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D820 screen goes black during snow leopard installation


zararhayee

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Hello forum

 

I have a dell latitude d820 that I have been trying to install os x snow leopard on but whenever I boot for the USB that I created with myhack using this guide (https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6334-solved-my-hack-with-snow-leopard-caught-in-a-catch-22/) I see the apple logo with the spinning circle underneath for a min or two but then the screen just goes black as if it shut off but it doesn't because I can still hear the fan and the power light is still on. I have tried a number of boot flags but none of them helped. Can someone please helpe!?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Ps. I am completely new a hanksintoshes so I would appreciate it if you guys explained the solution in the most simple terms possible :)

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Yes I tried that and it didn't work but then after an hour or two I went to shut it down and when I pressed the power button the install screen came up and I was able to succefully install snow leopard but then when I restarted it and it looked like it was booting up sucessfully but then the same thing happened! Any suggestions?

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So I used the d620 boot pack and I was able to boot into the snow leopard I previously managed to install but I wasn't able to get a new installation done because It would get some kind of error. And I also still can't boot straight from the hard drive, I installed the new extras on the USB by the way. Any more help would be appreciated and I appreciate the help you've given me so far very much

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What was the error you got? The pack from the D620 will probably work as long as you have same screen res; otherwise, you may experience corrupted screen.

 

Make sure you install Chameleon once you've booted OS X. At worst, boot your HDD via the USB installer bootloader, then install Chameleon. Grab a recent version like v2.2 r2377 or r2401, they work Ok on those systems with all existing OS X versions. They're all available at InsanelyMac.

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