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Thanks to Gravewyrm and SA5UK3 for their excellent guides .
http://www.tonymacx86.com/lion-desk...-project-idell-xps-8300-lion-10-7-3-a-35.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...ss-idell-xps-8300-mountain-lion-10-8-2-a.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...-success-idell-xps-8300-mavericks-10-9-a.html
Here is my experience installing a fresh copy of
* OS X Mavericks 10.9 on a Dell XPS 8300 *
My setup before installation.
2 Hard Drive one on SATA0, the other on SATA2.
(8300 has 4 SATA ports, first two SATA0 and SATA 1 are the faster ones 6gb/s)
For this install, I put a brand new SSD on SATA port 1.
What I prepared:
2 USB Keys, one 16gb for OS, one 4 gb for tools
(but you actually could just use one, copy all the tools onto the OS key if you have space left.)
software
first, use UniBeast to create the bootable USB stick.
Enter BIOS at boot up, spam the F12 button to get to the boot selection screen.
Instead of choosing a boot drive, enter SetUp. Make sure your Hard Drive mode is
set to AHCI. F10 to save and exit
at the boot screen, Press the F12 button again, this time, booting from
USB stick with the Mavericks Installer on it
Boot into the installer.Select language, At the actual installer screen,
go to the menu bar, and select disk utility.
Set the target drive which is the SSD that I want to install OS X to, as a single partition, set the
table to GUID, and format it in OS X Extended (Journeled).Once the utility has completed
its task, close it, and continue with the install to the formatted SSD drive.
Install takes about 15 minute
Once the installer is done, it will re-boot. Let it count down on its own, and once
it re-boots, press F12 again to get to the boot options.
Select the USB stick. At the boot loader, select your freshly installed Mavericks install.
Plug the second USB stick in, and copy all the software to a folder on the OSX desktop,
(here might be an optional step to manually remove AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kext due to KernalPanicks. It happened to me at reboot after multibeast, I had to use -v at boot screen to find out what happened.)
Run MultiBeast,having these options checked:
build and reboot
Once MultiBeast has done its thing, you can eject the Bootable USB stick, and do a re-boot
Let it boot as normal, and you should be back to your desktop.
Now need to fix the ethernet, put KextBeast and BCM5722D.kext on the desktop,
Run KextBeast and it will install the networking kext. Repair permissions, and reboot.
(Note: I did not have to use the IONetworkingfamily.kext as mentioned in the other guide, the BCM5722D.kext is the only one I use KextBeast to install, I assume it is because the latest MultiBeast and Mavericks already take care of most of drivers.)
Drag Chimera to the desktop. Run it,
and re-boot.
I had to go to BIOS to change the boot sequence to set SSD as the first boot device so I can use
Chimera as bootloader (to boot into OSX and windows 7)
After reboot, both ethernet and sound work fine, sleep/awake also works without any isse,and the SSD made OSX lightning fast. It is quite amazing.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/lion-desk...-project-idell-xps-8300-lion-10-7-3-a-35.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...ss-idell-xps-8300-mountain-lion-10-8-2-a.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...-success-idell-xps-8300-mavericks-10-9-a.html
Here is my experience installing a fresh copy of
* OS X Mavericks 10.9 on a Dell XPS 8300 *
My setup before installation.
2 Hard Drive one on SATA0, the other on SATA2.
(8300 has 4 SATA ports, first two SATA0 and SATA 1 are the faster ones 6gb/s)
For this install, I put a brand new SSD on SATA port 1.
What I prepared:
2 USB Keys, one 16gb for OS, one 4 gb for tools
(but you actually could just use one, copy all the tools onto the OS key if you have space left.)
software
OSX Mavericks Installer (download from Apple Appstore)
Mutibeast-Mavericks-Edition-6.zip (from download section of this website)
KextBeast.zip (from download section of this website).
Chimera 2.2.1 (from download section of this website).
BCM5722D.kext
(download from http://www.osx86.net/files/file/916-bcm5722d-kext/)
Mutibeast-Mavericks-Edition-6.zip (from download section of this website)
KextBeast.zip (from download section of this website).
Chimera 2.2.1 (from download section of this website).
BCM5722D.kext
(download from http://www.osx86.net/files/file/916-bcm5722d-kext/)
first, use UniBeast to create the bootable USB stick.
Enter BIOS at boot up, spam the F12 button to get to the boot selection screen.
Instead of choosing a boot drive, enter SetUp. Make sure your Hard Drive mode is
set to AHCI. F10 to save and exit
at the boot screen, Press the F12 button again, this time, booting from
USB stick with the Mavericks Installer on it
Boot into the installer.Select language, At the actual installer screen,
go to the menu bar, and select disk utility.
Set the target drive which is the SSD that I want to install OS X to, as a single partition, set the
table to GUID, and format it in OS X Extended (Journeled).Once the utility has completed
its task, close it, and continue with the install to the formatted SSD drive.
Install takes about 15 minute
Once the installer is done, it will re-boot. Let it count down on its own, and once
it re-boots, press F12 again to get to the boot options.
Select the USB stick. At the boot loader, select your freshly installed Mavericks install.
Plug the second USB stick in, and copy all the software to a folder on the OSX desktop,
(here might be an optional step to manually remove AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kext due to KernalPanicks. It happened to me at reboot after multibeast, I had to use -v at boot screen to find out what happened.)
Optional: open the finder, go to S/L/E (System/Library/Extension,remove the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagermentClient.kext, or in terminal, run "mv AppleIntelCPUPowerManagermentClient.kext to AppleIntelCPUPowerManagermentClient.kext.bak")
Run MultiBeast,having these options checked:
Quickstart>DSDT Free
Audio>without DSDT>AC887 current
Audio>without DSDT>AC887 current
build and reboot
Once MultiBeast has done its thing, you can eject the Bootable USB stick, and do a re-boot
Let it boot as normal, and you should be back to your desktop.
Now need to fix the ethernet, put KextBeast and BCM5722D.kext on the desktop,
Run KextBeast and it will install the networking kext. Repair permissions, and reboot.
(Note: I did not have to use the IONetworkingfamily.kext as mentioned in the other guide, the BCM5722D.kext is the only one I use KextBeast to install, I assume it is because the latest MultiBeast and Mavericks already take care of most of drivers.)
Drag Chimera to the desktop. Run it,
and re-boot.
I had to go to BIOS to change the boot sequence to set SSD as the first boot device so I can use
Chimera as bootloader (to boot into OSX and windows 7)
After reboot, both ethernet and sound work fine, sleep/awake also works without any isse,and the SSD made OSX lightning fast. It is quite amazing.
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