Sorcerer Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Trying to install retail El Cap to an E7440 as clean install.. can not get it to boot into the installer on USB.. nothing comes up in verbose mode.. and laptop just re-boots.. any guides on installing EL cap to one of these laptops? UPDATE:.. figured it out... had to disable USB3 IN BIOS although it gets to th apple logo now it still resets no verbose info is presented.. even nothing in safe mode.. all i get is a short series of +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ across top of screen. then it displays a 1 line message and resets.. message is only displayed for 10th of a sec.. blink and you miss it.. its a kernel panic.. managed to get a screen shot. any ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 22, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2015 Make sure you are using the latest Clover v3292 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer Posted October 22, 2015 Author Share Posted October 22, 2015 yup using clover 3292 in legacy.. interesting tho.. laptop reports invalid boot sector then goes to efi boot and boots into clover.. but still same KP message .. maybe i am not setting up clover properly. Just going the basic at the moment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 22, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2015 replace your Clover folder with robertostudios, tested to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 24, 2015 Administrators Share Posted October 24, 2015 You sure it's not the Haswell CPU reset? You need the Haswell-patched kernel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 You sure it's not the Haswell CPU reset? You need the Haswell-patched kernel... selected the haswell kernel patch option from the binaries patching menu in clover an nada still same Panic and no verbose info its a core [email protected] 4 gig ram and 250 gig SSD.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 26, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 26, 2015 If you're using Robertostudios files, make sure to leave out the SSDT.aml. It's for a different CPU than yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 yup ssdt.aml is not included. all i did with the roberto studios files is copy the kexts to efi/clover/kexts/other copied the config.plist to efi\clover. copied the dsdt.aml to efi\clover\acpi\patched. i got an installer working for a e6420 that boots and ran the installer without hiccups. but same USB does not work on e7440. (i have created a new USB as i did not want to mess up the Installer USB i use for e6420) but still get same panic error.. has to be something to do with the cpu i think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted October 26, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 26, 2015 check to see if *.efi files are dated October 17, 2015 if you have on v3292 especially OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi. For Robert's bootpack, it's dated October 5, 2015 from v3290. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 all files are17 oct 2015.. Think i need to build the USB from scratch. i can use the e6420 running El Cap to build the USB... Any guides for building an El Cap install? tried following pokenguyen's yosemite guide but el cap has a different disk utility and does not allow me to create two different partitions on the USB.. Also clover does not extract DSDT etc when pressing F4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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