moonman Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on a friend's D630 Intel graphics, using my trusty and tested USB pen, created using the old method here. It's worked several times on other Dells. When I try to boot the D630 I get the boot options, choose USB pen as usual, get the boot screen and choose the Installer. The screen goes to the usual Apple logo, with the spinning wheel, then after about 20-30 seconds the screen goes black. The computer is on. The bios is A17. I've set ACHI and deactivated wifi. I'm now installing Windows 7 via DVD in order to check if it's a hardware problem. Any ideas? P.S. just installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it installed fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smp Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 If your friend's laptop has the high-resolution screen, you'll have to manually set the resolution in the boot.plist to its native 1440x900x32. It might also help if you use Simeonoff's dsdt.aml file instead of the standard included in EDP 2.2 Keep us updated on how it goes, it sounds like your friend has the same laptop I'm working on and I'm running into some challenges with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted May 17, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 17, 2012 Dear moonman, Try this. Create a new SL install usb with myhack 3.1 and run the installer. If the installer fails, use myhack again to install Extra from the osxl bootpack and try to run the installer again with mach_kernel arch=i386 -v -f (so that we can see where it gets stuck). If the installer completed, use the bootpack Extra again on the new SL installation. If you managed boot into the new SL system , install EDP 1.9.2, run myfix full mode and reboot. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted May 17, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 17, 2012 [...] Create a new SL install usb with myhack 3.1 and run the installer. If the installer fails, use myhack again to install Extra from the osxl bootpack and try to run the installer again with mach_kernel arch=i386 -v -f (so that we can see where it gets stuck). [...] Hi, I've tried MyHack 3.1 + OSXL Bootpack USB key method as described in this other thread: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1375-d630-need-help/#entry9336 Not only does it appear fairly slow, but it ends up with blank screen after Apple-logo grey screen with spinning wheel. Difficult to move forward from there on and to know whether it gets stuck or not... I've tried your suggested option/boot flags but it ends up the same way: blank screen after a split second during which it goes grey. I attach pictures of the last messages displayed just before that (screen2 show very last messages before screen goes dark). There are 2 lines reporting an "invalid firmware" in relation to backlight. Could this be linked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted May 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 18, 2012 Hi herve, Nope its not backlight issues. I just notice that you have high resolution X3100 model. Look around for a modified dsdt.aml for high resolution screen in the forum. I think that's what you need. From the boot messages, the boot went well and the problem is the gui did not load. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted May 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 18, 2012 Haha, progress... Not full success yet, but big progress! I've downloaded Simeonoff's 1440x900_dsdt.aml file from the following thread: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/600-d630-half-screen-blank/page__p__3983#entry3983 I've unzipped the file to /Extra directory, so that it contains a dsdt.aml file (there was none before). At restart, boot fails miserably with black screen of death (hi hi hi, sorry, easy but couldn't help it!) If I restart with -x flag, success, D630 reboots straight on LCD screen and at max resolution. Most things appear to be working, except TrackPad or Audio. Can't be too far off now... Contents of my /Extra folder is: - com.apple.Boot.plist - dsdt.aml (new) - Extensions.mkext Extensions folder themes folder Contents of /Extra/Extensions: - AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext - ApplePS2Controller.kext - BroadcomWiFiInjector.kext - fakesmc.kext - IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext - IOATAFamily.kext - IONetworkingFamily.kext - NullCPUPowerManagement.kext - VoodooBattery.kext Could there be a conflict between the new DSDT file and the existing com.apple.Boot.plist or that something else is now missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted May 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 18, 2012 Ok, success at last!!! Rebooted with -x flag as indicated above. Downloaded EDP 1.9.2 and installed the following kexts for D630, Intel X3100 graphic card: - VoodooPS2Controller - NullCPUPowerManagement - SleepEnabler - VoodooBattery Then, chose to apply the following fixes: - Disable Hibernation - Touch /System/Library/Extensions/ Then, installed Chameleon SVN2.1 rev.1684 Then, launched Chameleon Wizard and applied the update that was immediately offered (I ticked the 'update more bootloader' option before doing the update). Then, I re-copied Simeoneoff's DSDT file to /Extra and indicated this DSDT file in the 'org.chameleon.Boot' tab of the Chameleon Wizard. The rest was left unchanged before I saved. -> System reboot, prayer, prayer, prayer......... SUCCESS!!! Straight boot of SL 10.6.7 off LCD screen. Yes! Might try the 10.6.8 update now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted May 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 18, 2012 Dear herve, Good to hear your rig is working now. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted May 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 18, 2012 Life is good and OSXL rocks! Thanks for the suggestions and Mega Up to Simeonoff for his DSDT table. SL 10.6.8 CPU clock & FSB aren't reported at proper/expected speed, but I don't care at this stage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted May 18, 2012 Administrators Share Posted May 18, 2012 Dear herve, Just disable dynamic acceleration in bios and you're set! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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