Yorkshire_Jon

Thanks Patel, The HD only has 1 partition, that's Macintosh HD Mountain Lion. One thing I have noticed when booting from the installer, if the machine has been running for 5 mins or so and then I try to restart and reboot from the USB installer it will hang 9 out of 10 times. If I turn the machine off and restart it after 5 mins of being switched of the installer usually boots first time! Strange. I'll give the HD a few more tries to see if that's temperamental also. Fail in that I'll go through the whole process again and see what happens! Thanks very much for your help, much appreciated. Jon

OK, thanks. Noting the spelling above I did "rm -rf AppleIntelHd*.kext" and "rm -rf AppleIntelHD*.kext". Neither commands prompted any errors. On restart (USB inserted but selecting the HD to boot from) it hangs. When I select -v option I get the same error message, as per attachment. What is AppleUSBEHIC ?? Is this video or HD related or simply a core USB driver? Also, Ive now upgraded the BIOS to version A13 (latest), figured it couldn't hurt and something between A09 and A12 could have been stopping it... it wasn't:) Thx J

Thanks Patel, The commands were fine apart from "sudo" wasn't recognized. I removed that, just used rm... And the files deleted. Unfortunately the machine still shows (black screen, white text), "AppleUSBEHIC... Found a transaction which hasnt moved in 5 seconds..." ad then the infamous "Still waiting for root device". R Jon

Thanks Patel, I've got the Intel graphics. Jon

Thanks for the -R tip. That worked a treat. Now, the machine won't even start to boot without the USB loader plugged in. When I use that and select the HD a a boot devie it hangs in the same way as it did before, using -v shows "AppleUSBEHCI" at fault and then I see the same message 'the IOUSBFamily gave up enumerating a USB device after 10 retries. I'm stuck again! Thx Jon

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what am I doing wrong? I can navigate to the "Patched Kexts" folder in Terminal, but when I enter the cp command line I get an error to say that AppleAHCIPort.kext is a directory and cant be copied. Sure enough, when I interogate the USB it is actually a directory with stuff inside it (there is a file called AppleAHCIPort in /Contents/MacOS - do I just need to copy that file into the /System/Library/Extension folder or something else? I suspect I may have extracted the files from the downloaded zip file incorrectly and transferred the files rather than the kext container to the USB??? Problem is Im not near my mac now, only a PC and a half dead hackintosh with Terminal! Is there a way to do it from the patch component files and folders or is it better to wait until I get back to the mac and re-copy the kext? thx Jon

Cool, many thanks. Ive just downloaded "Patched 10.8 AppleAHCIPort & IOACHIFamily Kexts.zip", put them on the USB and will try it out when I get to the office:) Fingers crossed all goes OK! I'll report back and let you know how it went. Thx J

Ok, so finally got the installer to run again (after lots of switching on and off again!!). It went through the 20-40 minute excercise and when it got to the end it gave me the picture in the attachment! I could still run myHack from the menu at the top and then navigated to install Extra (myOwn and Extra folder). This completed. When I try to restart the computer now, it wont boot from the HD and nothing seems to happen. thoughts please. Jon Edit: When I use the USB stick to boot and use the -v option I now get to the following before it stops.. Is this a HD controller kext? The BIOS is definitely set to AHCI.

What BIOS release are people running on the E6410? Im currently running A09. Would changing make a difference? My only concern about upgrading is that its a work laptop that Ive taken the HD out of and it must be able to boot Windows7 when i put the original disk back in! Also, my machine has only got 4Gb RAM. Is that enough for Mountain Lion? thx J

After several tries to boot and getting nothing it did once boot to the installer:) I partitioned the drive and then left it for the 20-40mins. When I came back there was a message to say that OSX could not be installed on the machine. I switched off to restart, not cant get back into the installer...Grrrrrrrrr J

Also, if I boot from the USB without the "-v" option, the machine hangs on the grey screen with Apple Logo on it and the little spinning cursor keeps spinning... No USB or HD activity. Jon

sorry. My fault! Should be attached now.

Hi Patel, Update: I downloaded 10.8.2 Mountain Lion and rebuilt the USB image using the E6410 10.8.1.zip, following your guide to the letter. I then deleted AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext and AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext from the /System/Library/Extensions folder and ejected from the Mac. I installed using the "-v" option and the Dell shows all the files loaded on the grey screen & white text. Its goes further than it did yesterday and then swaps over to a black screen with white text, this screen also goes further than it did yesterday and comes to a halt as shown in the attached image. At this point there is no USB or HD activity. Any further thoughts? Thx Jon

So that I get this right... Once Ive created the new USB drive and copied over the E6410 ML10.8.1 folder, before I eject the USB I simply delete AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext and AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext from the /System/Library/Extensions folder... Do I need to do anything else (Kextwizard or something???) Thx Jon

OK, so latest Mountain Lion Installer (I shall download that later), plus th eE6410 ML 10.8.1zip file. Do I need to do anything with the kexts, or just follow the guide to the letter? Also, I have just noticed that the Mountain Lion I downloaded yesterday was created on 17/8/12 (according to file properties), interesting that is supposed to be pre 10.8.1 from 24/8/12! I suspect the file may have been created BEFORE it was released on 24/8/12. I am just downloading ML again now so will use that with a new USB build and see what happens! Thx, J