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ASUS ROG Strix H370-I install hangs

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This is like trying to solve one of those black box puzzles, where the sides are covered with instructions written in mystical runes that only a few great wizards understand!

Unfortunately we are trying to install macOS which really requires Apple Proprietary hardware, its own Bootloader, and its own Kexts on a non-Mac Motherboard, CPU and other add-on cards built primarily for Windows OS using a Bootloader helper like CLOVER (and others), modified kexts and other software tweaks on a cat and mouse game of chasing the ever-changing Mac Tactics with each of its newer versions.

In this endeavor, nobody knows everything! A lot of us are like the 5 blind men trying to identify and describe an elephant walking around and touching its various body parts!

Just like no single tool like a single Philips Screw driver can help us assemble a Desktop computer on any Computer case , no single tool like Unibeast can create a perfectly booting macOS Installer on all kinds of hardware we choose to create a current Hackintosh!

It is here we need to either self educate by reading or watching other people or ask for help in a Forum like this.

Providing all the information we only have to those providing help to us is like explaining our disease symptoms and all prior test reports to a specialist doctor to get appropriate and prompt medical help.
 
Installing Clover no, but knowing which magical drivers and kexts to select for which motherboard, that requires knowledge and powers way above a mere entry level noob such as myself! As soon as I find where I put that USB-2 and have a beer, I will give it another go.

And to think, just a week ago I thought that clover was a plant and kexts were some type of crackers!

One does not simply walk into Mordor, nor boots Mojave on an ASUS H370-I.

Thanks again!
 
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copy my efi on your stick and boot
 
Xdan, I would love to give it a try, where can I find your efi?
 
@bikenbeer - got the same issue, with the 31min. However, the difference I have is that my drives are listed as APFS... not HFS. I had HFS earlier, before I reformatted the drive as APFS.
 
There's nothing particularly mystical about installing Clover.View attachment 378927
@Sennen - Thanks for the input. I have figured out how to use the Clover configurator, to adjust a current config.plist on the EFI directory of the USB, that I am building, to boot the new machine. You suggest adding "Install RC scripts on target volume"... was hoping to find this option in the configurator. Or must I re-create the entire EFI folder using above?
 
@Sennen - Thanks for the input. I have figured out how to use the Clover configurator, to adjust a current config.plist on the EFI directory of the USB, that I am building, to boot the new machine. You suggest adding "Install RC scripts on target volume"... was hoping to find this option in the configurator. Or must I re-create the entire EFI folder using above?

More info -
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The install scripts option is not available? ... and the HFS option you have checked does not even exist...
 
I've been using the Dids build of Clover but the one on Sourceforge also has the RC scripts option (it has VBoxHfs-64 instead of HFSPlus). The important bit is EmuVariableUefi-64.efi; RC scripts just allows some stuff to persist through reboot and shutdown.
 
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I've been using the Dids build of Clover but the one on Sourceforge also has the RC scripts option (it has VBoxHfs-64 instead of HFSPlus). The important bit is EmuVariableUefi-64.efi; RC scripts just allows some stuff to persist through reboot and shutdown.

Thanks! The EmuVariableUefi -> got me through the 2min / 31 min "hangs". looks like I have Mojave on the main HDD. As described in the doc, not yet bootable on it's own(Multibeast to go). I can start it through the selection from the bootable usb. It is taking me through the final install bits - selecting country / intenet connection etc... However, my keyboard is not being recognized... so I can't type :( ... any clues on what driver I can add / change for that ? Or is this something multibeast does? Chicken and egg? as Mojave is not completely installed...
 
I found that if I hit the reset and forced a reboot after the installer hung, I could finally get it to boot Mojave. But that brings me to the next problem - what to select in MultiBeast so that it will boot again. Unfortunately I chose poorly, and the reboot hung.
 

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