armus2112 Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Hi everyone, I have a Thinkpad T410s laptop running Yosemite 10.10.5. The hardware specs are: Intel i5-540M dual core 4GB RAM Discrete and integrated video (discrete=Nvidia NVS 3100M, integrated=Intel HD) - BIOS is configured for NVidia only! Conexant CX20585 Audio (working with Voodoo kexts) Intel ethernet (via IntelE1000e.kext) Samsung SSD Legacy BIOS (no UEFI support) I have a custom DSDT with sleep/shutdown fixes, Fn+hotkey fixes. I have power management / speedstep working great. I have reasons however to move from Chimera to Clover (BIOS legacy). To to this, I created a test USB flash drive and installed Clover to it as many websites suggest. I have followed the instructions 'Test Drive: How to Create a Clover USB' from here. I installed Clover to the USB. It created an EFI folder there. Into the CLOVER/kexts/10.10 folder, I placed about 4 kexts as recommended. I also placed the DSDT.aml in the proper folder. Now onto the Clover 'config.plist' ... I located a Thinkpad T420 config.plist from the internet. I made many tweaks to it. I tried various other configs also. I used Clover Configurator extensively to trial-error with many different settings. I inserted values for SMBIOS. I checked/unchecked many options. the problem is: When I boot from the flash drive, I get the Clover bootloader. When I attempt to boot from the internal SSD, I get the apple logo on a black screen with white progress bar. Now at this point, it progresses about to 25%, then the screen blanks and redraws all in black, this time the apple logo has disappeared, and all that shows is the same progress bar stuck at around 25%. Then after about 8 seconds, it redraws the same thing (mouse briefly appears in upper left) in a neverending loop. The desktop never appears. It's stuck in a loop with progress bar ~25%. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have tried -v, -x, -f, nothing seems obvious. It seems like the system is mostly booting, just the desktop isn't appearing (?). I have attached two pictures of what I'm talking about. Also the 'config.plist'. I masked the serial#. Any ideas or troubleshooting methods? Thank you! config.plist.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 (edited) Hello! TMx86 methods, tools and bootloaders are not supported here. http://www.insanelym...ort-tonymacx86/ http://www.insanelym...and-iatkos-m-y/ If you want support for them, please hand over to where you have got them from or use here featured methods, tools and bootloaders to get proper support. Have fun. Edited November 21, 2015 by fantomas1 Chimera is one of Chameleon's branches so we're ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armus2112 Posted November 21, 2015 Author Share Posted November 21, 2015 I'm only really asking for Clover support. I tried also installing Clover directly to my backup USB hard drive (EFI Partition), with same result. I'm hoping someone with more knowledge of Clover can recommend a troubleshooting approach for me please? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armus2112 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 I did more investigation, and in the /var/log/system.log, I see this message repeatedly. This error message indicates the Login Window is not able to start. I tried methods of deleting com.apple.loginwindow.plist preference files but no luck. I can switch right back to Chimera and it boots fine. loginwindow[243]: ERROR | -[LoginApp continueAuthPluginRequestAfterFamilyControlsCheck] | AuthorizationRef doesn't have a username. Exiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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