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It's a legit copy .dmg extracted from app store purchase. Is there anything I can do in vmware to assure that the USB is created properly?

OS X Installer process crashes again with same installer log errors after installing nvidia bootpack and running myfix on the drive. Also, when I click to save the log I get a black screen with a white character block in the upper left on the top line.

It is a retail 10.8.2 image. Installer failed with "LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0" ... "failed with error 'Unkown node name' (2000)" ... "Child exited with status 11" ..."Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Nodes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000000000001"...any clues?

Bios is updated to A18, not sure about the nVidia bootpack where can I get this and will I need it? everything seems to be working now, installing atm

oh my goodness, technology has changed- the animation was simply telling me to attach a bluetooth keyboard- obviously I forgot the laptop's keyboard is PS2 so i just attached an Apple Pro USB keyboard and now I'm on the welcome screen. duh!

tried Nawcom,still experienced kernel panics, setup 10.6.6 Server vmware workstation on Win7 box and successfully made ML 10.8.2 Install USB; now get all the way through bootloader/Darwin and rainbow beachball to install screen but then a strange power button reset animation loops.. (see attached screenshot, LCD is damaged- but you can see it).. 

This particular D630 was found by a dumpster, thrown out by some business because they thought it was trash- it had a malware-ridden WinXP Corporate Edition installed onto it they must've thought it was old. haha!

There's no need to install Windows to update the BIOS. Just download the recovery BIOS from the OSXL web site (Top menus: Tweaks -> Dell -> Custom BIOS Updates) and simply copy it to a USB key. Take out the battery, disconnect power cable, press END key and reconnect power cable. When battery LED appears in RED, count 1-2 and release END key. This normally loads up the BIOS .hdr file off the USB key and copies it to NVRAM. The laptop will then reboot with new BIOS.

 

Are you using our myHack+bootpack installation method?

Thanks for the BIOS trick! ..I am currently using iboot (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) method to get a working snow leo setup so that I can make a myHack ML USB.. still no go- closest I have got is a Snow Leo install USB that freezes at disk util/ and randomly right before installation. I'm about to give up and try to get a vmware setup going on my Win7 box and then delve into the ML install from there

updated to bios A18, and d/led new snow leo .dmg now keep getting kp's 'AppleIntelICHxSATA: Secondary PCI IDE channel is disabled.'tried all the different PCI related flags to no avail. This is very frustrating! I think I will take a break now.

no matter what I try I can't get the snow leo installer to get all the way through without freezing, tried different retail .dmgs, all the different boot flags, etc. If it doesn't freeze completely before it always does right after I begin to install.. I am running BIOS v A12 though.. I thought it was the latest.. guess it's time to install XP again and get the BIOS update.. day 3, will keep posted on progress! thanks!

I have a Latitude D630, BIOS A12, C2D T7500 2.2GHz, 2GB DDR2-667, nVidia 135M but I only have a Inspiron B120 10.5.7 OS X to work with as my "working" Hackintosh to create the boot USB. Is there anything I can do with this setup or should I try to get a snow leo or lion working on another PC in vmware? Also have tried to install snow leo various ways onto the laptop just to get a working myhack setup going but i get either kp's before or random freezes at install. BIOS settings are correct.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!