WackeyRacer Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 really struggling to get the newly created USB to be even seen by the E5440. It just boots from the hard drive or throws Invalid Portion Table ! What am I doing wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted September 20, 2016 Moderators Share Posted September 20, 2016 Set the BIOS to Load Default, hit Apply, then set SATA Operations to AHCI. Note: if you have windows install to Raid 0 or ATA, this will make your Windows unbootable. Your installer, are you using Enoch Chameleon or Clover loader? For Clover did you install Clover loader according to UEFI or Legacy? Is BIOS set to UEFI or Legacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted September 21, 2016 Administrators Share Posted September 21, 2016 in bios A04 it states that they Improved the compatibility of HDD and SSD. so if you get stuck and nothing seems to work maybe update the bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WackeyRacer Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 I've updated to A14 now. Seems to see the USB drive now.......got it working with Yosemite but now trying with Sierra. Do we have a working files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted September 21, 2016 Administrators Share Posted September 21, 2016 if your using clover make a kext folder for 10.12 or use the other folder transfer your kexts to either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WackeyRacer Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 Had a really productive night last night, managed to create the right USB setup to install Sierra. After about 1 hour, the Latitude finally booted showed Sierra running in all it's glory. Remembering from when i got Yosemite running earlier this week, I needed to mount the EFI of both the USB drive and the internal hard drive. So i copied the clover directory from the USB over to the EFI on the hard drive....and rebooted I then get invalid partition again.......nevermind i thought......inserted the USB and requested a boot from that again. The only boot options (even after pressing F4) is boot from recovery or reinstall. Thinking that I've done something wrong, re-installed for the 2nd time......alll installed fine, did updated etc. Did the same again as per the instructions here :.. https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7539-yosemite-installation-guide-latitude-e5440-intel-i5-clover-uefi/ Same again.......so after a 3rd time re-installed, I thought I'd reboot the mac from the USB (without copying clover over) & there is no option to boot from the internal hard drive. What am I missing (sorry for the long thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WackeyRacer Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 my 4th install later this morning, i'll try the post setup here ( https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/8506-dell-latitude-inspiron-precision-el-capitan-clover-guide/&do=findComment&comment=54632 ) Instead of copying, I need to run clover again.......my bad ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WackeyRacer Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 OK....that didn't work. I only have Boot Mac OS from Recovery HD - this shows an no entry sign & Boot Recovery. If the USB is installed, I have a new option which is to install again i'm guessing that its missing the command to boot from the Mac configured hd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted September 23, 2016 Administrators Share Posted September 23, 2016 try running diskutil cs list in terminal if it returns that there are core storage volumes then you need to revert it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WackeyRacer Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 running the command shows the attached image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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