Vanilla vs. patched kernel switching

[eyemac]

Kaly.. uD Man!!!!

 

Great work!!!

 

I am typing this from myKaly 10.5.1 GUID EFI install on a Gigabyte GA-945P-s3 with ATI x1950xt Intel E6600 @ 3.00Ghz with 2GB memory. Runs very nice. Interestingly, Geekbench (2.0.9) reports score as 3198. However, on my 10.4.10 install, on same machine (hard drives different models tho) with patched Kernel with Uphuck, Geekbench is 4048. Hardrive with 10.4.10 is WD SATA II cavier 16 and with Leo, Seagate SATA II also with 16MB cache.

 

I am trying to figure out two things:

1) How do I verify that I am running Vanilla Kernel. I typed 'Vanilla' (without quotes) at Darwin option and am now working from that boot. About this mac reports Mac Pro and Geekbench reports Hackintosh.

2) How do I switch between the vanilla kernel and patched??? I checked root in Terminal and there are four items:

a) mach_kernel, Vanilla nd c) mach_kernel_ctssys and d) tohkernel which seem to represent different kernels.

 

Do i type mach_kernel=vanilla etc?

 

Thanks

sg

[macgirl]

No, you just type the name of the kernel an hen other flags, like these:

 

mach_kernel.vanilla -s -x

 

mach_kernel.sleep -v

 

mach_kernel.speedstep -F "Graphics Mode"="1440x1050x32"

 

 

Note that the name of the kernel is firs if you put it after any flag it won't work.

[eyemac]

Thanks! Interestingly, there does not appear to be any easy way to determine which kernel is actually booted from within OS X. Also, I checked performance with Geekbench and Xbench and there does not seem to be much performance difference using those programs between the different kernels. Actually, I get a very slight performance advantage in 10.4.10 with patched kernel vs. Leopard 10.5.1 using both vanilla and tohkernel. Thanks again. sg