Inspiron 5523 - Ultrabook 15z i7-3517u

Crawl71 said:

Thought I would post my Dell Laptop results up to this point and try and obtain some help for the last parts. Once I am successful I will turn this over to a guide.

My setup:

Computer Brand Name: DELL Inspiron 5523 (15z)
Processor: Intel Core i7-3517U (1900.0 MHz)
Motherboard: DELL 0JRYH9 (Intel HM77 (Panther Point))
Memory: 8 GBytes (Dual-Channel)
SAMSUNG SSD 256GB (Windows)
Seagate 1TB Laptop SSHD, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache (MacOS)
Display Adapter: Intel HD4000 + Nvidia 630M Optimus
Audio Adapter: Intel Panther Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller [C1]
Network Adapter: Wifi Atheros 9280
Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Battery: DELL TPMCF2A

My Installation:

- Yosemite with Unibeast/Multibeast
- Used 'nv_disable=1 dart=0' in order to load into the installer
- Installed successfully
- Rebooted into Yosemite with the same flags
- Originally tried using EasyBeast and DSDT Free; neither were successful
- With some research and work I installed the following
- Patched DSDT/SSDT
- Kexts in Extra/Extensions
- FakeSMC
- ACPIBatteryManager - Battery Status
- VoodooPS2Controller - Mouse/Keyboard
- ACPIBacklight - Backlight control
- GenericUSBXHCI - USB 3.0 if it exists in your system
- NullCPUPowerManagement until you have a patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
- Updated the 'org.chameleon.boot.plist'
- Updated the SMBios.plist to reflect 8,2

So once I have done all of that, I try and reboot. The last unsuccessful reboot generated the attached image. So this is where I am stuck and in need of some assistance to see if there is something in there that makes sense. The photo is not cut off; this is simply where it stopped loading.

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RehabMan said:

You should have no kexts in /Extra/Extensions.

NullCPU is not appropriate for laptops. See power management: http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-laptop-support/146870-guide-native-power-management-laptops.html

MacBookPro8,2 is not correct for Ivy CPU.

You need to use nv_disable=1 to keep nvidia drivers from interfering with startup.

See guide: http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...-booting-os-x-installer-laptops-unibeast.html

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Crawl71 said:

Once again thank you for the information. I will work my through the Power Management Guide and clean up the items you have made note of. As I was reading through I noticed the reference to MB Patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement. The version in there is listed as 10.9. Is this version acceptable for Yosemite?

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Crawl71 said:

Thank you again RehabMan, as usual your guidance has been invaluable. I have now been able to get a successful reboot using DSDT-free and creating a proper SMBios. I will continue along following your guide to create SSDT and DSDT files.

Now its a matter of testing everything to see what I can live without and what I need to fix, such as my sound.

I think next time I go about this I will also follow your Clover guide!

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Crawl71 said:

Are any of the MB Realtek or Universal patches known to work in a pinch until I can work through the AppleHDA patch or is this just wishful thinking?

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RehabMan said:

VoodooHDA is always a possibility, but it usually does not work well...

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Crawl71 said:

As always, thank you for the information. This build would not have been possible without your knowledge and support!

I have installed the VoodooHDA which is working, though as you indicated, not the best, but its sound non-the-less until I can build a patched AppleHDA.

Now comes the rest of the work to make this a solid build. I am still fighting the 'tethered' way of booting...meaning that I still have to use the usb to get it to boot into Yosemite but I suspect that this is due to the way I have things set up;
HDD1 - Windows
HDD2 (via HD Caddy) - Yosemite

If I try just f12 without the USB it won't boot, when I use the USB and select HDD2 it will load the bootloader for me to select Yosemite. I think I understand that this is because the bootloader wants to install on HD1 but can't because of windows?

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