Help with very old Hackintosh - options? Stuck.

Hi everyone.

I have been stuck for 3 nights now =( trying to figure out how to get myself out of this pickle and get my hackintosh working again.

Specs

• Gigabyte ga-x85a-ud3r
• i7-930
• zotec geforce gt 430
• 10 gb ram

Triple boot

• windows 7 (disk1)
• snow leopard (disk2)
• sierra (ssd)

Believe it or not, this thing's been running maybe 10 years or there abouts.

The screw up

Lapse of judgement a few nights ago and hit Update All on my Sierra install. upon reboot, when clover 4871 loads and i select the ssd to load from i get kernel panic (seems something with lilu, but i thought that was required)

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To remedy, i figure updating the clover bootloader would allow me to get into the ssd. instead, with clover 5070 (merry christmas theme) when i select the ssd, i immediately get a full black screen with a white prohibit circle.

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What I've tried

1. removing the lilu kext from the kext folders of the various os versions (10.10, 10.11, 10.12...) - no change
2. replacing config.plist from snow leopard into to sierra Clover>ACPI folder - no change
3. moved the kext from snow leopard into the sierra kext folder - no change
4. followed open core guide to create a new catalina install stick to start over, but now on boot, it hangs at Verifying DMI Pool Data...

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Snow Leopard works fine and from there, i can see the Sierra SSD, see its EFI, kext, ect...

If any kind soul can let me know what i should try, i'd be so greatful.

eric

lilu error

prohibit when selecting ssd using most recent clover

hangs on verify dmi when trying opencore