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Cool, I've got it working now. Thanks!

P.S. If I install GRUB for the entire drive, then on boot it loads Linux fine and GRUB also recognises "Mac OS X 32 bit" and "Mac OS X 64 bit" but both fail to load. Combine that with the fact that Chameleon has a prettier graphical interface and it's clear that's the way I should go

I've recently installed Lion on my D520, and it's working fine - thanks to everyone here who made it possible! However, I left space for a Linux partition and I'm having problems getting Chameleon to recognise the Ubuntu install; I've reinstalled Ubuntu 13.10 five times now (and after each unsuccessful attempt I've used a partition editor to remove the Linux and swap partitions - back to unallocated / free space), and I've tried: letting the Ubuntu installer auto configure the partitions + bootloader location (while installing alongside Mac OS X) manually defining the Linux partition and installing GRUB for the entire drive I've also tried a manual install and putting GRUB on just the Ubuntu partition ...but after any of these methods when I reinstate Chameleon by booting from the myHack USB, it never detects the Linux partition and I'm unable to load Ubuntu. Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

Hi all, I'm new here so first up let me say thanks for a great website with an awesome set of tools and guides. Following the instructions here I've just installed Snow Lion on my Dell Latitude D520. The install went without error and I was able to boot into OSX from the hard disc without any problem. However, following the post-install guide I ran the EDP app and it broke something so the laptop would no longer boot without the -x switch at the bootloader. I tried running myFix from the myHack USB drive but this didn't help. I deleted the partition and ran the myHack installer again from scratch - but the same problem occurred (the initial install goes fine, but there is no audio driver and no battery icon on the menu bar etc. then after running EDP, selecting Latitude D520 & the predefined configuration as per the guide, it fails to boot). Booting with the -v flag, I can see that it stops at: RTC: Only single RAM bank (128 bytes) mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool) rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 63EAD4BD-EFFF-3B8D-AA37-6DBF7B7A552D From path: "uuid", Waiting on <dict ID=0><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict> Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Any ideas what I can try to get it functional? (preferably with the additional kexts such as battery and audio left intact) Thanks P.S. I googled the problem a little and read that it might be to do with the SATA mode (ATA / AHCI) but unless I've somehow overlooked it I don't think I have any option to change that setting in the D520 BIOS (A08).