GA_Canuck Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 While waiting on the SLD430USB to download, emptying the trash on my MacBook and building a BIOS flashing bootable CD I thought I would make a few somewhat random suggestions. First some to add to the FAQ (we need one?): 1. Update your BIOS. Even if not doing one of the custom ones with DSDT modifications in it, at least use the latest from Dell. The table at http://www.osxlatitude.com/groups/d4xosx/wiki/e36a2/DSDT_Collection.html has which Dell BIOS versions DSDT's are available for. I was on A04 and am upgrading to A10. 2. Do NOT format your MacOS drive case sensitive. I've read this a few places. I think just Journaled, not case sensitive is the default. Then a couple handy sites/utilities: 3. http://www.macosxhints.com/ which is now http://hints.macworld.com/ is a great source of OS and Application hints for Mac users. I have no affiliation with them other than having posted a few hints and read lots. 4. http://hddguru.com/software/ has lots of great low-level hard disk tools. In particular I use MHDD (http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/) to test drives and check SMART info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdamnit Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 2. Do NOT format your MacOS drive case sensitive. I've read this a few places. I think just Journaled, not case sensitive is the default. Mine is formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled) Case Sensitive. No problems here, other than I had to rename com.apple.boot.plist in Extra/Extensions to "com.Apple.boot.plist" so I could boot. Although, on the same hard drive, I'm failing SMART tests in OS X, and passing them in Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted May 31, 2011 Administrators Share Posted May 31, 2011 case sensitive makes more problem then its worth unless your running a server. causes alot of weird issues too like kexts not loading if there name structure is not correct and chameleon commands not responding properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdamnit Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 case sensitive makes more problem then its worth unless your running a server. causes alot of weird issues too like kexts not loading if there name structure is not correct and chameleon commands not responding properly. Which would be why I absolutely CANNOT modify SMBIOS. Not even with Lizard.app. Makes sense. I've kind of made a mess of my tri-boot setup (OS X 10.6.7, OS X 10.6.7test, and Windows 7) so I'm going to format and restart from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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