Need help hacking an AMD system

[Christian Wacker]

I've got my HP Pavilion DM1-2011NR (AMD) that I want to throw some
form of OSX on.
Last time I hacked an AMD system I used a distro and was able to get
10.5.6 on my old Dell laptop.
This time I want to try the retail method, but I'm lost as to where I
should begin.
Has anyone else here gone the retail method for getting an AMD system
running? Is this even possible?
I've found some AMD kernels for Lion so that's probably where I will start.

--
I blog, therefore I am... I think. http://pizzaboy192.com/blog/

[mosslack]

I wrote this sometime back, perhaps you will find it useful. There are additional links at the end:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16HA08MU6x4bTjPoHxpGF01wOJv-LnZ_aPk-j2ho_A3E/edit

Just a message from mosslack...

______________________________

GG <+> TBIE <+> Hack List <+> Alt-OS

[Christian Wacker]

That’s a great guide… but the only problem I have is that I don’t have an ODD on my laptop. I could try booting it off an external ODD, but do you have any guide for booting off USB?

--
To unsubscribe: hq-a+uns...@googlegroups.com
List options: http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a/subscribe
 
HQ-A homepage: http://hq-a.blogspot.com/
Group Files Page: http://bit.ly/ia8E2l

[Kris Tilford]

On May 23, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:

> guide for booting off USB?

The process is the same as booting internally, but your BIOS has to
support USB booting, and you'll have to either change the boot order
or specify USB as the boot device within BIOS.

[pete...@cruzio.com]

>> guide for booting off USB?
>
> The process is the same as booting internally, but your BIOS has to
> support USB booting, and you'll have to either change the boot order
> or specify USB as the boot device within BIOS.

MANY BIOSes are smart enough to see a bootable USB thumb as a hard drive.

In this case, you would go into the boot order and select hard drive, then
move the thumb to first place in the hard drive boot list.

Then later, after the thumb has been removed, the BIOS will simply boot
the hard drive as it won't see the thumb at all.


I discovered that the Lion installer thumb actually works as a "helper" on
Snow Leopard.

I was reinstalling Win 7 32-bit on my Shuttle K48 (which has a GMA950
video and no PCI-e vdeo card).

Of course, I also had to boot the Win repair CD and make partition 4
(where Win 7 was located) "active".

Thereafter, NOTHING would boot at all ... the BIOS just rudely told me "No
OS".

In went the Lion installer thumb and using that as a helper I selected to
boot Snow from partition 2 (partition 1 is the EFI partition, partition 3
is the DATA partition and partition 5 is the backup Snow partition).

And, this is an IDE-based system, too.

OK, got Snow booted and then ran MultiBeast (which obviously fixed either
the EFI partition or the first Snow partition, or both).

Presto, all bootable partitions were again bootable.

[irrational John]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Christian Wacker
<pizza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else here gone the retail method for getting an AMD system
> running? Is this even possible?

Unless things have changed drastically while I've been away, no it is
not possible to create a hackintosh using an Apple retail installer
and an AMD CPU. I believe you would need to use a version which has
been modified to use instructions which the AMD CPU does not support.

-irrational john

[pete...@cruzio.com]

> Unless things have changed drastically while I've been away, no it is
> not possible to create a hackintosh using an Apple retail installer
> and an AMD CPU. I believe you would need to use a version which has
> been modified to use instructions which the AMD CPU does not support.

It was AMD which came up with the 64-bit instruction set which is now part
of Intel's instruction set.

The specialized instructions which AMD may lack are mainly contained
within the kernel, for which there exists legacy kernels which support
AMD's lack of those instructions.

Indeed, certain Intel CPUs also lack those instructions as well.

[mosslack]

On May 23, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Christian Wacker wrote:

That’s a great guide… but the only problem I have is that I don’t have an ODD on my laptop. I could try booting it off an external ODD, but do you have any guide for booting off USB?

Took me awhile, but I knew I had done this for some of my own systems that don't have an optical drive. This is the guide I used:

http://howtohackintosh.wordpress.com/guides/snowleopardusbflashdriveinstallation-guide/

Be sure to substitute the iBoot Legacy ISO instead of just the iBoot.ISO, as that will allow it to boot on the AMD system.

[pete...@cruzio.com]

> Be sure to substitute the iBoot Legacy ISO instead of just the iBoot.ISO,
> as that will allow it to boot on the AMD system.

iBoot Legacy has the legacy kernel and a number of kexts which are
appropriate for installations on non-conforming machines.

That includes a number of Intels which do not have the required
instructions or the required number of cores.

I found that a P4 541 (a 3.2 MHz H-T EM74T proc which is really more like
a Core Solo) worked perfectly on Snow Leopard. I later got a faster P4,
one of the 6xx series, but by that time I had reverted that system to a
Core 2 Quad 6600.

Then, along came Lion and the only legacy kernel which was immediately
forthcoming was the one which supported Intel Atoms (which are dual-core
with H-T and EM64T plus the new instructions, but are two procs on two
separate dice, not two procs in one integrated die, hence the issues for a
Lion legacy kernel were different, and were a lot easier ... still gave
you KPs unless you had the legacy kernel).

Hence, why my Supermicro Atom Server came out almost as soon as Server
Lion became available.