Old Sierra Clover install boots to black screen without safe mode, but can't do much in safe mode

Hi all,

I managed to get my old Sierra install to boot to the login screen and desktop with safe mode, without safe mode I get a black screen after boot instead of the login screen. I haven't touched this since 2017 when I last put away the hard drive.

​Here are the boot arguments in Clover that give me the black screen after boot: -v, dart=0, darkwake=no, kext-dev-mode=1, keepsyms=1, -radvesa

My specs are:

​Intel Core i7-4770k

ASUS Z87-K

AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB

24 GB DDR3-1600

250 GB SATA HDD

I'm not sure exactly what the fix is, I can't even mount the EFI partition in safe mode because the FAT32 kext doesn't load in safe mode, so I can't change anything in the config with Clover Configurator, nor can I install my RT8111 kext and delete my Intel ethernet kext because it turns out, this install used to have a different CPU and motherboard: Intel Core i7-2600 and Intel DZ77SL-50K which I do not have anymore.

​I've been out of the game for a while and cannot get a fresh install with OpenCore on any other version completed.

I can probably get into a recovery install screen and use terminal if necessary, so if I need to replace the config file with a different one or delete/install kexts, I think I should be able to do so, but I don't know what bootflags to use.

Thanks.