Leon

can you try and switch around ... eg. try with AsereBLN and present dsdt ?

Hi There, Welcome to OSXLATITUDE.com - a nice little forum for people who like to run OSX on their computers (both Desktop and Laptop). My name is Leon, I'm part of the group called Elites, we are the nerds running this site and its services - i'll like to tell you a bit about how everything works here and why we do it. Our services... We offer a set of services that makes it easy for you: Forum - That's where you are right now Wiki style - A set of guides and information to make it easy to-do-it-yourself EDP - A package of scripts, kexts, DSDT, etc. that makes your Dell* able to run OS X *) due to my history we got started with supporting DELL Latitude Laptops. But you can find Laptops (and Desktop workstations) from other manufacturers in EDP too. All the way back to OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, and all the way up to the latest MacOS X 10.x versions. EDP osxlatitude.com/edp/ is a package of scripts, kexts, dsdt etc. - some made by us, others made by other communities and people - we do in NO way try to take credit for work that is not ours - as said before; we are using kexts that other people have created, and while its hard to keep track on who did what - we are pretty sure that those people know.. and they have our deepest respect and admiration, what we do take credit for is: 1. Packing and testing EDP 2. The scripts that we have added to EDP 3. dsdt's included in the package Stable releases of EDP is on our wiki, you can freely download and use them - Test versions, meaning - the package that we are currently working on, is released to Beta testers and VIP users. Donations Personally, we don't need donations, but donations do help keep the site running and it gives us a chance to buy some laptops to test on for research, these laptops are sold again so new models can be introduced into EDP. - in some cases, we might even choose to donate some of those contributions to other people who have helped with the EDP package. Donating is your choice, as long as you understand, that we do not charge money for the work we do, so if you donate - we thank you by giving you early access to our work, its not a payment, its our humble way of saying thank you! The Groups.. Like so many other sites, we have split ourselves into groups. 1. Elites, The core that work to maintain the site, services and EDP - you can not apply for this group, we will contact you to become a member of the Elites. 2. VIP Members, People who donate atleast $20USD: https://www.paypal.me/osxlatitude/usd 4. Normal Members, thats most likely you You can read more about that, on other places on the forum like in our 'Forum Rules'. Again, welcome to OSXLATITUDE, we love to have you here and its cool you dropped by, and remember - your ideas is our vision.

I guess the problem is allready durring installation.. right ?

boot from the usb pen, and select the harddrive.. then when you come in, install boot loader to HD, install EDP 1.5rc5 and update via the menu.. and first THEN you can reboot..

i'll edit it a bit later .. enjoy!

life aint easy .. but its worth it

No, it needs to go on the main partition.. i wonder.. if it can be a problem that you have made in on a powermac.. what OS is it running ?

Hey, The guide is working fine, it have worked fine for atleast 200 other people btw.. did you remember to create a new partition on the usb and set it as GUID instead of MBA ?

Just to verify if the usb pen is actually able to be booted from.. (yes, those really do exists) Take the pen, and use unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to put a linux livecd on it, and then try and boot he computer from.. Please test that and get back to this thread... ohh ya.. do have an external dvd drive ?

I think i might have mentioned it in another thread.. while its something we would love to sort out, its not that high a priot. compared to some of the other things we are dealing with.. however, feel free to help and research it

let me guess. .you had it in "screen expansion" and you changed it to "mirror" mode ?

Notthing yet..

First thing you need to know, is that the controller needs to be a PATA controller, and not a emulated sata controller. My advice, go with Runcore or Photofast...

wow.. not to be a jackass, but thats extremely slow for a SSD... .. you might wanna wish for a upgrade

agree, we need to make a smarter installation method.. seems like you just found urself a project

Hey, Yep, same with D530.. the new version of EDP will allow you make builds on eg. usb pen.. but we also have to consider to update the standard installer...

i'v had some luck with 2-3 dell monitors...

Allright, just to clarify.. not all external monitors is supported and while we do know this is a big problem, then its still a low priot. on our list due to more urgent matters - however, you are welcome to help research the problem

speed step.. in windows speedstep works and save battery power.. go install coolbook (it cost 10$) but it can do the same as speedstep...

Update to 10.6.6 and edp1.5rc5 and you should be fine.. if you are running 10.6.4 and get KP, then revert to EDP 1.4 from www.osxlatitude.com

Ur most welcome A little advice.. use Xslimmer, CleanMyMac and Monolingual to slim it further, if i'm not mistaken you can cut down another 1gb there... Btw.. can you run Xbench and post your results here.. i'm curios to see how your SSD performs.. i have a 128gb Runcore and a 64gb PhotoFast myself...

A bit more info please... 1. What OSX version ? 2. What EDP version ? 3. Does it work to boot it normal without monitor connected ?

.. just in case anyone missed it... http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

Tested, and seemed to boot fine, allthough that i got a KP (voodoohda) when booting in verbose .. but not normal.. strange... sound works fine tho.. Lets continue with this when you get your D420, then you have a fair chance to test localy