OK guys, I did it!
Last night I turned on my hackintosh decided to only go to sleep once I'd have Catalina up and running. I googled once again "apfs module start 1689" and noticed some people on this forum were redirected to a thread about their own motherboard. So I googled "catalina z370p d3"...
OK that was not it. I also tried a Clover installer for Catalina but it hangs at the loading of the Airport driver (according to verbose boot and google).
I have an idea: Could it be my BIOS settings that would be compatible with Monterey but not with Catalina? At the time I was running Catalina I used Clover to boot my hack but switched to OpenCore when upgrading to Big Sur. And I remember when I had a power outage and couldn't boot my hackintosh...
As I said in the previous message, I'm already booting in verbose mode though I configured it differently than you describe it (I added -v to the boot-args section). Unfortunately it seems it crashes when the gui takes over from the boot process.
Because I'm trying to boot from USB I'm not surprised it is USB related contrarily to the problem I experienced with my internal NVMe SSD.
So I disabled both the kext and quirk, it does the same thing with and without the kext: I boot off the flash drive, then select the installer, at which...
I just tried with a wired keyboard and mouse and couldn't do anything more. I'm usually using Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse usually recognized as wired because the dongle provided works that way.
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it changed nothing. I boot off the Catalina USB, select the Catalina installer it starts booting then reboots then fully boots something (I'm not even sure it's booting the Catalina installer because all I get is the screen below).
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