Snow leopard installation guide.

 

 

Original Link (Rapidshare)

Mirror Link #1 (uploadpla.net)

Mirror Link #2 (crimsy)

Mirror Link #3 (MediaFire)

 

 

Installation - To install simply rename your old mach_kernel as mach_backup and rename this as mach_kernel . If you’re planning to install Snow Leopard. Do follow my installation guide as I’ve updated it to reflect SSE2 changes or you may follow other guides ! Please do not forget to read the readme to know more details about this kernel

 

Source Code - The source code (.dff) will be given upon request only. You may contact me directly via e-mail if you want the source.

 

Kernel Name – Some of you may ask why the kernel is named as “anappirtrvh” . which means thx to: azi, nevermind, arya, prasys, p|astikman, inku, roisoft, tomas, radekg, Voodoo, and HiFi the slow tester. – Which is the first name of the beta testers who helped to test the kernel

 

I would like to take this opportuntity to thank qoopz for releasing the kernel for the SSE2 AMD/Intel user community out there. without him , we would be still in darkness and I am guessing he is the guy that would get the ball rolling.

 

Source

 

 

-pauℓzurrr

 

I have a very similar amd setup to you on an oem board. NForce 430 Chipset (MCP61PM-HM) HP

 

I would like to try this kernel. Would you be willing to share your /extra folder or dsdt?

 

I'm getting a lot of ehci usb errors using modbin.test7.

 

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

 

Here's my other post with dsdt:

 

Post

[FrodoKenny]

installed Snow Leopard on my USB-Stick with my Intel PC - works, copied this amd kernel, extensions and other SMBIOS.plist / com.apple.boot.plist to the Chameleon Extra folder. Now I can boot the Snow Leopard on my AMD Sockel 939 Athlon 64 3200+ with Gigabyte K8NF-9 Mainboard (nforce4). My only problem now is that i can't install Snow Leopard on the S-ATA drive of the AMD pc (on boot with DVD the install line is running through (like it does when it prepares for the installation, but not the installationprocess itself) i let it do this for ours, nothing changed. When i try to install it from within the USB-Snow Leopard system, the part where i can choose the drive on which i want to install, the whole frame is grey. Another thing is that i am not always able to format one of the partitions (or partition it) because it hangs up on "unmounting drive Snow" (for example). What is the problem? I thought about the nforceATA kext, i used a new version i found in a thread in this forum, but it did not work either.

 

I'm having the same problem. p4 northwood, 845pe board with ICH7. Tried installing to internal IDE, to USB drive and to a sata drive with an silicon image sata card. All give the same problems as above: erasing partition hangs on mount, verify disk does nothing, and installing hangs before copying anything or at the drive selection after using disk utility. Note that everything remains responsive, it just that nothing is happening to the drive/installing. Same drive and partition works fine with a Core based system with original kernel.

 

Any solution or progress for this?

[flyguyjake]

pauℓzurrr,

 

Do you know how the kernel achieves sleep, shutdown & restart? Is it blocking specific kexts to enable this?

 

I would like to pinpoint how it's doing this, because once I enable graphics, I no longer have sleep, shutdown or restart. If I could better understand what the kernel is doing to enable sleep, shutdown & restart then perhaps I can better pinpoint why graphics breaks it.

 

Thanks

[andrewq2]

First of all, thanks a lot for this kernel. It works great, though there are a few things that I would like to mention. First, I have an AMD Phenom processor with 8 GB of RAM which usually requires me to use maxmem=4096 to get SL or L to boot, but with this kernel, if I enable 64-bit mode, I can use the full 8 GB of RAM. I tried this same trick with Leopard, but I don't think whatever it was that made this work has been implemented in the Leopard kernel (though I believe it should). Now, if I try to use maxmem=8192 or leave the option off and disable 64 bit mode, then it does an immediate reboot and doesn't boot at all.

 

Now for the bad news... just like everyone else with AMD and 64 bit mode, most apps don't work. Even Firefox doesn't. I was able to open Mail though and I didn't try many others. If Firefox can't work, then I'll just wait for another kernel before trying to use 64 bit.

 

One more thing, as it seems that true 64 bit mode requires SSSE3 and AMD doesn't have this, does this mean that another emulator like the SSE3 emulator is a possibility? Will AMD ever have true 64 bit mode enabled?

 

Thanks again.

 

 

Who said amd dosnt have sse3? Just older ones dont

Also AMD was the first to adopt 64 bit.........

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_processors Look at the middle of k8 and on.

[pauℓzurrr.]

-pauℓzurrr

 

I have a very similar amd setup to you on an oem board. NForce 430 Chipset (MCP61PM-HM) HP

 

I would like to try this kernel. Would you be willing to share your /extra folder or dsdt?

 

I'm getting a lot of ehci usb errors using modbin.test7.

 

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

 

Here's my other post with dsdt:

 

Post

 

Im using these kexts in my folder,

 

AppleVIAATA.kext

Disabler.kext

fakesmc.kext

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext

IOAudioFamily.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

OSvKernDSPLib.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

SuperNForceATA.kext

VoodooHDA.kext

 

If you want i could send them too you

 

This is my dsdt:

 

dsdt.aml.zip

 

pauℓzurrr,

 

Do you know how the kernel achieves sleep, shutdown & restart? Is it blocking specific kexts to enable this?

 

I would like to pinpoint how it's doing this, because once I enable graphics, I no longer have sleep, shutdown or restart. If I could better understand what the kernel is doing to enable sleep, shutdown & restart then perhaps I can better pinpoint why graphics breaks it.

 

Thanks

 

No sorry i'm not sure...

You could try SleepEnabler.kext and see if that works?

[RayFlower]

Works for me:

 

Amd Phenom II x4 945 AM3 3,0 ghz

 

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P (firewire works too, thank god!)

 

4GB Corsair PC6400C5DHX DDR2

 

500GB WDC SATA3 Hardrive

 

500473 HIS Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 (stuck in vesa but that has nothing to do with this kernel)

 

I built this to be my DAW computer and I've encountered a few annoyances that i suspect has to do with the lack of the CPUID patching.

 

*i could be using the old one, back with a edit if i did.*

 

Also thanks for sharing the .diff!