XPS 9360 Installation stalling at 2 minutes left

[torchmedia]

I've updated Clover now. Here's something really interesting/weird.

I mounted the EFI volume on the APFS disk (disk0s1). Inside it was /EFI/Dell/diags_current.xml, and nothing else. photo attached.
How would/could that end up being present there?

 

[RehabMan]

I've updated Clover now. Here's something really interesting/weird.

I mounted the EFI volume on the APFS disk (disk0s1). Inside it was /EFI/Dell/diags_current.xml, and nothing else. photo attached.
How would/could that end up being present there?

Your Dell BIOS can create such files. Modern UEFI firmware accessing EFI is not surprising.

 

[torchmedia]

Inside /Volumes/macOS/macOS Install Data: looks like it was unable to finish copying all of the files before rebooting?

 

[RehabMan]

Inside /Volumes/macOS/macOS Install Data: looks like it was unable to finish copying all of the files before rebooting?

You're still not looking in the right place...
Note, from Clover loader.c:

// OS X installer paths
STATIC CHAR16 *OSXInstallerPaths[] = {
  L"\\.IABootFiles\\boot.efi", // 10.9 - 10.13.3
  L"\\Mac OS X Install Data\\boot.efi", // 10.7
  L"\\OS X Install Data\\boot.efi", // 10.8 - 10.11
  L"\\macOS Install Data\\boot.efi", // 10.12 - 10.12.3
  L"\\macOS Install Data\\Locked Files\\Boot Files\\boot.efi" // 10.12.4+
};

 

[torchmedia]

Ok.

cd /Volumes/macOS/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files/
ls -a

folder is empty!

cd /Volumes/macOS
ls -a
no hidden files

 

[RehabMan]

Ok.

cd /Volumes/macOS/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files/
ls -a

folder is empty!

cd /Volumes/macOS
ls -a
no hidden files

So at least you know the installer has not been copied to the main drive...

 

[torchmedia]

So at least you know the installer has not been copied to the main drive...

I'm not sure what to do. To me this feels like it's either an issue with memory, the nvme drive, or perhaps the USB port. I've tried both USB ports though.

I've run the Dell/bios/system check and everything is reporting fine of course, and Windows 10 installs perfectly fine.

Do you have any other ideas I can try @RehabMan?

 

[torchmedia]

I swear on my life I haven't changed anything, but I just tried another install, and this time when it rebooted with 2 minutes remaining, "Install macOS from macOS" was now an option...

proceeding with second phase ... fingers crossed.

 

[torchmedia]

I got my hope up too soon. Here's what happened:

Second phase of install started the first time, and after a couple of minutes crashed. It gave me the opportunity to save a report, which I did.

Since then I've tried rebooting through to "Boot macOS Install from macOS" about 5 times. Each time the installer loads in, makes it about 5% of the way through to "11 minutes remaining" and then reboots.

I also have a third clover option now, "Boot Recovery from Recovery"

Since I started writing this, I moved my USB drive over to copy the saved report, and now the USB drive appears to be inaccessible, not showing up at all on my other hackintosh.

 

[RehabMan]

I got my hope up too soon. Here's what happened:

Second phase of install started the first time, and after a couple of minutes crashed. It gave me the opportunity to save a report, which I did.

Since then I've tried rebooting through to "Boot macOS Install from macOS" about 5 times. Each time the installer loads in, makes it about 5% of the way through to "11 minutes remaining" and then reboots.

I also have a third clover option now, "Boot Recovery from Recovery"

Since I started writing this, I moved my USB drive over to copy the saved report, and now the USB drive appears to be inaccessible, not showing up at all on my other hackintosh.

May be NVMe SSD problem. Try a different device for the install target.