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Where should I extract the DSDT from? I can't get the machine booted, so there isn't any way that I know of to generate a starting point. FYI : The Mountain Lion and Lion installers I have both exhibit the same behavior, so I feel like I'm definitely missing something. The retail Snow Leopard installed cleanly. I've tried turning off the media bay (just ends up with no DVD showing up, but still doesn't fix issue). I've tried taking the SSD out, and re-formatting it on my Mac to make sure it was clean. I've tried setting the BIOS to the wrong values, booting then shutting down and resetting and rebooting. (no difference) I've Googled a zillion pages and have tried now 4 installers. myHack, the http://olarila.com/ one and unifail. All have same/similar problem. Earl

BTW, I have VERIFIED in the BIOS that the AHCI mode is enabled for the drive. And Snow Leopard saw it fine (and if I don't boot off the USB, it still tries to load from that drive...) Earl

I'm trying to see if I can get 10.7 installed on my Dell 1525 (I was able to get Snow Leopard installed, but trying to take an "upgrade" path from that to 10.7 wasn't fruitful). I'm trying to get to the point where I have a nice clean install USB drive for it. So far, using myHack 3.3.1, I've been able to make a USB stick that will boot it. I have had to remove : AppleYukon2.kext from /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext to get past the initial kernel panic on install. The problem I have now is that I don't see the SSD SATA drive now that I've got the installer to boot. I've run a full MyFix after removing the AppleYukon2.kext and boot with -v -f. I haven't seen any errors flash by. At this point I'm stuck. I'm continuing to RTFM on any documents I can find on Google... but so far, no luck. Thanks in advance for any help!