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Good afternoon all!
I've successfully done several hackintosh machines with my own selected hardware, but this is my first stab at a name-brand build, and unfortunately, I haven't made it very far.
This computer is a Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF (A15 bios) with an i7 processor and 8gb ram, standard 5400 rpm harddrive.
I set the BIOS for AHCI, disabled COM port, turned of virtualization, and made sure secure boot mode was disabled.
I downloaded Unibeast from the site, and made the UEFI usb thumbdrive with El Capitan on my working hackintosh. No issues.
I first tried to boot to the thumb drive. Clover menu pops up and I tried "EXTERNAL" first just to see if it'd work "as-is". It got to the Apple logo screen, the progress bar popped up, and stopped just after a fraction of an inch filled the bar.
I rebooted and went into the boot arguments and used "-v -x dart=0 GraphicsEnable=No" and the last line that it showed was
"AMFILoadTrustedKeysFromNVRam: no nvram variable"
I searched thru some forums and another guy had mentioned that he disabled USB 3 in the BIOS to get his to work, but when I do that, I lose both the keyboard and mouse on the clover menu. (tried both forward and back points)
I've also tried making a legacy usb boot thumbdrive, but that locks as well.
I'm assuming I have missed something in the BIOS setup somewhere? I tried looking for XHCI and CFG-lock as other guides have stated, but I couldn't find those anywhere.
Thanks for any pointers!!
--rob
I've successfully done several hackintosh machines with my own selected hardware, but this is my first stab at a name-brand build, and unfortunately, I haven't made it very far.
This computer is a Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF (A15 bios) with an i7 processor and 8gb ram, standard 5400 rpm harddrive.
I set the BIOS for AHCI, disabled COM port, turned of virtualization, and made sure secure boot mode was disabled.
I downloaded Unibeast from the site, and made the UEFI usb thumbdrive with El Capitan on my working hackintosh. No issues.
I first tried to boot to the thumb drive. Clover menu pops up and I tried "EXTERNAL" first just to see if it'd work "as-is". It got to the Apple logo screen, the progress bar popped up, and stopped just after a fraction of an inch filled the bar.
I rebooted and went into the boot arguments and used "-v -x dart=0 GraphicsEnable=No" and the last line that it showed was
"AMFILoadTrustedKeysFromNVRam: no nvram variable"
I searched thru some forums and another guy had mentioned that he disabled USB 3 in the BIOS to get his to work, but when I do that, I lose both the keyboard and mouse on the clover menu. (tried both forward and back points)
I've also tried making a legacy usb boot thumbdrive, but that locks as well.
I'm assuming I have missed something in the BIOS setup somewhere? I tried looking for XHCI and CFG-lock as other guides have stated, but I couldn't find those anywhere.
Thanks for any pointers!!
--rob
