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Piece of cake. Made a Clover installer (lots of tutos on IM) than copied the kexts from my Mav /E/E to the Clover USB key and booted straight through to install Yosemite. Because I installed 10.10 on my HDD whith existing Chameleon-based installations, I still boot 10.10 via my Clover USB key. I still have some tuning to do though, not everything works (like sleep)... Conti's working on an updated myHack version, so watch this space!

I guess Niresh installed that patched kernel, so you might as well keep your installation as it is. With a vanilla build, you would simply overwrite your mach_kernel file at HDD's root by the patched one. For the rest, well it all depends on the HW you have and you did not specify any of it (other than HD4600 graphics), so who knows?...

Haha, hello Arthur. You might have guessed, we don't make a living out of this! Unlike some... Hey, we're not as reactive as on IM, but we're only a small (but nice?) outfit! Which version of OS X are you trying to load this BT kext on? Could it be that the kext has a minimum OS X version specified in its Info.plist and that does not match your installation?

You don't need to compile a kernel. With your Haswell platform, you just need the patched Haswell kernel and that's readily available.

Well, I thought I'd give that DP1 a try... Yeurk, I can't say I like it. Flat interface, far less colours than in previous versions, smaller fonts and icons (what they call "black mode with transparency" - transparency can be disabled, but not black!). I find that flat dock horrible after the really nice 3D versions we enjoyed since 10.5! Overall, it's very different from what we were used to since Leopard. It feels slower than Mavericks too... Things have definitely changed. I'll certainly be sticking to 10.9 for a while. 'not putting the D630n through that torture. But, hopefully, things will evolve and become adjustable by the time GM goes out.

Well, maybe it depends on the SMBIOS profile you opted for + SMC keys you may have/have not used.

Use a valid SMBIOS profile, that'll help. You also seem to be running SL 10.6.8 from a virtual machine...

I'm the one who added this specific reference to Paxville DP CPUs; for the rest and as I said, see with Bronya if you believe SSSE3 is not emulated.

You'd have to see with Bronya for that... SSSE3 emulation is a kernel matter.

Did you check your power saving settings in the Preference Panel?

Is this in Sys Profiler? How about in tools such as HWMonitor. You can always try to repair disk permissions and/or run myFix (quick).

Make sure you use the right boot pack and all should be Ok with myHack USB installer. BIOs should be configured as per recommended settings in the dedicated thread in this very section. So just read the web site and forum.

@ssprod: What do you exactly mean when you say in point 5: "erase Windows partition"? I hope you did not actually delete the FAT partition to recreate a new one, but simply reformatted the partition NTFS. If you really did delete the actual partition, you can restart it all from Mavericks, i.e. recreate the target Win7 partition in Disk Utility and format it FAT. Then reboot to your Win7 installer and install Win7 but do not destroy the Win7 partition, just reformat it NTFS and proceed with installation. How did you organise your disk partitioning in Disk Utility? Is your Mavericks partition 1st and Win7 2nd? I'm also wondering why you're booting off your myHack USB installer and not your HDD directly? Didn't you install Chameleon on your HDD?

Compare the USB sections of both DSDT files. When sleep is not working, it's usually an issue with USB ports.

Configure your D820 in the same way as a D620 and you'll find everything works fine. It's all explained in various thread in the D6xx/D8xx section of the forum. Don't hesitate to use the Search facility.

Use an older version of Flash Player, like v11 or v12.

Mmm, 'had a quick look at the Dell Latitude XT online documentation. It stipulates AMD RS600ME/SB600 chipset with integrated graphics Radeon X1250 and PATA/ATA66 ATI controller. Unless you can find support for that controller through some specific ATA kext, there's little chance to get your internal HDD supported. To top it all, I fear you'll probably never have graphics support for that ATI Radeon X1250 beyond Leopard or Snow Leopard (if at all supported in those). For your HDD, have a look here, here, here or here. To be honest, you'll probably find OS X on your Latitude XT to be a dead-end.

It would help to list the specifications of the machine. Can you use Terminal command lspci -nn and post the results? It appears you have no graphics acceleration at the moment...

1. No such bootpack no. There is no point installing Mavericks on GMA950-based systems: there is no graphic support so it's next to useless... https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2672-d430-d620-and-x3100-based-d-series-mavericks-109-installation/ At best, you can install ML with the MLPF special hack. 2 & 3. Download, install and run Chameleon Wizard. It'll help you learn what's feasible with Chameleon. You can safely use the latest version available through the wizard on a D430. CW will show you all those options you're after.

Yes, again through Chameleon Wizard. You'll see an option to hide partitions.

You may have a Win logo in the list of available OS, it just depends on your Chameleon version and optional theme used (it works with default theme). Yes, use Chameleon Wizard to adjust this setting: by default, there us a timer but you may opt for the Instant Menu to manually decide each time (please note this means no auto-boot is possible). ? Yes, it's a simple matter of replacing the boot logo file in /Extra/Themes/default. Rename the current OSXL logo into something like 'boot_OSXL' and drop the attached original logo file with the filename 'boot.png' in there. boot.png.zip Yes, just disable automatic login in Users & Groups Preference Panel. The best tool to manage your bootloader really is Chameleon Wizard. I highly recommend it. You'll easily find it on the web.

arch=x86_64 -> 64bit kernel mode. That's the only supported kernel mode in ML or Mav, so it's the default mode with those. I see you're back with your EFI string, so if this works for you, keep it! Here is the code I had entered in your raw DSDT: Device (GFX0) { Name (_ADR, Zero) Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x16) { "AAPL,slot-name", "PCIe x16", "@0,compatible", Buffer (0x0B) { "NVDA,NVMac" }, "@0,device_type", Buffer (0x08) { "display" }, "@0,name", Buffer (0x0F) { "NVDA,Display-A" }, "@1,compatible", Buffer (0x0B) { "NVDA,NVMac" }, "@1,device_type", Buffer (0x08) { "display" }, "@1,name", Buffer (0x0F) { "NVDA,Display-B" }, "NVCAP", Buffer (0x14) { /* 0000 */ 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, /* 0008 */ 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07, /* 0010 */ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }, "VRAM,totalsize", Buffer (0x04) { 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40 }, "device_type", Buffer (0x0C) { "NVDA,Parent" }, "model", Buffer (0x13) { "nVidia GeForce 210" } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } And here is the code your EFI string converts to (with PCI root still set to 4): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>PciRoot(0x4)/Pci(0x4,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key> <dict> <key>@0,compatible</key> <string>NVDA,NVMac</string> <key>@0,device_type</key> <string>display</string> <key>@0,name</key> <string>NVDA,Display-A</string> <key>@1,compatible</key> <string>NVDA,NVMac</string> <key>@1,device_type</key> <string>display</string> <key>@1,name</key> <string>NVDA,Display-B</string> <key>NVCAP</key> <data> BAAAAAAAAwAEAAAAAAAABwAAAAA= </data> <key>NVPM</key> <data> AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA== </data> <key>VRAM,totalsize</key> <string>0x40000000</string> <key>device_type</key> <string>NVDA,Parent</string> <key>model</key> <string>nVidia GeForce 210</string> <key>name</key> <string>display</string> <key>rom-revision</key> <string>nVidia GeForce 210 OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string> </dict> </dict> </plist> or The only thing I did not include in the DSDT patch is the NVPM info. So, here it is: dsdt.aml.zip

Did you boot with any flags or options? Just use -f -v.

Hi, try the attached /Extra. It's basically a mirror copy of my ML 10.8.5 /Extra folder in which I have replaced my DSDT by your DSDT patched with details of your nVidia GeForce G210 as taken from your IOReg dump. I've also patched Device (PCI0) so that the root _UID is changed from 4 to 0 (so no need to boot with PciRoot=x or PCIRootUID=x). Replace your existing /Extra with the attached, the re-run myFix (quick). Extra.zip You can also use the attached HWMonitor app to monitor CPU and GPU T° and frequencies. Place it in /Applications folder, run it, then click on the Finder's bar icon to go to Preferences (via gearing icon in top right corner of pop-down menu) where I recommend you don't select 'Check for updates' and select 'Start HWMonitor at login'. HWMonitor.zip Let me know how it goes but everything should work, you have exactly the same Precision 670 as me, graphics card and DSP/IO cards apart.

A couple of things with kext cache: make sure your AMD kernel is copied as 'mach_kernel' at HDD's root. if myHack/myFix do not seem to rebuild cache properly, do it manually with following Terminal commands: sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel ls -l /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/ You should see something like that once kext cache has finished rebuild: pc30:~ admin$ ls -l /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/ total 33992 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 89429 Jun 1 19:17 IOKitPersonalities_i386.ioplist.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 89429 Jun 1 19:18 IOKitPersonalities_x86_64.ioplist.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41 Jun 1 19:17 KextPropertyValues_OSBundleHelper_i386.plist.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41 Jun 1 19:18 KextPropertyValues_OSBundleHelper_x86_64.plist.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17214481 Jun 1 19:18 kernelcache pc30:~ admin$