Dell Latitude D520 BIOS A08

[Bilko]

Hi all, so i have been looking at OS X compatibility on my laptop and i found that D520 is kinda working only i just don't seam able to get mine to work. i have a USB bootable 10.8 from links to test for compatibility only i get kernel panic when booting.

using a bootable DVD with iAtkos 10.7 on i can boot to installer using the following :

 

-v cpus=1 busratio=11 usbbusfix=no arch=i386

 

i have tried to fix the USB 10.8 installer without luck using the terminal within the iAtkos DVD and could really do with getting this done now as its taking way longer than i should lol. i provide the following info for my device.

Q). when told to $ rm -rf a file/folder is moving it allowed ? ie.

$ mv S/L/E/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/C/P/ApplePolicyControl.kext S/L/E/A/C/P/.ApplePolicyControl.kext

^ hidden / dot .file

 

to make changes to the USB installer i just boot the DVD then plug USB in and use Terminal as i have no access to OSX install and now Windows install either.

 

My HardWare Info

$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

Latitude D520

$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version

A08

$ lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)

00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)

00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)

00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)

00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)

00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)

00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [iDE mode] [8086:27c4] (rev 01)

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)

02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge [1217:7135] (rev 21)

02:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) [1217:00f7] (rev 02)

Wireless Card Replaced with Broadcom

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)

CPU - http://ark.intel.com/products/27254/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T5600-2M-Cache-1_83-GHz-667-MHz-FSB#infosectionessentials

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u

address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

apicid : 0

apicid : 1

bogomips : 3657.55

bogomips : 3657.62

cache_alignment : 64

cache size : 2048 KB

clflush size : 64

core id : 0

core id : 1

cpu cores : 2

cpu family : 6

cpuid level : 10

cpu MHz : 1000.000

cpu MHz : 1833.000

flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow

fpu_exception : yes

fpu : yes

initial apicid : 0

initial apicid : 1

microcode : 0x57

model : 15

model name : Intel® Core2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz

physical id : 0

power management:

processor : 0

processor : 1

siblings : 2

stepping : 2

vendor_id : GenuineIntel

wp : yes

$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total:

MemTotal: 2558300 kB

$ sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT >/tmp/DSDT.dump

$ iasl -d /tmp/DSDT.dump

$ sudo iasl -tc DSDT.dsl

Compilation complete. 2 Errors, 9 Warnings, 1 Remarks, 560 Optimizations

$ cat DSDT.DSL -{

Your message contains 184727 characters. The maximum number of allowed characters is 60000.

The extension dsl is not allowed.

The extension txt is not allowed.

The extension aml is not allowed.

} - END DSDT

ok so what file should i up load ?

[artur-pt]

hello

how about zip the file ?

and for what ?

u graphics if work only in 32 bit arch=i386

10.8 is 64 bit...

and to install is not necessary DSDT

try Lion (10.7)

good hack

[Bilko]

so i was right to start with 10.7 then.. the only reason i changed to 10.8 was recommendation in irc channel !?.

[artur-pt]

hello

i never give that recomendation ....

with that hardware

perhaps u never told what is u hardware..

in hacking mac os x is one of the must important thing, to think about..

mac os x is for mac...

hack mac os x is 99% of reading, googling, persistency and 1% u have the right hardware

good hack