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  1. Can you summarize all that you did in a short guide to get everything working? I have one e6400 running Mavericks 10.9.5 perfectly (sleep, TRIM, SD card, CD/DVD, USB etc.). I have another e6400 I want to get El Capitan on. I believe the difference between the e6400 and e6500 is basically just screen size, so whatever tricks you came up with for El Capitan install should probably also work for the e6400.
  2. FYI...Seems like it was caused by doing an OSx sw update. A newer version of AppleACPIPlatform.kext was in my S/L/E. I had that kext removed a sometime ago. I removed it from S/L/E again, rebuilt my kext caches, rebooted. Now all is well.
  3. Hi All, With OSX Mavericks coming soon. Does anyone have any idea what procedure will be needed to upgrade from 10.8.4 ML on the e6400 to Mavericks? Thanks.
  4. Hope someone can point me to a resolution to the below issue. I hadn't tried a USB flash drive until recently on my E6400 OSx system built using the helpful guides in this forum. I have tried a USB flash drive in all the USB ports on my e6400, but the drive does not mount or show up on the desktop or in the Finder. Any ideas???
  5. I also updated my install from 10.8.3 to 10.8.4 via Apple Menu SW Update. I didn't get any errors. I did not have AppleACPIPlatform.kext in S/L/E in my working 10.8.3 install (FYI...AppleACPIPlatform.kext was v1.7 from 10.8.3 and I had removed it per recommendations in the forum). The ML 10.8.4 update did not add AppleACPIPlatform.kext back to S/L/E. What 10.8.4 did do is upgrade the DVDPlayback.framework in S/L/Frameworks to 5.7.1, so I had to revert to the patched version I was using to get DVDs to play. I also did not have to run a myFix and I have UseKernelCache=Yes. The only real problem I'm having with my build is when the computer sleeps. Sometimes it won't come out of sleep properly (e.g. stuck keyboard/mouse pointer, blank screen, and sometimes unresponsive power button without a long press to reboot) and I have to power cycle the laptop. If this could be resolved it would be perfect. Any ideas? (I see the "Error encountered while starting up the computer....pausing 5 seconds" right after VoodooSDHC is loaded. It occurs on every boot, but the computer boots up all the time now without failing even with this error message).
  6. Okay, I have been experimenting some more to solve my slow shutdown issue. I now have my system working with AppleACPIPlatform.kext removed from S/L/E and with UseKernelCache=Yes in /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist. My kernel cache was created after a full myFix (see observations below). After multiple shutdown and reboots, checks of the Console shows no errors in the Console related to the kernel cache. Shutdowns average under 8 seconds and boot-up (from chameleon boot loader to login screen) average around 25 seconds. I'm okay with this. Here are some of the observations from my experiments: 1. Shutdowns with the original ML AppleACPIPlatform.kext (mine was v1.7) in S/L/E, and UseKernelCache=Yes in boot.plist took minutes. From a console log, the main reason seems to be multiple trial and failures to read/write the cache (as many in the forum have observed). 2. UseKernelCache=No avoided most kernel panic boot problems and resulted in fast shutdowns (average under 8 seconds). Boot time average around 45 seconds. I would have settled for this option if I didn't get my setup working properly with UseKernelCache=Yes. 3. Removing AppleACPIPlatform.kext from S/L/E and rebuilding kernel/system caches (a full MyFix) with UseKernelCache=Yes doesn't always work. I had a non-SSD magnetic HD with ML (basically a clone of my SSD install) for experimentation. On the magnetic HD, after removing AppleACPIPlatform.kext from S/L/E, removing all files in /S/L/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/, doing a full myFix, and then fixing permissions with Disk Utility, with UseKernelCache=Yes, I would always get a KP on boot. However on my SSD install, for reasons I do not understand, repeating the same procedure resulted in ML booting up without any kernel panic and a 'clean' Console after a multiple shutdowns and startup. I've tried multiple times using the magnetic HD install of ML to make it boot using the same configuration as the SSD, but none of those tests have been successful. One difference between my SSD install and the magnetic HD is that I have the TRIM patch on the SSD install. I wonder if that made the difference.
  7. I tried this and overall, things have gotten worse, though shutdown is now quick. I saw that the kextcache was recreated before I did a restart based on the timestamp of files in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup. On restart after doing myfix, my computer would not boot. After a bunch of trial and errors using one flag at a time I was only able to boot using npci=0x3000 (I had no npci flag before, which I understand means it defaults to 0x2000). But even after getting ML up, I have issues I did not have before. For example, sleep still sleep the computer, but now it won't wake up properly since the screen stays blank even while I can hear the fans running and I have to power cycle the laptop to get back into ML. Should I go back to what I had with AppleACPIPlatform kext in /S/L/E and npci=0x2000?
  8. I'll try this. I did see AppleACPIPlatform.kext in both E/E and S/L/E. But I'm not sure of the 'best practice' myfix procedure after I have ML up and running. Do I use my USB installer to boot and run myfix after I make a change in my SSD ML installation? or do I install myhack on my ML hackintosh then run it from there? Thanks.
  9. One more thing...On my install of ML, I could not play DVDs until I used the patched DVDPlayback.framework from this link: http://www.tonycrapx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-support/65533-solved-valid-dvd-drive-could-not-found-70012-mountain-lion.html
  10. I can verify some benefit from the suggestion to do a "repair permissions" for your OS X partition in Disk Utility. My e6400 had WINDOWS 8 on a 256 GB SSD in one primary partition. I recently decided I wanted a dual boot hackintosh and the excellent instructions in this forum was of great help. The hardest part was finding all the right tricks to be able to partition my SSD for ML without having to reinstall WINDOWS 8. I now have WINDOWS 8 & ML 10.8.3 dual booting with the chameleon boot loader. My ML 10.8.3 is working swimmingly except for a few minor issues I can live with. Sleep mode works great (using DaFOB original post method), but I was having a problem with freeze of the cursor and inability to type text input for the password entry box when I logged out (It would work after waiting for some time...maybe 3 to 4 minutes). After doing the repair permissions on my OS X partition, that problem has gone away and I get near instantaneous logoff and ability to log back in. My other minor problem is long shutdown/reboot times. I haven't tried the rebuilding of caches yet to see if it addresses that problem. I'll report back on that when I get the chance. The other thing I did notice and saw mentioned in some prior thread is the error message that sometimes popup after installing software update. After I installed ML 10.8.3, iTunes and two other SW (I' can't remember the names) needed updating. I updated the first two and got no errors. iTunes updated and ended with the message "An error occurred while installing the updates.(103)". When I started iTunes it was the latest version, so I know it updated just fine. This was before I did the repair permissions on my OS X partition, so perhaps that iTunes error wouldn't have occurred if I had done repair permissions first. BTW, I had also built my flash drive using the FakeSMC and SMBios mods that DaFOB posted a couple posts back (10 May 2013), which is based on Herve's instructions. It's working great! Anyhow, thanks for all the great info in this forum and I hope I can help someone else out if they have any question on my configuration.
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