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I recently obtained a used Latitude E5520 with the i5-2410M, 4GB RAM, 500GB SATA SSD. It works great, I have no trouble booting Linux or Windows. Now I want to try to hackintosh it with High Sierra.
The Dell BIOS version is A14
I have searched this forum for an existing EFI for E5520-High Sierra but haven't found anything... is there such a thing?
thanks in advance
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15 hours ago, Hervé said:
JakeLo's guide does mention a fix in both his 2018 Clover guide and his 2020 Opencore guide to sort out the very issue you mention. Did you download it and run the shell script?
Oops, I missed that... I downloaded the ALC_FIX for Catalina this morning and gave it a try. The INSTALL.SH script appears to do everything properly... I see the files in /usr/bin and /Library/LaunchAgents, as expected... permissions are set OK.... but the final shell command "launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/good.win.ALCPlugFix.plist" keeps returning a "service is disabled".
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This is my first Hackintosh using OpenCore. I downloaded one of JakeLo EFI's from this site, and edited the appropriate SMBIOS info, etc. Everything is working really good, except when I plug in the headphones I get a crackle/whoosh sound, then nothing.
With Clover, when I had audio issues - it was relatively straight-forward to troubleshoot... just keep trying different audio layout ID's until you found one that was a close-enough match. I am familiar with the process!
With OpenCore - is it the same process? I see TWO layout-ID values in my CONFIG.PLIST... do I change them BOTH to the same value? Just one? is one of the values redundant and should be removed from CONFIG.PLIST?
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OK, I edited the CONFIG.PLIST to remove the reference to the non-existent wireless card.
I have Big Sur installed now.
However, the laptop camera is not being recognized.
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Oh ok, I didn't realize that... I have a BCM4332 (DW1510) that I bought second-hand, years ago, because it works "OOB" with Mojave... I figured if Big Sur didn't support it, it would just ignore it and boot up without it...
Can I edit OpenCore to have no wifi at all? The laptop has a ethernet/RJ45 port, if that was the only network port, for the time being, that would be ok. Or does the Big Sur-via-OpenCore install require a wifi card if you use the MacbookPro11,4 model type?
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It's the 0.7.8 EFI from JakeLo's "repo" here (see link). https://osxlatitude.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=33347&key=3c5d5a706aa5dcd3d7df34fb7b21248c
I'm using this EFI "as is" except for the four (4) edits to the config.plist for MLB,ROM,SystemSerial and SystemUUID. I copied these values from what I am using with Mojave/Catalina.
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Hi there... I have a E7440 (edit: with the i7-4600U and a DW1510 wifi card). I have run Mojave and Catalina on it for almost 2 years. Now I am trying to install Big Sur 11.6.7. I have a MacBook Air, which I used to download the Big Sur 11.6.7 Full Installer, and to create the USB boot stick. I downloaded JakeLo's OpenCore EFI's, installed them on the USB stick, and made the requisite edits to the serial number, etc, as instructed.
My USB stick boots fine, I select "Install Big Sur", but the process hangs with the progress bar about 50-60%. I enabled verbose mode, and it appears that the boot is sticking at the "apfs_module_start" step. I get the same error, regardless of the OpenCore version of the EFI (0.8, 0.78, 0.74, etc).
My initial thought was maybe the APFS version changed in Big Sur 11.6.7.... so I downloaded the Full Installer for Big Sur 11.5.2 instead... but I'm getting the same issue...
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this... Thanks in advance.
Dell Latitude E5520 - EFI for High Sierra?
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I found what I needed here (See link below)... My two biggest "gotchas" were that I needed USBPorts.kext and also to set my ProductName to "MacBookPro9.2". I ended up putting Mojave on the machine instead of High Sierra. I don't have the graphics acceleration (Maps doesn't work) but GarageBand (which is my purpose for the laptop) seems to work just fine, even with my biggest project... I think I'm good now.
Thanks!