Endless Paradigm

Look at the pic^^



My old 10.5.8 install was pretty much done for when I upgraded to a RADEON HD 5770, so when Netkas released his new 5xxx Snow Leopard drivers I was eager to try it out. As expected the driver wouldn't work in Leopard so I needed Snow Leopard. I have a Snow Leopard DVD but I couldn't get this thing to work even with AMD boot DVDs... so I decided to try iAtkos S3 despite everyone saying it won't work with AMD.

In the first install I forget to choose a bootloader, the second install instantly crapped my PC out because it was trying to boot the vanilla kernel on an AMD processor... go figure...

Third install with custom kernel still tried to boot the vanilla kernel... I was at a loss so I tried something unusual, the iAtkos DVD was not only able to boot the Setup but also all HDDs so I gave it a go and let the DVD boot my SL partition... BOOM SL was booting. And not only that, instead of doing a fresh install it simply updated 10.5.8 to 10.6.3 o_o so everything was still there.

Installed the 5xxx RADEON drivers and after some wireshifting on my monitor and 3 reboots I got the most beautiful Snow Leopard 1920x1080 picture with full hardware acceleration

Old problems fixed:

USB 2.0 works
No more random kernel panics

New Problems that appeared:

Have to boot with the iAtkos DVD in drive since I don't know the correct MACH command
my IDE drives aren't detected (not that bad)
out of my 2 soundcards only 1 works and I need the second for Skype >.<

But yeah I'm happy for now^^

That's great!! ^o^

Oh by the way, those tabs on the bottom left side of the screen, are those part of Mac OS or was that your doing?

That's DragThing for OSX, kinda like dock drawers^^

OSx86 has had me pulling my hair out for a couple years now. No matter what I've tried, the only thing that would detect my hard drive was L4A 4.1 and even then it would time out when I tried to format the drive. I kinda gave up after trying ever release from 10.4.9 to 10.6.1 without any success.

It looks nice. I suggest a different CandyBar theme though so it matches your wallpaper.

Yeah OSX86 can be a bitch. I heard GIGABYTE Mainboards are very well supported so if you ever change your hardware, try to get one of these. As for the theme, I know it doesn't harmonizes yet very well I was more occupied fixing programs and such...

I can't find a VoodooHDA.kext for Snow Leopard, nor have I found out the correct command so I can stop using the DVD bootloader. I know it's supposed to be MACH_NameOfKernel just what is my kernel name? xD

good job desu :D

looking good sky

Thanks guys!^^

Now get it working on my PC Sky you know how

or I'll go on your server in WoW and give you bad rep and call you a ninja lol

I have no idea what's going on.
but horray for you dude :D