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I've never experienced such difficulties. Whether using internal SATA HDD (from 80 to 320GB) or SATA/IDE HDD (from 40 to 250GB) connected via USB ports, I always succeeded in installation Snow Leopard, Lion and/or Mountain Lion on my D630s (GMA and nVidia).

 

Maybe something wrong of incompatible with your particular HDD, because the recommended process as listed above is pretty much flawless, at least up to basic/initial OS installation.

Please, do a little search on the forum (D4xx and D6xx), all that has already been mentionned many many times before in the past and quite extensively on the Net too.

Chameleon boot0, boot1, etc. that really depends on how you've arrnaged your disk partition. Are you using MBR or GUID partitioning and how many partitions do you have?

As Mick said, ML is a no-go on the D430. Apple dropped support for GMA950 (and GMA X3100 for that matter) and I can't see anyone pumping time into writing 64bit kexts either. It's just too old hardware, that's how it goes unfortunately...

 

The C2D-based D430 will therefore run Lion at best (in 32bit kernel mode).

How did you partition/format your HDD?

For Lion on D630 nVidia:

1) create myHack USB installer for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

2) download D630 nVidia Lion bootpack then run myHack "Create Extra" and point to the bootpack

3) install Lion (point to /Extra of USB installer when/if prompted for Extra folder and answer Yes when asked to removed kexts)

4) reboot and complete basic Lion installation

5) download EDP package from OSXL EDP page and install it

6) run EDP by double-clicking on /Extra/edptool.command or by launching EDP from Finder bar->Applications

7) do a system build for your D630 nVidia model

8) reboot to your finalised D630 with Lion

 

PS: sorry but we do not deal with tonycrap's stuff here, that has its own web site and forum if you use it and need support.

I guess you probably need a kext that will support your HDD controller (something like IOATA.kext or one of its plugins). Which chipset do you have on that laptop?

Post your compressed /Extra folder. Don't hesitate to list any non-standard/special things your did (for example patching of /S/L/E kexts) or kexts you used for specific hardware for example.

 

It would also be a good idea to post the method you used, details of your BIOS settings and the full specs of your machine in a similar fashion as what's been done for other models listed in this section.

Is your basic installation functioning? Try to redownload and reinstall EDP, then double click on /Extra/edptool.command.

Just take the wifi card out, Intel cards are not supported; I would not even know which kext you could have used for that...

Change hibernate mode to 0 (via EDP fixes or command line) and delete the sleep image if one exists (/var/vm/sleepimage if I recall correctly).

I'd re-download a fresh copy of the EDP package. When running it, if prompted to choose your type of installation, choose the full install, not the update. Then do a new system build in EDP.

Did you do your ML installation with myHack + bootpack + EDP? Could you share your DSDT table?

Cloning will work, yes, that's not a problem. Ask Leon, he does it all the time!

 

There is no known issue doing the installation with myHack as long as you follow our documented process: myHack + OSXL bootpack for basic/initial installation, then EDP to complete/finalise the installation.

 

If you've encountered a problem installing your own Extra, then I guess there was a problem with your own folder or you did not point to the right place. In any case, if you've installed the bootpack, all you need to do is point to /Extra of the USB installer. Noone should really go wrong there...

You must be the 1st person to report a working DVI port on a D6x0 docking station. Can you tell us more please (model of dock, method to get it to work, etc.)?

I did, but it was not great! First and foremost, it'll only run with a legacy kernel because your Pentium M does not support SSE3 and booting with the SL Mach kernel will result in quick KP. You'll also need to patch the GMA950 kext to get full QE/CI with the onboard GMA900, if that's what you have in terms of graphics.

 

Have a look at my Inspiron 6000 research thread, the specs are probably a bit similar to the D610: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1955-dell-inspiron-6000/

I did get SL 10.6.8 in it, but eventually abandoned because it was not running great (really bad graphics). Hopefully the D610 will be a bit different, but don't hold too much hope if it's using PATA/IDE HDD as you may find it difficult, not to say impossible to install SL on the HDD...

 

Try and give us the full specs of your D610.

 

There are 2 methods you could try: MyHack or Nawcom ModCD/ModUSB, the former being more flexible.

Under Snow Leopard, absolutely!

Under Lion, only full resolution change at the moment (my research with RadeonHD method is far from finished yet).

Under Mountain Lion, there appears to be no support for ATI X1000 family, so ATI X1300 is not compatible as far as I know.

 

For additional info, look here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2032-dell-vostro-200/

 

Bear in mind my ATI X1300/X1550 is dev id 0x7183.

Ok, so you basically have no audio kext, hence no audio at all...

 

We've fixed the DSDT tables for the D830s in EDP tonight, so doing system build should no longer cause black screen at startup. Any chance you could update EDP and try to do a system build again? Which audio pack do you see offered in the menu?

 

If, after the EDP system rebuild, you still have no audio, try one of the audio packs below, preferably starting with VoodooHDA, then if that does not work, use the patched STAC9205.

voodooHDA.zip STAC9205-D830.zip

Can you try a fresh download + install of EDP again please? We identified an issue with EDP 5.1 and SL last night and Leon fixed it today. I've verified it tonight and it works well now for SL.

 

By the way, are you installing SL on a D430 or D620?

The issue of black screen after EDP System Build should now be fixed (verified on D830 nVidia earlier on). Could you download and install a fresh copy or do an update? Then proceed with a new system build.

 

I believe you have the right kexts in /E/E, although I was not expecting the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer kext... Have you tried to run without this kext in /E/E?

Little up: with Chameleon v2.2 r2170 and above, steps 1a->1c are no longer required. The ATI X1300 card is supported again by standard branch.

Ok, we'll have a look. Ideally, your SMBIOS profile should be that of the MacBook 3,1. That matches the D630/D830 hardware best. Use Chameleon Wizard to select.

Am I right to assume that you have a D630 with nVidia GPU (X3100 not being supported in 64bit mode)? Which BIOS version are your using and are your settings matching those published in the pinned thread?

 

Could you open up a Terminal window and type 'pmset -g' and check the hibernate mode value (ideally, should be 0).

 

You'll see that I'm running ML on my D630 nVidia, not Lion, so that's 64bit only and I have no problems with Sleep/Wake. I'll try to set it up with Lion on an external HDD to check, but I expect everything to work in 64bit kernel mode under Lion too.

 

Was your D630 Lion installation done with our recommended myHack + EDP method?

The CPUs aren't swappable either. FSB667 on the D620 vs. FSB800 on the D630. Apart from that, the rest of the HW is interchangeable (RAM, HDD, Wireless, WWAN, CD/DVD drives, LCD, keyboard, etc.).

 

You did not say which D620 model you have, but if the motherboard is dying due to nVidia chip starting to fail, that can be fixed through the oven-baking method (there's a post about it on the forum).

I assume you installed with the bootpack, right?

 

What kexts do you have in /Extra/Extensions, if anything at all?

What parameters do you have in your Chameleon boot plist?

What SMBIOS profile do you use?

 

Is there a particular reason why you would not complete your setup with EDP?