H123

Hi Jake Lo, I managed to install Catalina Beta 9 on my Dell Latitude E6440. Thank you very much.

Verbose Booting stopped with ACPI Error AppleUSBXHCI::start: hardware exception occured and several others, pls see picture.

Hello Jake Lo, at least I can confirm all BIOS settings according your recommendation above. I am going to try out your recommendations concerning CLOVER as mentioned above and I will post the result as soon as available. Question: Is it intended to NOT install SMCHelper in UEFI Drivers\Recommended drivers? Thank you for your help. Heinz

Hello, Jake Lo, I am a little bit frustrated, because each and every advice or hint does not lead to a successful boot of Catatlina Beta 9 on my Latitude E6440 (German Keyboard). The verbose installation process gets stuck all the time. I have got a USB Stick that is able to boot and install Mojave, so after several days of experimenting with different kexts, combination of kexts etc, I am still unable to install Catalina Beta 9. Even with the same Clover config and kexts, I am not able to start into the installation process.

Hi Jake Lo, I tried your bootpack, but it doesn't work for me. I am now going to install Mojave and then upgrade to Catalina.... Perhaps that'll work...

I am going to create a new USB Stick because I discovered that I was running an older Clover. Keep thumbs pressed.

Thank you Jake Lo, I've done that, no success so far.

I got this message on the display (twice in succession): ApplePS2Controller: Timed out on mouse input stream Then the computer hangs at ALPS: Found a V3 Rushmore TouchPad with ID: E7=0x73 0x03 0x0a, EC=0x88 0x08 0x22 ALPS: Trackstick detected ALPS: TouchPad driver started

@NaviD: I tried it with USB on the left AND without VoodooPS2Controller and plugins - no success. Machine hangs now at/after apfs_module_start: 1683...... @Jake Lo: yep, seems to show the same error... I am going to give "VoodooPS2Controller-R6Bronxteck.kext" a try, that worked good with Mojave. Result: Unfortunately no success.

Hm, lets see - I have got macos Catalina beta-9 on a 16 GB USB Stick Clover_v2.5k_r5070 a Dell latitude E6440 notebook (GERMAN Keyboard) CPU i5 4300m 8 GB of RAM 320 GB HDD (will be replaced with SSD later) Intel HD 4600 BCM94352HMB WiFi BT Card (working with Mojave due to kext) I created the Catalina Boot USB Stick then installed Clover onto it I mounted the USB Stick EFI Partition I deleted the original CLOVER directory I copied YOUR CLOVER directory onto the USB Stick EFI Partition First Boot: no success Second Boot with deleted GenericUSBXHCI.kext (your advice) - no success Third boot with external usb keyboard and usb mouse AND (as you wrote above) disabled (ALL THREE checkmarks) VoodooPS2ControllerRB6 VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext No success. So, please tell me: what is your secret recipe to get Catalina to work? BTW: Thank you for your support.

Sorry, no success.... Please, see picture below.

Hi @NaviD, Your Catalina guide looks good, but does not work for my E6440. It got stuck during booting when it comes to Touchpad ALPS...

Hi Hervé, any idea where to get that VoodooPS2Controller kext r6? I crawled a lot, but cannot find a download location esp. for r6 Any hint is appreciated. Bye, Heinz

Hi HERVÉ, thank you very much, I am going to try that specific kext and post the result here. Bye, h123

Hi Jake Lo, yes, I set it to ANSI but all combinations with Fn or AltGr do not work. Besides that, it is quite good