Hi,
I've successfully managed to install High Sierra 10.13.6 on my E7250 (with A19 bios). I followed the Official Guide using Clover 4617 (now upgraded to 4644), and the E5450_HS_A19.zip boot pack. I formatted the hardrive using APFS. The installation went pretty well, I even installed a DW1560 Wifi card and that works very well.
But... the are some remaining issues that that I'm having trouble sorting out. These include:
The Clover boot menu does not automatically detect my boot drive. The hardive icon is highlighted in the boot menu but the label say something along the lines of 'boot not detected'. Funny thing is , if I hit enter then the laptop boots correctly. I've tried changing the 'Default Boot Volume' in clover but when I put in my HDDs name (Mactintosh) or the UID then the Clover boot loader doesn't even detect the drive and I need to reboot from the Clover USB.
After booting, the screen goes immediately black and the power button light flashes slowly like it is in sleep mode. When I hit the power button the login screen immediately appears.
The battery doesn't show the correct charge. After installation the taskbar battery icon showed only 39%, and this did not increase not matter how long the power was connected. Furthermore, if I unplug the power the battery % goes down, when I plug it in again the power doesn't increase.
The brightness up/down Fn buttons on my laptop work fine, but the system does not remember the last brightness setting. After every boot I need to increase the brightness as it is always quite low. Is this normal?
The CAP lock key plays up a little, I have to hit is several times to turn on and off - the number of times seems to be a little random. From what I've read in other posts, however, this seems like a know issue, correct?
The biggest worry is definitely the battery charging/percentage full issue, followed by the boot drive issues. Any assistance would be great.
I've attached my EFI folder (zipped) and a copy of my boot.log file.
EFI.7z
bootlog.7z
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Rich