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I hear ya. It wasn't that I intentionally didn't follow the instructions, I started by following the Phase 1 / Phase 2 instructions for ML on D620. Phase 1 step 7 says to reboot after the 10.8.3 combo update. I had already done that part when I saw the divergent path for the D430 10.8.5 Phase 1 / Phase 2 instructions which say "Do not restart upon completion' in Phase 1 - 1... so I had already done it per Phase 1 in the main D620 ML instructions. Maybe add a line to the top of the ML D620 instructions that say... "If you are installing 10.8.4 or 10.8.5, be sure to read additional instructions below before proceeding" or something like that. But, as you said. The main thing is... it's working. Thanks to the hard work you and all the others have done to put together this site. I have a Vostro 200 I will be looking to install MV on. Hope that goes well also. Best regards, G

Sorry, I don't think my last post was very clear. I did the MLPF patch after the ML 10.8.5 upgrade (I just rebooted after the 10.8.5 update even though the instructions say "Do not reboot"). Everything seems to be working fine. I have full graphics, wifi, Ethernet, Sound... all is good. G

Well, after applying the MLPF and following the Phase 2 instructions (with a couple of hiccups) my D620 seems to be working at or near 100%. The Ethernet started working right after applying the PostFactor patch... not sure what actually got fixed. One thing I was worried about... after applying the ML update to 10.8.5, I restarted the machine (even though Hervé states in the instructions not to reboot). I was worried, but everything worked fine anyway so I'm not sure why you're not supposed to reboot. So, thanks for your help and thanks to all for the great work you have done with OSXLATITUDE. I will be contributing $$. Greg

Thanks Hervé. I'll try that as soon as I can. Since my last post, I was able to scavenge a DW1490 wireless card from one of our old work laptops (no longer in use) and swap out my Intel wireless card so I am on wifi now and applying ML 10.8.5 updates. Next step MLPF I still want to get the Ethernet working, but at least it's not as pressing now. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for your help. Greg

I was able to extract the last boot from into a log file (just in case I missed something else that may shed light on the issue). Thanks. BootLog.rtf

Thanks for the reply Hervé. I tried the kext you posted using myfix but no change. I also tried re-installing ML and replacing the kext on my installer with the one you provided (rebuilding the Extra folder with MyHack first of course). I still get the same error message as above. BTW, I didn't post before, but my BIOS is A10 and I have the BIOS settings done according to the D620 BIOS settings page. Any other suggestions? Is there some log file or more information I can share that may shed light? I'm continuing to look into it on my end. Thanks, Greg

Hmm... never mind... I found the obvious answer to my question when I saw the options to change the location where Chameleon gets the update package from.... Dohhhh!!! I selected internal and was able to update to r2286 but I still get the same error after a reboot. I also tried reverting back to the original kext for the Ethernet but still the same error. Still looking into it... G

BTW... I used MyHack 3.3.1 in case that helps. Thx.

Ok, Here's what I have and what I did... I have a Dell D620, 945GM Graphics, Intel BCM5751 Ethernet (at least, that's what worked on Lion) I have followed the steps for Phase 1 from Herve's instructions... but here is what I did. Using my VM ML Install, formatted a 8gb Thumbdrive for Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Ran MyHack and selected "Create OS-X Installer" (after entering my sudo password of course). Selected my freshly formatted thumb drive labeled "installer" Located the install app "Install OS X Mountain Lion" (this is rev 10.8) Then I let MyHack do its thing... After complete, I restarted MyHack and selected "Install Extra" Navigated to the unzipped folder for the "Extra_D620i_lores_ML" and again let MyHack do its thing... Ejected the thumb drive and booted my D620 from it. I had Lion installed, but I went ahead and erased the HD to do a clean install (I didn't have anything I needed to keep on there anyway as I'm pretty new to this). Let the installer do the install... Selected a custom Extra folder at the end and pointed to the "Extra" located at the root of the thumb drive... Let Installer complete (with failure but that's okay!) Reboot system onto ML/HD Install. At this point, I was able to complete the 1st boot setup, but I had no network connection. I checked the Network Utility and it doesn't show a Network Card installed. I rebooted using -v and saw the following error during the boot: kxldcom.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5751EthernetJ: The Mach-O file is malformed: Invalid magic number (0xfeedface) Can't load com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5751Ethernet - link failed Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5751Ethernet. Kext com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5751Ethernet failed to load (0xdc008016). I tried swapping the kext from my Lion install (since it worked) and got the same message. I saw in a different thread where someone had some KP issues that were apparently resolved by updating the Chameleon Loader to V2248 so I thought that may help. I downloaded the Chameleon Wizard to my D620 (via thumb drive) and ran it, but was disappointed when I saw it failed to run because it needs internet connection. So, can anyone see something wrong I'm doing?? Or, if I'm on the right track with the Chameleon update (thought the whole 64/32 bit loading issue may be the issue) any suggestions how I can update the Chameleon without Internet? Is there a more direct way to update without the Wizard? Any thoughts are appreciated... in the mean time, I'm still plugging away trying to figure this out. Happy Hacking!! Greg

Thanks. The forum search is what saved me until I was able to get registered on the site. Greg

This site was the perfect answer to a problem I had. I'm a Windows developer by default (not because I love Windows either... more of a necessity thing). I've had several people request that some of my programs be made available on the Mac platform. Well, as most of you would agree, it didn't seem feasible to drop the money down to buy a Mac just to convert some applicaiton code. So, I started looking for a solution. The first thing I tried was a VM Mac using VirtualBox (glad I did because this was the tool I eventually used to get my Hackintosh working). The VM was great, but it was a little slow and would lock up occasionally. So, I started looking into a full blown Hackintosh. I did have a Dell D620 that I no longer used for Windows and it was just laying around gathering dust. I was thrilled to see it was supported on this site. Interestingly, my first Hackintosh was quite a challenge because I was having registration problems on this site and so I couldn't post for help when I ran into issues. I was able to get it working though (OS-X Lion on DELL D620; Intel 945GM). When I went to download the XCode app from the apple store... that's when I realized I would need to bump up to Mountain Lion 10.8.4 or higher. Problem... until I could get my registration worked out, I was out of luck since the EDP package was just a trial download posted on some of the forum posts (off limits to me). Thanks to Herve for getting my registration squared away. Now, I will be able to move forward with the ML Hack attempt and I'll be able to come crawling here for help as needed BTW, I ordered a Dell DW1505 wireless Lan card so hopefully that will be working soon also. Looking forward to sharing information with all of you. Greg