[Guide] Dell Inspiron 15 7559 (Skylake, i7-6700HQ, Intel HD 530)
This guide will show you how i did the full installation of El Capitan and Windows 10 dual boot on the same drive on my laptop (specs below). the guide will cover dual booting with Clover UEFI. Also, the drive you will use will be wiped completely so make sure your data is backed up.
What you will need before beginning this guide
- 8GB 2.0 USB to create bootable OS X Installer
- 8GB USB to create bootable Windows Installer
- laptop below
- BCM9435Z if you want full WiFi/AirDrop/HandOff support in OS X
- SSD if you want fast boot times
- Acces to a real Mac or hackintosh
- Dell 7559 package (download below)
Dell Inspiron 7559
- Intel i7-6700HQ with IGPU Intel HD 530
- 8GB DDR3L (single channel)
- 1TB HDD (storage drive)
- 256GB SSD (dual boot drive) [bought afterwards]
- 15,6” IPS 1920x1080 (no touchscreen)
- BCM94352Z (replaced internal Intel 3165AC) [bought afterwards]
- Nvidia GTX 960M 4GB
- Realtek ALC256
Working
Battery, sleep, power stepping, graphics acceleration, backlight, Bluetooth, WiFi, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI, ethernet, speakers, microphone, audio/mic port, webcam, iMessage and FaceTime, Airdrop and HandOff, making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages.
Not working
SD slot
A) Create bootable Windows 10 USB
Using Microsofts media creation tool, you can easily create a bootable Windows 10 USB. Search on Google if you need some help with this as i will skip this.
B) Prepare internal drive
Boot from the USB created in step A by pressing F12 on boot (if it doesn’t work hold Delete while booting and press F12 continuously). Before you install, choose repair this computer, then troubleshoot, then advanced options and then Command Prompt. You want to make sure your drive is erased completely before you try this dual boot. In Command Prompt type ‘diskpart’ and select the drive you want to wipe with ‘select disk 0’ (number may be different for you). Next, your drive will be
fully erased with the command ‘clean’. After doing this you want to type ‘convert gpt’ to make the drive a GUID partition table (necessary for OS X). Afterwards, type ‘exit’.
C) Install Windows 10
Again, boot from the USB created in step A and install Windows 10 as you would do normally on the drive you erased in step B.
D) Create partition for OS X
Disconnect the USB and boot Windows 10. You can set it up as you like. Install MacDrive from Mediafour to create a partition for OS X. Open MacDrive and click create. You can now create a HFS+ partition on the drive you just installed Windows 10 on. I suggest you give them 50/50 GB storage each. So, in my case, i partitioned a HFS+ partition with 128GB. Close MacDrive after you successfully created the drive. Name it as you like.
E) Create bootable OS X El Capitan Installer on real Mac or hackintosh
I’m going to refer to the tonymacx86 tutorial here:
UniBeast: Install OS X El Capitan on Any Supported Intel-based PC
In UniBeast choose El Capitan, UEFI, no graphics
On the real Mac or hackintosh download Clover Configurator, KextBeast and MultiBeast here:
tonymacx86 Downloads | tonymacx86.com. Move these apps to the installer USB just created.
Also download Rehabman’s VoodooPS2Controller.kext to make sure you can navigate during the installation here:
RehabMan / OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller / Downloads — Bitbucket
Open Clover Configurator if USB EFI isn't already mounted and mount the USB EFI (something like disk2s1).
Place the kext in EFI/Clover/kexts/Other/
F) BIOS settings
I have BIOS version 1.1.5, i’ve had
no succes with version 1.1.7 so make sure you check that (you can download each version of the Dell website under drivers).
Reboot and acces the BIOS setup by pressing F2 (if it doesn’t work hold Delete while booting and press F2 continuously).
- Select AHCI under SATA
- Disable secure boot, keep legacy boot enabled
- Disable Advanced Battery Charging (thanks geboe)
- Disable VT for direct I/O
- Disable Virtualization (if you have "Bluetooth not available" issues after installation)
G) Install OS X El Capitan
Before booting,
disconnect all USBs and charger. This is necessary for booting this particular laptop. Plug in the USB created in step E. Boot from the USB by pressing F12 on boot. Clover will load. Make sure you add these boot flags ‘nv_disable=1’ and ‘-v’ without quotes. Also, make sure USB Ownership is enabled under pci devices under Clover options. Then, check inject intel under graphic options under Clover options, enable it. Go back to the Clover main menu and boot OS X installer from USB.
If everything is set correctly, you will see a whole bunch of lines before reaching the installer. If you don’t, you’ve probably done something wrong.
Once the installer is reached, choose disk utility from the top bar under utilities. You will see your internal HFS+ partition, click on it, in the top bar, go to archive and
enable journaling. Close disk utility if you enabled it and now you can install El Capitan on this partition.
Once installed, it will reboot automatically, make sure you boot again from the installer USB. Add the boot flags and options above before booting El Capitan.
Set it up as you like, choose no internet.
H) Post installation
Drag MultiBeast, KextBeast and Clover Configurator from the installer USB to your desktop. Open Clover Configurator and mount internal EFI (something like disk0s1). Open EFI partition and drag EFI/Microsoft to desktop.
Open MultiBeast and under quick start select UEFI mode. Under drivers, network, choose RealtekRTL8111. Under customize, graphics, choose Intel HD 530. Under customize, system definitions, choose MacBook Pro 11,2. Choose build and install on OS X drive.
Open EFI/Clover/config.plist. Clover configurator will open. Go to Boot and under arguments check dart=0, nv_disable=1 and kext-dev-mode=1, leave the rest unchecked. Under Devices; check Inject, FixOwnership, Add ClockID. Under Gui, uncheck Legacy under Scan. Under Graphics, check inject Intel. Close Clover configurator.
Move the directory Microsoft from desktop to EFI/. Open Microsoft/Boot/ and rename bootmgfw.efi to bootmgfw-orig.efi. If you don’t do this Microsoft boot manager will bypass Clover.
You can now boot without the installer USB and choose between Windows 10 and El Capitan in Clover. Ethernet will work, for more see below. (guide assumes you have ethernet connection)
I) Additional kexts
Download the Dell 7559 package (download below) and drop it on your OS X desktop. Place all the kext files from Desktop/Dell_7559/kexts/ on your desktop. Open KextBeast and follow instructions to install the kext files to System/Library/Extensions/.
J) DDST/SDST edits
Reboot and in Clover boot menu, press F4 to extract your ACPI files. For disassembly and editing out the errors i will refer to this guide here:
[Guide] Patching LAPTOP DSDT/SSDTs
Return to this guide when you have the .dsl files of DDST and SDSTs (the ones without an x in their name) without errors. Place them in a folder on your desktop.
Assuming you have MaciASL as instructed by the guide in above link, open the program. Go to the program’s preferences and add this source:
http://raw.github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch/master
You now have all RehabMan’s laptop patches at your disposal in MaciASL.
DDST patches:
Open DSDT.dsl in MaciASL:
Search for ‘GFX0’ and replace all with ‘IGPU’
Search for ‘HECI’ and replace all with ‘IMEI’
Search for ‘HDAS’ and replace all with ‘HDEF’
//optional: disable nvidia for better battery (advised)
Add these lines above the other External lines at the beginning:
Code:
External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS3, MethodObj)
External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS0, MethodObj)
External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF, MethodObj)
External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._ON, MethodObj)
External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.SGOF, MethodObj)
External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.SGON, MethodObj)
Search for ‘_WAK’ and add these methods above Method (_WAK):
Code:
Method (M_ON, 0, NotSerialized)
{
If (CondRefOf (\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._ON))
{
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._ON()
}
If (CondRefOf (\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS0))
{
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS0()
}
If (CondRefOf (\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.SGON))
{
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.SGON()
}
}
Code:
Method (M_OF, 0, NotSerialized)
{
If (CondRefOf (\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF))
{
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._OFF()
}
If (CondRefOf (\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS3))
{
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._PS3()
}
If (CondRefOf (\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.SGOF))
{
\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.SGOF()
}
}
Add this line right after the opening bracket of Method (_WAK):
Search for ‘_PTS’ and add this line right after the opening bracket of Method (_PTS):
Search for the ’_INI’ where you find references of Linux and Windows. Add this line between Store (….) and If (…..(..)):
credit and video tutorial:
//end of optional disabling of nvidia
Click on Patch and apply the following patches:
[Audio] Audio Layout 3
[bat] Dell Inspiron 15-7xxx
[igpu] Brightness fix
[sys] IRQ fix
[sys] Skylake LPC
[usb] USB3_PRW 0x6D (instant wake)
Click Compile and if you have any errors (warnings don’t matter) clear them by using the patching guide above. Save the file as: DSDT.aml and
file format: ACPI Machine Language Binary.
SSDT patches:
Open SSDT-5.dsl:
Search for ‘GFX0’ and replace all with ‘IGPU’
Click Compile and if you have any errors (warnings don’t matter) clear them by using the patching guide above. Save the file as: SSDT-5.aml and
file format: ACPI Machine Language Binary
Open SSDT-15.dsl:
Search for ‘GFX0’ and replace all with ‘IGPU’
Click Compile and if you have any errors (warnings don’t matter) clear them by using the patching guide above. Save the file as: SSDT-15.aml and
file format: ACPI Machine Language Binary
Do the same for the remaining SSDTs without an x (compiling and saving as .aml files) but without patches.
For custom power management of the cpu (SSDT.aml) i will refer to this guide here:
[Guide] Native Power Management for Laptops
Placing ACPI files in Clover:
You should now have these .aml files ALL without errors SOME patched:
DSDT.aml (patched)
SSDT.aml (from guide in link above)
SSDT-0.aml
SSDT-1.aml
SSDT-2.aml
SSDT-3.aml
SSDT-4.aml
SSDT-5.aml (patched)
SSDT-6.aml
SSDT-14.aml
SSDT-15.aml (patched)
Open Clover Configurator and mount internal EFI. Open EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched/ and place all your .aml files here. Also, place Desktop/Dell_7559/patches/SSDT_UIAC.aml there.
Open Desktop/Dell_7559/config/ and place the config.plist in EFI/Clover/
The FakePCIID for graphics 0x191b0000 in this config.plist works for me. It may be different if you have the 4K screen version of this laptop.
I use Clover 3354 (or later) to fix the audio distortion after 2 minutes issue. This version also shows the correct Intel HD 530 in About this Mac. Later versions tend to state Intel Unknown.
Apparently this is fixed in Clover 3530, going to test it as soon as it's available. You can overwrite your current Clover version if you want to without problems; your config.plist and patched ACPI files will stay. (https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/tickets/235/)
Fixed in
Clover 3543, no sound distortion and correct video card in About this Mac.
Open the config.plist you just placed in EFI/Clover/ and Clover Configurator will open. Go to the section SMBIOS and click the magic wand icon. Choose the MacBook icon and select MacBook 11,2 in the dropdown menu. Shake a few times with the Week and Unit until you find a Serial that’s not valid (means it isn’t used yet by an official Mac). You can check that here:
Check Your Service and Support Coverage - Apple Support
Close Clover Configurator when you have found one.
Reboot now and everything should work.
These are the exact steps that i’ve taken and it’s working excellently. If you have any questions, i will try to respond correct and quick.
Special thanks to RehabMan for helping me and for providing various laptop patches and kexts!
Enjoy!
