try -x (safe mode) with the boot CD. If that doesn't work, try -s (single user mode). that will get to to the unix command line where you could delete /Extra.

rm -R /Extra

Then reboot again with the boot CD and start over with the post install.

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>
<string>0x436311ab</string>
<key>IOPCISecondaryMatch</key>
<string>0xYYYYYYYY</string> <-------- HERE YYYYYYYY = SubSys ID of your Marvell Card (from Windows Control Panel)

Well I tried the UBCD4WIN and DriveImageXML method and ended up with the same result. Hal.dll error. I then looked at the boot.ini file and found it was pointing to Partition1, I changed it to Partition3. Got the same result. This is getting frustrating. I can not get this to work. I don't know if it is something to do with some security or something that is installed within the XP partition of my work computer. I really don't know what it is going to take. I am open to any suggestions. I am sorry to be such a nuisance to this thread.

I can tell you that the SL partition has worked on the computer flawlessly. Every time I have reinstalled (about 15 times at this point). I have not had a single problem with OSX on this computer, which is what has kept me going on this project. I just need to find a way to load the XP back onto the machine so that it is functional for work and the OSX would be nice for personal use.

I will keep searching and working and I will report back with what I find.

Used the boot cd to start the OS Installation. In Utilities there is a terminal where you can access the OS drive and delete the non-working .kexts.

For Marvell 80E8055 there is a better solution. I changed Info.plist of IONetworkingFamily.kext found in /Extra/Extensions:


Still looking for a solution concerning the mouse lags / cpu stuttering...

I was ready to build my own box, after much frustration trying to get multiple machines working, until I stumbled across this guide - happy to report that my D820 w/NVidia is working great on 10.6.1. Thanks!!

The hal.dll error is because your boot.ini file is not set right for your new partitioning.

In OS X, open terminal and run diskutil list. Then post the output here.

Also, post your boot.ini from the XP installation.

0 - GUID_partition_scheme - - *250GB - disk0

1 - EFI - - 209MB - disk0s1

2 - Apple_HFS - OSX - 55GB - disk0s2

3 - Microsoft Basic Data - WINXP - 55GB - disk0s3

4 - Microsoft Basic Data - DOCUMENTS - 140GB - disk0s4

Again, sorry to be a nuisance. Below is the output of the diskutil command in OSX and I have attached my boot.ini file. Thanks in advance. Please note, that once you help me with the boot.ini file I will repartition and reinstall both OSes to use 50GB each for each OS.

Okay, that should be correct.

How was the WINXP partition formatted?

Next, from OS X GUI, GO > Utilities > Disk Utility

Select the Windows XP partition. toward the bottom of the page it should say Format: Windows NT File System (NTFS)

I have noticed that if I use Ghost to restore an NTFS partition to a FAT partition, it just restores the files to the existing FAT partition. That's a problem. Before doing your restore, make sure the partition is formatted NTFS. This mean whatever you are using for the restore must be able to support and format a filesystem NTFS. Most WINPE disks I have seen can do this.

I haven't had this problem when installing WINXP after OS X because when I install, I let the install program format the existing target partition NTFS. But when I restore an image with ghost, I need to reformat FAT to NTFS with the WinPE command line before I start ghost.

OS X 10.6.0 (Snow Leopard) Retail Installation Procedure

Tested:

• Latitude D620/D820/D420 with GMA950 Graphics and Broadcom Wifi
• Latitude D620/D630 with NVIDIA Graphics and Broadcom Wifi

Will probably work on ANY D series Latitude with Intel GMA950 or Nvidia graphics and Intel dual core processor

Working Hardware Accelerated Vid (32-bit only for Intel Graphics)
Working Ethernet (32-bit only)
Working Wifi
Working Sound
Working Shutdown/Restart (D620 Only)
Working Dual Core Support (All) without patched kernels

rebuild_mkext - Easy to customize - add/remove kexts to /Extra/Extensions and then double click rebuild_mkext.command in /Extra to rebuild custom boot cache without impact to /s/l/e. (Do this carefully at your own risk!)
Allows rebuilding of /Extra/Extensions.mkext in 64 bit mode. (Experimental - Nvidia ONLY)


10.6.1 Update works with no issues


Table of Contents:

1. Requirements
2. Installation of OS X 10.6.1 Retail DVD
3. Notes
4. Bugs/Issues
5. Change log
6. Grandiose Plans
7. Begging for feedback (not money)


Requirements

Hardware:
* Dell D420/D620/D820 with Intel GMA950 or Nvidia Graphics with DVD read capability.
* Dell D630 (Nvidia Graphics ONLY) with DVD read capability.
* Similar hardware configurations may work, but are untested.


Software:
* OS X 10.6.0 Snow Leopard RETAIL install DVD. (Buy one - don't steal it)
* CD made from D620SLV1.iso


Installation of OS X 10.6.0 Retail DVD

1. Start computer with bootable CD made from D620SLV1.iso cd image. No flags required.
- When Chameleon boot menu appears, eject the boot CD
- Insert OS X 10.6.0 RETAIL DVD ONLY. Wait for DVD Machine to read DVD and hit F5. You may have to retry F5 a few times until the OS X Installation DVD spools up and gets read.
- Select OSX Install from the Chameleon menu once it appears.
2. Follow installation prompt:.
- Before installing, make sure to start the DISK UTILITY (from go>utilities) to create a GUID HD partition and install OS X on the new partition. IMPORTANT: In order for the automated Chameleon install to work during the post install, you must install on the FIRST partition of the FIRST drive. If you have a bunch of drives installed and don't know how to get this done, then I suggest you remove other drives during the installation and post install procedure.
- Suggestion: After partitioning, and at customize stage, de-select other language translations (other than default). This will save about 2GB disk space and make installation and every backup thereafter 2 GB faster.
Note: At installation completion, OS X may say that installation failed because it was unable to mount the disk and prompt to reboot. This is normal and OS X is installed. I suspect that this is because I never selected a boot partition, but I never bothered to prove it out.
3. To run OS X for the first time, Reinsert D620SLV1 boot CD and Reboot. Select your new installation partition from the Chameleon menu and boot.

10.6.0 Post Installation

You will want to boot from the hard drive and enable both cores. To do this, with the boot CD still in the drive after your first boot up, do the following:

1. Open the boot CD.
2. Double click on post_install.cmd.
3. Follow the simple prompts.
4. When the job completes, reboot.

If desired, download and install the 10.6.1 updates from software updates in OS X.

Notes

1. Dell D620 with GMA950 and Broadcom wireless should have hardware accelerated video, wifi, ethernet, sound, shutdown and reboot, and dual core support working after post install without modification to retail installation. However, the drivers used are only 32 bit compatible. Intel
2. 10.6.1 update presented no issues that needed to be address in my experience.
3. I haven't addressed the PCI card slot. I have it disabled (I never use it). I can add it if there's a demand and a fix I can implement in Chameleon.
4. Intel wifi cards are not supported by OS X. It's all dandy & stuff if you've got yours working, but it's still not supported and I'm not smarter than the guys trying to fix that issue. In fact, I'm barely smart enough to keep myself from drooling on my foot.


Bugs/Issues

1. If you set a system password in BIOS, your sleep may or may not work correctly. It is inconsistent at best here. There are various fixes available with all kinds of varying degrees of reported success, but I have opted not to apply any patches to the 'vanilla' installation itself for this project.
2. The kexts used for this installation are the same ones that resulted in minor video artifacts on my GMA950 machine on 10.5.x. However, I haven't seen any artifacts yet with Snow Leopard.
4. The display is never properly detected and reported, but it works @ 1440 x 900 with full hardware acceleration on my 1440x900 machines Please don't ask why you aren't getting resolutions your particular machine does not support.
5. If I plug the machine into a d/port with two monitors connected, it posts on one monitor and the OS X desktop loads on the other. Now that's almost as messed up as Barack Obama winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

Change log

Initial Snow Leopard Release

Plans

- Scripted builds for a wider selection of hardware supporting both Nvidia and Intel graphics versions of D series Latitudes. (And possibly other compatible hardware)
- Better video solutions for this craptastic GMA950 video chip.
- Scripted EFI partition support.


Feedback, please and Thanks

Thanks to the people at Voodoo Labs. Love your work, you are making things easier.

Voodoo Labs provides kexts that load without modification of the /s/l/e path, including kexts for running the vanilla SL kernel un-patched without skipping or jumping, sound, ps2 device and trackpad support and even a kext to get the battery meter working. They provide Chameleon, the boot loader, which not only allows us to boot Snow Leopard, but also auto-detects and sets up Nvidia graphics well enough to support hardware accelerated video with no additional kexts. I don't want to think of how difficult a project like this would be without their talented hard work.

And AlexD, thanks for the direction to the ethernet kext I was looking so hard for.

And thanks to everyone who has posted any attempt to provide useful information at www.insanelymac.com or even farted in my direction. You've all contributed to the chaos which is part of the cosmic soup that nurtures and feeds inspiration. And if that's not a sign that I have rambled on too long now, nothing ever will be.

- leppy


10.6.0 Boot CD for Snow Leopard Retail Install here: D620SLV1.iso

I had thought of that myself. However, I have tried reformatting to NTFS in WINXP. What I did is I built the GUID Partition table and installed OSX to the first partition. Then I pulled the hd out and put it in an adapter so that I could see the hd through my working WINXP install. Then I format the WINXP partition to NTFS and then copy the drive from the working hd to the dual-boot hd. I will try by formatting to NTFS in OSX. I didn't realize that was an option since I did not see it when creating the partitions. I will try and report back.

So, the boot.ini file was correct for what I am trying to do with the updated partition number?

Well I went back and looked in OSX. And saw NO option to format a partition as NTFS. I will have to look further.

Leppy,

I have a D630 with the nVidia card and would like to get Snow Leopard installed. Your guide looks great but, I cannot download the D620SLV1.iso. When I click on it, it takes me to MediaShare but I then get an error. Is there some other place I can download it from? Thanks -

OS X 10.5.6 Retail Installation Procedure for
Latitude D620 with GMA950 graphics and Broadcom Wifi

**** Shameless AD Begin

Working Vid
Working Ethernet
Working Wifi
Working Sound
Working Shutdown/Restart
Working Dual Core Support

10.5.7 Update works
10.5.8 Update works with wifi caveat - see notes.

No fuss, no muss, no cuss, most stuff just works.
No fooling with boot parameters, no fooling with kexts - that's all done.

**** Shameless AD End


Table of Contents:

1. Requirements
2. Installation of OS X 10.5.6 Retail DVD
3. 10.5.6 Post installation
4. 10.5.7 update (recommended)
5. 10.5.8 update (see notes below)
6. Notes
7. Bugs/Issues
8. Change log
9. Grandiose Plans
10. Begging for feedback (not money)
11. Link to boot CD image

Requirements

Hardware:
* Dell D620 with Intel GMA950 Graphics with DVD read capability.

Software:
* OS X 10.5.6 RETAIL install DVD. (Buy one - don't steal it)
* CD made from BOOT-132-D620v2.iso


Installation of OS X 10.5.6 Retail DVD

1. Start computer with bootable CD made from BOOT-132-D620.iso cd image. No flags required.
- At F8 prompt, press F8.
- At the next prompt (displays "BOOT-132-D620v2.iso), hit escape.
- Insert OS X 10.5.6 RETAIL DVD ONLY. Wait for DVD Machine to read DVD and hit ENTER. You may have to retry F8 then Esc a few times until the OS X Installation DVD spools up and gets read.
2. Follow installation prompts to create a GUID HD partition and install OS X on the new partition. **** Suggestion **** At customize stage, de-select other language translations (other than default) and only select the printer drivers you will use. This will save about 2GB disk space and make installation and every backup thereafter 2 GB faster. *** At installation completion, OS X will say that installation failed because it was unable to mount the disk and prompt to reboot. This is normal and OS X is installed. I suspect that this is because I never selected a boot partition, but I never bothered to prove it out.
3. To run OS X for the first time, Reinsert BOOT-132-D620v2 boot CD and Reboot. Press F8 at the F8 prompt, then hit Escape and enter 80 (or the HD number you installed on).

10.5.6 post installation

You will want to boot from the hard drive and enable both cores. To do this, with the boot CD still in the drive after boot up, do the following:

1. Open the post_install folder on the boot CD.
2. Install the Chameleon-2.0-RC2-r640.pkg using all of the defaults. This is the easiest way.
3. Open terminal and copy and paste the following command, hit enter and provide your system password when prompted:

sudo sh /Volumes/BOOT-132-D620v2/post_install/Extra/56/post_install_1056

4. When the job completes, reboot.


10.5.7 update (recommended)

1. Open terminal and copy and paste this command, hit enter and provide your system password when prompted:

sudo sh /Extra/57/1057_update

2. Download and install 10.5.7 delta or 10.5.7 combo update (10.5.7 update only)
3. When the when 10.5.7 completes, reboot


Prior to 10.5.8 update (see notes below)

1. Open terminal and copy and paste this command, hit enter and provide your system password when prompted:

sudo sh /Extra/58/1058_update

2. Download and install 10.5.8 delta or 10.5.8 combo update
3. When the 10.5.8 update completes, reboot

Notes

1. Dell D620 with GMA950 and Broadcom wireless should have hardware accelerated video, wifi, ethernet, sound, shutdown and reboot, and dual core support working after 10.5.6 post install without modification to retail installation.
2. After 10.5.7 update is complete, everything should be working (with dual core support) just as they were in 10.5.6. The 10.5.7 update is recommended.
3. After applying 10.5.8 update, Broadcom wifi (Airport) may be broken. I've added a fix to update scripts, but they may or may not work for you. I've included the 2 kexts from 10.5.7 to replace those from the 10.5.8 update that are supposed to be the root of Evil Airport Update. If anyone needs to apply them, they are in the /extra/58 directory.
4. 10.5.7 and 10.5.8 share a GMA950 video update that breaks a 10.5.6 installation. If you apply the pre-patch for 10.5.7 without successfully applying the 10.5.7 update your video will be severely broken, and vice-versa. *** FIX: By booting into single user mode (boot flag -s at the Chameleon startup menu) you can restart the environment updates from the beginning starting with /Extra/56/post_install_1056, then /Extra/57/1057_update for 10.5.7 and so on. If the directions are followed and the environments are set up correctly, each update should go smoothly. This is basically because the Intel GMA950 hardware is crap and no one seems to know how to implement it in a correct and consistent manner without artifacts. Please don't send me another EFI string generated by OSX86 tools. Been there, done that and the t-shirt makes me look like a dork.
5. Instead of placing a bunch of kexts that do not seem to want to load correctly in the /Extra/Extensions folder, I built them into extensions.mkext files - one for each distribution. I've found this to be far more reliable way to get Chameleon to load appropriate kexts.
6. I haven't addressed the PCI card slot. I have it disabled (I never use it). I can add it if there's a demand and a fix I can implement in Chameleon.
7. Intel wifi cards are not supported by OS X. It's all dandy & stuff if you've got yours working, but it's still not supported and I'm not smarter than the guys trying to fix that issue. In fact, I'm barely smart enough to keep myself from drooling on my foot.


Bugs/Issues

1. If you set a system password in BIOS, your sleep may or may not work correctly. It is inconsistent at best here. There are various fixes available with all kinds of varying degrees of reported success, but I have opted not to apply any patches to the 'vanilla' installation itself for this project.
2. This installation results in minor video artifacting on my GMA950 machine. I'd like to fix it, but doing so may require a fix beyond the scope of Chameleon and EFI, and such a fix will be outside the scope of this project. Anyone with a fix I can load with from Chameleon is my new bestest friend in the whole wide world.
3. 10.5.8 airport? God knows what damage Apple's done here. There are threads all over the net on this topic. I **think** I've implemented a fix, but since this issue seems to vary from card to card, you'll have to check your own mileage.
4. The display is never properly detected and reported, but it works @ 1440 x 900 with full hardware acceleration.
5. If I plug the machine into a d/port with two monitors connected, it posts on one monitor and the OS X desktop loads on the other. Now that's almost as messed up as a politician blowing elephants on main street for a vote a herd.

Change log

v1 Original iso with more bugs than a 3 week dead beached whale in August.
v2 Dropped applehda patching. I hate slimy looking green critters.
v2 Started using voodoohda. This enables sound from the outset without adding or modifying anything in the system path. No green critters.
v2 Dropped former ps2 drivers. My cursor used to jump like a detoxing rock star, even with cpus=1 parameter.
v2 Implemented voodoops2 drivers. Provides smoother mouse operation and possibly allows for more control features to be added.
v2 Fixed kernel inconsistencies resulting in numerous malfunctions, including USB in 10.5.7 and 10.5.8. Oops, did I do that?
v2 Added Dual Core support for 10.5.7. and 10.5.8 updates.
v2 Attempted to fix Broadcom wifi issue in 10.5.8. Your mileage may vary.
v2 Sorted out video drivers compatible with each version, albeit with some artifacting.
v2 Got rid of the green lizard to make room for the Dell button. More green and for some reason, every time I booted I wanted to buy insurance.
v2 Added this somewhat long winded document.

Grandiose Plans

- Scripted builds for /Extra/Extensions.mkext based on a wider selection of hardware supporting both Nvidia and Intel graphics versions of D series Latitudes.
- Dual Core support for new kernels revisions as stable kernel patches become available.
- Better video solutions for this craptastic GMA950 video chip.
- Scripted EFI partition support.

Feedback, please

I have spent countless hours trying to get my D630 and D620 machines to boot various OS X distributions. None started simply and reliably. Out of that frustration I decided to roll my own. This method boots installation every time and the installations have been consistent, fast and reliable. Of course It'll probably work like crap on other hardware. I hope that others can benefit from the frustrations I've experienced in the process of learning and assembling this ISO distribution. Using this method, I can start from scratch and have a working system in a half hour. Updates are a few minutes each. Easy, breezy, almost sleezy simple.
Contributions, comments and test results from using this assembly are welcome.


Thanks

Thanks to the people at Voodoo Labs. Love your work, you are making things easier. And thanks to everyone who has posted any lame brained attempt to provide useful information at www.insanelymac.com or even farted in my direction. You've all contributed to the chaos which is part of the cosmic soup that nurtures and feeds inspiration. And if that's not a sign that I have rambled on too long now, nothing ever will be.

- leppy700m

Here's my boot cd image:

BOOT-132-D620v2.ISO

Update: D620 Nvidia replaced with Post Installer D620 D820


Update: 10.6.0 Boot CD for Snow Leopard Retail Install here: D620SLV1.iso

Yes, the boot.ini file is correct. i don't think you can make an NTFS partition in OS X.

You have to do that from XP - either as you were with an external enclosure or via the command line from a Win PE CD. Once you have that partition reformatted as NTFS, you should be able to do a ghost restore. Make sure you are not trying to ghost image the same partition you are actively using as your OS.

That link seems to be working now. Mediafire is a nice resource for free, but it's not perfect.

Maybe I'm missing something then. I click on the link and it takes me to the MediaFire homepage and has a popup that says 'loading files'. But, it then it just reverts back to the homepage. I tried creating an account but, that didn't help either. Any ideas? Thanks -

I get the same thing. Can someone please reupload?

D620SLV1.iso


I don't have another place other than Mediafire, which seems to be a little flakey today. As of 1 minute ago, the links have been working for me even while logged out.

OS X 10.5.6 Retail Installation Procedure for
Latitude D620 with GMA950 graphics and Broadcom Wifi

**** Shameless AD Begin

Working Vid
Working Ethernet
Working Wifi
Working Sound
Working Shutdown/Restart
Working Dual Core Support

10.5.7 Update works
10.5.8 Update works with wifi caveat - see notes.

No fuss, no muss, no cuss, most stuff just works.
No fooling with boot parameters, no fooling with kexts - that's all done.

**** Shameless AD End


Table of Contents:

1. Requirements
2. Installation of OS X 10.5.6 Retail DVD
3. 10.5.6 Post installation
4. 10.5.7 update (recommended)
5. 10.5.8 update (see notes below)
6. Notes
7. Bugs/Issues
8. Change log
9. Grandiose Plans
10. Begging for feedback (not money)
11. Link to boot CD image

Requirements

Hardware:
* Dell D620 with Intel GMA950 Graphics with DVD read capability.

Software:
* OS X 10.5.6 RETAIL install DVD. (Buy one - don't steal it)
* CD made from BOOT-132-D620v2.iso


Installation of OS X 10.5.6 Retail DVD

1. Start computer with bootable CD made from BOOT-132-D620.iso cd image. No flags required.
- At F8 prompt, press F8.
- At the next prompt (displays "BOOT-132-D620v2.iso), hit escape.
- Insert OS X 10.5.6 RETAIL DVD ONLY. Wait for DVD Machine to read DVD and hit ENTER. You may have to retry F8 then Esc a few times until the OS X Installation DVD spools up and gets read.
2. Follow installation prompts to create a GUID HD partition and install OS X on the new partition. **** Suggestion **** At customize stage, de-select other language translations (other than default) and only select the printer drivers you will use. This will save about 2GB disk space and make installation and every backup thereafter 2 GB faster. *** At installation completion, OS X will say that installation failed because it was unable to mount the disk and prompt to reboot. This is normal and OS X is installed. I suspect that this is because I never selected a boot partition, but I never bothered to prove it out.
3. To run OS X for the first time, Reinsert BOOT-132-D620v2 boot CD and Reboot. Press F8 at the F8 prompt, then hit Escape and enter 80 (or the HD number you installed on).

10.5.6 post installation

You will want to boot from the hard drive and enable both cores. To do this, with the boot CD still in the drive after boot up, do the following:

1. Open the post_install folder on the boot CD.
2. Install the Chameleon-2.0-RC2-r640.pkg using all of the defaults. This is the easiest way.
3. Open terminal and copy and paste the following command, hit enter and provide your system password when prompted:

sudo sh /Volumes/BOOT-132-D620v2/post_install/Extra/56/post_install_1056

4. When the job completes, reboot.


10.5.7 update (recommended)

1. Open terminal and copy and paste this command, hit enter and provide your system password when prompted:

sudo sh /Extra/57/1057_update

2. Download and install 10.5.7 delta or 10.5.7 combo update (10.5.7 update only)
3. When the when 10.5.7 completes, reboot


Prior to 10.5.8 update (see notes below)

1. Open terminal and copy and paste this command, hit enter and provide your system password when prompted:

sudo sh /Extra/58/1058_update

2. Download and install 10.5.8 delta or 10.5.8 combo update
3. When the 10.5.8 update completes, reboot

Notes

1. Dell D620 with GMA950 and Broadcom wireless should have hardware accelerated video, wifi, ethernet, sound, shutdown and reboot, and dual core support working after 10.5.6 post install without modification to retail installation.
2. After 10.5.7 update is complete, everything should be working (with dual core support) just as they were in 10.5.6. The 10.5.7 update is recommended.
3. After applying 10.5.8 update, Broadcom wifi (Airport) may be broken. I've added a fix to update scripts, but they may or may not work for you. I've included the 2 kexts from 10.5.7 to replace those from the 10.5.8 update that are supposed to be the root of Evil Airport Update. If anyone needs to apply them, they are in the /extra/58 directory.
4. 10.5.7 and 10.5.8 share a GMA950 video update that breaks a 10.5.6 installation. If you apply the pre-patch for 10.5.7 without successfully applying the 10.5.7 update your video will be severely broken, and vice-versa. *** FIX: By booting into single user mode (boot flag -s at the Chameleon startup menu) you can restart the environment updates from the beginning starting with /Extra/56/post_install_1056, then /Extra/57/1057_update for 10.5.7 and so on. If the directions are followed and the environments are set up correctly, each update should go smoothly. This is basically because the Intel GMA950 hardware is crap and no one seems to know how to implement it in a correct and consistent manner without artifacts. Please don't send me another EFI string generated by OSX86 tools. Been there, done that and the t-shirt makes me look like a dork.
5. Instead of placing a bunch of kexts that do not seem to want to load correctly in the /Extra/Extensions folder, I built them into extensions.mkext files - one for each distribution. I've found this to be far more reliable way to get Chameleon to load appropriate kexts.
6. I haven't addressed the PCI card slot. I have it disabled (I never use it). I can add it if there's a demand and a fix I can implement in Chameleon.
7. Intel wifi cards are not supported by OS X. It's all dandy & stuff if you've got yours working, but it's still not supported and I'm not smarter than the guys trying to fix that issue. In fact, I'm barely smart enough to keep myself from drooling on my foot.


Bugs/Issues

1. If you set a system password in BIOS, your sleep may or may not work correctly. It is inconsistent at best here. There are various fixes available with all kinds of varying degrees of reported success, but I have opted not to apply any patches to the 'vanilla' installation itself for this project.
2. This installation results in minor video artifacting on my GMA950 machine. I'd like to fix it, but doing so may require a fix beyond the scope of Chameleon and EFI, and such a fix will be outside the scope of this project. Anyone with a fix I can load with from Chameleon is my new bestest friend in the whole wide world.
3. 10.5.8 airport? God knows what damage Apple's done here. There are threads all over the net on this topic. I **think** I've implemented a fix, but since this issue seems to vary from card to card, you'll have to check your own mileage.
4. The display is never properly detected and reported, but it works @ 1440 x 900 with full hardware acceleration.
5. If I plug the machine into a d/port with two monitors connected, it posts on one monitor and the OS X desktop loads on the other. Now that's almost as messed up as a politician blowing elephants on main street for a vote a herd.

Change log

v1 Original iso with more bugs than a 3 week dead beached whale in August.
v2 Dropped applehda patching. I hate slimy looking green critters.
v2 Started using voodoohda. This enables sound from the outset without adding or modifying anything in the system path. No green critters.
v2 Dropped former ps2 drivers. My cursor used to jump like a detoxing rock star, even with cpus=1 parameter.
v2 Implemented voodoops2 drivers. Provides smoother mouse operation and possibly allows for more control features to be added.
v2 Fixed kernel inconsistencies resulting in numerous malfunctions, including USB in 10.5.7 and 10.5.8. Oops, did I do that?
v2 Added Dual Core support for 10.5.7. and 10.5.8 updates.
v2 Attempted to fix Broadcom wifi issue in 10.5.8. Your mileage may vary.
v2 Sorted out video drivers compatible with each version, albeit with some artifacting.
v2 Got rid of the green lizard to make room for the Dell button. More green and for some reason, every time I booted I wanted to buy insurance.
v2 Added this somewhat long winded document.

Grandiose Plans

- Scripted builds for /Extra/Extensions.mkext based on a wider selection of hardware supporting both Nvidia and Intel graphics versions of D series Latitudes.
- Dual Core support for new kernels revisions as stable kernel patches become available.
- Better video solutions for this craptastic GMA950 video chip.
- Scripted EFI partition support.

Feedback, please

I have spent countless hours trying to get my D630 and D620 machines to boot various OS X distributions. None started simply and reliably. Out of that frustration I decided to roll my own. This method boots installation every time and the installations have been consistent, fast and reliable. Of course It'll probably work like crap on other hardware. I hope that others can benefit from the frustrations I've experienced in the process of learning and assembling this ISO distribution. Using this method, I can start from scratch and have a working system in a half hour. Updates are a few minutes each. Easy, breezy, almost sleezy simple.
Contributions, comments and test results from using this assembly are welcome.


Thanks

Thanks to the people at Voodoo Labs. Love your work, you are making things easier. And thanks to everyone who has posted any lame brained attempt to provide useful information at www.insanelymac.com or even farted in my direction. You've all contributed to the chaos which is part of the cosmic soup that nurtures and feeds inspiration. And if that's not a sign that I have rambled on too long now, nothing ever will be.

- leppy700m

Here's my boot cd image:

BOOT-132-D620v2.ISO

Update: D620 Nvidia replaced with Post Installer D620 D820


Update: 10.6.0 Boot CD for Snow Leopard Retail Install here: D620SLV1.iso

Guys, please try avoiding quotation of unnecessary stuff like the installation guide again and again, since it overloads the thread and makes it difficult to read, especially on mobile devices. Thanks!

OK i Fixed the previous problem using -V CPUS=1 at the install. Now a new problem. It boots up fine, after the apple screen i see the blue desktop. Then it goes black and it starts playing the bootup music. And the screen stays black. What can i do? Sound like a video driver issue? How do i solve this?

Sorry About the quotes.

I am installing it on a Dell Latitude D620 with a Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Display Adapter.

No, how do you do that? and what do i do when i get into SL?

Hi jb77,
Can you tell me how you made them work? I decided to go back to XP due to some incompatibility in W7, but I couldn't make SL and W7 shown as selectable OS's. Thanks.

Still no luck with the Ghost imaging. I even tried loading the UBCD4WIN CD and using DriveImageXML to get an image of the drive while it was not actively running the OS. I then restored that image to my other hd. The sizes are the same and the new partition was formatted as NTFS. So, for now I will continue to try to solve the Hal.dll issue. But I will have to swap hd's when wanting or needing to use the respective OSes. Not ideal, but it will work for now.

Thanks for all of the help and I will try to do more work on this and provide feedback. Thanks again. If anyone else has anything more to try please let me know.

If i installed SL with the Bios setting "COMPATIBILITY MODE", is it possible to change it after installation complete in "AHCI MODE" by changing the AppleIntelPIIXATA kext ??
Thank you

I'm still w/ mouse lags and/or cpu stuttering. Tried w/ and wo/ "cpus=1", w/ and wo/ VoodooTSCsync.kext, w/ and wo/ dsdt.aml (compiled w/ and wo/ -newHPET) and almost all combinations of that stuff and it's always the same: slight mouse lags dependent on the cpu load.

So, what about the other .kexts in /Extra/Extensions, any suspicious of causing the mouse lags (maybe Natit.kext which I need for my GMA950)?

Any solution to get PCMCIA and memory card reader work?

first off great guide, just installed sl on my d620 and it looks pretty smooth. so far the only things not working are sleep (with and without a system password in bios) and the audio isn't 100%. voodoohda works pretty well when i'm just using the laptop (clean sound, autoswitching for headphones and muting internal speakers), but when i plug into my docking station the audio doesn't get passed through to the audio output on the dock. sys prefs only shows one output device so i can't switch to digital output like i did in 10.5 (using sonotone's patched applehda.kext for sigmatel9200). has anyone had this issue and come up with a solution? i know its kind of picky but i can't be the only one using a docking station. when i get home tonight i'll play with it more and maybe replace voodoohda with sonotone's appleHDA to /extra/extensions and see if that helps.

as for sleep, i'm not convinced its ever getting to a sleep state. my bluetooth light stays on and the power light doesnt start blinking. the screen just goes black and the machine becomes unresponsive

overall pretty solid though. thanks leppy!

Your SL/950 package also works on a HP DV2405TU (aka Pavilion dv2000). You will need the 10.5 kext for the intel PRO ethernet and the VoodooPower.kext for speedstep added to extras, but other than that all good. No sleep, but that's no surprise. I deleted the Natit kext, are you sure it's necessary? My 950 works fine without it.

Spec: Yonah T2130 / 945GM / 950 GPU / Connexant Audio / Broadcom wifi / Intel VE PRO ethernet.

Going to chuck Snow Kitty on my D620 tomorrow...

Any further help and details you could provide with this would be msot appreciated. I still can not get this done using either a ghost image or a drive copy from Norton Ghost 14.

When I set up the hard drive and partition it using OSX, I set it up as a 3 partition drive. The first is 50GB and is MacOS Journaled (for my OSX), the second is 50GB and is FAT (for my WINXP), the final is 150GB and is FAT (for my data). But when OSX is done I actually end up with 5 partitions. The first is 200MB and I am guessing has something to do with booting or Chameleon or something. The second is 46.67GB for OSX. The third is actually 129MB of unallocated space. The fourth is 46.67GB for WINXP. The fifth and final is about 139GB for my data.

The WINXP drive I am trying to copy is 48.88GB, so I do not know if that is my problem. Whether I copy or restore I can not change the size of the image to match the partition made by OSX. Again, any help with this would be most appreciated.

No matter what I do I keep getting a hal.dll error. In OSX, WINXP is partition 3, but in WIndows, I believe it is tecnically partition 4. Although I just thought about this again. In WINXP the boot.ini file is set to rdisk0. But when setting the active partition using terminal I have to work with disk1 I believe. I am going to transfer hard drives one more time and see if I can change the drive number and partition number and see if this thing will work.

Wish me luck. But again, any help that anyone can help me with would be most appreciated. Thank you.

Nevermind. I just went back and looked and OSX does see it as disk0. Any ideas would be most appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks LatinMcGuyver. I tried changing the boot.ini file when I had XP on the 3rd partition and it would not work either.

I downloaded GParted Live and created a 4 partition HD. But they were all created as Primary Partitions. Is that correct?

Part 1 --> 52.5GB NTFS for WINXP

Part 2 --> 200MB FAT32 for EFI

Part 3 --> 52.5GB FAT32 for OSX (this will be reformatted as MAC OSX Journaled later)

Part 4 --> 130GB FAT32 for MY DATA

Is this correct? Like I said, they are all Primary Partitions. Should one or more of them be extended or logical? Thanks.

You can skip the EFI partition, since you won't be using GUID anyway. If you do skip it, then MACOS is still on the 2nd partition, and the default Chameleon install just might work later on.

You can also set up your partitions initially with a WINXP install CD and format the NT partition NTFS. Then restore your XP backup and get it working. You can reformat the MACOS partition (the 2nd partition) from the OS X uniltiy > disk utility menu from the install DVD. I don't think you can install OS X on a non-GUID partition table, but - you should be able to restore it to a MACOS Extended Journaled partition.

Gotcha Leppy. I will make that change and proceed. I will let you know how it turns out.




One last question. If I use the chain0.exe method to have the XP bootloader recognize the OSX partition, do I need the Chameleon install? I would rather use the XP bootloader when all is said and done.

Leppy you are a gentleman and a scholar. I have access to only a Latitude D820 and D620 and I have been trying since the first beta started appearing to get SL onto either one of my laptops. With your SL boot CD I was finally able to get it done (I am writing this on my SL install on the D620)!

Great job and thanks for the guide and all of your work on this project, another happy customer!

Anthony

EUREKA!!!!!!
Leppy, you are a fugging genius. I am typing this now from a working XP partition.

And I am typing this from a working SL partition. XP bootloader is working. The only thing that is bugging me and it is not even a big deal when booting into OSX, I still get the Chameleon bootloader. Anyway to remove that and just leave the XP bootloader to handle it all.

Either way it is working and I will move forward with testing sleeping stuff and other bits. Leppy you are a genius and a saint. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

For anyone else interested, I followed Leppy's instructions he posted above.

you really WANT to see chameleon. That gives you an opportunity to enter boot flags to save your bacon sometimes. Hey, I am glad you got it worked out so that it works.

Gotcha. I can live with it then. Thanks for the help. I really appreciate all of the guidance and the patience.

I like a good puzzle sometimes. I am still not sure why the first method doesn't work - but oh well. Thanks for not giving up and being willing to go with plan B. It's useful info for later.

Wish I could return the favor for you, but I can't.

Where you the one who posted about AppleCPUThermal.kext that you used to get sleep working? Can you please post that kext, because I can not find it anywhere. Thanks.

Well I tried sleepenabler.kext as well. I was able to click the apple and put the computer to sleep and was able to wake it up. The sound was pretty messed up when it did wake up though.

I did also adjust the Energy Saver settings to let the computer put itself to sleep. I came and found it asleep and clicked the power button to wake it. It sounded like it woke, but the screen stayed black and showed nothing. I would try the other method posted above, but am lacking one of the kext files needed. I can not find the AppleACPIThermal.kext file. If someone could upload it, I would love to try it and report back. Thanks.

Core Duo, i have installed the 10.6.0 and the CPU was showen up as one CPU two Cores with each 2 Ghz. Than i made the Software Updated to 10.6.1 now i have one CPU with two Cores each 1 Ghz, hmmmmm can anybody help? Laptop is a D620, everything else works great!!!

Pls help