- Joined
- Jun 15, 2012
- Messages
- 287
- Motherboard
- Dell XPS 15 9560
- CPU
- i7-7700HQ
- Graphics
- HD 630, 4K
Problem 1: I have a Dell XPS 13 9343 running 10.12.* for quite some time without much problem. Yesterday when the headphone did not work I thought I would reboot to see if it works. But after choosing to boot from HDD's OSX partition, screen only showed 3 lines like
OsxAptioFixDrv: Starting overrides for System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi
Using reloc block: no, hibernate wake: no
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
and then it restart with the Dell splash screen. Tried many times, the same behavior.
I get into EFIShell and examined the EFI partition. All files, except config.list, show several months old time stamp. I tried to restore to an old config.list known to work, still the same behavior. I also ran a Dell diagnosis and it shows everything is OK. I guess the EFI partition is somehow corrupted.
Problem 2: Then I tried the USB installer which was used for the installation (except that Clover was updated to a newer version, which I verified to work after updating). Booting the OSX Install caused many "Process crashed" and "disk2s1: 0x3e8 (UNDEFINED)" message but could not proceed to OS X installer screen; booting the HDD partition caused "waiting for the root device...." messages.
Problem 3: I then tried the USB installer which is working on a XPS 15 9560 with High Sierra. I can pick the option of booting from the USB installer, but the it just gets into a black screen without even reaching the Clover screen.
The laptop's BIOS version is A11 and there is a more recent A13 version on Dell's site.
Has any one had similar problem? Any tips? Must I upgrade BIOS? (I prefer not, afraid of introducing new problems)
I am more interested to solve problems 1 and 3), while I could not extract CLOVER folder out of a liked corrupted partition (there is only one boot for the laptop) for problem 1. For problem 3 I guess CLOVER folder does not matter as it did not even gets to Clover screen.
OsxAptioFixDrv: Starting overrides for System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi
Using reloc block: no, hibernate wake: no
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
and then it restart with the Dell splash screen. Tried many times, the same behavior.
I get into EFIShell and examined the EFI partition. All files, except config.list, show several months old time stamp. I tried to restore to an old config.list known to work, still the same behavior. I also ran a Dell diagnosis and it shows everything is OK. I guess the EFI partition is somehow corrupted.
Problem 2: Then I tried the USB installer which was used for the installation (except that Clover was updated to a newer version, which I verified to work after updating). Booting the OSX Install caused many "Process crashed" and "disk2s1: 0x3e8 (UNDEFINED)" message but could not proceed to OS X installer screen; booting the HDD partition caused "waiting for the root device...." messages.
Problem 3: I then tried the USB installer which is working on a XPS 15 9560 with High Sierra. I can pick the option of booting from the USB installer, but the it just gets into a black screen without even reaching the Clover screen.
The laptop's BIOS version is A11 and there is a more recent A13 version on Dell's site.
Has any one had similar problem? Any tips? Must I upgrade BIOS? (I prefer not, afraid of introducing new problems)
I am more interested to solve problems 1 and 3), while I could not extract CLOVER folder out of a liked corrupted partition (there is only one boot for the laptop) for problem 1. For problem 3 I guess CLOVER folder does not matter as it did not even gets to Clover screen.
