El Capitan stuck in a reboot loop

[LuoSam]

Hey guys I have a hackintosh with yosemite (clover bootloader) and I just followed the clover guide to install el capitan. I've followed the steps like moving the kexts and disabling SIP etc. but now, after installing the el capitan installer and restart, it just wont "boot from mac osx". It goes to the apple logo boot screen for a few seconds and restarts, telling me i could press del for bios etc.

I'm pretty sure im in a reboot loop.

Here are my specs:
-Gtx 560
-i7 2600
-B75mplus
-8gb ram

Any help would be of great help thx

 

[ammulder]

Some people with 2500K reported success installing with cpus=1 after which they could install NullCPUPowerManagement.kext into /S/L/E/ and remove cpus=1 and that worked

 

[AGuyWhoIsBored]

Some people with 2500K reported success installing with cpus=1 after which they could install NullCPUPowerManagement.kext into /S/L/E/ and remove cpus=1 and that worked

You can do that, but you would disable all CPU Power Management...see here:

[Guide] Native Power Management for Laptops

 

[LuoSam]

where do i type that in the clover bootloader?

 

[ammulder]

One-time boot arg or put it in config.plist for an every time boot arg

You don't have to use NullCPUPM if you have real power management working (perhaps with a custom SSDT.aml or whatever). I'm sort of relaying third-hand because I don't have a 2600 to work with.

 

[LuoSam]

Guys firstly I don't have a laptop and secondly I have replaced my old Yosemite installation with the current El Capitan one (that is not working) so therefore I can't access my Mac 'desktop' and change the .plist file. The only thing I can do right now is access the clover boot screen or use the recovery hd partition.

What I can also do is I have a USB with install OSX El Capitan in it that I prepared using Tonymac's new 10.11 guide. (Using the new unibeast). The problem with this is that when I boot from this, there is a white circle with a line across it. (Therefore, I can't even install a new copy of OSX)

 

[ammulder]

So follow the instructions here to add cpus=1 to your boot argument list for the current boot only. You'll have to do that on every boot unless you edit config.plist. See if it helps.

 

[christianmagill]

I have the same issue. Adding cpus=1 does not resolve the issue. After selecting option from Clover boot screen system reboots a second later.

I installed El Capitan, got past first reboot. I'm not sure if I accidently entered the wrong Clover boot screen option (I hit enter via muscle memmory) during the second reboot.

 

[Stork]

I "cured" my reboot problem by changing the BIOS Boot Mode Selection parameter (the name various in different motherboards) from Legacy or UEFI & Legacy to UEFI (only).

 

[gunnatalk]

I have the same problem tried to boot in safe mode and got this