norcimo

Hello, Thank you for your response. I'm not booting UEFI. The motherboard does not have UEFI NVME capability. However I can boot UEFI from sata and sata legacy. As to the answer to your question about fresh install, it is a fresh install from the instructions provided on the site. (very good by the way). I have tried UEFI sata boot, same results. Everything works... however the update does not. Added in 30 minutes 3 seconds: I was successful! This is what I had to do. 1. NVME drive is an image from the original SSD drive, I used to set a new fresh install. 2. NVME drive was formatted HFS, the update demands . APFS, so I used the installer to convert the NVME from HSF to APFS according to APPLE support. , still I was getting an error update would not install. 3. I booted the SSD. (slower ofcourse). I ran the Update again, but I told to apply the update to the NVME drive instead of the SSD. for some reason, it was able to apply the update. Success!, I shut down, removed the SSD, connected the Clover boot drive "sata", booted, it see's the nvme APFS (as before), booted! I went though setting up Siri and other items, and DONE!. It seems, that in this system , the update won't install on the same drive it currently booted from...weird. In all the same SMBIOS was used. Its done, however, its still not suppose to work this way. I tell you this, the update took 5 minutes!

This is what I get. "The installation failed." I downloaded the Combo Update and the regular update. Any help will be appreciated. One thing, I boot into Clover from a SATA SSD, Since my MB does not boot NVME. SuperMicro X9DRi Thanks Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac16,2 Processor Name: 10-Core Intel Xeon E5 Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Number of Processors: 2 Total Number of Cores: 20 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache (per Processor): 25 MB Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled Memory: 64 GB Boot ROM Version: 232.0.0.0.0 Apple ROM Info: Apple ROM Version. BIOS ID:IM162.88Z.F000.B00.1910301924 EFI Version:232.0.0.0.0 Board-ID : Mac-FFE5EF870D7BA81A ⌘ Powered by Clover v2.5k 5100 SMC Version (system): 2.32f21 Serial Number (system): x Hardware UUID: C03B72B7-BE01-548E-BCC9-FB800221 NVME Force MP510: Capacity: 960.2 GB (960,197,124,096 bytes) TRIM Support: Yes Model: Force MP510 Revision: ECFM22.5 Serial Number: 194882380001288848D9 Link Width: x4 Link Speed: 8.0 GT/s Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) Removable Media: No S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: EFI: Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) File System: MS-DOS FAT32 BSD Name: disk0s1 Content: EFI Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B disk0s2: Capacity: 959.85 GB (959,853,150,208 bytes) BSD Name: disk0s2 Content: Apple_APFS

That did not work. Kept getting Read errors. access denied But I got the network cards working. Smalltreexxxx and Rehab Fake PCIID kexts. Last things is the power button.. Almost done!

I had to download it again.. it worked. I also got it installed, Raid working, video working, USB working, I have no sound card yet, but soon. The only thing not working is Ethernet, I will figure that out today. I think I need a KExt for it. And I will install a USB 3 card too. Once I'm done I will explain what I had to do.

have to download the image again...Got an error at the end of the installation 2 minutes before finishing, stating the data is corrupt to download the raw file again. hum... something up with the catalina image? I will download again.

Hi, First option did not work, however I found a list of SM BIOS on the internet. I chose iMac17,1_ hence according to the information has an AMD video a card. It's currently installing Catalina. It worked.. It got passed it. Once im done and get everything working, I will post all the settings for this super machine that has 24 logical cores! I'm also configuring RAID too... by using HIGHPOINT 27020 adapter which MAC OS recognizes... Have too see how to get it to boot automatically..... I think I will use a regular Sata 30GB SSD drive for CLover boot and then jump to the raid. I will keep you posted. Thanks

I understand what you are saying, but How do I set that up during initial boot? Is there are option on the intro clover screen?

Greetings, I get: This version of MacOS10.15.1 cannot be installed on this computer when I select the disk where you want install Catalina. im using an X8DTI motherboard and Two Xeon E5645 CPUS, Sapphire Nitro RX580 , I used your installation USB image, works great, but once I format APFS, goto install CAtalina, I get the message. I have been able to install Sierra 10.12.1 , I tried mojave, but it gets stuck during booting. The MB does not support UHCI. I have been booting legacy. any feedback much appreciated. Norcimo