[Guide] ML 10.8.X - Dell Optiplex 780 (760)

[bocajoe 56]

OK. Midnight here so I'm retiring for the night but I'll be back at this in the morning and maybe a little fresher. Thanks polyzargone for all the help!

[bocajoe 56]

Back at it again. I have a 2nd hard drive with Mountain Lion installed that I was able to do somewhere along this process.

 

Not sure if I did this right, but I installed Clover on the ML 2nd drive with these options

• Install Clover in ESP
• Boot loader: Install boot0af in MBR
• CloverEFI: 64-Bits SATA 
• Themes: BootCamp
• Install RC Scripts on Target Volume
• Install Clover Preference Pane

 

then I copied my working El Cap EFI/Clover folder which has kext for 10.11 and 10.8 onto the ML EFI. It does have the working DSDT

 

When I boot the machine Clover shows the ML drive and allows me to try to boot from it. When I boot ML in verbose mode it displays all the text after a minute or two it boots back into BIOS. But when I boot in SAFE mode it boots ML just fine. Looks like I'm getting closer 

 

Any ideas why it only boots in safe mode?????