Problem on Acer Aspire E15 (E5-571-376T)

[ieric]

Well, El Cápitan boots and install normally tho, think I'll just stick with it. Thanks

 

[RehabMan]

Well, El Cápitan boots and install normally tho, think I'll just stick with it. Thanks

Reports for 10.11 on hacks with Broadwell are definitely better than with 10.10.

Probably best to just jump now...

 

[ieric]

One last thing, do you have any clues on why I can't resize nor partition my MBR disk using the El Capitan PB5 Disk Utility even tho i have applied the MBR Patch?

EDIT: Nevermind, fixed.

 

[RehabMan]

One last thing, do you have any clues on why I can't resize nor partition my MBR disk using the El Capitan PB5 Disk Utility even tho i have applied the MBR Patch?

EDIT: Nevermind, fixed.

MBR patch is not needed and is not allowed by the rules...

http://www.tonymacx86.com/faq.php

 

[ieric]

Is it safe to use the BIOS file for an Acer Aspire E5-571 (which i do not know the exact model) which has the same BIOS as mine, including the version, to apply the DVMT patch or am I likely to brick my laptop? Sorry about the question but I want to be 100% sure that i'm not going to make my laptop useless :V

 

[RehabMan]

Is it safe to use the BIOS file for an Acer Aspire E5-571 (which i do not know the exact model) which has the same BIOS as mine, including the version, to apply the DVMT patch or am I likely to brick my laptop? Sorry about the question but I want to be 100% sure that i'm not going to make my laptop useless :V

Flashing a patched BIOS always carries the risk of bricking. And patched BIOS files are generally specific to each laptop. Proceed at your own risk.

 

[ieric]

How am I suppossed to boot the EFI Shell? Coz I've tried the methods in the guide but but the BIOS just seems to ignore it and go straight to Clover instead, can't I just use Clover's UEFI Shell?

 

[RehabMan]

How am I suppossed to boot the EFI Shell? Coz I've tried the methods in the guide but but the BIOS just seems to ignore it and go straight to Clover instead, can't I just use Clover's UEFI Shell?

Make sure you created the USB correctly. Should be MBR partitioned, single partition FAT32, and \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI. Secure boot must be disabled.

 

[ieric]

Yep, I did all that, twice, to make sure, I even tried other USBs. However, the guide I'm following says that I must set the BIOS to Legacy mode, so I guess there's no need for Secure Boot to be disabled? Or I should use UEFI instead? Well I just dropped the BOOT folder that I found on the zip file on my FAT32 USB and the BIOS just ignores it, even with the EFI folder.

 

[RehabMan]

Yep, I did all that, twice, to make sure, I even tried other USBs. However, the guide I'm following says that I must set the BIOS to Legacy mode, so I guess there's no need for Secure Boot to be disabled? Or I should use UEFI instead? Well I just dropped the BOOT folder that I found on the zip file on my FAT32 USB and the BIOS just ignores it, even with the EFI folder.

Must be EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi, not /BOOT/BOOTX64.efi. UEFI must be enabled, secure boot disabled. Legacy boot is irrelevant.