Hervé

Hi,

No mention of that system here before as far as I know. Looking at your specs, I'd say Snow Leopard is your best candidate target.

No progress on the GMA 4500MHD front; I'm afraid that remains unsupported...

Hi, thanks for the info, I'll add it to the list. Are you able to verify operation with SL and Lion at all?

Oops, something went wrong: there now appears to be an incorrect LAN kext in the bootpack. You need to use AppleIntelE1000 or Intel82566MM. That'll get the Intel 82562V-2 10/100Mb built-in Ethernet (PCI id: 0x10c0 8086) operational.

Intel82566MM.kext.zip

Also, if you're not using an ATI Radeon Pro X1300 graphics card, remove the ATI1300Controller + EVOenabler kexts from the bootpack.

Assuming you're using the built-in Ethernet, the kext is normally provided in the bootpack. Let me check that out.

You may have to disable your Intel wireless in BIOS. We often found D series unable to boot the installer properly with Intel cards kept active.

You need to do a bit of research on the forum about creating the installer via Virtual Machines. As I said before, it's often problematic and clearly where your issues are coming from.

Not that it'll help you greatly, but there's a chance your battery is on the decline. The initial 4-cell battery on my Dell D430 would do just the same, whereas its 6-cell replacement is Ok and recharges all the way to 100%.

And you're creating that installer from what? An existing Mac, Hack or a Virtual Machine?

I'd say your installer is dodgy...

How did you create your myHack installer?

Rebranding is not usually not necessary. Cards such as DW1390 or DW1490 work OOB, others need a kext. Have a look at the dedicated (unfinished) inventory in R&D->Hardware->Network section.

Some Atheros cards are compatible too.

1)  Is there support for the SD card slot?  I think the answer is no [...]

Correct. It appears the SD reader shares its IRQ with the LAN controller. If you disable LAN in BIOS, Mac OS X will detect an SD card once inserted but reading it remains impossible.

2)  Will any of the docking stations work?

Dell made a dedicated full size undertray for the D430 but a "regular" docking station for D6x0/D8x0 (and others) will work too. I don't know if you would get DVI and VGA working though (we never got DVI to work on D6x0 out of the Docking station), possibly just VGA.

3)  Reading some of the threads, I see that Herve feels that Snow Leopard is the better choice on the D430, at least for performance reasons.   Is that still true.  Any compelling reason to go to Lion?

Well, try for yourself and see how it feels. Nothing beats own evaluation. You might want to give ML a try too now that we have a way to get it to run on the D430.

Nope, not seeing this in a guide...

Not seeing what?

re: pointing stick, you can always try the various PS2 packs.

-> Look in /Extra/Storage/kexpacks, then replace whatever you have in /E/E by the selected kexpack (copy the kexts rather than move them), then run myFix full.

Then you need to try various boot options. Eg: PciRoot=1 ncpi=| ahcidisk=1

You may have to combine that with flags such as: -f -x

If you installed using our guide, you already have myHack installed on your system. Take a backup of your AppleACPIPlatform kext in /S/L/E and remove it. Then go to Applications, run myHack and select myFix (full) on your ML HDD/partition.

At the end, before you reboot, check your kextcache file to verify if cache was re-created or not.

And they cost peanuts too!

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2120-supportedunsupported-wireless-cards-inventory/

I did some tests some months ago on SL 10.6.8 or Lion. I could get PCMCIA to work but at the expense of networking so quickly gave up. Try a search on the forum, I can't remember how long ago that was but it had to do with some audio or video accessory for a German user. 

That thread is about full Vanilla ML installation on D630 nVidia models. If you require support for ML on D630 X3100, please start a new one but we won't discuss MLPostFactor internals... Please read the guides, they are very clear about that. PM me if necessary.

Guys, read up the articles we publish on the Web site.

No progress on the 4500MHD, consider that dead.

I said that, yes, but that was back in September and things have evolved since.

Now, you install whatever you want.

The guide from p1 of this thread should be considered obsolete. Use the guide detailed in the EDP pages of our seb site (click on EDP tab at the vey top of this window). We also have a guide to install and run ML on D630 X3100. And it's fully compatible with our EDP package.

In a nutshell, whether for Lion of ML:

- prepare your myHack installer with your downloaded Mac OS installation app + OSXL bootpack

- install Mac OS X

- after 1st reboot, download and install EDP

- do an EDP System Build for your specific D630 model

Thats it. You may only proceed with some manual tuning if you have a wireless card like a DW1395 or any other one that is not natively supported by OS X and not covered by EDP. Apart from that, nothing else to do really.

Re: ML -> look at the web site's article about ML on "unsupported" systems, then at the associated guides...

I'm not running Lion but ML actually! It's not bad, better than Lion I think, but naturally not performing like a F1... I still believe the best OS on those little toys is SL.

I recently installed SL 10.6.8 on a 32bit D420 using our usual procedure: myHack (v3.1.2) installer + retail SL 10.6.3 + OSXL bootpack. There was no issue at all and I finalised the installation with EDP5.

That D420 was quickly replaced by a 64bit D430 and, although I did not proceed with SL on that model (though I could try it on an external USB drive), I can assure you that the above procedure worked for Lion and ML.

Things have considerably changed since July 2012: myHack is up to v3.1.2 and EDP up from v1.9.2 to v5.2. I strongly recommend you actually use a myHack installer. I am not aware of any particular issue with that method to successfully install SL on a D430.

What are your specs?

->PM