iVysaur

Hello again, Hervé! No need to apologize, mate. You've been always ready for advice when i needed it, and even if what worked for me didn't follow your lines exactly, c'est l'intention qui compte, no? By the way, the defaults were the speedstep plus the voodoo thing and only those two, don't really know why i enabled the sleep though, as i loathe wasting energy leaving laptops on all the time, but it worked! Right now i'm customising my installation with the wallpapers provided here, also installing some apps. I wonder if keeping the sleep disabled and trying many other config options would've worked, but it's already up and running, albeit i may have to RMA my hard drive, cause it was ticking after all. One more question: What is PStatemenu? Upon rebooting, was greeted by a window asking me to "automatically check for updates", it has the pics of AMD and Intel processors to the left. Regards!

Hi, Hervé! If my machine does not need the NullCPU(...).kext to run then why is it giving me the bloody panics? And if i download Chameleon Wizard, will i be able to enable C & P States? If so, how exactly? I'm back to the point when i'm about to install EDP and run its config, right after the combo. "Emulated speedstep" and "Install VodooTSCync" are on by default under the tab "CPU & Power", does it influence my problem in any way? For the time being, i'm going for "Install NullCPUPowerManagement", because that gets rid of the panic, patching is useless as well. Cheers!

Thank you, Hervé, for your reply (and excuse me for my late one)! This fixed my problem: Everything works so far, more's the pity considering i'm about to do a fresh reinstall once again to get everything working on the first run. You, chaps, are brilliant. Thank you for your support. PS: Is there a command to have the SL video intro everytime you boot into OS X? I'd love to know. Oh, and what is the infamous AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext for, what good does it do to the world? Best Regards!

Hi, Leon, thanks for replying! I followed your instructions and also this one, which this morning gave me the same message (and then Safari crashed, the edptool.command didn't show anything in the console, except for an empty white window). However, i just did it again right now and it worked (instaling and successfully running EDP, that is, haven't ran the config yet). I just did a fresh reinstall of OS X, though, because i couldn't just live the machine running all night with the 10.6.8 combo prompt to reboot, will run the combo again and try... I must admit, though, that the intro video never gets old! I wonder if there's a boot command to make it run every time i log into OS X. Mega cheers! Update: I got the following message afte completing EDP config: Clicked OK and then: Clicked OK again, crossed my fingers and rebooted, then this: panic(cpu 0 caller 0x1b66b0fa): "No HPETs available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly\n"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-142.6/pmThread.c:157 Debugger called: <panic> Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Adress (4 potential args on stack) 0x1b593f08 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x1b593f3c 0x223cel 0x0) 0x1b593f58 : 0x1b660fa (0x1b67d3a4 0x2 0xf61f9879 0x3) 0x1b593fc8 : 0x2a179c (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0) Kernel Extensions in backtrace with (dependencies): com.apple.driver.AppleintelCPUPowerManagement (142.6.0)@0x1b665000->0x1b688fff BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task Mac OS version: 10K549 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue J You need to restart your computer (...) System model name: MacBook2,1 button until it turns off, then press (...) System uptime in nanoseconds: 170824 Redémarrez l'ordinateur. Enfoncez (...) Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Second update: I got around the "panic" by booting into the pen drive and then running My Hack, reinstalled the Extras and then restarted. Now i'm in the desktop again. Cheers

Hello, Hervé, thanks for replying! I ran into the following problem: PHP 5.4.13 Development Server started at Wed May 15 18:53:21 2013 Listening on http://127.0.0.1:11250 Document root is /Extra/bin/html Press Ctrl-C to quit. Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 26 file is encrypted or is not a database' in /Extra/bin/config.inc.php:88 Stack trace: #0 /Extra/bin/config.inc.php(88): PDO->query('SELECT * FROM c...') #1 /Extra/bin/config.inc.php(12): getConfig('edpversion') #2 /Extra/bin/launch.php(10): include_once('/Extra/bin/conf...') #3 {main} thrown in /Extra/bin/config.inc.php on line 88 logout [Process completed] I still have the restart combo window open. What can i do? Edit: Tried reinstalling and updating EDP to no avail. I'll try again in the morning. Cheers

All right, chaps? This week, i decided to give it a whirl with my good old reliable D620 and OS X v10.6.3. The specs of my machine are as follows: Primary Hard Drive = 1000 GB HDD Modular Bay Device = DVD+/-RW Video Controller = Intel 945GM Graphics Video BIOS Version = 1264 Video Memory = 8 MB Panel Type = 14" Wide XGA Native Resolution = 1280 by 800 Audio Controller = Sigmatel 9200 Modem Controller = Conexant HDA D110 MDC Wi-Fi Device = Broadcom Wireless Cellular Device = {none} Bluetooth Device = {none} AC Adapter Type = 65 W Keen as mustard, my first step was to create a USB installation pen with myHack (like this brilliant guide indicates) and then, almost instantly after i was done, plugged it to my Dell, but because i had forgotten to install the bootpack extra folder for my model on the pen drive, after the gray splash screen everything went black. I realised this when i went back to the guide and after a quick period i was ready to try again. Before i proceed, let me tell you that nowhere did i find any clue about what happens when you install OS X in a HDD that has not been wiped in advance... Pants! I proceeded anyway because i had already replaced my old stock 100 GB hard drive and if anything went wack i could just clone it again. So Disk Utility showed me three NTFS partitions: one was the clone of the Windows XP that came with the laptop, the second one was a fresh install of Windows 8, and the last one was an extra NTFS partition that i made specifically for OS X to find and overwrite. Both Windows 8 and the empty partition were made with GParted from the resulting unallocated space left by the cloning process, for which Clonezilla and Ubuntu Live CD were used. I installed it in the empty NTFS partition after transforming it to the appropriate file format with Disk Utility and off we go! Like i mentioned it before, i heard some odd noices during the first half of the installation, but like Hervé said, it was probably the DVD drive. When this was done, i restarted and was greeted with the OSXLatitude themed Chameleon (lovely jubbly!); up to this point, i had four choices: My Hack USB Installer, Dell Utilities, NTFS1, NTFS2 and OS X, picked the last one and, after watching the SL intro, did what i was prompted to, then bam! In the desktop i was. Here's where i, unable to cope with my own excitement, began losing it out of my head. I installed the EDP and then looked out for the personal configuration for my machine, but for some reason it "beachballed" me in the end. I was expecting a notification window indicating that the process was finished but all i had was this too little to be noticed "done" word inside a white command window. I forced-quit the EDP and restarted, but then i noticed i hadn't installed the 10.6.8 combo, i blindly did it and then, for some reason beyond myself, i re-installed the EDP. Kernel Panic ensued. I repeated the whole process (not really all of it, just the OS X part) a couple of times. I had to install the extras from the bootpack with My Hack again on the pen drive before i could successfully start where i left (actually, before i made bollocks of it, which is right before the combo). I guess it's worth mentioning that during the install i got some Kext-related prompts which i honestly readed carefully this time before any action (choosing yes three times gave me a sluggish cursor): I got rid of the ECC memory kext, kept the not recommended for NVIDIA kext, and... I can't remember about the other one, sorry. Now i have a fresh 10.6.3 running again without EDP and updates, because i wanted to ask here first how shall i execute the update procedure. I can guarantee you that Windows 8 bootes normally with Chameleon, but at first Windows XP didn't want to boot from it, i had to boot into Dell Utilities first and then restart before i could boot XP again. However, after the reboot, Chameleon was gone and Windows 8 boot screen was back, but i'm still able to boot into OS X with the USB drive. I want to thank you all for these tools and documentation, there're lots of places out there devoted to this kind of things, but almost none of them has been as devoted making the process so smooth and painless for beginners, i may even be inspired to try with a HP G60-235DX, but first i'd like to see how it goes with my Dell. Cheers!