Finish Hackintosh project?

[realedk]

So a year or so ago I Hackintoshed my HP Elitebook 8470p three times. High Sierra, Mojave and even Catalina after some tweaking.

But the power port stopped working so I opened the laptop up.

Bad idea, somehow I broke something inside.

My grandpa traded the broken laptop with my current computer, a Dell Latitude E6420.

 

No matter what I do, THE DAMNED THING WILL NOT BE HACKINTOSHED!

 

I try installing Big Sur with a really cool tweak, Fail, it wouldn't boot OpenCore or Clover after install and USB couldn't find the main SSD.

I try High Sierra with Niresh, Fail. It refused to boot.

I try creating my own High Sierra USB, Fail. I got it to boot, but it wouldn't load USB kexts, so peripherals wouldn't work.

 

A main problem with not getting the USB to boot is, when I select the USB drive in the BIOS to choose the EFI, the entire BIOS menu freezes, and I have to do a hard shutdown.

 

Can anybody help me?

 

 

[HQuan]

Hardware. The hardware of Dell Latitude E6420 may too weak to get hackintosh. 

[WhitetailAni]

What's the "really cool tweak" you used with Big Sur?
Also, I recommend against using Niresh and similar projects - just go with regular old macOS.

Perhaps this will help:

https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8506-dell-latitude-inspiron-precision-vostro-xps-clover-guide/#comment-74275

[realedk]

4 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

What's the "really cool tweak" you used with Big Sur?
Also, I recommend against using Niresh and similar projects - just go with regular old macOS.

Perhaps this will help:

https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8506-dell-latitude-inspiron-precision-vostro-xps-clover-guide/#comment-74275

This guy made a config.plist to work:

https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/forum/thread/51618-oc-dell-latitude-e6420/?postID=724551&highlight=Big%2Bsur%2Bdell%2Blatitude%2Be6420#post724551

[realedk]

6 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

What's the "really cool tweak" you used with Big Sur?
Also, I recommend against using Niresh and similar projects - just go with regular old macOS.

Perhaps this will help:

https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8506-dell-latitude-inspiron-precision-vostro-xps-clover-guide/#comment-74275

Thanks for the article! I did follow this correctly, this is actually a guy a used a lot before I got banned from tonymacx86 (for discussing leaked Win11 ISOs).

[realedk]

16 minutes ago, HQuan said:

Hardware. The hardware of Dell Latitude E6420 may too weak to get hackintosh. 

No, it's not too weak.

Edited January 2, 2022 by EDKTech

[Imbadatnames]

Not everything can be used as a hackintosh 

[realedk]

2 minutes ago, Imbadatnames said:

Not everything can be used as a hackintosh 

My Intel laptop can...

[Cool Dude 101]

Yeah, all of those OS's can run on intel.

 

Would this help?

https://www.hackintoshshop.com/2810/hackintosh-big-sur-guide/

[Cool Dude 101]

Possibly this? 

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000124391/how-to-enable-boot-from-dvd-option-with-uefi-boot-mode-enabled-windows-10-8-1-8

 

I don't know if your laptop supports secure boot. 

[realedk]

1 minute ago, Cool Dude 101 said:

Possibly this? 

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000124391/how-to-enable-boot-from-dvd-option-with-uefi-boot-mode-enabled-windows-10-8-1-8

 

I don't know if your laptop supports secure boot. 

It does not. I disabled the TPM which it does have and different required settings.

 

Thanks I'll look into that !

[realedk]

My BIOS freezes after selecting the USB's filesystem:

 

 

Edit: after selecting the ... beside "File Name" and choosing FS1 or FS0 from the drop down menu.