Spurs4ever

Nope plain vanilla hdd formatted and ready to rock. (in fact I have two different HDDs I can use) Not really needing internet to be honest, just wanted to get EPD installed (which needed an internet connection). Tried again last night, kept getting boot:0 errors after reinstalling SL to the USB stick (the same stick and SL I used previously that DID install!), tried to look into it and apparently its a problem with writing to the beginning of the HDD. Gave up, tried far too many times for me to be convinced of the stability on this laptop even if I did manage to get it installed eventually, so called it a day and installed Win 7 again. At least that works LOL Thanks for the help though guys, much appreciated.

Yep Like I said, it would not recognise my HDD in AHCI mode, whereas the SL install did. I even changed HDD's to see if that was the problem but still the same. Yep done that already, but I am going to try SL again as soon as the myHack has finished doing its thing to my USB Now thats the interesting bit. After I installed SL the last time, I did as myHack requested, installed the extras from my source folder, rebooted from the USB stick (as I could not boot from the HDD) and it booted to the SL desktop, however I had no ethernet, it was not showing in System Properties at all. Like I said, I'll give it another go, but failing that I'll be going back to Win 7 and will have to save up for a Macbook

Did all that with the modified bios installed, no joy. Even changed the USB stick for a better, quicker one, but nothing. The problem I have is that L & ML do not recognise the HDD. SL does, but will not recognise the ethernet so I cannot install EDP after SL has installed. The CPU is a T7250 @ 2Ghz and 2GB ram. I've reverted back to stock A17 now, will give it another go later. Have had to install Win 7 on it just so I can use it Will give Lion a go, just to see if it reads the HDD in ACHI (it never did although SL read it fine with the modified bios). Not holding out much hope though Can I just confirm that this is the correct start... Start myHack tell it to create a install disk choose 10.6 tell it to use the usb stick attached let it do its thing. Now do I manually remove the Extras folder and place the bootpackage one in its place, or do I use the create extras option in myhack? I have tried both, but both times I get the same result. Also is it just the Extras folder I need to put on the usb after SL is moved to it, or do I need other Kexts too? Thanks in advance

The A17 modified from here.

A little confused here and wondered if anyone could help. I have a D630 with Intel GFX and am having difficulty in getting any version of OSX installed. I'll start with SL. I made the USB stick with myHack and downloaded the bootpackage for SL and copied over the Extras folder to the USBStick. I set the bios to defaults, removed the Intel Wireless adaptor completely from the laptop, set the correct settings in the bios and booted. Formatted the HDD in Disk Utility, installed SL, rebooted through the USB stick, got to the desktop, but no Ethernet so I could not install EDP. On top of this am I right in thinking V3 of EDP is for ML? If so what do I use for SL? Onto Lion. Same as above, but Disk Utility cannot see the HDD at all. Change to ATA and the HDD is recognised, but the install sticks at 19 minutes to go. I read somewhere that the ICH8 chipset can be a problem as it is not true SATA and runs a SATA-IDE hybrid? Either way, the HDD is seen by the SL install but not the Lion install. Any ideas you may have to help me one my way would be appreciated. Don't make me go back to Win 7 please