Thread: how to patch amd with amd_insn_patcher apps will work

It seems to be working in 64-bit mode with all of my RAM now (About this Mac says 16 gb RAM and when I choose "Get info" on some apps there's am "Open in 32-bit mode" option)

The only thing I find odd is that in the System Profiler in the Software field, the "64-bit Kernel and Extensions:" area says "No"

I tend to think this is normal because of how I installed OS X (Hazard 10.6.2 DVD probably only had 32-bit drivers) correct me if I'm wrong.

Otherwise, 32-bit programs run just fine so far. I'm on Chrome right now and it's been 5 minutes since I've booted. If something goes. If it breaks I'll edit this post.

Thanks for your effort with the instructions! I appreciate it.

Oh, quick note, when I type the command update_dyld_shared_cache I get "-bash: update_dyld_shared_cache: command not found"

Still stable though!

Originally Posted by razzerred

Ahh, I hadn't been using the -force64 flag. Results:

I tried entering each line in one at a time and then hitting enter (and when I did that the commands corrected me on syntax or terminal told me the files didn't exist or that it couldn't run binaries)

Then I tried entering the commands back to back and that of course didn't work.

Then I entered commands in the way terminal was saying to (like amd_insn_patcher /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib.patched and then hitting enter) and when I tried to do amd_insn_patcher /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore.patched Terminal output Illegal instruction to every command I entered and no apps would launch in finder. I would have saved what my terminal looked like exactly but Textedit froze while I was saving, and then Terminal froze when I was saving the output.

All of the lines were input in the order of the first post.

What I'm going go try now (and I'm typing this while I wait about 20 minutes for it to finish) is making 2 copies of my backup partition that I've been restoring from (using GParted if you're curious), have the amd_insn_patcher modify files on the drive that hasn't been booted, and then copy the modified files over to the active partition, that way I can at least patch all of the files before OS X destabilizes.

I'll post back after I try it, either with good news that it worked or begging for more help

(like amd_insn_patcher /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib.patched and then hitting enter)

Wrong

1 line at a time

if there is a space between like this

###############

##############

###############

thats 3 separate lines

if its like this

########
########
########

no space between (return hit) then its 1 one line ill show you again


(this is 1st line)

sudo -s (hit return

(2nd line)

amd_insn_patcher /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib ( hit return

(3rd line)

/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib.patched ( hit return

and so on.

but did you ever fix booting with out mod cd
you should do this last after you get every thing working and updated