pewe1263 Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 Anybody out there succeeded in running el capitan on a e6430 by upgrading from mavericks. Is this advisable ? Or should I start from scratch and try to setup El Capitan completely new ? Any links to successfull guides ? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted December 25, 2015 Moderators Share Posted December 25, 2015 Shouldn't be an issue upgrading, but you'll need to upgrade the bootpack and Clover version to at least 3320 before you do. Your signature show BIOS version A14...are you sure? Do you have artifacts issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 Thanks, for the tip, corrected my Bios to A12, and Mavericks is still running strong. But trying to upgrade to El Capitan just runs, wants a reboot and ... runs again into Mavericks ... I guess I will have to read some more on boot pack, clover and friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Following the tip from JakeLo followed the instructions in the linked posts. After a bit of misunderstanding the EFI stuff finally got it working, well the USB boot stick (I used a lexar 64 GB USB 2.0 version) so it boots into Clover V2 3330 then starts the screen with the apple on it (sometimes it goes into a panic but rebooting will convince the booter to continue) but it is at the apple screen at at apps 75% the screen goes blank and stays that way. Did I mention I do have a laptop with just 1344 x 756 resolution. Since there is only a E6430 download for 1600 x 900 resolution could that be the "I can't see anything on screen anymore" problem during the OS X installer ? How can I correct this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 FYI I've got device id 0166 and revision id 0009 on my running mav whereas in the downloaded E6430 config.plist there are entries for dev/rev 0166 0004 could this cause the "hang" ? TIA, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted January 3, 2016 Moderators Share Posted January 3, 2016 Replace the config and DSDT with that from E6230, that will set the correct resolution for your system. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 that was/is the trick, I just had to re-launch clover install package to get that EFI partition back and copied those two files et voila El Capitan is running ... Thank you for helping out, case closed. I hope, I still must do the post install. Happy new year to all of ye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewe1263 Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 So far for my hopes .... can't get the system to boot from the SSD only boot from usb and than select the SSD and it will boot to the SSD but that's not how it should be. What I've noticed as well is that the EFI partition on the SSD is not shown on the desktop when running the clover install package. I've already twice run thru the steps in the post installation but no success so far .... Any tips you might have ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted January 5, 2016 Moderators Share Posted January 5, 2016 You could try mounting with Clover Configurator or EFI-Mounter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted January 5, 2016 Administrators Share Posted January 5, 2016 Alternatively, you may opt for Enoch. r2795 boot El Capitan without issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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