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Hi all,I've been messing around with this Catalina installation all day to day and can't get any further. I'm stuck at a black screen with apple logo and a status bar that never passes 50%. No way to get any verbose output to see what is going. I even edited a setting in the config file that references 'PollHot Keys' or something to that affect, but Ctrl-V or any other keys give me any kind of monitoring. Viewing the opencore logs on the USB boot device are all identical in size, 16384 lines of nothing but 0's.Last night this 50% stuck was happening on the 'initial' install setup, so I wasn't getting to any kind of GUI.- After multiple NVRAM resets this morning, it finally went past the 50% mark and I got the install GUI.- Installed to the volume Macintosh-HD as normal, waited for it to copy files for 10 mins or so....then it rebooted.- Now after the reboot, there is another UEFI selection (macOS Installer), and when you choose that, then it slowly boots USB again, but never passes the 50% stuck point. I've left it there for over 30 minutes, reset NVRAM number of times.I can't get any errors to display so I have no idea what is wrong here. This OC appears to be everyone's best friend these days from what I read - but it's definitely not a friend of mine at this point. At least Clover gave you text on the screen, sigh.Any clues where I can get some information from the system that is holding this install up? I bet I'm not but a couple of minutes from reaching the final GUI to personalize the installation Thanks,-LAlienware 17R3Skylake SetupEl Capitan and High Sierra previously ran on this hardware before....past hard drives of course. config.zip

EFIi folders are the same, identical. Not an SSD, and internal SATA drive. OMG, big brain fart this morning! lol. For any others that have this problem after you google search it: When replicating your EFI folder from the USB installer to your internal hard rive (SSD or Spinner), you *MUST* create a subfolder called "EFI", even though the mount point (and hard drive icon) is labeled 'EFI' for your disk0s1 mount. Once the EFI folder is created, then copy the contents of the BOOT and OC folders into there and your reboot will work. Slap in the forehead this morning.....thank god for a good cup of coffee Now my only quirk after post-install is that I only have one display on my NVidia Quadro K4200 card, when my previous Hackintosh OS was Mojave - Mojave seen both of my displays, one dual-link DVI connection and one display port connection. My hard drive finally crashed yesterday which is what invoked this new install in the first place. Now the only display BigSur sees in the dual-link DVI.

That is the page and steps I followed. My installation was successful, I just can't pull the USB installer out anymore. It won't boot off my hard drive after reboot. No hard disk activity after you select "Macintosh-HD". If you boot with the USB installer and then select "Macintosh-HD", works every time. EFI folders of USB installer and Macintosh-HD are identical. This is a pain......

Hi, I used your 11.6.5.raw image, and also used the 'Haswell Desktop' OC files to overwrite the vanilla ones on the EFI partition. After I did that Haswell edit, the install GUI popped up and everything went as planned...nice! Without the Haswell edits, the install GUI was not launching of course. After install and a functioning desktop, I then mounted the working EFI partition on the USB installer (disk4s1) and also mounted the EFI partition on my Macintosh-HD volume (disk0s1). Copied the EFI contents from the USB drive to my Macintosh drive's EFI partition. Only problem I have now, is that the USB drive I used to install is required to boot the machine. If I pull the drive out and try to boot off the Macintosh-HD option, it just errors out right away with a bunch of text instantly within 2 seconds after hitting enter. If I reboot, and hit F-11 to reset NVRAM and try the Macintosh-HD again, it then just instantly gets stuck at a black screen with a white apple logo on it and never has any hard disk activity. If I reboot and put the USB install drive back in, then boot and select the Macintosh-HD drive, it boots fine to my desktop again. How can I fix this so I can pull the USB drive out finally? The config.plist is unedited from the Haswell Desktop set you offer on your website - it is unchanged and was copied over to my hard drive? I attached the file anyway..,.,. Any clues? Thanks, Larry config.plist.zip

Thanks....there were a couple of errors on the screen but it completed. Complained it could clear nvram but there are not many entries in there anyway. It didn't work, still shows old card after a reboot, but my system works. It's just cosmetic, I'll get over it

Hi, Just replaced my Quadro 4000 (2048 MB) with a Quadro K4200 (4096 MB Kepler series). Everything still works the same as it should, but all system profiler and indicators still show the old card in the system, and not enough VRAM to do some extended Adobe functions in my apps. How do I get the system to scan for a new video card even though they are using the same native driver from Apple/Clover? Thanks.....just need my additional VRAM to function which is why I got it in the first place Added in 15 minutes 12 seconds: Well I went into Photoshop preferences and the 4096MB shows available for 3D functions and my correct K4200 OpenGL engine is displayed. Before with the 4000 card, the 3D options were not available at all. I guess it is just cosmetic differences in profiler or about this Mac output? Thanks anyway....

I figured it out - it was an NVRAM setting, and where it came from I have no idea. I did a 'nvram -p' and found a couple of nv_drv entries (that were being populated at boot up of course) and deleted them with a 'nvram -d ' and no more additions to my config-plist at boot time Thanks anyway

I'll run that app when I get home from work.....but the way things are working right now, my Quadro is working natively.....and I would like to keep it that way if possible, and not load NVWeb drivers unless absolutely necessary. I am surprised too, thought I would have to buy a Kepler series Quadro card for Mojave since I heard only Kelpers were supported now. My regular Quadro is one release before Kepler, but it's working as long as I tweak the clover injectors and boot line

Hi there, I recently upgraded my ThinkServer TS440 (fresh install) to Mojave. It is basically a Haswell type server with a trustworthy Nvidia Quadro 4000 card that handles Photoshop very well with two 30" HP Z30i monitors Anyway, the install from the recent Olarila 10.14.6 image was a success....but each reboot (initial USB install, and post-install boot) I had to change a few things or I would get a panic stop every time: 1) Delete from boot line nv_drv=1 2) Graphics Injector -> uncheck 'Load Nvidia Web Drivers' 3) Graphics Injector -> check 'Inject NVidia' 4) Graphics Injector -> check 'Load Video BIOS'. If any deviation from the above....the machine will not boot up to a desktop. Now for the anomaly....after the install, and clover install into ESP, and copying all of the CLOVER folder from the Olarila USB over to my ESP, I ran Clover Configurator. I wanted to use it to make my config.plist so that I wouldn't have to keep doing the Clover changes above (steps 1-4). My config.plist boot line now has the nv_drv=1 option removed, and also checking the boxes 'Inject NVidia' and 'Load Video BIOS'. But NOWHERE in the config.plist file does it say something like 'Use Nvidia Web Drivers'.....but yet the checkbox for loading Web Drivers under Graphics Injector is ALWAYS checked on each reboot as well as 'nv_drv=1' put back into my boot option! Where are these two options being populated from? This is a pain and I must manually boot my machine and physically be there to change options 1 & 2 above or the machine will panic and stop. Appreciate any advice......I have attached my config.plist. *Also, if anyone sees anything I am missing for my hardware, feel free to let me know. Here's the PDF/Specs of the TS440 machine: https://be02.cp-static.com/objects/pdf/5/5fe/1550853_1_servers-lenovo-ts440-70aq001wmd.pdf config.plist.zip

10 hours invested today, and 12 hours invested in this same fiasco yesterday....way too much time to have gotten no where. I've had it.....most likely will swap hard drives and go back to El Capitan which works on this machine. All possible config.plist scenarios were visited, adjusting this one thing, then next reboot adjusting another (platform IDs, device IDs), and all resulted in the same thing - black screen with the infamous IOConsoleUsers: ...... This machine will not give you a 'visible' desktop unless the worthless 0x12345678 platform-ID is used at boot-up, and we all know you will never get video acceleration out of that configuration. The desktop is running at the black screen hold up though, because at least I figured out the sequence 'TAB-TAB-SpaceBar' and that will reboot the machine without you having to hit the power button and shutting down the file systems harshly when you are at the IOConsoleUsers black screen If anyone out there in the world has a 'working' Alienware 17R3 (UHD / 4K) laptop configuration, I would appreciate it they could send their Clover folder. *The clover folder on the website 'JesusRocks' does NOT work....that person hosts a site that has a bunch of different Alienware laptops, but his 17R3 config does nothing but Panics and restarts on my machine unfortunately, and was really built for 10.12.x Thanks, Larry

I'll do some more digging.....that 4K display is hard to read text and all since HDPI is not enabled and I have to zoom everything.

Okay, did some more trial and error today and got the install GUI to come up so I could install the base OS. I restored the original Olarilla EFI folder with my config3.plist file and added '-cdfon' to the boot line and also changed the ig-platform to 0x12345678. That does the trick, I still see the IOConsoleUsers message for a few seconds, but the GUI came up anyway. Regardless, this basic config doesn't have video acceleration, so that takes video watching and most of my Adobe graphics out of the equation which is no good. I tried a HD530 config list from Rehabman's GitHub site, but all that does is cause my system to panic and reboot constantly. What is the easiest fix to get the HD530 to accelerate properly? The 'About this Mac' says 31MB lol. Or is it easier to get my NVidia GTX980M working since that is the item listed in the System Report and not the Intel HD530? Hmmm.... Thanks, Larry

No luck with your updated EFI folder, still gets stuck at "IOConsoleUser:" exactly like the last screen capture I posted, sigh.

I'll give it a try as soon as I am back home from running my errands tonight, thanks

As promised, here's a zip of my EFI part. Only thing that should be different than the base Olarila 10.14.6 image posted earlier this week is the addition of config3.plist in the clover folder, which is the video patches added to the original config2.plist file. Thanks, Larry EFI.zip

Will do....in about 7 more hours, at work now. One thing/update I did try on this earlier this morning (resulting in same failure, sigh) was to include in boot-line "-disablegfxfirmware" because some google searching said this worked for some people. Nope! *Another note though, when I do post it, it will be pretty much 'Olarila base' with the exception of the additional 'config3.plist' (existing config2 with your added patch code from above) because this is the original USB drive installation image from Olarila's 10.14.6 image that was posted a couple of days ago on here. Nothing else has changed because I'm just trying to get the install GUI to launch to format my blank/new M2 sata gum-stick drive and move on of course. Will post EFI later though, promise, thanks

After I applied that video patch into the config2.plist file, it got a little further, and no panic which was good.....but it appears to get stuck at this black screen. I left it here for about 20 minutes, sigh.

Well thank you! I will put this in a new config file (config3.plist) copied from config2 and give it a try.....

Okay, is there a document that explains that process by any chance? Thanks....

Hi everyone, I can't seem to launch the install GUI for Mojave on bootup (using laptop config2.plist) as it panics every time in the same place. I do not have this problem with your High Sierra 10.13.6 image that I downloaded last week, the GUI launches fine using the config2.plist file that is embedded with it. I even tried copying the config2 file from HS image onto the Mojave 10.14.6 image as config3.plist with no luck and the same panic error - then the machine automatically reboots. Any clues? Thanks in advance.....

Hi everyone, I can't seem to launch the install GUI for Mojave on bootup (using laptop config2.plist) as it panics every time in the same place. I do not have this problem with your High Sierra 10.13.6 image that I downloaded last week, the GUI launches fine using the config2.plist file that is embedded with it. I even tried copying the config2 file from HS image onto the Mojave 10.14.6 image as config3.plist with no luck and the same panic error - then the machine automatically reboots. Any clues? Thanks in advance.....