[Guide & Boot CD] D-Series Latitude/w NVIDIA or GMA950 and Intel Dual Core Retail Installs

[consolation]

Great.. I found out how to get my Airport working. Actually there was not problem at all - except the one that I had my broadcom wifi card in wrong mini-pci port. There are two ports inside my d620 - one with title "wwan" on it and another with "wlan". And broadcom wifi card don't work in "wwan" port. So, everything is ok with Airport now. Now I will try to update to 10.6.2. Wish me luck.

 

That's weird, I switch my cards around regularly, and have never had a problem with using the wwan port - I usually run dual wifi cards. Maybe you disabled it in bios?

 

Nope, integrated video on these is all 64 MB. Supposedly, you are able to add to that by shifting a portion of system memory to that for a total of up to 256 mb, depending on how much system memory you have. I never saw that option in the system setup or with any of the dell drivers. Edit: it just does it automatically, based on the amount of RAM you have. I have 2 GB, and I just checked and Windows reports 256 mb. So - maybe an EFI string for a 256 MB configuration would work.

AFAIK, we'd need nVidia to modify the kexts used to make this work. You could get the EFI string to show 256 or 512 or 1GB but that'd be a cosmetic change entirely. You could get it to show nVidia GTX295++++, but it'd be just as effective.

Even in BSD or nix, I get 64MB with open-source driver. I can only get 256MB if I use nVidia's proprietary driver. To be honest, I do not know if adding the ability to address system ram would be of any benefit. The VRAM runs on an anorexic 64bit bus (I think about 5GB/s bandwidth) and the card is feeble beyond belief - it only out competes Intel 950/900 and ATI X200 etc... It's just too puny to be able to process more than 64MB of textures at any sensible frame rate - about an ATI9600pro in performance, like we used to get on old PowerBooks c.2003 All in all, 64MB is fine for that GPU, IMHO...

[leppy700m]

That's weird, I switch my cards around regularly, and have never had a problem with using the wwan port - I usually run dual wifi cards. Maybe you disabled it in bios?

 

 

AFAIK, we'd need nVidia to modify the kexts used to make this work. You could get the EFI string to show 256 or 512 or 1GB but that'd be a cosmetic change entirely. You could get it to show nVidia GTX295++++, but it'd be just as effective.

Even in BSD or nix, I get 64MB with open-source driver. I can only get 256MB if I use nVidia's proprietary driver. To be honest, I do not know if adding the ability to address system ram would be of any benefit. The VRAM runs on an anorexic 64bit bus (I think about 5GB/s bandwidth) and the card is feeble beyond belief - it only out competes Intel 950/900 and ATI X200 etc... It's just too puny to be able to process more than 64MB of textures at any sensible frame rate - about an ATI9600pro in performance, like we used to get on old PowerBooks c.2003 All in all, 64MB is fine for that GPU, IMHO...

Well, that bears out my testing. I converted the hex to xml, added a vram string and it made no difference when I built the new hex string. Oh well - now I know.

 

I also use the wwan slot. Works fine for me.

[Mikkp]

Really?

When i installed Snow then the default drivers showed 128mb's.

Strange, but oh well my System is running well right now on 10.6.0

But the color problem is still there but i can live with the other Display Profile, its as best as it can be right now.

 

 

Mikk

[leppy700m]

Really?

When i installed Snow then the default drivers showed 128mb's.

Strange, but oh well my System is running well right now on 10.6.0

But the color problem is still there but i can live with the other Display Profile, its as best as it can be right now.

 

 

Mikk

What's reported and what's actually there are often two different things. All the D620s were equipped with 64mb integrated vram, according to Dell.

 

I don't know exactly what's going on with your display, but I think you may have the beginning of a hardware issue.

[creed205]

Hey Leppy!

 

Thanks a TON for all the work you did here. I know you are humble about it and some of us may have been able to figure it out, but going the extra step and sharing it is commendable. Thanks for taking the time for us.

 

The installation of 10.6 and the upgrade to 10.6.2 went flawlessly. I have a D620 with the Intel video chipset. Like you mentioned in your post, the graphics anomalies that we saw in 10.5.x are gone. The system is also a lot more responsive. It had been some time since installing my 10.5 but this is much smoother than those initial installs were.

 

It may have been mentioned but I didn't see it. I have dual monitor working with the internal screen and a screen connected to the VGA port on the back. That might be valuable information for some. No customization was required.

 

Thanks again.

[Mikkp]

What's reported and what's actually there are often two different things. All the D620s were equipped with 64mb integrated vram, according to Dell.

 

I don't know exactly what's going on with your display, but I think you may have the beginning of a hardware issue.

 

Im not quite sure if thats true since on Leopard everything is okay. The default Profile is exactly what it should be.

 

Mikk

[noisey]

Did you fix the error in .64plist before running rebuild_mkext in 64 bit mode?

I did.

 

All of those kexts work fine for me in 64 bit mode in /E/E except the ethernet kext, unitl I get to 10.6.2, and then I get graphics related KPs. The dicey NVS110/7300 graphics support in 10.6.2 also cause the dvd player to error in 32 bit mode.

I can't explain this, man. I seriously have no idea. I had actually typed this whole response earlier and thought I had posted but apparently not. Maybe it's a difference of our motherboards between the 620 and 820. If you want to compare Dell p/n's from your system configuration, we can do that. Don't know. Grasping at straws.

 

Also, re the DVD player: be glad the thing just crashes for you. In 64-bit 10.6.2 on my machine, the thing hangs the machine completely. Not even polite enough for the error I had in 32-bit mode, and definitely not nice enough for a KP. Already got VLC handled to bring up DVDs just to make sure I don't go and bust my machine randomly when trying to pacify the kid.

 

Nope, integrated video on these is all 64 MB. Supposedly, you are able to add to that by shifting a portion of system memory to that for a total of up to 256 mb, depending on how much system memory ...

 

I'd forgotten about that shared memory bit. My bad.

[gosswald]

I thought I add this to the thread. I am new this forum.

 

I did the install mentioned at the beginning of this thread on a D820. I misunderstood the second Post Install D620 and D820 and did not do it the first time thus my nvidea card was not working.

 

My second attempt included them and now the video card works well. It works with both monitors and supports up to 1920 X 1080 on my 24" monitor.

 

I would like to say thank you to Leppy700m for the excellent job done on the install files.

 

My install disc was retail 10.5.1 I had already downloaded the 10.5.6 combo and updated it before doing the post installs.

 

I am staying with the Leopard because I can not run Snow Leopard on my Dual G5 tower and I am not ready to replace it yet.

 

The only thing I noticed is the firewire seems to be buggy. I am not sure if this the external firewire drive I have or the D820 firewire. I have a dual G5 mac pro and this drive is sometimes buggy on it. I have not tried it with a firewire video camera or anything else yet.

 

The D820 firewire does not identify drives in Windows either so it may just be the hardware. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/style_ima...icons/icon9.gif

 

I was able to load Final Cut Studio on this computer and so far Motion seems to accept the graphics card and work OK. Again I am going to further test Final Cut with Firewire to see if it will load video.

 

All in all thought this seems to be a very stable computer.

 

If anyone is interested I set up a dual boot using Leppy700m's system using the procedure below:

 

The dual boot scheme was done by changing the Bios on the computer to boot off the USB before it boots from the internal hard drive. Just go into bios and move the USB up on the list and put one of the OS drives on the USB. I have an Apricorn clone package that cost about $35.00 that includes a SATA to USB enclosure. I have several SATA drives I picked up on ebay for practically nothing to test this.

 

One thing to note I use an externally powered drive. I am not sure if the USB bus is powered in time to spin up a drive if you run off the USB power. So it may skip over the drive if it is not already powered.

 

The computer will then boot the mac software off the external disc and XP off the internal disc or vise versa.

 

I did not see any noticeable performance difference booting of USB.

 

I did order a second internal hard drive tray for the D820 and I am going to try that when it comes. I think the Bios will pick up the internal drive tray the same as if it was the CD and try what is there first. So if you put the windows drive there I think the mod to the boot.ini will allow you to get to the OSX. Or you could do something to Chamelion? I am not good with Linux so I am not sure.

 

There are also external USB cases available to put your DVD burner.

 

Personally I like the idea of separate hard drives for each system because you can quickly clone either one for backups in their native OS. I also had an extensive windows build and did not want to do it again. I also could not figure out any way to integrate Windows other than doing a Post build.

 

Thanks again to Leppy700m for the excellent install builds. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/style_ima...icons/icon1.gif

[leppy700m]

I'd forgotten about that shared memory bit. My bad.

Ah, D820 has much more vram than the D620.

 

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...s.htm#wp1057468

 

Thanks again to Leppy700m for the excellent install builds.

 

Thank for the feedback, gosswald. It's good to know someone can confirm that the install works as far back as 10.5.1. FYI, the post install can be run at almost any time.

[leppy700m]

Hey Leppy!

 

Thanks a TON for all the work you did here. I know you are humble about it and some of us may have been able to figure it out, but going the extra step and sharing it is commendable. Thanks for taking the time for us.

 

The installation of 10.6 and the upgrade to 10.6.2 went flawlessly. I have a D620 with the Intel video chipset. Like you mentioned in your post, the graphics anomalies that we saw in 10.5.x are gone. The system is also a lot more responsive. It had been some time since installing my 10.5 but this is much smoother than those initial installs were.

 

It may have been mentioned but I didn't see it. I have dual monitor working with the internal screen and a screen connected to the VGA port on the back. That might be valuable information for some. No customization was required.

 

Thanks again.

 

Thanks, creed. Again, I appreciate the feedback, and yes, that's definitely good to know about the dual monitors.

 

The hard stuff is done by guys who are a lot more advanced than I am. The guys at Voodoo Labs do amazing stuff. You know you're a geek when a kext like VoodooTSCsync comes out and you start calling everyone you know and they have no idea why you're so excited. That's me. But the guys who write that stuff? They must mentally digitize everything they see. Their work humbles me all by itself.

 

I'm a decent analyst and a fair programmer - far from their level, but I like to make things repeatable, so I tend to script my solutions so that I can repeat them myself. If I can script something myself instead of using third party installers and packages, I'd rather do that because it's less work to rebuild. Likewise, the lack of a good Chameleon installer was a gift in disguise - in the end it simplified post install and reduced the weight of my distributed iso.

 

To build the CD image, I just drop everything in it's place and again, I just run my own script. I got the info needed from the Chameleon docs to build the image using nothing but OS X terminal commands. By scripting the Extensions.mkext build, I am able to take a whole pile of kexts from the left, dump them into /E/E, quickly rebuild Extensions.mkext, reboot, test them and dump them into a pile on the right if they don't work. It's a lot of reading, testing, retesting and scripting what works so that it's repeatable, and applying scope to the project. Scope helps to make sure that an effective solution for a specific issue is not diluted by a desire to add function that doesn't apply to, or otherwise conflicts with the solution to the original issue. I saw that issue as the inability to get a current version of OS X on my latitudes without a ton of fuss and the inability to apply patches without breaking everything.

 

I really don't like the word "vanilla" applied to an install process; it lacks some precision in describing a process that is really, anything but vanilla. Vanilla implies ordinary, but ordinary hardly explains the work of the guys working on special kexts, kernel patches, EFI, DSDT and boot loaders that make it all happen. If this sort of analogy is to be applied, then that work is chocolate with tons of junk in it. It's nothing short of spectacular. By not loading up /s/l/e with special requirement versions of stock kexts, you are assured that when the next update comes along, it's not going to wipe out those kexts. The update process is a lot less painful that way. And yes, I realize that people use the term "vanilla" referring to the MAC OS install itself - as ordinary. Ok, but to me that's trivializing a ton of hard work by a lot of people.

 

Sharing what I do helps us all. We got a kick @$$ EFI string here for our Nvidia machines, better power management and install feedback for a list of machines the install CD works on that I would have never imagined. I'm still hoping we can get EFI or DSDT experts to lend a hand. Feedback from people here really does make it all better in the end. So I hope to have another CD ready very shortly, with a few fixes and a few enhancements.

[GrandMstrBud]

Hello, I still have been unable to get the following things to work.

 

1. The laptop will not go to sleep and when I shut the lid and open it I get nothing and I have to completely shut down the laptop.

2. I can not get the PCMCIA slow to work and I've tried the PCMCIAkexts and all it did was crash the laptop when the card was inserted.

3. The DVD player only plays audio and not any video.

 

I am using the NVidia version of the D620 and I did not update it to 10.6.2. Does the intel version work much better? Because I have a D620 that is the intel version.

[nub4life]

Hey man,

 

First of all, I just want to say awesome work and thank you.

 

I'm trying to install OS X 10.6.0 onto my D620. The only problem is, after I put the Chameleon boot CD in, and then I put the OS X DVD in, it tells me I need to reboot. So I do (with the OSX disc still inside), then it grinds for a bit and then the screen goes black. Can you give me any input?

 

I already have Win7 installed on the HDD, but I was planning to wipe it and just have OSX running. Do I have to wipe the HDD beforehand or can I wipe it at Disk Utility (if I ever get there)?

 

And sorry if my question is lame... I'm a total noob at this.

 

TIA

 

Edit: I just noticed the reboot screen said this:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A8CD4): Kernel trap at 0x005620b9, type14=page fault

[larryo108]

Yep, exactly. I did that in my D630 for the same reason. I run Linux and OS X on that, so I use an intel card in Linux and the Broadcom card in OS X. I use the WWAN slot, which conveniently already has a couple of antenna leads.

 

 

I am doing the same thing on my computer. Broadcom in the WLAN slot for OSX and Intel in the WWAN slot for XP.

 

 

 

 

 

At this point, I have no idea where that came from, and I don't think I am going to be modifying it, and I don't think theres an easy way for anyone else to. You load it, it works or it doesn't. I think it just made QE/CI easy on my GMA950 machine and worked on broad range of similar hardware. You could try removing it, then re-running rebuild_mkext. If your mouse problem is gone, then maybe you could add one of the many GMA950 EFI strings floating around to your Boot.plist. The Natit I am using isn't meant for this application, so I know it's a bandaid and I am still looking for a better solution. I hasn't been a high priority because on a D620 with GMA950, it just does it's job.

 

 

This paragraph seems to indicate that if I have the EFI string working that I do not need the Natit fiel anymore. Is that right? I am running an nVidia 110 card on an 820. Can you please confirm or deny my interpretation.

[CJT_Hackintosh]

Thanks, creed. Again, I appreciate the feedback, and yes, that's definitely good to know about the dual monitors.

 

The hard stuff is done by guys who are a lot more advanced than I am. The guys at Voodoo Labs do amazing stuff. You know you're a geek when a kext like VoodooTSCsync comes out and you start calling everyone you know and they have no idea why you're so excited. That's me. But the guys who write that stuff? They must mentally digitize everything they see. Their work humbles me all by itself.

 

I'm a decent analyst and a fair programmer - far from their level, but I like to make things repeatable, so I tend to script my solutions so that I can repeat them myself. If I can script something myself instead of using third party installers and packages, I'd rather do that because it's less work to rebuild. Likewise, the lack of a good Chameleon installer was a gift in disguise - in the end it simplified post install and reduced the weight of my distributed iso.

 

To build the CD image, I just drop everything in it's place and again, I just run my own script. I got the info needed from the Chameleon docs to build the image using nothing but OS X terminal commands. By scripting the Extensions.mkext build, I am able to take a whole pile of kexts from the left, dump them into /E/E, quickly rebuild Extensions.mkext, reboot, test them and dump them into a pile on the right if they don't work. It's a lot of reading, testing, retesting and scripting what works so that it's repeatable, and applying scope to the project. Scope helps to make sure that an effective solution for a specific issue is not diluted by a desire to add function that doesn't apply to, or otherwise conflicts with the solution to the original issue. I saw that issue as the inability to get a current version of OS X on my latitudes without a ton of fuss and the inability to apply patches without breaking everything.

 

I really don't like the word "vanilla" applied to an install process; it lacks some precision in describing a process that is really, anything but vanilla. Vanilla implies ordinary, but ordinary hardly explains the work of the guys working on special kexts, kernel patches, EFI, DSDT and boot loaders that make it all happen. If this sort of analogy is to be applied, then that work is chocolate with tons of junk in it. It's nothing short of spectacular. By not loading up /s/l/e with special requirement versions of stock kexts, you are assured that when the next update comes along, it's not going to wipe out those kexts. The update process is a lot less painful that way. And yes, I realize that people use the term "vanilla" referring to the MAC OS install itself - as ordinary. Ok, but to me that's trivializing a ton of hard work by a lot of people.

 

Sharing what I do helps us all. We got a kick @$ EFI string here for our Nvidia machines, better power management and install feedback for a list of machines the install CD works on that I would have never imagined. I'm still hoping we can get EFI or DSDT experts to lend a hand. Feedback from people here really does make it all better in the end. So I hope to have another CD ready very shortly, with a few fixes and a few enhancements.

 

 

Hey Leppy

 

Great work so far! I'm running a D820 with NVidia NV120 graphics +256 Video RAM. I've tried 10.6, 10.6.1 both of which work well apart from the already known sleep issue. I tried 10.6.2 but ran into the same issue as most of the other NVidia owners on here - i.e. not able to use the DVD app.

 

If you need me to do any testing on this particular flavour of D820 then give me a shout.

 

Cheers

Chris

[demonlsayer]

Aloha,

I also wanted to thank you for sharing your script. It made the install very very easy!!!

I have a D430 with Intel graphics (no nvidia option...) I had to buy a broadcom wifi card of ebay, but that was really cheap.

 

Everything works like a charm.

Of course the missing sleep is bugging me. Isn't there a possibility that only standby and not hibernate, or vice versa only hibernate and not standby works.

 

I experimented with the two finger scroll kext but couldn't produce a setting that allowed normal usage :-( http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88811

 

Anyways, thanks for your hard work and hopefully we (you/others) will find a solution for enabling sleep.

 

Oh and to answer a question a few posts back. The EEEPC ssd harddrive which fits into the mini-pciE slot will most likely not work as it only uses the same connector but the wiring is totally different (not standard).

 

DeMoN

[jh49]

I have been enjoying SL and XP dual-booting using chain0 method thanks to Leppy. But it was infected with the malwares while in Windows XP and forced to shut down. If I choose the XP from OS selection menu, the boot sector error occurs. Even though I deleted a lot of malwares using UBCD4Win startup disk, it was not fixed. I couldn't do the clean XP installation, either. After the Windows XP CD setup copies the installation files to the hard disk and the computer reboots, I got the same error message. Can someone tell me how to fix the Windows boot sector without formatting the whole hard disk? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[klexen]

so if I have a D630 with the intel graphics, I'm still out of luck for installing Snow Leopard?

[consolation]

I have been enjoying SL and XP dual-booting using chain0 method thanks to Leppy. But it was infected with the malwares... Can someone tell me how to fix the Windows boot sector without formatting the whole hard disk? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

errr... ok, malware eh? use a genuine windows XP cd, choose repair option when booting from it; google is your friend for detailed instructions on how to fix your mbr etc. I won't pollute this thread.

 

so if I have a D630 with the intel graphics, I'm still out of luck for installing Snow Leopard?

 

I don't see why you'd have any problems. AFAIK, X3100 only have 32bit kexts, but that's no biggy. What was your problem? Here's someone else's guide.

[klexen]

errr... ok, malware eh? use a genuine windows XP cd, choose repair option when booting from it; google is your friend for detailed instructions on how to fix your mbr etc. I won't pollute this thread.

 

 

 

I don't see why you'd have any problems. AFAIK, X3100 only have 32bit kexts, but that's no biggy. What was your problem? Here's someone else's guide.

 

My problem is that the guide is kind of hard to follow. If you could make it a little easier, I'd totally paypal you some dough! The writer assumes you know what he is talking about... I do have the retail snow leopard and universal 3.5, and the files he linked to....

[consolation]

My problem is ....

 

This is a D620 thread; I suggest you try this topic, it's dedicated to D630 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184903

 

I'm sure someone there will help you, no payment required ;-) If you don't get any joy, pm me and I'll walk you through it.

 

But here's something you should try first; download the SL boot disk from the first post in this thread. Restore it to a CD and use it to boot your SL retail DVD; install OSX. Again, boot from the bootCD and boot into your newly installed Snow Kitty partition; run the post install script on the boot CD. Copy the kexts you downloaded from the other website (from the Extensions and Kexts folders to your /Extra/Extensions folder and the smbios.plist to your /Extra folder. Run the Kext Utility that's in that zip. Reboot and cross fingers - I'm 90% sure you'd be good to go. Let us know how you got on.

[consolation]

I found a SmartCard driver for OSX that SHOULD work with our smartcard readers. Problem is, I have no smart card to test with...

 

http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html

 

as you can see many Dell readers are supported http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/supported.html

 

Soooo... anyone got a smart card?

[klexen]

When booting from the cd, I get the spinning loading circle... Then black screen.

[hoowahman]

Hi all,

I got a Dell Latitude D820 and I tried the boot cd that goes with os x 10.6.0 and after selecting the os x install cd from the boot menu it just sits there with an apple logo and a loading circle. I've had it sit there for about an hour before shutting down the laptop. I then went into the bios and set everything to default and tried again, seem to do the same thing. Anyone have issues with this before or any ideas on how to change things up that might be hanging it.

 

Thanks!

[leppy700m]

Hi all,

I got a Dell Latitude D820 and I tried the boot cd that goes with os x 10.6.0 and after selecting the os x install cd from the boot menu it just sits there with an apple logo and a loading circle. I've had it sit there for about an hour before shutting down the laptop. I then went into the bios and set everything to default and tried again, seem to do the same thing. Anyone have issues with this before or any ideas on how to change things up that might be hanging it.

 

Thanks!

What graphics are in your D820? Others have been successful with the D820 with Nvidia graphics.

 

Which CD image are you using to boot with? I have one for Leopard and one for Snow Leopard, and they are not interchangeable.

 

Some of the DVD readers in these machines have trouble reading the SL DVD during boot. Some who have had that problem have copied the SL DVD to an 8GB thumb drive and then boot from the bootcd to boot the SL install on the thumb drive.

 

This is a D620 thread; I suggest you try this topic, it's dedicated to D630 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184903

 

I'm sure someone there will help you, no payment required ;-) If you don't get any joy, pm me and I'll walk you through it.

 

But here's something you should try first; download the SL boot disk from the first post in this thread. Restore it to a CD and use it to boot your SL retail DVD; install OSX. Again, boot from the bootCD and boot into your newly installed Snow Kitty partition; run the post install script on the boot CD. Copy the kexts you downloaded from the other website (from the Extensions and Kexts folders to your /Extra/Extensions folder and the smbios.plist to your /Extra folder. Run the Kext Utility that's in that zip. Reboot and cross fingers - I'm 90% sure you'd be good to go. Let us know how you got on.

 

Although the D630 Nvidia will work, I don't think the D630 with Intel will. The kexts I load for GMA950 don't work with the Intel X3100 in the D630. I might work with an external monitor, then the kexts from the other method could replace the ones from my bootcd.

 

I have been enjoying SL and XP dual-booting using chain0 method thanks to Leppy. But it was infected with the malwares while in Windows XP and forced to shut down. If I choose the XP from OS selection menu, the boot sector error occurs. Even though I deleted a lot of malwares using UBCD4Win startup disk, it was not fixed. I couldn't do the clean XP installation, either. After the Windows XP CD setup copies the installation files to the hard disk and the computer reboots, I got the same error message. Can someone tell me how to fix the Windows boot sector without formatting the whole hard disk? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

fdisk /mbr maybe? It's been a while. Google really is our friend. Not all viruses that attack the boot sector can be recovered from.

Hello, I still have been unable to get the following things to work.

 

1. The laptop will not go to sleep and when I shut the lid and open it I get nothing and I have to completely shut down the laptop.

2. I can not get the PCMCIA slow to work and I've tried the PCMCIAkexts and all it did was crash the laptop when the card was inserted.

3. The DVD player only plays audio and not any video.

 

I am using the NVidia version of the D620 and I did not update it to 10.6.2. Does the intel version work much better? Because I have a D620 that is the intel version.

 

Well, the Intel GMA version is only better in that the 10.6.2 update doesn't break anything. I still still think the Nvidia machine has the edge for graphics perfomance, though it's not a such a huge edge.

Hey man,

 

First of all, I just want to say awesome work and thank you.

 

I'm trying to install OS X 10.6.0 onto my D620. The only problem is, after I put the Chameleon boot CD in, and then I put the OS X DVD in, it tells me I need to reboot. So I do (with the OSX disc still inside), then it grinds for a bit and then the screen goes black. Can you give me any input?

 

I already have Win7 installed on the HDD, but I was planning to wipe it and just have OSX running. Do I have to wipe the HDD beforehand or can I wipe it at Disk Utility (if I ever get there)?

 

And sorry if my question is lame... I'm a total noob at this.

 

TIA

 

Edit: I just noticed the reboot screen said this:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A8CD4): Kernel trap at 0x005620b9, type14=page fault

After you put in the SL DVD, press F10 until Chameleon displays the SL boot DVD, then select that and boot. If your drive isn't reading the SL install DVD, then you will get a panic or it will just hang.

 

And make sure your CD is made from the D620SLV1.iso and not the Leopard iso.

I am doing the same thing on my computer. Broadcom in the WLAN slot for OSX and Intel in the WWAN slot for XP.

 

This paragraph seems to indicate that if I have the EFI string working that I do not need the Natit fiel anymore. Is that right? I am running an nVidia 110 card on an 820. Can you please confirm or deny my interpretation.

If you have the Nvidia graphics chipset, definitely get rid of that Natit kext - it's counterproductive.

 

Oddly enough, it works well for the Intel chipset though.

[hoowahman]

What graphics are in your D820? Others have been successful with the D820 with Nvidia graphics.

 

Which CD image are you using to boot with? I have one for Leopard and one for Snow Leopard, and they are not interchangeable.

 

Some of the DVD readers in these machines have trouble reading the SL DVD during boot. Some who have had that problem have copied the SL DVD to an 8GB thumb drive and then boot from the bootcd to boot the SL install on the thumb drive.

 

I turned off my dual core and kept trying to install with an external usb harddrive because this is my work laptop and I didn't want to mess it up. I currently have windows 7 on it. After like the 5th try I plugged in the usb drive when it finally got to picking the language. It was pretty random and might have been my DVD drive being able to read it at that time for whatever reason.

 

After I installed I ran the post script and installed the boot loader on my machine but it hosed my windows 7 boot so I had to repair that and now I just use the boot disk to get into OSX and hook up my USB harddrive so now my laptop hasn't been modified at all I'm mainly doing this for iphone development anyway and not as my main OS.

 

I would like to dual boot with os x / windows 7 but I don't want to reinstall windows. I'm sure I could do it somehow by backing up the partition and using something like partition magic to prepare. If anyone has any experience doing this, I welcome you to detail it out.

 

Thanks leppy for making the install so easy and now I don't have to buy an expensive mac to do some iphone development.