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- Lenovo U310
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Hey ikkoku, are you currently dual booting windows and mountain lion? im sorry I am sorta a noob at this kind of thing. i just want to have as much info as possible before i try this.
I just picked up a U310 and wanted to post my installation.
my U310 is the i5-3317
After I received the laptop, I wanted to preserve the windows partition on the HDD.
Given that it came with an intel wlan card, and I have a spare generic ar5b195, I needed to find a way to install the card and removing the whitelist. There is a whitelist removed bios of the latest version. Google will find it for you. After removing the whitelist, I replaced the card. Since this was setup on RAID0 with the SSD, I had to break RAID and the Intel Rapid Start and Rapid Storage that's on it.
I downloaded from the intel website some program to enable/disable intel rapid storage acceleration. Disabled it. Then went into bios disabled it there too and changed RAID to AHCI. To my surprise, I was still able to boot windows7 from the HDD. so I partitioned the SSD and followed the unibeast installation method. Using the kexts from this thread, I was able to get it up and running in no time.
Note: if you are having problems with blank/black screen during boot, use usb to boot into safe mode and put in efi injection into your boot list.
also for those plagued with the wifi issues that plague the u310/u410 you can do this mod message #616
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad...really-low-speeds-on-wifi/td-p/790527/page/62
mostly everything is working.
bluetooth is a little weird. the turning on/off switch is greyed out.
question from me is .... I want to make a backup/clone of my install. I can place the it on an mbr partition with carbon clone copy?