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Hi! thanks Jake 4 pointing out the update! Downloaded that, and replaced the older version of ACPIBatteryManager.kext I had in the EFI folder with ACPIBatteryManager.kext v1.60.4, and the battery icon in the menu bar came back! ================ Just a couple comments regarding my preference for running OSX on the e7440... As a "best practice" I always have an image of a working copy of the drive available, in case I need to re-image de OSX partition in the even of something not working right, using SuperDuper, since it's freely available for personal use for imaging the drive, and you only need to pay/buy, if you want to use its advance feature, which I don't. So having the install USB is very handy for those cases! Also, on my e7440 (uefi) , I have Win10 running on the internal 2.5" HD, and OSX on the mSATA. In my experience, Win10 won't install if the mSATA is present, so had to remove the mSATA, install Win10, then put back the mSATA (with OSX already installed), and set the uefi boot device to the mSATA drive on the firmware page (the one that shows up when pressing F2 when the DELL logo appears when powering up the system).

Hi! first of all, thanx for providing the guide for installing El Capitan on Dell e7440, I'm referring to the below link... https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/8506-dell-latitude-inspiron-el-capitan-clover-guide/ I tried it on my e7440 i5 system, with firmware A08, following the instructions, provided, and install seems to work no problem. Even though I realized that the ACPIBatteryManager.kext kext for power/battery control was included as part of the package, and copied into the EFI partition per the instructions, somehow I don't see the battery indicator. When I go to System Preferences --> Energy Saver --> Check "Show battery status in menu bar", the battery icon in the menu bar flashes, and dissapears, and the "checked box" to show the battery status in the menu bar becomes unchecked automatically. Is there anything that I should check or anything I might have missed? I copied the bootpack for the e7440 into /EFI_Clover/Clover as indicated, and renamed the EFI_Clover to EFI. Thanx!

Thank you! Finally got the installer, and was able to finalized installation... Still on 10.10, had to copy the Extra dir, and Haswell kernel back onto the OSX installed drive, right after the install. Put the "Bootscreen fix" as outlined in the http://forum.osxlati...-guide/?p=45213 guide...it was in the Extra dir, but finalized it with Kext Wizard into /S/L/E... Got OSX installed, and it boots to the desktop ok, but this is what I have observed, and dunno if it's that is expected... After selecting in Chameleon the boot partition, and seeing the Apple logo & white background, screen goes black for like 28 sec, the oly thing lit is the drive icon, and after that, then screen comes back with the Apple logo/white screen with the status bar in black...then status bar changes right away to white color, and I see some vertical lines at the top of the screen...(see top of 100_2571.JPG image, there are like 8 vertical greenish lines). These lines dissappear when OSX gets to login screen, and desktop. Haven't used the system system to see if any other graphic glitches creep out during regular usage. But overall, looks pretty good! Most of the functionality, is there as pointed out in the guide! BTW, system only has OSX in GUID...created a partition for Linux...(/dev/disk02s4). Reformatted it in gparted as ext4, set that partition flag to boot. Tried installing Ubuntu 14.04, and installed GRUB in disk0s4. I was under the assumption that Chameleon would see it and offer it as an option to boot, but it wasn't the case... Thanks!

Apologize for the late reply, just came back from family emergency... Using http://forum.osxlati...-guide/?p=45213 as the reference... Yes, I reset BIOS to default, and enabled AHCI in SATA Yes, I did copy the Haswell patched kernel into the install USB GUID...I have formatted the internal drive to GUID. Used the SSDT generated by "ssdtPRGen.sh -d 0 -p i5-4310U" ran on another system. Using the DSDT from the provided for e7440 in Latitude_E7x40.zip + my SSDT always yielded a black screen. Not sure if it matters, but used the DSDT for e7440 from the Mavericks guide ( and finally saw installer, using -v -f flags...but it crashed not long after that... thanks!

Thanks! is generating the SSDT via ssdtPRGen.sh on an i5-e6430 for the i5-e7440 the correct path of action? e.g. ssdtPRGen.sh -d 0 -p i5-4310U Did that, replaced the SSDT from the e7440 bootpack with the ssdtPRGen.sh generated one, booted with flags -v -f but got black screen at the end, so never got to the installer...should other flags be used?

Just wondering, since the cookbook for the e7440 Yosemite below: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7478-dell-latitude-yosemite-install-guide/?p=45213 iincludes instructions for the e7440 i7-based haswell, is there one for the e7440 i5-haswell 1920x1080? thanks!