TLDR: AMD Phenom II x3, Asus mobo, R6670 (currently disabled), 4Gb RAM, OSX10.8.3 Myhack, Bios on AHCI, GUID partition with proper filesystem, AMD Mountain Lion kernel files patched, installation completed, flashing underscore on boot.
After not touching my PC for a couple of weeks, I decided to boot it back up and fiddle around with it for a bit. Freshly installed 7 x64, had everything up and running with a few tweaks here and there, perfect. I bought the thing multiple years ago, and after upgrading the hardware a few times of the past years, it still manages to crank out pretty serious performance. But yeah, I wanted more. So I looked into Vmware/Parralels with OSX. Turned out it was possible on an AMD machine, but only with the right kernel files. So I tried, to no avail.
Specs (from a dusty memory of last night, just got to class but I can't let this go), AMD Phenom II x3 (Triple core, was free).
Asus Mobo, no clue which model, AM3 socket I believe, 128MB onboard Nvidia {censored} graphics.
MSI AMD R6670 (Took it out, figured that the graphics were not supported by the installation, only to just read that I could have deleted a file from the installer).
4Gb of RAM (max this mobo will take).
So, after creating a bootable OSX 10.8.3 usb stick using MyHack, and dusting off an old hard drive, I decided to start the installation proces. I downloaded the latest AMD ML Kernel file. BIOS S-ata settings have been set to AHCI mode. I managed to figure out that I needed to boot with npci=x3000 using -v -x commands at the Chameleon bootlauncher, and managed to get into the installation after taking the graphics card (r6670) out. After formatting the drive to OSX Journaled with a GUID partition, the installation actually followed trough and finished. And of course, after going trough all that, it would not boot. I got the pretty blinking cursor.
So, naturally, I used our best friend on the web, and figured out that I needed to replace the 'mach_kernel' file that was installed with the base 10.8.3 by the file that I had on my usb stick. Did that. I also checked the partitions with Fdisk, and even though it only gave me 'unknown' results by using 'P' on the selected disk, after doing a ListDisk, it showed me that OSX was installed on Disk1P2. So I set f to 2, and rebooted.
Already have this post up on Insanelymac, and someone told me to try Lion instead of ML, since that isn't properly supported with AMD yet.
You guys have any thoughts?
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