Recent content by tofuslacks

Hello MacNB, Good to hear you are still rocking the Inspiron 530, it gives me hope. I had to put my Hackintosh on back burner for a while, but recently dusted it off and looking to install Catalina. I never got around to getting my EFI installed on my SSD, had to boot from USB. Would you...

Thanks Bill888 - with your help, I was able to get a bootable Clover 4568 installer. I also have a Kingston Datatraveler I'm still running into a few hurdles though with installation: - Is your SATA hard drive recognized in the BIOS? I have an updated BIOS that enables AHCI, but when I set it...

I wonder if there is something else going on. I tried the attached DSDT, generated custom number in config.plist and removed the RTL8169 kext. I'm still getting the blinking cursor at first, I see a "6" flash briefly, and then a frozen cursor on black screen. I've also tried 2 USB sticks now...

Here's a list of what I did from what I recollect: - Used Disk Utility, erased USB and created GPT with MacOS Journaled - Using Clover Installer, selected location to USB drive, and Customize with options in screenshot (Install Clover to ESP to install to EFI partition, Install boot0af in MBR) -...

I also have an Inspiron 530 I've been trying to resurrect with High Sierra. I've been trying to follow these instructions to create the USB installer, but it doesn't seem to boot, just gets hung up on a black screen with a cursor at top left. I see from your (MacNB) Clover Install Log txt file...