seb43654

Hah know that. Just I cant order and then download it using Windows machine. Do they have cd versions in local stores? I thought the only way is to download.

Hi sorry i forgot to mention this in the tutorial I wrote becuase I thaught it was easy. 

Mountain Lion is now only available for download, you cannot get a CD. Purchase it off the apple website (or by other means, your choice). You will then need access to a mac (snow leopard or higher) to create your bootable USB drive. There is no point making a bootable DVD as often you will need to tweak the contents of the drive to get it working. 

If you are completely stuck without a mac, you can use virtualisation software to run mac inside windows or linux.

Good luck!

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a good one!

By stuck, I mean that I see the ML HDD/partition and the delay bar runs down, it does not boot.

I did not use any bootpack.  Scrolling up I'm starting to realize where I've gone wrong. (The instructions of this topic did not mention them.)

Are bootpacks so specific to the type of hardware that using another one wouldn't work?

Is my only option to install Lion?

Yes, this bootpack is specifically made and tested by me for the Nvidia model.I would be surprised if it worked on the intel model.

If you try Mountain Lion in the intel model, you will have no quartz extreme, graphics aceleration, and you will be stuck at 1024x768 resolution.

I strongly recommend using Lion, as it works perfectly, and Mountain Lion isnt much better than Lion.

Good Luck

Hi,

I purchased a brand new ocz vertex 2 60gb sad about 3 months ago.

Worked fine until today.

I left the laptop (D630) on sleep for only about half a day, and when I woke up, the ssd would not 'wake' either it had froze.

I powered off, and on again.

SSD is now not recognisable by bios or ANYTHING.

Tried all OCZ toolbox. SSD is completely bricked.

Its a firmware bug known as 'wake from sleep'

NEVER BUY A VERTEX 2 SSD!

Hope this advice helped - any one else experienced this?

Seb

Hi,

I have a D630 with OS X Mountain Lion installed on a 60GB OCZ Vertex SSD, and a 250GB HDD in the place of my DVD Drive which holds my home folder and documents.

I have seen the tutorials on creating a fusion drive for macs that dont have it built in.

Would it be a good idea to create a fusion drive on my D630 and do you think there would be any significant speed boost or advantage?

If I were to try it out, I would report back the results on here to let everyone know if it is worth it.

I have seen videos showing the fusion drive is faster booting than only an ssd on its own?

Thanks,

Seb

Hi,

 

I've already installed Lion succesfully in my D630, but I have only 4GB RAM (2x2GB). What it the maximum RAM supported for the D630? 8GB (2x 4GB)? I have A17 BIOS version.

 

Also, I want to upgrade the hard drive and I'm thinking in a SSD hard drive. Did any particular model that works perfect in our D630? I do not need much capacity, but performance.

 

Thank you very much!

It is definetly 8GB for version A17 bios, and in my D630 I have a OCZ Vertex 2 in my primary sata bay, and I swapped out the DVD drive for a 250GB 5400RPM HDD which has my home folder on.

Hope this helps,

Seb

posted in wrong forum before....

 

 

Hello-

First time here

 

Need to know if it is possible to get the PCMCIA slot functional on the D620. Currently running 10.6.1 vanilla. Have had problems finding any information on this and hoping you can help me out as I need to edit video on this machine and need the firewire port.

 

The cardbus I am trying to use states that it is compatible with Mac OS 8.6 and above. It is manufactured by Syba if that matters at all.

 

Much obliged!

 

KF

The firewire port definitely works, I dont think the PCMCIA one works though - generally if you can see it in system profiler, its not picked up.

Seb

sometimes osx rebuilds the caches on shut down so it takes a little longer to shut down.

My D630 rebuilds the kext cache every time it boots, and it refuses to shut down if it is doing it. It takes about 5/10 minutes to do, and puts the CPU at 90-100% load...

Any solutions? Use Kernel Cache is set to YES.

Seb

I no longer run SL, but I have no such issue under Lion (D630, X3100, EDP v3 r431 + D630, X3100, EDP v'4 r7) or ML (D630, nVidia, EDP v4 r7). I even have different models of BT adapters from one D630 to another. I'd say your issue is probably related to kexts rather than BIOS settings or H/W.

 

Which EDP kexts did you install? Pre-defined values or user-defined ones? Can you confirm your EDP version?

 

I always opt for self-defined values and install the following:

- NullCPUPowerManagement

- SleepEnabler

- VoodooTSCsync

- Emulated SpeedStep

 

Then, I usually apply the Hibernation fix.

 

On all my D630s, I have Wifi + BT controlled by the switch (that is a BIOS setting) and both services resume Ok after wake (BT can take something like 20 to 30s on occasions).

 

In terms of BT settings, I have BT activated (of course), detectable and BT sharing active.

The exact same happens on my laptop - bluetooth doesn't work after waking from sleep (D630 Nvidia, Mountain Lion). I used the predefined option in EDP, but didnt apply the hibernation fix (I just installed sleep enabler.kext)

What does the hibernation fix do?

Seb

i have the intel x3100 gpu, so i am hoping this will still work for me, but before i do try this retail install will i be greeted with a chameleon bootloader and have the option to boot into my xp installation?

 

i am currently dual booting between fedora 17 and xp, but fedora in my opinion just sucks to use.

 

also had to make an account just because this post is so great and detailed, so i had to say thanks!

 

edit:

did some further reading, seems i cannot join the mountain lion club lol

 

guess i will be using this guide to assist in installing lion.

Hi,

Glad you found the guide good! Yes due to the intel graphics which requires a 32-bit kext and ML is 64-bit only so it wont work.

Lion works just fine, and I honestly dont really use any of the new features in ML, I just like always being completely up-to-date

Seb

My system restarts before starting the setup of ML. what could be the issue?

Make sure you have the correct bios settings, and have applied the correct bootpack onto your installation media.

Seb

I have a problem with my dualboot ML+ win7. I just made clean ML and kept old win7 install as it was. Everything went well and I managed to install ML easily but now I am not able to boot in ML directly from sdd. Windows 7 works perfect and I am able to boot in through chameleon located sdd. With usb osx install disk I am also able to boot in my to my ML.

 

I can't figure out what is the problem. Probably some partition problem etc.?

 

After ML installation I had to set ML partiton active because I got win7 partition active and it booted directly to win7. I managed to change active partition to ML but still no success... ML is trying to start but right before login screen should appear computer restart itself. And booting up through usb install disk everything works like a charm!

 

diskutil list:

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *115.0 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS OSX ML 41.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 7 73.7 GB disk0s3

 

fdisk partition list:

Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 13985/255/63 [224674128 sectors]

Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

*2: AF 25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 80074176] HFS+

3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 80746496 - 143927296] HPFS/QNX/AUX

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

 

Any help would be appreciated!

I dont completely understand - when you boot up what the first thing you get to?

1: Is it the windows boot manager

2: Or is it the chameleon bootloader

If its number one:

First go into windows startup recovery, and reinstall the windows bootloader

Boot into windows and set system reserved as the active partition (its the one that has the bootloader on)

Download easy bcd and add a mac os x boot entry to the bootloader startup screen

If it is number two (more likely)

Boot into OSX ML with your USB stick, and install champlist

Run it on your partition with OS X/EFI and re-install chameleon with the latest one

With champlist, browse to your EFI partition and check it is bootable [has boot file and extra folder]

make sure your info.plist settings are correct

try and boot ML normally.

Hope this helped, good luck!

Seb

Looking at the system log, I can see what is causing the delay but don't know enough about the internals to know why. It is attempting to rebuild the kextcache but is failing and then retrying. On the fifth failed try, it gives up and allows the reboot. It looks like AppleHDA and AppleACPIEC are involved in the problem.

 

Here are the system log entries for the last rebuild try:

 

 

9/23/12 11:45:11.256 AM com.apple.kextd[12]: kextcache error while updating / (error count: 4)

9/23/12 11:45:11.258 AM com.apple.kextd[12]: / is still busy, delaying reboot.

9/23/12 11:45:11.260 AM com.apple.kextd[12]: async child pid 916 exited with status 71

9/23/12 11:45:11.292 AM com.apple.kextcache[918]: rebuilding /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache

9/23/12 11:45:11.775 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: AppleTyMCEDriver.kext has no Info.plist file.

9/23/12 11:45:11.777 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext has no Info.plist file.

9/23/12 11:45:12.786 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: AppleTyMCEDriver.kext has no Info.plist file.

9/23/12 11:45:12.787 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext has no Info.plist file.

9/23/12 11:45:51.152 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: The following symbols are unresolved for this kext:

9/23/12 11:45:51.153 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: IOAF_bcopy_WriteCombine(void const*, void*, unsigned int)

9/23/12 11:45:51.153 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspAlgorithms::bcopyStride2(float const*, int, float*, int, int)

9/23/12 11:45:51.154 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspAlgorithms::mBufferBytesPerChannel

9/23/12 11:45:51.154 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspAlgorithms::downMixStereoToMonoStride(float const*, int, float*, int, unsigned int)

9/23/12 11:45:51.154 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncHelper::convertNanosToPercent(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, float*)

9/23/12 11:45:51.155 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::setClientType(unsigned int)

9/23/12 11:45:51.155 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::engineStarting()

9/23/12 11:45:51.156 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::engineStopping()

9/23/12 11:45:51.156 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::engineReStarting()

9/23/12 11:45:51.156 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::getClientPGASetting()

9/23/12 11:45:51.157 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::getClientPGABoostSetting()

9/23/12 11:45:51.157 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::setGainAdjustDSPProperties()

9/23/12 11:45:51.158 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: DspFuncManager::process(void const*, unsigned int, void const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)

9/23/12 11:45:51.159 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: AppleHDAController::claimSinkDevice(unsigned int, IOService*)

9/23/12 11:45:51.159 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: AppleHDAController::updateVideoMode(unsigned int, IOService*, HDAGFXModeStruct*)

9/23/12 11:45:51.160 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: AppleHDAController::requestBandwidth(unsigned int, IOService*, unsigned int)

9/23/12 11:45:51.160 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: AppleHDAController::releaseSinkDevice(unsigned int, IOService*)

9/23/12 11:45:51.161 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: AppleHDAController::alwaysDisplayRouting()

9/23/12 11:45:51.161 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleHDA]: AppleHDAController::verifySinkDeviceAttached(unsigned int, IOService*)

9/23/12 11:45:51.183 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: Link failed (error code 5).

9/23/12 11:45:51.185 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: Prelink failed for com.apple.driver.AppleHDA; omitting from prelinked kernel.

9/23/12 11:45:52.897 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC]: The following symbols are unresolved for this kext:

9/23/12 11:45:52.897 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC]: _AcpiHwRead

9/23/12 11:45:52.898 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: kxld[com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC]: _AcpiHwWrite

9/23/12 11:45:52.916 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: Link failed (error code 5).

9/23/12 11:45:52.917 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: Prelink failed for com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC; aborting prelink.

9/23/12 11:45:52.941 AM com.apple.kextcache[919]: Failed to generate prelinked kernel.

9/23/12 11:45:52.976 AM com.apple.kextcache[918]: Child process /usr/sbin/kextcache[919] exited with status 71.

9/23/12 11:45:52.977 AM com.apple.kextcache[918]: Error 107 rebuilding /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache.

9/23/12 11:45:52.978 AM com.apple.kextd[12]: kextcache error while updating / (error count: 5)

9/23/12 11:45:52.979 AM com.apple.kextd[12]: /: giving up; kextcache hit max failures

9/23/12 11:45:52.979 AM com.apple.kextd[12]: up to date; unblocking reboot.

And I also noticed every time I boot up my D630, kextcache process takes about 99% cpu regenerating kext caches. Even if I havent changed the kext cache - it gets quite annoying!

Seb

Thanks, can you show me the right kext, please?

Thats what I was just saying - it works otb, no additional kext required, the kext comes with OS X as its officially supported.

Seb

Hello! thanks for this tutorial, so I could install successfully but the wifi does not work, do not know where to download the driver, I installed something wrong?

 

regards

Which wifi card have you got? Some Dell's come with intel wifi cards rather than dell ones, and the intel ones dont work with OS X.

Seb

Hallo,

surch for my Hakintosh Dell D620, a working kext for Dell Wireless 1390 Wlan Mini-Card?

 

By Spatz1115

That card is supported natively in OS X - have you installed the dsdt.aml and edp and done a full myfix?

Seb

Is there any new insight on the reason for extremely slow shutdown (several minutes)?

Are there any fixes to try?

 

D630, Nvidia, BIOS A18

EDP 4R7

OS 10.8.2

My D630 Nvidia does the exact same, I dont know why. Also if I tell it to restart, the bios takes ages when its starts back up again to load.

Seb

I updated to 10.8.2 a few days ago, no problems. The installer did the failure message thing, but it was successful.

Thats good to know - I was slightly scared to update to 10.8.2 as its rather different to the 10.8.1 update.

Seb

Hi,

Just added a short video of my Dell D630 running Mountain Lion as per the guide.

It also shows the little backlit apple logo on the back of the screen which I have just finished.

Seb

Hi,

Running Mountain Lion 10.8.1 on my D630, and I was wondering if anyone knew how to get the track point and secondary mouse buttons working?

What was the kext used to enable them in lion, and would it be possible to re-compile it for 64-bit kernels?

Thanks,

Seb

To get keyboard mappings + Command/Control Ok, use the following packages:

1. DoubleCommand:
   -> download and install. You'll then find it on your System Pref pane. Open it and select:
   • Command key acts as Command Key
   • Option key acts as Command key
   • PC style Home and End keys

-> then click on Activate and save for User & System (the latter will prompt you for your password)

 

<li>Ukele:

-> only open the package (do not install anything) and browse to the Logitech directory. Then look for the 2 keyboard definition files that suit your keyboard country and copy them to the /Library/Keyboard Layouts folder. You can then select that particular keyboard in System Pref. Pane - Language & Text -> Input methods tab.

 

For the TrackPad, try the ANV-Slice version in the EDP kexts (using own-defined settings).

 

To replace the Wireless card, it's just like Seb said: remove the narrow plastic cover in front of the keyboard (it lifts from the right with a small flat screwdriver or knife) and remove the 3 keyboard screws. You can then lift the keyboard by slightly sliding it forward (there are small nipples at the bottom to hold it in situ) and twisting it a little on the left and right side. You'll then see the mini PCI-E wireless card. disconnect the black and white wires and using that flat screwdriver again, unplug the card. Replace it, refit everything the way it was and you should be in business straight away with Wireless capability at the next reboot.

I didnt bother with any keyboard remapping - I made custom command and alt stickers for the keys so its more like a mac layout.

As for the trackpad - do you know any different kexts that support the trackpoint and secondary mouse buttons with 64-bit Mountain Lion?

Also, just installed a 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and put my 250gig in the Modular Bay - I can report that even though the 250GB HDD is connected by ata rather than sata, it has identical performance.

Seb

Thanks for the rapid response. Just ordered a DW1490 so hope it's easy to fit.

 

Just a quick one my keyboard works fine even though the " and @ are reversed, didn't have to install anything additional to get it working. Trackpad is very slow to respond though USB mouse works fine. Do I just need to copy the extra Kexts into the extensions to get it to work?

Yes, you just remove 3 screws on the keyboard, and have access to two mini lci-e cards and a ram slot under the keyboard. Its easy to do.

As for trackpad, try doing a full myfix, or adjusting the tracking speed in system preferences.

Seb

Just a post to thank everyone who has used this guide and found it helpful - just past the 3000 views mark.

Seb

Firstly thank you for the great guide. All installed according to guide, even 10.8.1 got unexpected error but worked anyway.

 

Has anyone successfully got the Intel Wi-Fi working as my D630 has this card. If I go down the replcement route from ebay, what is best card and would I need to re-install from scratch or can I just swap the card and it will work?

 

Thanks.

Hi, glad the installation went well, the 10.8.1 update error occurs even though the update works fine. It is to do with the mac not being able to locate a startup disk due to the SATA controller.

I dont think the intel wifi cards will work with OS X, for otb compatibility, get a Dell broadcom DW 1390 or 1490 mini PCI-e wifi card.

Seb

Unless someone makes a 64-bit natvice kext for the intel gpu, its not gonna work.

A shame, as they would be capable of running ML if but this limitation.

Seb