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Herve, you were very helpful. Do you accept tips ?

I was having problems with the bad EFI partition e.g. disk utility won't let me shrink my mac partition etc. I decided to format my drive and start from scratch. To get dual boot working, I installed the windows first and then the mac. The detailed steps are:

OK Herve, No double posts. Your instruction is SO SIMPLE. It worked great. I was able to install win7 on partition 3. However, I ran into trouble while trying to restore the chamelon boot menu. I followed the instructions at https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2913-windows-7-and-mac-os-x-dual-boot/&do=findComment&comment=22359 . I booted to windows and did: diskpart select disk 0 select partition 2 <---- MACOS partition, the one after the EFI partition active reboot On reboot, I got "Missing operating system" I don't remember the sequence of things I tried after this error but I tried these: - repair your computer using win7 CD - set and unset boot flag on the partition of various partitions using gparted (from hirens boot cd) I finally booted thru the myHack installer drive and reinstalled chameleon on /. Now, I am able to boot into macos. When I go to disk utility, the EFI partition has become visible and it is being shown as FAT32. I dont think that is right. The EFI partition should be hidden in disk utility. When I look at the EFI partition on a different mac os VM, its type is EFI Do you know what I did wrong while restoring chameleon boot menu?

I created a third partition of type NTFS and tried to install win7 on it but got this message: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style. Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. This hard disk space is formatted with an unsupported version of the NTFS file system....Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The partition is an EFI system partition(ESP). How do I get around this?

I ran EDP and got a crash while running it. However, on doing a restart: - I could see more display resolutions in system prefs->display - sound started working - display looked crisper. - mouse seemed smoother - overall, the laptop felt much faster. - sleep not working well. It either doesn't come back from sleep (black screen) or crashes. Thanks Herve. I have a very useful system now. Trying dual boot with win7 now.

AWESOME. After I did this, ethernet started working. Also, I didn't have to specify arch=x86_64 anymore at the Chameleon boot menu.

I only see: Firewire VPN PPPoE 6 to 4 in the list of adapters in System Preferences -> Network -> + Yes, I need to change the wifi adapter to a supported model.

Here is the output of lspci -nn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:27c4] (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01) 03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge [1217:7135] (rev 21) 03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) [1217:00f7] (rev 02) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02) 0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02) and output of /Extra/Extensions/ AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext AppleACPIPlatform.kext AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext ApplePS2Controller.kext FakeSMC.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext Patched_10.7_AppleRTC.kext VoodooTSCSync.kext lspcidrv.kext

I dont have either ethernet/wifi working. So, how do I run EDP? Maybe, I should try some old version of EDP?

The D820 pack worked for me and I have a functional system now. - audio/wifi is not working. - display is 1024x768. It should be 1280x800. I know I will have to change the wifi card to a supported card. I will read the forums over the weekend to get the audio/display working THANKS Herve.

For the benefit of others, Herve is talking about this issue: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2869-read-me-kp-on-appleefinvram-with-myhack-32-beta8/

Thanks Herve. I did use myHack 3.2 beta 8. I will read the announcements and try your idea. Should I use the bootpack for "Dell Latitude D620, Intel GMA950 graphics (1280x800)" or http://www.osxlatitude.com/packs/Dell/Dell_Latitude_D820-intel-lion.zip?

I tried the boot pack for "Dell Latitude D620, Intel GMA950 graphics (1280x800)" from http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/compatibility/. I thought it would be a good match as my display is 1280x800 as well but the installer crashed as well. Any ideas?

I have a dell latitude D820 with intel 945GM I tried the installer with Extra from http://www.osxlatitude.com/packs/Dell/Dell_Latitude_D820-intel-lion.zip but got this kernel panic. Any ideas?

I have a dell d820. I dont see an option to change "Sata operation" to AHCI in the bios. Do you think I can install mac os x on it. Thanks.