[oohai]

I just updated to the DellEFI 1.1. Works like a charm. Once again I can not thank the people who work on this enough. You guys are the greatest!

[drizek]

So here is how you should do it(at least what worked for me). Props to the other guys that came up with this and tested it.

Go to Applications-Utilities-Terminal

type in

sudo rm /dsdt.aml

Don't restart your computer after this step. I think you can restart if you want, but at least for me there was no need.

Then open DellEFI 1.1 and run it, allow it to reboot, and there you go.

MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP FIRST. If you dont have an external hard drive, you can still backup at least your personal files by excluding the SYSTEM folder from time machine. For me my personal files were only about 2GB. You can probably fit a full system backup on an 8gb usb flash drive and definitely on a 16gig one.

[a2fan]

I see where some people have stalled at the grey OS X boot screen, and have manually deleted dsdt via Terminal. Groovy - thats what I need to do. But no one has explained how they got into terminal to do that. I don't have any external drives with me to boot off of, and no Mac handy the moment.

If you were stalled at the grey screen, how did you get into terminal mode?

[drizek]

I restored to before I installed 1.1 using a timemachine backup. You did backup, didn't you? :lol:

You can also go into the terminal by booting off of the leopard dvd and you will find the terminal under utilities. you will need to mount the internal SSD manually. I don't know how to do that exactly though since im more of a linux person. mount -a might work, but it might not. Another way is maybe to open up disk utility first, which should automatically mount all your drives(or not).

[a2fan]

[quote="drizek"]I restored to before I installed 1.1 using a timemachine backup. You did backup, didn't you? :lol:

No external drives handy, and no access to the backup where I am. I'll have to wait until I get back home. I know I can mount the original DVD, or use the OSX imaged thumbdrive, or a Mac and USB drive cable to access the drive -- but I didn't have any of those with me (on vacation) and wondered if people were using another method I wasn't aware of during the -s boot.

[NoBugsOnMe]

Originally Posted by a2fan

I see where some people have stalled at the grey OS X boot screen, and have manually deleted dsdt via Terminal. Groovy - thats what I need to do. But no one has explained how they got into terminal to do that. I don't have any external drives with me to boot off of, and no Mac handy the moment.

If you were stalled at the grey screen, how did you get into terminal mode?

It's a bit worrying how so many people have problems after updating. Maybe there is something wrong. More people could get lost. :/

Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly why this is happening, but I have my suspicions (see my last post in this thread).

Anyway, if you can't boot into single user mode (boot flag -s), you can get into the Terminal on the installation disk:

- boot your Leopard installation drive
- click Utilities, then Terminal
- enter "mount /dev/disk0s1" (for MBR) or "mount /dev/disk0s2" (for GPT), I guess most people have a GPT partition table, or try drizek's method.
- now you can delete the dsdt.aml with "rm /Volume/partition name/dsdt.aml" or whatever you want to do.

[oldskoolboarder]

I ran this EFI 1.1 and my Mini 9 works fine.

However, I noticed a copy of dsdt.aml on the main drive. For example, if my HDD is called 'OSX' and OSX is the HDD icon on my desktop, the file exists on OSX/dsdt.aml. Should I leave it there or delete it?

Thanks.

PS I'll also add that I can close the lid and open it hours later and it works fine. Just checking to see if this is a remnant file that can be deleted.

[KateKat]

Well I just played techno chicken and all is OK, I manually deleted the dstl.aml file and then nervously ran DellEFI 1.1 and it installed/generated a new dstl.aml file and rebooted and everything came back to life as expected. Closed the lid, the mini9 went to sleep with the pulsing LED, open the lid and everything restarted just like before.

No issues so far, will leave it in sleep overnight like I usually do and see if it wakes OK in the morning.

I'm wondering if I'm still supposed to run DellEFI again, everything seems OK, the battery & cycle count look OK.???

Thanks for the hard work on the new version.

Kate

[levil]

I messed something up. When I installed everything except the items not recommended and the Bluetooth item as I don't have bluetooth. I clicked fast boot because I like that. So everything looked OK. Except I was not getting the fast boot. I was getting the 1-2-3 countdown. So I figured (assumption is the mother of all fmess ups), ahhh the check mark changes its status, so I reinstalled it again with only the speed boot clicked. I was never able to boot again. Every time I get this grey hold the on button to reboot screen. Every time.

I tried booting from my install USB (still had it), boot into install, delete the infamous dsdt.aml file (I did back it up) But no use.

Most everybody either downgraded or reinstalled to get things fixed. But I don't think I have that option since I cannot boot into my system at all. Is there any way I can reinstall EFI from the install CD's (USB's) terminal?

Also, I did a few -v boots to see if I can track down the problem. The failures differ (I get two different ones) but I have a suspicion/theory. In my current setup I am actually booting OSX from an external USB (and will continue to do so until I can get a 64GB internal SSD with acceptable speeds.) I only have 4GB internal. Unfortunately my choice of 16GB external USB (Kingston mini) does hand at boot a couple times. I suspect this is one of the two error messages I get. The other is trying to tell me that it cannot boot from my STEC (ot something that suggests it is actually trying to boot from the internal 4GB drive which only has Ubuntu.)

I have a backup but it is not too recent. I did a lot of system tweaking in the past couple of days that haven't made it on to my time capsule. So I would really like to fix this and not run a restore.

Any fixes for me?

[Cyborgmatt]

After installing DellEFI is the trackpad's right side scroll bar suppose to work or do we need another file for that to work?