CpE_Sklarr Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hi all, I am trying to turn a dell E6330 into a hackintosh for my wife to work with. I attempted myHack with snow leopard, and when booting from the usb device the screen displayed, "selected boot device failed, push any key to reboot pc." I would really appreciate any help. I have: A .dmg of OS X 10.11.6? the newest one, I downloaded it from the app store today. (6/17/2016) A macbook pro loaned from a friend running OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan A retail DVD of Snow Leopard A retail DVD of Leopard Mulitple flash drives with ample storage A windows 8 OS to work with A ubuntu 16.04 OS to work with Specs and info of this E6330: Current OS: Windows 8.1 BIOS : A15 (unlocked) Processor: i7 3520M Ram: 8gB Video: Intel HD Graphics 4000 SSD: 256 gB Has DVD Optical Drive Legacy boot mode is enabled AHCI enabled secure boot disabled Any other info required I will gladly supply. I am grateful for all support offered. Thank you, Sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted June 18, 2016 Moderators Share Posted June 18, 2016 You could try my Clover guide here. In post #2 of the guide, you'll see bootpacks. Use E6230 or E6430 depending on the display resolution. Make sure to update a few files from the bootpack with files in post #4 depending on which OS X you're installing. Probably 10.11.5 if you download from the App Store, 10.11.6 is still in beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CpE_Sklarr Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Appreciate it. Will give it a shot and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CpE_Sklarr Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 So, I followed your guide to the letter. Got the same error. It's as if this device simply won't recognize a bootable usb device. In the meantime I'm going to try to burn the bootable usb to a dvd and and boot that way, since that's how I installed windows 8.1 on this device. Attached are some photos for information. Let me know what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 18, 2016 Administrators Share Posted June 18, 2016 Snow Leopard does not (naturally) support Ivy Bridge platforms. SL vanilla support stops at Sandy Bridge and, even then, only 10.6.8. Opt directly for El Capitan 10.11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CpE_Sklarr Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Those screenshots are diagnostics I ran after trying to install 10.11.5 with the clover guide linked above, and for some reason this laptop won't recognize the bootable usb... any ideas why that would be? I'm fairly certain I have everything configured correctly in the bios. You can see in one of them it says Flash Drive DUO, that is the flash drive the installer is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 18, 2016 Administrators Share Posted June 18, 2016 It seems no bootloader is installed on your key. Did you actually run Clover installation package on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CpE_Sklarr Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Yes I did, As Far As I'm aware. This is my first time doing this, so It's possible I missed something. I followed all the steps in the guide. Do I need to run something that is located in the drive after I run the clover installer with the flash drive as the target? If perhaps there was some error with clover is there a way I can put the bootloader on the drive manually. I burned the contents of the drive to a dvd and attempted booting that, with the same results, so either there is something amiss with this pc, there was some error with clover, or I missed something. Advice? Where would I look on the drive to check and see if the bootloader was installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted June 19, 2016 Moderators Share Posted June 19, 2016 Mount the EFI partition of the USB installer, you should see an EFI folder and inside it are Clover and Boot folders and a Clover_Install_log.txt Use the EFI-Mounter app found in the guide to mount the partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoopers Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Did you plug your USB drive into the combined eSATA/USB port? It's the only working port for bootable USB devices on my E6330. I successfully followed Jake's guide mentioned above. I got 10.11.6 running by using the Clover pack for the E6230. However, I ended up with no sound, similar to what I experienced on the previous Mavericks installation (https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2474-dell-latitude-e6330/page-13). But so far I did not have time to investigate deeper here. I also did not test if sleeping is fuctional or not. I got confused about the part with the SSDT.aml. Ist that step mandatory? I run the script but I gut a SSDT.dsl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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