Help Installing Ventura on MSI Z490 Gaming Edge WiFi

Hi All,

I just built a new system from the following:
MSI Z490 Gaming Edge WiFi
I7-10700 (Not K)
16GB Crucial DDR4 3600
Samsung 256GB SSD

I followed the Dortania guide to the letter (I think lol) to create my EFI and config.plist but when I try to install Ventura it fails at the following line:

start::512:Successfuly initialized AHCI Controller

After about 30 seconds the screen goes corrupt and I get the Apple startup error. I have no DGPU and plan for now to use just the IGPU. I have attached my EFI (with serial removed) and a log file. This EFI has prebuilt SSDT's but I did try with ones made with SSDTTIME on Windows 10 on the same machine.

If anyone could take a look at the attached I would really appreciate some help

Thanks in advance

Richdem said:

After about 30 seconds the screen goes corrupt and I get the Apple startup error.

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That sounds typical of a USB configuration issue, but difficult to be sure without an image of the screen when it stops.

Search for "prohibitory symbol" or "still waiting for root device".

Here is a picture of the point it stops booting

Richdem said:

I have tried to post a picture of where the boot process stops but my message keeps being removed. How do I do this ? Not sure if I was doing anything wrong

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click this one:

Feartech said:

click this one:

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That is exactly what I did twice. Each time the post disappeared, it was a pic I took on my phone in jpg format

Richdem said:

That is exactly what I did twice. Each time the post disappeared, it was a pic I took on my phone in jpg format

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that is odd, I have moved it back here just above, not sure why that got removed

Feartech said:

that is odd, I have moved it back here just above, not sure why that got removed

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Thank you so much, I am hoping some fresh eyes this morning will help find the answer to my issue

Richdem said:

Thank you so much, I am hoping some fresh eyes this morning will find the answer to my issue

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could be an issue with your SSD

or is it an NVME drive?

Feartech said:

could be an issue with your SSD

or is it an NVME drive?

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It is a Samsung SSD, I installed Windows first to create the SSDT's then made an image. The only thing I didn't do was the USB mapping in Windows. The weird thing is I had a prebuilt EFI that I did get externally that booted but the monitor would not come back on after sleep so that is when I started from scratch which I always planned on doing once I knew I could install Ventura. I need to find that EFI again lol.

Richdem said:

It is a Samsung SSD, I installed Windows first to create the SSDT's then made an image.

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Yes, but is it a SATA SSD (requires data and power cables) or a NVMe M.2 drive (install directly onto the motherboard)?

If it is a NVMe M.2 drive, there is a problem. Samsung NVMe M.2 SSDs are known to have serious issues with MacOS Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.