Administrators Hervé Posted March 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 15, 2013 How did you partition/format your HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorpio Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Mac os yuornaled. All the same as for the Mountain Lion. On various forums writes that because boot0o and should change boot01. The terminal area is unknown to me and I go when I can just copy / paste or slowly rewritten. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 15, 2013 Chameleon boot0, boot1, etc. that really depends on how you've arrnaged your disk partition. Are you using MBR or GUID partitioning and how many partitions do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorpio Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 OK, I'm using the whole HDD, one partition, and I have a dual boot. USB and OS X journaled partition. I tried it and MBR and GUID the same result. By now I was preparing USB iMac 10.8.2. Just trying to External 10.6 SL because mountain lion blocking the installation on USB. Can I upgrade Snow Leopard to Mountain lion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 15, 2013 I've never experienced such difficulties. Whether using internal SATA HDD (from 80 to 320GB) or SATA/IDE HDD (from 40 to 250GB) connected via USB ports, I always succeeded in installation Snow Leopard, Lion and/or Mountain Lion on my D630s (GMA and nVidia). Maybe something wrong of incompatible with your particular HDD, because the recommended process as listed above is pretty much flawless, at least up to basic/initial OS installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorpio Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 installed Snow Leopard and EDP for final installation kext. HDD is a WD 320 GB and it will not install Lion Mountain, although previously it was just installed on it. The second HDD that I wanted to put the ML Seagate 500 GB. And it is SL installed but not ML. Snow will upgrade to 10.6.8 and try to upgrade to the ML, if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 15, 2013 Did you check your BIOS version and settings match the recommended values? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorpio Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Sorry, but I checked several times for the Bios. I do not understand clearly why I installed Leopard and Mountain can not. I'll try to install on a 60GB SSD, perhaps it fails, if the other drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cch123 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I just purchased a D630 off of ebay and it should be here this week. I'm looking forward to experimenting with ML on it. I have successfully installed ML on a Dell 755 desktop so this wil be my second hack. I purchased a DW1390 wifi card to use with it as I read that the Intel wireless is a no go with ML. Are there any wireless N cards I can use with the D630 that are compatible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 18, 2013 Administrators Share Posted March 18, 2013 Intel wireless cards are a no go for all recent OS X versions (SL, L, ML). Regarding 802.11n wifi cards, you can use any model supported by OS X in the D630 as long as it's full size mini-PCIe format. If you get a 1/2-size card, you'll need a bracket to hold/lock the card in situ. Do a little search on the forum and you'll find various threads on the matter. There's also an open list in the R&D H/W section -> LAN&Wireless. Contributions are invited. https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2120-wireless-cards-inventory/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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