Kernel Panic on Dell E6530

[orbislacteus]

Hi,

 

I recently aquired an old E6530 wit i7-3740qm processor and an E6430 with i5 Processor both with NVS 5200m. While on the E6430 the EFIs i found here on several Threads worked with a little tweaking, I didn't get the quad-core machine (E6530) even close to running. In fact I get a Kernel Panic right from the beginning, no matter what I try.

 

I'm going to think, that something is wrong with this machine.

 

I attached the output. Maybe someone can give me a hint, what's going wrong here.

 

thanks!

[Jake Lo]

Make sure to set the BIOS like you did on the E6430

UEFI, AHCI, Optimus enabled

 

The error tells me you're install High Sierra. You need to enable FixHeaders in the Config file

[orbislacteus]

Hi Jake,

 

you are amazing!

FixHeaders seem to do the trick - at least on the EFI I was using (attached). Another one I got from this forum still didn't work, but doesn't really matter. WLAN (DW 1702) wasn't working too, but I removed something that looked like a Bluetooth kext and now it's Up and running to.

 

Still there seems to be a problem with sleep. If I close the lid, nothing happens. Screen stays on. Maybe it's also not waking up from sleep, since screen went dark after a while and it didn't came back on.

 

Any Help for that?

Oh, and as far as I remember one can get the Card-reader running on this machines. Any hint, how to accomplish that?

EFI.zip

Edited September 5, 2018 by orbislacteus

[Jake Lo]

Replace contents into /EFI/Clover

should enable card reader, and hopefully sleep

E6530_SDReader.zip

[orbislacteus]

Thanks,

 

well the bad new is: No SD Card Reader

 

She Good News is: Nvidia shows up now! Whatever you did - it seems to be helpful. But it is without acceleration, but maybe we can get this working somehow.

 

Now I reactivated Inject Nvidia and it shows the correct Card and RAM, but still no acceleration.

[orbislacteus]

I noticed, that NV_Disable was active, so I assume, that it was starting in VESA Mode. That may be the reason, why it "worked".

if I switch that flag of, it's not getting into the system.

 

Is it worth investigating that further or it it not going to end anywhere?

[Hervé]

SD card reader of the E6x30 Series should be supported OOB once you inject the necessary DSDT patch detailed here.

 

As for the NVS dGPU, it's a no go since High Sierra as far as I know.

[orbislacteus]

I thought @Jake Lo did that with the DSDT.

 

And about the Nvidia: It is obviously recognised by the System. What Changed from Sierra to High Sierra? How does this Process work? Does Mac OS has the drivers itself and thy changed? Maybe we can figure out a kernel patch to make it running?

[Hervé]

We don't believe it's got anything to do with the kernel. It's must be something to do with the nVidia drivers but the issue has not been identified afaik.

[chaunce]

Thank you very much