Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 26, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 26, 2012 nope sound like your following the correct measures... maybe some how your image is corrupted? i don't think disk utility lets you repair permissions on a myhack disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derFunkenstein Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Thanks, appreciate it. I did have to make a new USB drive for the D620 because I couldn't get it to boot at all from the unifail one I created. When I ran myHack I let it search my system for the Install Mac OS X app, and it seemed to find teh right one, but maybe if I just specifically point to it I might get better results? I deleted it and initiated a fresh download, just to be sure. I just discovered online I can make it available to re-download on Lion by holding Opt when clicking the Purchases link on the App Store. edit: holy crap. If you're stupid like me and try to enable mirror mode, Fn+F8 worked in OS X and got me back to extended desktop mode. Did not expect that to work in a thousand years, but did it just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 27, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 27, 2012 i have had issues with usb thumb drives corrupting too... some just don't seem to like hfs file systems only mbr... witch sucks... 2, 8 gig thumb drive that i can only use with windows or to store files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derFunkenstein Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Created on a different thumb drive and Lion installed fine. First boot from the HDD crashed before it hit the desktop, though - very early on I got a mis-match on SleepEnabler.kext. It was a 32-bit kext trying to load on 64-bit Lion by default. I added arch=i386 to the USB boot loader and taht still didn't work. Not sure what else to do but remove that kext i guess. edit: did fresh install instead of upgrading over SL and it works. I used SoundFlower and found I have to delete VoodooHDA.kext in order to prevent KPs, but otherwise life is grand in Lion now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derFunkenstein Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I hate to ask so many questions, but I noticed one little thing in Lion - is hte Battery menu item supposed to be showing that the power source is battery all hte time, even when plugged in? I have the plug icon in the menu bar, but it says "Power Source: Battery" and I can't find a way to change it. edit: OK, I fixed THAT problem by using AppleACPIBatteryManager instead of VoodooBattery. Why does EDP use VoodooBattery by default? The EDP util never gave me an option; I had to move VoodooBattery out of Extra/extensions and move AppleACPIBatteryManager into Extra/Extensions by hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumpadi Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Hello people .... thanks to information from this site, managed to install OS X 10.6 on my dell D620. At first everything seems ok .... ok ethernet, audio video works ok in native (1280 x 800) and can access the Front Row ... is not a beauty? just do not have wireless / wifi working, but then I change the piece by another compatible Mac (hack) just have to thank all of you that contribute to con inexperienced as I do enjoy a Mac or something very close to a Mac . ahh I forgot, I can upgrade from 10.6 to 10.6.8 with the combo update? I've done a backup of kexts and disable sleep enabler. I reinstall the kext after the update. Sorry for my english... is very bad i know....Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derFunkenstein Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Yes, you can upgrade via the Combo update, that's what I did when I installed SL. It works pretty darn well. 10.6.8 is super-stable on the D620, in my brief experience. I'm less impressed with Lion on the machine. I may revert now that I've tried it. Weird random KPs on startup - VoodooRTC, GMA950, VoodooSynaptics...it's a different one every time. If I can get it to boot it seems fine, but getting it to boot is a bit of a chore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 29, 2012 Administrators Share Posted January 29, 2012 very important to repair permissions after an apple update... it makes a mess with permissions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawntodon Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 has PCMCIA been fixed on the D620 since OSX 10.7.0? I would really love to have my firewire card on this working without having to upgrade to a D630. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 6, 2012 Administrators Share Posted February 6, 2012 no, pcmcia only worked till 10.6.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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