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In response to fc0706, I was mainly trying this on a 750GB 7200RPM Momentus Seagate HDD and wasn't having luck. Wondering if it was some sort of limitation with the hard drive statistics I tried my 80GB 5400RPM Hitachi Travelstar HDD. Exact same problem. I haven't been able to work on this for months because I've started school and haven't had time to really mess with my computer's hard drives, but I have been working on possible problems. The one I need to check out next is seeing if it's possible that the file structure of my USB Drive was possibly modified and therefor wasn't installing all the possible data correctly. That's my current theory, although probably wrong. Also, I've never been able to use the D620SLV1 method completely successfully. One of the biggest things that confuses me is how, once OSX is installed, the system profile misreads my hardware and only on my graphics card. I believe I previously stated this, but I haven't figured out the solution and I believe it's the only real thing causing me problems. I'm looking forward to sitting down and seeing if OS 10.7 and the new EDP may solve the problems. In response to Bronxteck, what do you mean by a 4k offset? Also, would you be able to explain more in-depth what you did to get around the problem? Sorry for never replying back to our conversation, as I had said school started up and haven't had time.

Alright. I downloaded the Chameleon Wizard. Still gives me the boot error. Tried the 3 different options other than the pick a folder option.

I'll give this a shot and I'll update once I'm done. It's going to be a while before I can though because I'm running gparted on Linux to check an external hard drive. Thank you.

I've tried both nvidia and Intel GMA950 for D620 on separate times when I've reformatted the Hard drive. It doesn't seem to change anything.

Ah, sorry. I thought I mentioned all of that in the message. I was half-awake when I typed that up. I have a Dell Latitude D620, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7200, and 4GB of RAM. I currently have the Dell 1490 Wireless Card installed, but I just tried installing Mac OS X on the other hard drive with the Intel card in and it didn't seem to change anything. It still says in the system profiler on Mac OS X that I have an nVidia Graphics Card. Sorry if my explanation of things is getting a bit convoluted. I have tried different versions of Chameleon and different versions of the EDP. What process would you suggest going about getting Mac properly working with a bootloader that isn't on a USB Pen?

I received a 750GB Seagate Momentus hard drive on Friday and have been trying to get OS X 10.6.7, Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu to run on it. I've come across some odd problems in trying. I have successfully done a dual-boot of OS X and Windows 7 on my 500GB Seagate Momentus hard drive and in a comparison between the two I've come up with some problems that I'm not sure what to do with. Here's what's happening... I used the USB Installation guide and successfully created 3 partitions on the drive and installed Mac OS X 10.6.7, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Ubuntu 11.04 (Need to switch back to 10.10 due to a lack of firmware for Broadcom). I installed the Chameleon bootloader as suggested in the EDP guide and also downloaded EDP 1.5 rather than 1.8. I set up everything the same way as I had on the 500GB hard drive and restarted. It would go to an error screen where in the top-right corner it would say "boot0: GPT; boot0: test; boot0:test; boot0: error." Using the bootloader on the pen I could still boot into any of the operating systems I wanted, but for some reason the bootloader doesn't quite seem to register on the internal hard drive. Something that caught my attention that I thought was odd is that before I even install Chameleon or run ./edptool.command the system profiler tells me on the 750GB hard drive that I have an nVidia graphics card with Intel being the vendor. Meanwhile, on the 500GB hard drive it says I have the Intel GMA 950 chipset. I believe that I do have the Intel chipset and not the nVidia chipset and so I'm curious if this factors into things. One thing I'm going to try when I get home is swapping my wifi cards. Besides the obvious hard drive change, my wifi card is the only hardware to have changed between OS X installations. I'm curious if the change from the Intel 3945 wifi card and the Broadcom 4311 wifi card may have altered Snow Leopard's profile of an Intel chipset. I've also done different partitioning set ups to see if my issue lies within the set up of the hard drive and I still can't see what's wrong there. I was curious if maybe the addition of Linux to the series of OSs on my laptop could have been causing a problem and so I tried installing just OS X on the entire hard drive. It still read that I have an nVidia graphics card and not an Intel Chipset. The bootloader still doesn't work. I've also tried variations in which version of Chameleon and which EDP I install and still nothing. I've looked at the preference pane for Chameleon on both hard drives and they are exactly the same. And just as a stretch of possible luck, I copied my Extra folder from the functional hard drive to an external hard drive and pasted its contents into the Extra folder. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. If swapping the wifi cards works I'll update the post. If anyone has any questions about my system or specifics on what I'm doing feel free to ask.

I was going to try and run Final Cut Studio, but Final Cut Pro requires 128MB of VRAM. I also wanted to install Logic Pro Studio 9 and CS5.5 Master Collection, but I don't have either yet and don't know what amount of VRAM it requires. Everything else is perfect though including Ableton Suite.

Thank you for replying. I should have updated this post, but I ended up using my girlfriend's Macbook to create a pen. I just swapped out my Intel 3945ABG card with a Dell 1490 card and internet is running on both partitions. I've set it up to run both Snow Leopard and Windows 7. Everything seems to be working fine. I'm just trying to do some performance tweaks like rebranding the Broadcom card at this point. I'd like to get Linux (Ubuntu) installed inside of Windows 7 and also figure out a way to increase my VRAM from 64MB on Mac so I can use certain higher end programs. If either of those are possible please let me know. I've been doing research and haven't found anything on how to do the latter short of buying new hardware. Hope this makes sense, I'm up late doing work.

So, I'm completely new to trying to run OS X on a PC. I just started researching it a few weeks ago. From what I've read the only piece of hardware that doesn't seem to check out is the Broadcom WiFi card, but I think I have a solution for that. Here's the hardware that I know I have (off the top of my head): Dell Latitude D620 BIOS Revision A10 Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz T7200 4Gb RAM 80Gb HDD 5400RPM (Also have a 7200RPM 500GB Seagate HDD, but I want to be certain of what I'm doing first) Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family (From what I've read it has the GMA 950 as its core, correct me if I'm wrong) Here's the software that I've gathered: iboot (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) A 10.6 .dmg file (Rather useless I imagine) Snow Leopard Retail DVD D620SLV1.iso I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit right now, but can easily format it to 64-bit, Ubuntu 10.10, or OpenSUSE 11.4 as I have all of those readily available to me. Darwin/X86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon v2.0-RC3 r658 Build date: 2009-09-06 14:04:42 3318MB memory I've followed Leon's guide to the best of my knowledge. I can boot up the D620SLV cd (I get text in the top left corner that says, "Darwin/X86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon v2.0-RC3 r658 Build date: 2009-09-06 14:04:42 3318MB memory." I have taken the disk out and placed the Mac OS X Retail DVD in the disk drive. I wait for it to wind down and then I hit F5. It recognizes that there is a Mac OS X Retail DVD, but when I select the icon and hit enter it gives me a string of text in the top left corner saying "efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL trying stringdata." This is then quickly followed by a greyish background with a series of words and letters (I'm guessing computer data that I don't understand)and a sign in the foreground that says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart Button." Below this is the same text in 3 different languages. My apologies if I'm giving too much information, but I was curious if this has to do with my current BIOS settings (they are set to default), the fact I have Windows 7 currently on the machine (tried on a blank hard drive and had the same issues though), or something about my hardware/software? If you need more information or have any sort of suggestions for me, it would be greatly appreciated.