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Hello InsanelyMac. Its my first time here. I searched a couple of topics. But haven't the guide I was looking for. I come here after ##### failed me.

 

I hava this --

Core 2 Duo E7500

Intel DG35EC

6 GB DD2 RAM

nVidia 9400 GT

SATA hard drives.

 

I would like to turn this PC into a El Capitan Mac (so to speak). Not sure it can handle Sierra. But I would love that on

 

Can someone point me in the direction of topics/tutorials for me to do this without a Mac? I have one on VMWare. 

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-Create USB bootable

Install Clover with these options

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Replace full folder

CLOVER.zip

 

After install, boot from USB stick and...

-Post ur full Clover folder with original tables, press F4 in Clover Boot Screen, files generate in Clover/Acpi/origin
-Post Ioreg, extract with Ioreg Explorer
-Run it, post files generate in ur desktop
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Ok. So far so bad.

 

Tried your both methods MaLd0n. USB doesn't boot.

Tried Enoch and Clover from Pandora's Box and also Clover by itself. No good.

Tried using El Capitan DMG with Pandora's Box. No good.

Tried using Sierra Install app downloaded form App Store. Still no boot.

 

Plan B :

 

Going to get a 120 GB hard disk I have lying with a friend. I have a USB Hard disk Dock. I am going to try to Install Sierra straight to this hard disk using the USB dock and VMWare Sierra. Then plug it inside to a SATA port in my computer as the primary bootable and see if that works. Not sure if that can even be done or would make a difference.

 

PS : I have to ask. Is hackintosh even possible on this old PC? Because my motherboard firmware is BIOS not UEFI. And every bootloader I have used so far makes EFI folder in the USB.

 

 

EDIT

I think I have figured out what the problem is -- 

 

My Clover doesn't write to the EFI partition made on the USB. It gets written to the "OSX Flash Drive" second parrtiion on the USB. So I did this.

 

sudo newfs_msdos -v EFI -F 32 /dev/disk1s1

 

sudo mkdir /Volume/EFS/

sudo mount_msdos /dev/disk1s1 /Volume/EFS/

 

And copied the EFI, EFI-Backups folder and the Boot file to the EFI volume. Going to try it later.

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