DustyWater

I just kept everything the same as what was in the bootpack. All kexts are in other and there is no folder other than other.

Time to make a fresh installation...

That is what I am doing. The install usb I made won't boot. It gets stuck at "Waiting for DSMOS"

Make sure all the files are from the bootpack and not just the generic created by Clover loader.

I deleted the efi folder completely and replaced it with the bootpack. Still have waiting for dsmos. I also tried remaking it on another usb. Still have waiting for dsmos.

Ok, I mounted the drive and found that fakesmc was in the other folder

Ok I tried to use both clover configurator and EFI mounter. But neither worked as seen here:  Clover configurator is left and right is EFI mounter

Oh, now I feel stupid. I wasn't using any of those tools. I was looking in disk utility.

I can't seem to mount the efi partition for editing it. Should I reinstall it without installing it in the ESP?

I am trying to boot from the USB. What I am saying is that when I want to try and edit the usb stick's efi partition so that I can change the smbios but it shows up blank on my imac when I try to edit it.

I can't change the smbios because the efi partition appears empty on my imac

I turned off optimum and got stuck on "waiting for dsmos..." and I am using whatever smbios that was in the bootpack on your thread.

Yes I did. I have managed to get someone to download a copy of el capitan for me. I have made the usb but when I boot it I get a completely garbled screen. 

It tells me "Operation not supported" for this command:

/Volumes/<HDD partition name>/usr/sbin/kextcache -Boot -U /Volumes/<HDD partition name>/ -K /Volumes/<HDD partition name>/System/Library/Kernels/kernel

I have been plugging my hard drive in to my imac and using that to do everything (delete kexts ect). I used kext wizard on my imac to rebuild cache on the hard drive

Ok well I used that bootpack and tried deleting most kexts but unfortunately I still get this

You'll find it in your AppStore purchases.

It's there but it doesn't let me download it. It just tells me that it cannot be installed on this computer (which is not actually what I want to do but ok apple).

I found out that when I did the upgrade the el capitan installer was deleted. I have no way of getting another one because the only real mac I own is a late 2006 core 2 duo iMac which is running 10.7 lion which doesn't support any newer os or even let me download it to use on another computer. I can get someone else to download el capitan for me but it's not ideal. If I wanted to try and repair my current install where would I start?

Unfortunately even with the patched AICPUPM and the kernelBooter_kexts=yes flag. It still ends with the same result as post 6 of this topic. It says something about loading extensions then it dies.

Is there any hope recovering this or should I start from scratch with el capitan? (I would much prefer recovering this though)

 

I'd say you somehow chose a relatively challenging way of upgrading from Mavericks to El Capitan.

1. How did you configure Clover and what kexts have you used?
2. Can you try and post your EFI/CLOVER folder of your EFI partition?
3. Did you manage to rebuild cache or, alternatively, did you succeed in booting El Capitan without cache?

 

1. I used all the kexts from npjohnson's guide and a couple more (I don't remember exactly but if you give me a second I can send you a screenshot of everything in my S/L/E folder from my old imac)

2. It's in the second post

3. I used kext wizard to rebuild cache after removing the kext. I didn't try booting without cache. I will try now

EDIT: Booting without caches did nothing

EDIT 2: Here is all of the kexts in S/L/E:

 

Ok I tried installing enoch on to the drive and upon boot (with -v) I got followed by  followed by the laptop turning off

I removed the ev0reboot kext and set AsusAICPUPM to true but it still kernel panics. Sometimes it doesn't even get all the way down

PCI (build 19:23: 

It just cuts off at that line

example: 

Also, earlier it couldn't boot because of not being able to find mach_kernel, so I copied System/Library/Kernels/kernel to the root of the drive and renamed it to mach_kernel

 

Here is my clover EFI folder: EFI.zip

First of all here are my system specs:

Dell Latitude e6420

Intel Core i7 2720QM

16 GB RAM

NVS 4200m

 

I had mavericks installed with everything working using chameleon,

the dsdt from here 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/342-latitude-e6420-nvs-4200-dsdtaml/

 

kexts from here 

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6192-guide-mavericks-on-dell-latitude-e6420/

 

and an ssdt from here 

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/5943-dell-latitude-e6520-e6420-with-optimus-enabled-mavericks/

 

I had to switch to clover to do the upgrade, and it installed fine. The issue is that now it kernel panics when I try to boot it.

Here is a picture I managed to grab before it turned off: 

Does anyone know what is wrong?