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Boot MacOS X86 from USB Pendrive

December 7th, 2006 skr3dii View Comments

Have you ever dreamed about carrying in your pocket,
your favorite OSx86 install. And boot it everywhere.
When dreams come true…

Before you start

You will need the following stuff:

  • USB pendrive (min. 2 GB required)
  • JaS Mac OS X 10.4.x or 10.4.7 Retail DVD
  • Pacifist software (www.charlessoft.com)

Format the pendrive

Plugin your USB pendrive and open Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities).

Select your pendrive device in the left menu, and click the partition tab.
Enter a nice name for your device like osx86.

Hit Options… button, and choose Master Boot Record.
From the drop-down, choose 1 partition as the volume scheme.

Be sure the filesystem is Mac OS Extended (Journaled),
Hit the Partition button.

Next, we need to enable Owners, open a Terminal and type:

sudo /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/osx86

Read more…

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fdisk saved my OS X partition

November 14th, 2006 skr3dii View Comments

After installing Vista on my second primary partition, dunno how, but…
My third primary OS X partition was not bootable anymore!!!

Maybe it was related to Vista installer, maybe to MacDrive I used to read HFS+.

The problem was the type of my OS X partition has changed from AF to 07 !!!
The type has become NTFS! duh!

My grub was giving me HFS+ parition error… Impossible to boot back in OS X…
I booted a linux livecd and ran fdisk:

su -
fdisk /dev/hda
p (list partitions)
t (assign type)
(choose the partition to change the type)
af (set type to af)
w (write changes to disk and reboot)

Yaye! I booted back in OS X86 !!

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Titan NVidia 10.4.8 drivers released!

November 1st, 2006 skr3dii View Comments

Omni just released today his modded kext (drivers) to allow full CI/QE support
for NVidia cards!! Amazing project called Titan! Congrats omni!

Follow omni’s instructions:
Please note that this was only tested in OS X 10.4.8
with semthex kernel.

Put the kext in your /System/Library/Extensions/ folder,
then in Terminal:


sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extension/Titan.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Titan.kext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache
reboot

Download Titan kext from: omni.starchaser.org/titan/

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“Google is your friend”

October 29th, 2006 skr3dii View Comments
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“X1600 AGP fix” by CycloneFr

October 29th, 2006 skr3dii View Comments

Just received this tutorial from CycloneFr, check it out:

Okay guys, Neophus and I were working for months on the famous
Borisbadenov hack, and as we said latest .8 drivers were kernel
dependant. You may have seen Neo posted a 3.4 package for PCIE users
which is working fine (said to). The problem is Apple
(intentionally?) avoid us to use ATINDRV without PCIE support. Before
it was working as PCI, but the new IONDRVSupport.kext seems to force
PCIE mode. All of this to post an AGP fix for X1600 users.

Grab ATINDRV .5.kext (included in Neo 3.2 pkg) else u’ll still get
the artefacts under games (latest ATINDRV overclock the card)

Grab IONDRVSupport .5 or .7 as you want (included in the combo .7)

Run in Terminal:

sudo -s
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/ATINDRV.kext
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/IONDRVSupport.kext
cp -R (drag and drop ATINDRV.kext and remove the / at the end) /System/Library/Extensions/
cp -R (drag and drop IONDRVSupport.kext and remove the / at the end) /System/Library/Extensions/
reboot

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GMA950 full resolution fix – 10.4.8 kexts/kernel

October 25th, 2006 skr3dii View Comments

My GMA 950 integrated graphic card was supported out-of-the-box!
Just a glitch, I was not able to choose a resolution bigger than 1024×768…

Here is a quick fix for that:

Just replace the 10.4.8 AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext
with the one from 10.4.4 (also on JaS 10.4.6/7 DVD).

In Terminal:

sudo -s
cd /System/Library/Extensions
mv AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext.original
cp -r /Users/skr3dii/tmp/AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext
chown -R root:wheel AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext
chmod -R 755 AppleIntelIntegratedFrameBuffer.kext

cd ..
rm Extensions.*
reboot

Now I want the 10.4.8 IONetworkingFamily.kext, stay tuned…

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Real MacGeeks read Kernel documentation

October 24th, 2006 skr3dii View Comments
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