PatArch

Dear PatArch,

 

In short, you can transfer your existing os x installation in your man mini to the D630.

 

However, you will need to clone your mac mini hard disk to D630 hard disk using cloning software such as carbon copy cloner. Easiest would be to remove the D630 hard disk and turn it into an external usb hard disk for transfer purpose.

 

After that, install the D630 bootpack to the D630 hard disk, boot it, install myhack utilities, run EDP 3 and reboot.

 

That should work.

 

Cheers!

Thanks for your suggestion.

Should I use EDP 1.9.2 or EDP 3 ?

I though EDP1.9.x is for OSX10.6.x

I have a Genuine Mac OSX 10.6.8 installation on my Mac Mini (Core2Duo).

Is it possible to transfer the installed system to my Dell D630 (with X3100 graphics) ?

 

Does anyone know how to do it ?

sounds like your boot loader is corrupted. try the boot loader install from my hack 2.2

I have installed chameleon and extra using myHack 2.2 to the Lion Partition, but still cannot boot into Lion from the hard drive. But I notice the following:

 

1. I can boot the Lion Partition using the MyHack 2.2 USB installation stick.

2. The version of Chameleon in MyHack 2.2 is newer than the previous Chameleon installed in SL 10.6.7 (which I downloaded from another thread from Simeonoff )

 

3. If I boot from hard disk, I can boot into SL 10.6.7 without problem, but if I select to startup Lion partition, the D630 just keep rebooting.

 

Now the Question:

A. Do I have to use the same version of chameleon in both partition ?

 

B. If I have to reinstall chameleon ( in both partition ? ), will that affect the settings in Extra folder ?

If it does, can I just make a copy of the Extra folder and copy the settings back ? (I notice the Extra

folder settings are different in Lion and SL )?

 

C. When I check the log file of chamemeon installation, it mention something like boot0.

How does chameleon works and what are these boot0, boot1 files and how these affect my system, do I have

to re-install these as well ?

Any comment will be appreciated.

1) yes, otherwise your Dell hardware won't be fully recognised. I would run it from EDP.

 

2) no. But you have to reinstall Chameleon, for it to pickup the second install. However not quite sure about this. Give it a try and let us know.

 

Thank You For your suggestion.

I have installed EDP 2.2 onto the Lion Partition., and when I try to boot into Lion from Chameleon,

my D630 just re-boot into the Chameleon boot selection screen.

 

Then I installed Chameleon into the Lion Partition, but the result is still the same.

My D630 just keep rebooting when I try to start on the Lion partition.

 

Any one got comment on this ?

Hi,

 

I have the First Partition installed with OSX 10.6.7 SL and is working very well.

However, I also like to try Lion. So I have just finished the Lion installation (using MyHack USB stick )

onto the 2nd partition (to keep the 10.6.7 SL partition safe).

 

I have not install EDP 2.2 nor Chameleon to the new Lion partition yet.

 

The question is:

 

1. Do I have to run EDP 2.2 to create the Extra Folder in Lion partition ?

Or can I just copy the Extra folder from 10.6.7 SL partition to 10.7.3 partition ?

 

2. Do I have to install Chameleon to Lion partition ?

(I know that there is an option to select the Lion partition when boot because Chameleon is

already installed in the First 10.6.7 SL partition.)

 

Any suggestions ?

Hi All

 

Posting this on my nice new stable 10.6.3 SL.

 

It took me a few days and (If I am honest) more than 50 re-installs but I got there in the end.

 

A rather strange method of installing and getting things going and nothing like any of the guides I have read but at least it's working.

 

The DSDT was the first stumbling block - Once I got that sorted out and a working org.chameleon.Boot.plist in place, things started to move much faster.

 

I'll happily post up the way that worked for me later this evening in the hope that it can help you guys above.

 

Regards,

 

Tim.

Congratulation to your success for installation and I am looking forward to know how you did it.

 

Also, have you tried to update to 10.6.8 (any success on that too ?)

but it does i don't know where the latest issue lies with this blackscreen issue but it has worked fine up until recently. try a new chameleon 1806 with graphicsenabler=yes if not try npci=0x2000 as that model has ich9 chipset and maybe ioatafamily is having issues reading.

 

Thanks for Your comments.

But the D630 ( intel graphics 1440x900 ) has intel ich8 chipset.

 

Anyway, where and how do I set the graphicsenabler ? and npci ?

Thanks for the info Bronxteck - I will have a play around today if I can find some time and post back the results.......

 

Maybe that capitol "B" is all I am missing as I am sure I copied the DSDT file from the install disc I downloaded.

 

I know I am close and that it's just something really simple that's stopping it from booting in 1440x900 as the install and all the others kext's work fine, even sleep and shutdown which a lot of peeps seem to have trouble with.

 

Will update as soon as I can, and thanks again for warm welcome and the Tip's. - Much appreciated Bud.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Tim.

 

Hi,

 

I am in similar situation like you and get the black screen on my D630 (intel 1440x900 graphics) and looking for a solution.

Can You please post your results and if possible attach links to the files that you use to fix the problems ?

 

Thanks.

Hi,

 

I have created the OSX 10.6.3 installation USB pen drive and installed OSX 10.6.3 into my Dell D630.

 

According to the guide, the next step is to install EDP.

I have already downloaded the EDP, but do not know how to install it or how to use it.

So I would like to ask :

 

1. Is there any step by step detail instructions to install EDP ?

 

2. Can I selectively install some of the kext inside one version and some kext from another version of EDP ?

(for example, can I install some kext from EDP Version 1.9.2 and some from EDP V.1.9.1 ? )

If it is possible, how can I do that ?

 

Thanks in advance for any helpful comments.