Hoddy Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) I hope this isn't against the posting rules. I know I can't offer to pay, but I'll offer a crate of wine if anyone can do an on site visit (I'm in south London) - because I am beaten. This Hackintosh is still running Mountain Lion. OS X 10.8.5. Support is ending (e.g. the Chrome browser will no longer update for it). So I need to update the OS at long last. I have the El Capitan install software/ disk image downloaded and readyI have already installed a 2nd internal 128Gb SSD and have cloned the main disk onto it and successfully booted from it.I've followed this process: Tonymac links - Read our RulesAnd I have a USB install prepared. But I can't boot to it, so I can't install El Capitan.It appears to be this issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/3xfyok/cant_find_mach_kernel_el_capitan_boot_error/But I cannot even find mach_kernel - or even the System/Libraries/Kernels directory. [Yes - I went to Terminal and toggled visibility of hidden files: it's not in system/library that I can see. I _think_ I may have installed the wrong bootloader, but I don't really know what I'm doing.I'm willing to pay (or barter, if payment is a bad thing) whatever the going rate is for a couple of hours of your time to fix it - if anyone can help me. I've already spent at least 12 hours on this and have got nowhere. I'm worried that if I try anything else, I may brick the PC and I need it for work. TIA, HoddyPS: my current specs: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro3,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i3 Processor Speed: 3.29 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 12 GB Boot ROM Version: Tonymac links - Read our Rules SMC Version (system): 1.30f3Memory 12 GB 1600 MHz DDR32 SSD drives (64 and 128Gb) and three HDDs - one 2Tb and two 1Tb.Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2048 MBSoftware OS X 10.8.5 (12F2560) Edited February 1, 2016 by Allan Tonymac links - Read our Rules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hi and Welcome to InsanelyMac Forum! The problem is Tonymac's tools. As we don't give support for this tools, is impossible give you the right way - Using this tools. And we need you hardware info, not the "System Report" info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_user Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Hello, you have not provided any must have information. Just look at my signature as an example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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