Sumanitu Taka Nagi Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Hello, I recently have been attempting to install Snow leopard on my AMD Desktop and after several failed attempt at doing it in various Virtual machines I've tossed that idea. Now I've been working on installing it antively. I've been following this tutorial to help get my foot in the door. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1526675 At first I had trouble getting the installer going, but I used a separate bootloader on another disk I found in a tutorial here. http://leohazard.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2640 So I was able to install Snow Leopard and the bootloader got going, but upon firing up OS X I got kernel Panic. I tried using the same boot arguments I used to fire off the installation -v -x busratio=20 However, I still get a kernel Panic If anyone could help the rest of the way I would greatly appreciate it. Here are my specs for your reference. Motherboard MSI 770-C45 Chipset AMD 770 & SB710 CPU AMD Phenom IIx4 945 GPU ATI Radeon HD 4600 HDD Seagate ST3120827AS Network (Wireless) Linksys WMP110 Range Plus PCI Adapter (Ethernet) Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111DL On-Board Audio Chipset Realtek® ALC888S / ALC885 Thanks for taking the time to read my post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartie77 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Hello, I recently have been attempting to install Snow leopard on my AMD Desktop and after several failed attempt at doing it in various Virtual machines I've tossed that idea. Now I've been working on installing it antively. I've been following this tutorial to help get my foot in the door. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1526675 At first I had trouble getting the installer going, but I used a separate bootloader on another disk I found in a tutorial here. http://leohazard.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2640 So I was able to install Snow Leopard and the bootloader got going, but upon firing up OS X I got kernel Panic. I tried using the same boot arguments I used to fire off the installation -v -x busratio=20 However, I still get a kernel Panic If anyone could help the rest of the way I would greatly appreciate it. Here are my specs for your reference. Motherboard MSI 770-C45 Chipset AMD 770 & SB710 CPU AMD Phenom IIx4 945 GPU ATI Radeon HD 4600 HDD Seagate ST3120827AS Network (Wireless) Linksys WMP110 Range Plus PCI Adapter (Ethernet) Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111DL On-Board Audio Chipset Realtek® ALC888S / ALC885 Thanks for taking the time to read my post the bus ratio of the cpu clock must be calculated .. you cannot type in a random number ;-) 10x133(mhz) would be 1.333 MhZ CPU = bus ratio 10 instead of this you can also try if chameleon might not be able to get the value automatically by using busratiopath=1 ( amd k8 family, lookup for others ) . then you can also try to tell osx on amds how much memory you have to avoid kp for example 2GB bootflag is maxmem=2096 and also amd has problems with x64 voodoo ( if you use voodoo or "legacy kernel" ! ) kernel, only the apps can run in 64bit mode, so you would boot with arch=i386 -force64 maxmem=xxxx busratio=xx -v pcirootuid=x ( 1 or 0 ) npci=0x2000 ( for 10.6.8 ). I had a AMD machine sitting here and nothing worked, until I found one of the magic combinations and then all went easy. Intel is much easier .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/#findComment-1743563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumanitu Taka Nagi Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 You can give me more credit than that. I wasn't using a random number I was going by the instructions of the tutorial, but thank you for those tips, I will certaing ive ti a try. :3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/#findComment-1743577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumanitu Taka Nagi Posted September 14, 2011 Author Share Posted September 14, 2011 the bus ratio of the cpu clock must be calculated .. you cannot type in a random number ;-) 10x133(mhz) would be 1.333 MhZ CPU = bus ratio 10 instead of this you can also try if chameleon might not be able to get the value automatically by using busratiopath=1 ( amd k8 family, lookup for others ) . then you can also try to tell osx on amds how much memory you have to avoid kp for example 2GB bootflag is maxmem=2096 and also amd has problems with x64 voodoo ( if you use voodoo or "legacy kernel" ! ) kernel, only the apps can run in 64bit mode, so you would boot with arch=i386 -force64 maxmem=xxxx busratio=xx -v pcirootuid=x ( 1 or 0 ) npci=0x2000 ( for 10.6.8 ). I had a AMD machine sitting here and nothing worked, until I found one of the magic combinations and then all went easy. Intel is much easier .. Okay, sorry for the long reply delay. I had been out of town a lot lately and ahdn't been messing with my computer much. I did some research and found that my processor is apart of the K10 family. Though I have no idea how to adjust my busratiopath accordingly with that information. I've tried booting up with your flags and I've noted that whenever I use busratipath=1 The computer immediately restarts. Otherwise, when I use busratio=10 or busratio=20 I get a kernel panic. Those seem to be the only variables I've noticed thus far that trigger different results. Everything else just gives me kernel panic in approximately the exact same place. Thanks again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/#findComment-1748440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumanitu Taka Nagi Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 Is anybody able to help me any further? I'm really not sure what else to do at this point. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/#findComment-1749643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deDante Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 just share... try to use this methode : - boot using Nawcom ModCD - insert SL Retail and go to install * partition your hard drive to GUID* choose some kext from custom installation [legacy_kernel (must selected), AppleATIATA, graphic] - installation complete, reboot - do some registration and get your Mac OS X desktop - run Mac OS X 10.6.7 Combo Update - do not reboot - run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and install some kexts that compatible with your hardware - edit com.apple.Boot.plist [change mach_kernel to legacy_kernel] - reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/#findComment-1749659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumanitu Taka Nagi Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 What options would I use when customizing the isntall with the retail DVD? That is to say, what drivers should I use with the hardware i listed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266987-snow-leopard-on-amd-desktop/#findComment-1752152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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