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I am using Chameleon for now. Battery meter sometimes works on battery, it comes and goes, and seems to always work when plugged in.

So after giving up on OSX for months, I had the urge to tinker again and attacked this challenge again. After a week of failed attempts, I finally have a working 10.10.5 install, only real issue is the battery meter. Keeps failing. Anyone have any suggestions? I thought I saw a solution but after going back 7 pages on this thread decided it must have been another thread I saw. Next stop, El Capitan, although for now at least I can get current with Xcode.

Just thought I would share an update, thanks froggymike911 (think that's the right handle) and his kernel, I have a booting usb stick now. Would likely have a booting Yosemite install if I hadn't made a couple mistakes and ran out of time. Hoping that sometime this week I will have some more time to get it working. Thanks again guys for all your help!

So I have been messing with this again today and I think I know what the problem is. Just before it kernel panics it shows ApplePS2.kext (something along those lines) trying to load as well VoodooPS2.kext (both keyboard and mouse). Isn't ApplePS2.kext supposed to be one of the kexts that is deleted? Doesn't that kext cause issues with Voodoo? I have been trying to find this kext on the install disk but I can't find it. Unfortunately most of the folders are hidden so I can't just search the whole drive. I know it is not in System/Library/Extensions and it is not in Extra/Extensions. Any other ideas on where it might be finding this kext to load? Edit #1 So it is ApplePS2Controller.kext. I am sure this is the issue but so far no luck narrowing down where the kext is coming from. I thought maybe it might be pulling from one of my other installs so I unplugged all the hard disks but it is still trying to load it. Says it is timing out, then kernel panic.

Johnm, once you stop the countdown on the white screen that shows your boot drive, when you type the characters should appear in the bottom left corner of the screen. It's pretty small and hard to see, but should be there. Just type the -v -x or whatever you trying to put in and hit enter.

Probably at some point, I have a 100gb partition on the secondary drive set aside as a possible secondary OS drive. My main drive is a 120gb SSD so I don't really intend any dual boot with that drive, not a lot of free space. I will check out your clover info again when I get a chance and see if I can make it work.

Hey PlutoDelic, if you want me to be a guinea pig on your guide, let me know. I have yet to make a booting Yosemite drive even though I had no real issues with Patel4Prez first two guides for this machine, I have had several different installs running on it at different times don't understand why I can't get this one to work. I've installed OSX on at least six different machines, using everything from a distro to tonycrap installs to mostly stock chameleon, I'm not a kext editing master but I know my way around in a pinch. I have a HD caddy in my machine for my Carbon Copy Cloner backup, always helps to have a second booting disk when the first one goes south.

Not having any luck, hangs at the same point. I'll keep playing around but if anyone has any suggestions I am open to them. I do appreciate the help so far though, I know you guys are just doing this to help out and don't owe me a thing. Edit Finally have a working install, it appears my installer was the issue...

I'll try again tonight, see if the new zip helps. Just for kicks I will try another flash drive, even though I was using the exact same flash drive I used to install Mavericks. Wouldn't bother with Yosemite at all but want to try out the Office beta and will need to eventually run Office 2016 on this machine until I can afford a real Mac and Office 2016 only runs on Yosemite. The Mavericks install runs beautifully, must give big kudos for your guide patel4prez. Great work. Edit #1 Three attempts to download new files, once with chrome and twice with safari, and the diskmaker app is corrupt everytime... Trying on the vm now... Edit #2 Vm download worked, creating usb key, crossing all digits and wearing all lucky items of clothing...

Looking for some help, I am in the same boat as anaxagoras, I am trying to make a working installer from a 10.10.2 appstore update download. My hardware is almost identical to patel4pres, except no bluetooth and no web cam. I get a kernel panic while the alps touchpad kext is loading, although it sometimes looks like it loads correctly as the kernel panic happens. I can't get clover stick to boot at all, says unable to boot device. I have a theory tho, I am currently running Mavericks using patel4pres other instructions, but I made that boot disk from a VM on my xps 15. I am trying to make the new boot disk on the e6410. Anybody out there successfully use their e6410 to make a boot disk? Maybe there is an issue with the usb kext making for incomplete copies of some critical files or something. Just a thought. Edit #1 Downloading 10.10 on my mavericks vm, going to try setting up a boot stick from that and see what happens Edit # 2 No dice, hangs at same point with installer setup under vm, not sure if it is the touchpad kext that is causing the actual problem but it halts at the same point every time. Edit # 3 I am on bios version A16, anaxagoras, what version are you on? patel4prez? Just checked anaxagoras was on A12 and updated to A16... Edit # 4 Finally have a working yosemite install, was trying to use a 10.10.2 installer, switched to a 10.10 and it finally works, now to see about updates...