neilhart
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I had hacked my D620 over a year ago first installing Leopard and WinXP using the Leppy700m guide found on IM ( see http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=178411) Then sometime later I added a Snow Leopard partition and updated over time to 10.6.7.
Dell D620 Nvidia laptop with 3GB of memory and 500GB SATA hard disk running MBR partition scheme with Lion, WinXp, Snow Leopard, Data partitions. The BIOS is rev A10. Resolution is 1400 x 900 with full acceleration in Lion and Snow Leopard.
I do not have sleep and wake from sleep working. However the keyboard, trackpad, WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB and sound all work as does battery charging. The track pad is old school and does not support two and three finger Apple defined functionality.
Of interest is that I could not get the Lion installer to run on the MBR partition scheme hard disk as it requires a GUID partition scheme to run.
I tried a good many other ways to install which I won't bore you with. My working Lion installation was accomplished as follows:
I cloned a Lion installation from a Shuttle H67H3 to a external USB GUID partitioned hard drive using CCC. I then took a copy of the /Extra directory from the D620 Snow Leopard partition and placed it into the root of the external USB cloned Lion (after having deleted the /Extra that came with cloning). I used Multibeast 3.8.0 to repair permissions and install the bootloader.
This Lion USB drive was bootable on the D620. So I rebooted D620 to the internal SL partition, opened Disk Utility and erased the Leopard partition. I then cloned Lion from the USB drive to the internal partition which previously held Leopard. Again I used Multibeast to repair permissions and install the bootloader to the internal HDD Lion partition.
I then rebooted to Lion. The boot time is longer. However Lion came up and all is good.
This is not a detailed installation guide by any stretch of the imagination. However I thought that I would share my method for those that may have encountered problems using the more convectional Lion install methods. The key here is the collection of files found in the /Extra folder which I have zipped and attached.
have fun
neil
Dell D620 Nvidia laptop with 3GB of memory and 500GB SATA hard disk running MBR partition scheme with Lion, WinXp, Snow Leopard, Data partitions. The BIOS is rev A10. Resolution is 1400 x 900 with full acceleration in Lion and Snow Leopard.
I do not have sleep and wake from sleep working. However the keyboard, trackpad, WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, USB and sound all work as does battery charging. The track pad is old school and does not support two and three finger Apple defined functionality.
Of interest is that I could not get the Lion installer to run on the MBR partition scheme hard disk as it requires a GUID partition scheme to run.
I tried a good many other ways to install which I won't bore you with. My working Lion installation was accomplished as follows:
I cloned a Lion installation from a Shuttle H67H3 to a external USB GUID partitioned hard drive using CCC. I then took a copy of the /Extra directory from the D620 Snow Leopard partition and placed it into the root of the external USB cloned Lion (after having deleted the /Extra that came with cloning). I used Multibeast 3.8.0 to repair permissions and install the bootloader.
This Lion USB drive was bootable on the D620. So I rebooted D620 to the internal SL partition, opened Disk Utility and erased the Leopard partition. I then cloned Lion from the USB drive to the internal partition which previously held Leopard. Again I used Multibeast to repair permissions and install the bootloader to the internal HDD Lion partition.
I then rebooted to Lion. The boot time is longer. However Lion came up and all is good.
This is not a detailed installation guide by any stretch of the imagination. However I thought that I would share my method for those that may have encountered problems using the more convectional Lion install methods. The key here is the collection of files found in the /Extra folder which I have zipped and attached.
have fun
neil
