E6430 hangs during first boot

[mlob1972]

Hi, 

 

I've recently bought an E6430 to run OS X on, and have followed Jake Lo's detailed walkthrough from November last year.  The installer runs fine, and I partition the drive and it runs, reboots to the USB stick, and I select the drive.  The apple logo comes up and it runs for a while then the screen goes light grey, with the mouse pointer - when I move the mouse it turns into the spinning wheel, and it just hangs there, with me still being able to move the pointer around.

 

The model I have is the i7, 120GB SSD, 8GB RAM, with the nvidia graphics alongside the intel graphics, 1600 x 900, BIOS A17.   The only question I had on the installer was which Generic EFI folder to use - the one crossed out, or the other one, but I've tried installs with both. I also picked the Ivybridge zip for 1600 x 900 or above screens.

 

Thank you for any advice you can offer.

 

Martin

 

 

 

 

 

[Bronxteck]

try booting without caches at the bootloader os selection screen

[Hervé]

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/9248-working-sleep-on-intel-hd-and-nvidia-nvs-on-dell-latitude-e6430-optimus-enabled-or-disabled/

[Jake Lo]

For the models with Nvidia discrete card, try FrostytheSnowman's new guide here.

[mlob1972]

Thanks for the replies.  I tried with no caches, and on the screen it's hanging with Sound assertion in AppleHDADriver at line 

 

I'll have a look at Frosty's stuff.

 

Thanks,

 

Martin