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Thanks Herve identified the key problem. I boot my iMac to snow leopard partition, where Enoch-rev.2795.pkg runs but installing it to the usb failed. I then turned to my D430 lion, this time the pkg can be successfully installed to the usb installer.

 

I still copy the pkg to the root dir of the usb without rename it.

 

Now E6220 didn't report boot failure but keeps reboot. I don't get a change enter -f -v.

 

I changed my bios settings according to Herve's detailed guide. But no success.

 

Maybe I just need to type -f -v even if I don't see any screen output from the usb?

Thanks Herve, I replaced the extra folder in the usb drive with new one from E6220_i5-2520M_HD3000_EC-Pack_#2.zip. 

 

It still cannot boot for some reason. Below are some info about the usb, Does it look like a correctly created one? BTW, Enoch-rev.2795.pkg doesn't run on my 10.11.4 iMac.

 

I just got a e6220 shipped with 32bit win7 pro. If you close the lid and reopen it, it crashes by default:) Although a driver and a firmware update solve the problem, I decide to switch to OS X. That's my purchase really for.

 

I followed Herve's instruction (thanks a lot Herve) creating the usb installer for EI Capitan 19.11.4, tried twice but didn't get a bootable usb drive. I didn't alter the bios of my E6220 but my old snow leopard (D430) installer can boot to the boot menu, so I'm not sure if there anything need to change in my bios setting.

 

I copped Enoch-rev.2795.pkg to the root dir of usb but not rename it, don't know if that's matter of not. In my iMac, this pkg cannot be open, says the developer is not recognized...

 

I did a fdisk check, the usb is active.

 

I put the kernel (10.11.4) to /System/Library/Kernels/

 

I copped Extra dir from E6220_i5-2520M_HD3000_EC-Pack.zip to the root dir of usb.

 

I don't know if the file/dir ownership matters or not.....

Don't know what to do/check, ....., Please help

 

Thanks in advance

 

=============== The contant of the USB ==========

HMac:OS X Base System elim$ ls -la

total 940408

drwxrwxr-t  24 elim  staff        884 Apr 11 16:30 .

drwxrwxrwt@  6 root  admin        204 Apr 11 16:52 ..

-rw-r--r--@  1 elim  staff       8196 Apr 11 18:35 .DS_Store

drwx------   5 elim  staff        170 Apr 11 16:03 .Spotlight-V100

d-wx-wx-wt   2 elim  staff         68 Mar 12 00:46 .Trashes

drwx------   7 elim  staff        238 Apr 11 16:49 .fseventsd

drwxr-xr-x   2 elim  staff         68 Aug  1  2015 .vol

drwxrwxr-x+  4 elim  staff        136 Mar 12 00:44 Applications

-rw-r--r--@  1 elim  staff       1948 Apr 11 16:21 BaseSystem.chunklist

-rw-r--r--@  1 elim  staff  477579745 Apr 11 16:25 BaseSystem.dmg

-rw-r--r--@  1 elim  staff    3620763 Apr  9 19:48 Enoch-rev.2795.pkg

drwxr-xr-x@ 11 elim  staff        374 Apr  9 15:20 Extra

drwxr-xr-x   3 elim  staff        102 Mar 11 18:27 Install OS X El Capitan.app

drwxr-xr-x+ 11 elim  staff        374 Mar 12 00:44 Library

drwxr-xr-x+  5 elim  staff        170 Apr 11 16:47 System

drwxrwxrwt   2 elim  staff         68 Aug  1  2015 Volumes

drwxr-xr-x  35 elim  staff       1190 Mar 12 00:46 bin

dr-xr-xr-x   2 elim  staff         68 Feb 11 19:12 dev

lrwxr-xr-x   1 elim  staff         11 Mar 12 00:44 etc -> private/etc

drwxr-xr-x   5 elim  staff        170 Mar 12 00:44 private

drwxr-xr-x  57 elim  staff       1938 Mar 12 00:46 sbin

lrwxr-xr-x   1 elim  staff         11 Mar 12 00:44 tmp -> private/tmp

drwxr-xr-x   8 elim  staff        272 Mar 12 00:43 usr

lrwxr-xr-x   1 elim  staff         11 Mar 12 00:44 var -> private/var

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I backed up the new d430 SL and then deleted the epd app, /Extra directory was replaced by an old one that made the pointing stick working, deleted the system kext cache. Guess what? The resulting system kept the fixes of sleeping, vga out etc, also kept PREVENT pointing stick working!

 

Something deeper changed by new EDP. I noticed everytime i login, there is a small msg window pop up saying something like 'it'll close when the job is done' (may not be the exact wording) and it's gone pretty quick. That kept happen even I replaced the new /Extra by the one with old EDP 1.92. What's that?

BTW, the boot screen is now 1024x768 instead of 1280x800, does this right?

Thanks Bronxteck and Hervé.

 

There is a size difference. Although the copyright dates are the same, the old one is smaller by roughly 100kb.

 

I tried to get rid of this kext by rename it (add '0' to its name), move it out of Extension folder, also tried to replace the new by the old. All those eventually not working. They might be working right after the change was made, but after a reboot, the system behaves just like before: pointing stick and the corresponding 'mouse' buttons are not working, touchpad and its right/left mouse buttons working fine.

 

Since apple never has a laptop with pointing stick, I doubt there would be a easy solution.... It's not a big deal anyways. I'd take some time keep working on it. will be back if I find something. 

For old EDP, I've been always using ApplePS2Controller.kext, that makes both touchpad and pointing stick working.

 

For some reason, with new EDP, my D430 (SL) 's pointing stick no longer working, and I noticed the kext is the same.

 

Why thhe same kext behaves differently? Is there anyway to make both built-in touchpad and pointing stick working?

 

Thanks a lot

run edp and configure it with another trackpad option.

Don't see any other option within the EDP app. I also compared my current build and the old one (pointing stick worked there, from edp 1.9.2), Both use ApplePS2Controller.kext,  does there a version difference?

I Just tried the newest EDP on my D430 sL, and now the VGA out and sleep issues mentioned in my previous post are gone! Many thanks to the team of the site!!!

 

Now the D430 pointing stick was not working. I know many people never use it but I almost never use the touchpad.  I used Apple's PS2 Countroller before and bouth touchpad and pointing stick worked well to me. I don't care the fancy track pad.... Is there a way to re-enable pointing stick?

 

Thanks a lot

Thanks to the team of this wonderful site, I was able to built a triple boot system xp

snow leopard and ubuntu on my D430 120GB 2GB, 1.33Gh book, about 2yrs now. Still use EDP 1.9.2

 

It was overall very nice that I really love it, except a few things:

 

1. VGA out not working, I cannot do presentation with a projector while running snow

    leopard. I don't know if newer os x or newer EDP's can fix that. Do think that's a big

    deal (#1 to me)

 

2. Another thing is the sleep solution. It's just fine to me setting system pwd in bios,  

    disabling system hibernate etc to obtain working sleep function. But after awake from

    sleeping, screenshot hot key will not working, Also, some hot key related to non-English

    text input will not working.  Only once for some reason which I can never figured out, 

    screenshot and IME hot key kept working after sleep, tried again and still working. But

    that's gone after reboot and can never reproduce the wonder.....

 

3. When the system hang (very rare), hard power off is the only way out. But every time

    doing that will cause hard drive (partition) error, Have to use os x usb installer to repair

    the partition (it always repairable). 

 

By using clonezilla, I can backup the current build easily and so I'm ready to update EDP.  I just wonder if the new EDP fixes some of the issues above? Thanks a lot!

 

Is there any way to make my PStateMenu selection default, so that I don't need to set it every time start the system? (see attached screenshot)

 

Thanks for your help!

http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/09/best-hackintosh-laptops-2012-mountain-lion.html

 

I think this site is the greatest one for osx on non-apple

 branded laptops.

 

It'll be even better to have a thread about laptop model comparison/rating on the compatibilities with OS X.

 

This can be very helpful for people like me, determined to purchase a better non-apple branded laptop fully compatible with OSX, light like macbook air...., but have no idea what to looking for.

Have to force shut down, have to repair disk using usb installer....

 

But is there anyway to fix it?

 

The same installation of SL worked just fine on my D630 with activity monitor.

Anyone tried connecting a projector to D630's video out? Is it working? Thanks

Hey, looks like you chose a complicated way... Why did you use EDP 1.9.2? This is kind of old stuff, considering EDP is up to version 4. SL support was added to EDP v3.

 

Re: long delay at getting the spinning wheel at installation, boot off your installation media with option USBBusFix=No; that normally fixes it.

I tried EDP v3 a while ago (better integrated pkg, about the same for SL as 1.9.2). Will try v4. Don't know if there are changes for SL.

My goal is to get better D630 for OSX. If possible, make ML perform on it. So I got this T9300 2.5Gh C2D NVidia 1440x900 from ebay. $142 including shipping.

 

 

My first try is to modify an existing D630 intel 1440x900 clone by deleting /Extra and boot from it via usb installer. This was proven won't work.

 

The usb SL installer I made was out of 10.6.3 DVD, D630NVidia bootpack by myHack2.2. I did modified the org.charmleon.Boot.plist to have

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1440x900x32</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

 

And I replaced the DSDT.aml by the one from D630NVS ML bootpack.

 

 

Anyway, I have to do a fresh install.

 

Except I had to wait a few minutes to see the sunflower wheel spinning, the installation went quite smoothly.

 

But my first 'installation complete reboot' via installer got problems:

1) Welcome video without sound

2) Mouse click 'next' not working

3) No way to move forward creating account etc.

 

So hard power off, and then keep KP during reboot, verify disk is ok, fix permissions no use and so erase the partition, turn off wifi in bios and redo the installation.

 

Reboot, no sound either, but this time the external mouse worked and I finished the EDP1.9.2 installation and configuration, boot load also installed

 

This somehow fixed the sound (it says no sound output device the first time I checked system preferences and now it says sound IO is fine)

 

No wifi, even when I turned the wifi on and installed the particular version of IO80211family.kext, not working. I used BCM94321 wifi card, the kext was installed to /System/Library/Extensions via kext wizard app since there is a kext of the same name when OS is installed. I just need to replace it with mine.

 

Well, do what I can: upgrade the system to 10.6.8. But so wired, it kept telling me there are some unknown error and quit. Fix permission error? Repair disk? But there is nothing to fix. What happened? Googling the web I got the trick: change the system time back 1 year, and the update combo kindly run again!

 

After the upgrade, wifi simply worked. And I thus got a perfect SL installation on T9300NVS 1440x900! sleep works as my T7250.

 

 

It is now tripple boot XP, SL and Ubuntu. I'll add ML as soon as I got a bigger HDD.

 

 

Thanks a lot to osxlatitude team

As far as I know, there's no LowRes/HiRes distinction for the D630 nVidia bootpack, only for the Crestline X3100. I have not tried SL or Lion on my D630 nVidia, but the bootpack provided for D630 nVidia ML certainly did the job when I installed ML on it (and it has a HiRes 1440x900 LCD).

Thanks a lot Herve. D630 NVS ML DSDT works very well with SL

All bootpacks are available at the EDP pages of this site...

I got the bootpack for D630 Nivida. Seems for nvidia 1280x800 (see the plist).

The supported CPU models are the same whatever the D630 model: Merom (Socket P) Core2Duo with 800MHz FSB. I think Penryn are supported too (there are reported Benchmarks here for T9300-based D630). Look at the Intel web site for those CPUs in the T7000/T9000 family (T8000 should be supported too but have a reduced cache size) and go on the scrounge for whichever you fancy. You'll see there isn't that large a choice beyond a T7500...

Thanks Herve. Now I got D630 T9300 NVidia 1440x900 and like to install SL. Do you know where is the right DSDT?

When running xbench 1.3 and selecting OpenGL, frames are only rendered when moving the xBench Application Window.

System NVidia D630, T9500CPU, 1.8Bios, 2GB Ram, 1440x900 Resolution.

 

Anyone can test this behaviour on other D630/NVidia Systems or know what I can change in order to make it work on my machine ?

 

xbench download:

 

Homepage: http://xbench.com/Xbench_1.3.dmg

Alternative: http://www.heise.de/download/ddwl32870

 

 

Thanks for any Hint

 

Update:

Wrong DSDT File - In the First Line of the DSDT the Intel GFX Card was mentioned

So I`m currently looking for a dsdt for lion with d630 with nvidia 135m @1440x900 ... will reinstall the system then ...

 

Did you get the right DSDT for your model?

Anyone actually used MK2431GAH 240gb on D430?

I've tried SL and Lion on my T7500 intel 1440x900 and T7250 intel 1280x800 using the osxlatitude-procedure and EDP for a while now.

 

Thanks a lot to the osxlatitude team, these models worked almost perfectly to me (except T7500's sleep is not working).

 

Now I'd like try one more time with D630 nvidia graphics. Also like to get faster cpu one... But what's the recommended model for NVD D630?

 

Appreciate your sharing.

Is there a way to fix my D430 Lion install pen so that I need not to plug in external mouse and need not type -v to boot?

 

It works currently... Just like to see if it can be better