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Hi all,
I have been unable to boot the El Capitan installer. I am upgrading from Yosemite using the app store app. I have put the kexts (fakesmc, powernull) in the 10.11 folder, I've made the adjustments to config.plist to include the booterconfig, and csractiveconfig under rtvariables. When I run the installer and restart, I choose the installer volume, and all it does it bring up a grey screen and the spinning ball.

Anyone have any ideas on what I am missing?
 
Add -v to Boot args in Clover and see where it gets stuck at.
 
I put the kexts in the other folder as well (they're in both places). No difference.

When booting the installer in verbose mode:

I get the usual Sound Assertion in AppleHDADriver
Then it says:
Wed Sep 30 iMac.local com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.ntp.sntp.117) <Warning>: Service exited with abnormal code 255.
Then it sits there for a few minutes, and then it boots to the grey screen and spinning ball. (usually with spinning ball.) This time when I booted, it just went to grey screen. no spinning ball.
 
Same issue here.

The first time it actually booted the installer but kernel panicked at some point. After that I get the grey screen with the beachball.

SIP is disabled, kexts are in the correct folder, bootflags are fine (npci=0x2000 nv_disable=1 -v) and I can boot Yosemite with no issues.

I installed El Cap GM a few weeks ago on this machine and it worked perfectly, but now I can't update from a recent Yosemite installation to the final El Cap.
 
Same issue here.
 
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I was having the same issue for the last 3 hours. I tried so many different things. I was about to call it quits and just walk away and resolve myself to stay at 10.9.5.

As a last ditch effort I removed any multibeast installed kexts out of /S/L/E. I then removed the EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.X directories and made sure my kexts were in the "Other" directory. Finally I loaded the default clover config.plist from the El Capitan Beta thread. After all that it magically worked and I'm typing this from El Capitan!

Good luck, I hope you are able work through it!
 
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GA-Z77-DS3H |  i7 3770K |  GeForce GT 640
chrismartino said:
I was having the same issue for the last 3 hours. I tried so many different things. I was about to call it quits and just walk away and resolve myself to stay at 10.9.5.

As a last ditch effort I removed any multibeast installed kexts out of /S/L/E. I then removed the EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.X directories and made sure my kexts were in the "Other" directory. Finally I loaded the default clover config.plist from the El Capitan Beta thread. After all that it magically worked and I'm typing this from El Capitan!

Good luck, I hope you are able work through it!
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can you point us to that thread?? please.
 
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