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MacOS Mojave Public Beta on Dell 7559

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hut2016

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Motherboard
Inspiron 15 7000 Series 7559
CPU
Core i7-6700HQ
Graphics
Intel HD530/NVIDIA GTX 960M 3840x2160
It's been days since I successfully installed MacOS Mojave Public Beta on this Dell 7559. The config is exactly the same as the one booting High Sierra except that I updated Clover to r4595. No surprise there are problems:
  1. Random panic during boot. But I can always boot into Mojave if try enough times, at most 4 If I remember correctly. See attached pics for both boot messages of panic and normal boot.
  2. CoreDisplayFixup doesn't work on Public Beta 1 or Public Beta 2. mac-pixel-clock-patch-V2 works on an early version of Public Beta 1, but not on Public Beta 2. A patched working CoreDisplay.framework is attached.
 

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hut2016 said:
It's been days since I successfully installed MacOS Mojave Public Beta on this Dell 7559. The config is exactly the same as the one booting High Sierra except that I updated Clover to r4595. No surprise there are problems:
  1. Random panic during boot. But I can always boot into Mojave if try enough times, at most 4 If I remember correctly. See attached pics for both boot messages of panic and normal boot.
  2. CoreDisplayFixup doesn't work on Public Beta 1 or Public Beta 2. mac-pixel-clock-patch-V2 works on an early version of Public Beta 1, but not on Public Beta 2. A patched working CoreDisplay.framework is attached.
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Use MacBookPro11,1 not MacBookPro11,2.

Your kextcache output proves kexts are not installed correctly.
All kexts you need must be installed to the system volume.
Read post #2 of the Clover guide for details:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/

After those two major mistakes, I stopped checking.
 
RehabMan said:
Use MacBookPro11,1 not MacBookPro11,2.
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We have discussed this before, MacBookPro11,2s have no discrete GPU.

RehabMan said:
Your kextcache output proves kexts are not installed correctly.
All kexts you need must be installed to the system volume.
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Done.

au1986 said:
could u share ur high sierra configs?thx
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See attachment debug_4119.zip. If you are going to try my config:
- I use hot path ACPI so you can copy the CLOVER folder over as is.
- edit config.plist to replace SMBIOS info with your own.
- the config is not tested with SSD or HDMI.
- Besides kexts in CLOVER/kexts/Other, I have these extra kexts installed in /S/L: ACPIBatteryManager.kext, BrcmPatchRAM2.kext, cloverHDA.kext, AppleBacklightInjector.kext, CodecCommander.kext. Specifically, you will have to set FakeID to an invalid value (0x12345678) then boot into the system and install AppleBacklightInjector.kext so that you can avoid any screen backlight issue.

Update: I have updated to Mojave public beta 3. Problem 1 does not occur but I'm not sure it is fixed or not because it is pretty random. Problem 2 is fixed by a modified version of CoreDisplay-patcher which adds a command like:
Code: 
perl -i.bak -pe '$oldtest1 = qr"\xE8\x38\x02\x00\x00\xBB\xE6\x02\x00\xE0\x85\xC0\x0F\x85\x9C\x00\x00\x00"s;$newtest1 = "\xE8\x38\x02\x00\x00\xBB\xE6\x02\x00\xE0\x31\xC0\x0F\x85\x9C\x00\x00\x00"; $oldtest2 = qr"\xE8\x65\x00\x00\x00\xBB\xE6\x02\x00\xE0\x85\xC0\x0F\x85\xC9\xFE\xFF\xFF"s; $newtest2 = "\xE8\x65\x00\x00\x00\xBB\xE6\x02\x00\xE0\x31\xC0\x0F\x85\xC9\xFE\xFF\xFF";s/$oldtest1/$newtest1/g;s/$oldtest2/$newtest2/g' $CoreDisplayLocation
but this fix doesn't work on public beta 2.
 
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I have this laptop but when I boot to the installer there are no drives in disk utility any ideas ?
 
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