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After reading this forum I was intrigued and I thought since I have the standard D630 this would take a couple hours at most not a multi-day ordeal w/ myriad of endless pitfalls...but that's computer work for you! I reinstalled windows on my notebook and will leave this for now but I get a sense of what it's all about and even with the guides it involves lots of work figuring things out. I can't even image my drive w/ disk wizard and I'm sure there's lots to figure out wrt dual booting w/ windows etc etc etc....anyone want to buy a barely used genuine OSX 10.7 USB and a 10.6.3 DVD, lol? Thx for your help.

I was able to get it installed and get into the installed mac os and I am at the stage of updating using the 10.6.8 combo update, applying myhack with edp package etc but I was a little slow and the machine went to sleep (black screen and nothing responds) so I force shut down using the power key and when I try to restart it says "you need to restart your computer Hold down the power buttton...". It's stuck on this screen whenever I try to start and when I use boot -v -x option it scolls too fast for me to see what it says so no extra info but from what I gather I need a new Chameleon boot loader (mine says Darwin /x86 boot v5.0.132 - chameleon v2.0.-RC5 r726. Am I correct? If so, how can I get back to a working install without installing from scractch all over again (I've already installed it twice already bec of this problem thinking it was my error).

I tried the older modcd 032311-151021 again and made sure I used GUID and it worked! (I guess there is something wrong with the later modcd that I have). I also followed your detailed install on the other thread which made it easy...Thanks.

No, it's the offical retail dvd w/ shrink wrap that I purchased from Apple directly. I tried an older modcd 032311-151021 and that gets me further along and I can get to the osx install but eventually it says Error can't install on this computer (I'm guessing bec it's an older modcd). Any other suggestions or link to the modcd version you are using? I have a T9300 w/ hi res 1440x900 screen if that makes any difference.

I have the 10.6.3 DVD now and I tried to boot modcd to install it but it doesn't work. Modcd boots and I can swap the 10.6.3 DVD in and then press f5 but it eventually stops w/ error that says "Errors encountered while starting up the computer..." and when I press q it restarts. I don't even get to the osx installer. I'm using ModCD 091512-143758 that I got from the official site (downloaded twice and burned it 3 times so I don't think it's the disk). Is this the right version? Is there something else I'm overlooking? I also already set bios settings to recommended as per the sticky. With the standardized D630, I thought this was supposed to be an easy install...thanks for any info.

I figured that was the answer but needed confirmation...thanks for the prompt reply.

Thanks for the reply. Are you saying that there isn't a way for me to install 10.7 using my Apple 10.7 USB w/o a working Mac? I tried the "magic modcd" which is supposed to work with 10.7 but that didn't work for me. Is there anything like modcd for 10.6 that works with 10.7 or any other work around for me?

I have the following: - a Dell D630 (Intel video) - the official retail Apple 10.7 Lion install USB - no access to a Mac Since I don't have access to a Mac, the myhack way to install on my machine isn't available to me. Does anyone know how I can install osx on my machine w/ what I already have? I know if I had osx 10.6 dvd and used modcd I could install it w/o a mac but I didn't realize it until after I purchased the 10.7 usb (for nearly triple the price of the 10.6 dvd!) (Incidentally the Apple USB 10.7 installer can't even be read or copied to a DVD under windows or linux, is this normal?). Any help would be appreciated.