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[Success] Latitude E7470 Installation problems


dave.stl

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Hey, 

I'm very new to the topic of hackintosh and want to try it just for fun.

 

I have an old Dell Latitude E7470 and want to install Catalina. 

 

I followed the guide of Jake Lo and took his bootpack for the E7470. But it stucks at the very beginning after trying to start the macOS installation.

 

I tried a few things, but nothing did change anything. 

 

Thank you for your help,

David

 

ps: I knew there are some Problems with the brightness and the wireless cards, but first want to install Catalina and face these problems afterwards. 

 

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Thank you, the EFI folder and bootpack worked and got me into the installation menu. 

 

After that I could install MacOS to the SSD and it finished the installation.

 

At the "final restart" it stuck at the end of loading, I attached the photos of it.

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Nice, that worked! Post installation worked well too.

Looking forward to replace the wireless card to have wifi and bluetooth and get the SD Card Reader working.

 

Just got a few graphical problems:

 

1. In Safari and Finder there are some some problems with multiple tabs, see photos 

2. I can not adjust the brightness of the internal screen.

Are there any "out of the box" fixes, that I can try ?

 

Thank you very much for your help. 

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So I assumed you have installed Clover and copy the Clover folder over from the USB installer?

The reason graphics issue is due to booting with -igfxvesa. Have you tried booting without that switch?

Make sure to build kextcache before rebooting.

 sudo kextcache -i /

 

SD Card reader is not supported yet, there's development of a kext but has long been idle.

Replace your wifi with a DW1560, DW1830 or DW1820a (with patches)

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