arcaman6 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Hi Guys Previously installed Catalina on E6530 and works great but now need to install on E6540 for a mate. I started with this thread as it seemed to have all to have an EFI close to my actual laptop but unfortunately unable to get the installer to boot. I have attached my Clover folder. Clover boots for a bit and then hangs - no panic. Could someone have a look at the files or even suggest a better starting point for my build. Cheers. Specification of machine E6540 i5-4310M 6MB 480GB SSD Bios A17 (unable to get it to update to a later version but working on it). CLOVER_E6540_Catalina.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 22, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2020 You seem to have combine your files from E6530 with E6540 Download this and then add this to /EFI/Clover/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 Many thanks Jake. Did as suggested and my boot gets a lot further but not all the way. I've attached my bootpack and a pic of where the boot halted. Any ideas of what to try. EFI_e6540_test.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 22, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2020 What happened to your display??! Missing the cover and maybe a bad pixel (pink line in the middle). Anyway, what's the source of the installer? Clean vanilla or distro? Do you have the correct BIOS settings set? Try resetting to default and then set to these settings UEFI enable /AHCI enable /Secure boot off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 The display is a disaster area for sure but it's temporary. The machine came with a FHD display and I thought it was an added complication to install Catalina with it installed.So I have installed a scrap screen from my spares box for the meantime - but it's not pretty. The installer is vanilla built as outlined in the many excellent guides on the site. OS I think is 10.15.6 and Clover is v5118. Reset BIOS and set as suggested. Even started with F12 to make sure it was doing a UEFI boot. The version is A17 - unable to update to latest (goes through the motions but doesn't actually do the update when laptop restarts) - but I think it is unlikely that's an issue as A17 fairly recent). The laptop has an AMD GPU but looks like that is disabled in the bootpack. Are you happy that the bootpack is set up correctly? Any idea what I could try next? Cheers Aubrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 23, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 23, 2020 The bootpack looks good except for SSDT.aml, remove it. That's compiled for an IvyBridge i7-3630QM. You might have merge your files with that of an E6530. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 Hi Jake. Removed SSDT.aml but didn't make any difference - still hangs in the same place. I built it on my E6530 but for i5-4310M processor - so would it be good for my E6540 as it has the i5-4310M or it that a big assumption? found this code in SSDT.aml: custom mode...........: 0 host processor........: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz target processor......: i5-4310M number of processors..: 1 baseFrequency.........: 800 frequency.............: 2700 Looks like I'm out of luck with this install. As a final task I think I'll try and reprogram the BIOS chips to the latest version. Not hopeful but it's worth a try. Many thanks for all your help. Cheers Aubrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 24, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 24, 2020 Oops sorry, glanced at it too fast. Should be fine. Try with this Config config.plist.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcaman6 Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 Thanks for that. Added new config.plist but still hangs on boot up. CLOVER_E6540_Catalina_new_config.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 25, 2020 Moderators Share Posted October 25, 2020 Are you sure your USB installer is working? Maybe try creating a new one with different USB. I see you made some changes, adding a DSDT is not necessary since all the hot patches SSDT are there already. Shouldn't have SMCHelper.efi if you're using VirtualSMC, conflict. SMCHelper.efi is paired with FakeSMC, but I see you have that as well. Use one or the other, not both. If you're going to use FakeSMC, stick with ACPIBatteryManager, but if you're going to use VirtualSMC, then pair it with SMCBatteryManager. I see you have both of them as well. Also you have 2 sets of touchpad kexts: VoodooPS2Controller-R6RC2 and VoodooPS2ControllerR6. 2 sets of Ethernet: IntelMausi and IntelMausiEthernet. You need to know what each kexts are for before randomly adding them. Less is better, not more. Better you start over with a new installer and use the bootpack a few posts up ...EFI_E6540_test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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