[Guide] Booting The USB Installer Using OpenCore

[Godjet]

what is the make and model of your hard drive?

hi, thank you for your reply, the HDD is HITACHI Z5K500

 

[Feartech]

hi, thank you for your reply, the HDD is HITACHI Z5K500

should be ok

but you are better off using an SSD or NVME for much better results

 

[Godjet]

should be ok

but you are better off using an SSD or NVME for much better results

mmmh so why you think it is stucked? something wrong in config or in kext? because i cannot find any solution

 

[Feartech]

mmmh so why you think it is stucked? something wrong in config or in kext? because i cannot find any solution

upload your zipped EFI

 

[Godjet]

upload your zipped EFI

here you are, thanks for your help

 

[Feartech]

here you are, thanks for your help

zip file please, not a rar file

 

[Godjet]

zip file please, not a rar file

sorry, here you are

 

[Feartech]

sorry, here you are

the guide and the files are in post 1 of this thread

 

[Iorkca]

Hey all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I got this up and running from the 1st post, to a point. Couple questions i have a HP 640 G2 with a 500g SSD. What is the best format to use when formating the HDD in Disk utilities, i used APFS. I can boot from the USB but I can't get it copied so it boots from the HDD. I can't see the HDD to begin with normally, and there does not seem to be a UEFI partition in it. And i am unsure if i did something wrong. I tried the tool in the first post that didn't seem to work. Going to put the laptop back on windows for now until i can do some more reading but any help would be great.

 

[Feartech]

Hey all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I got this up and running from the 1st post, to a point. Couple questions i have a HP 640 G2 with a 500g SSD. What is the best format to use when formating the HDD in Disk utilities, i used APFS. I can boot from the USB but I can't get it copied so it boots from the HDD. I can't see the HDD to begin with normally, and there does not seem to be a UEFI partition in it. And i am unsure if i did something wrong. I tried the tool in the first post that didn't seem to work. Going to put the laptop back on windows for now until i can do some more reading but any help would be great.

please read the faq for proper hardware profile setup:

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you should be able to just click on view then choose show all devices then erase the entire drive as APFS

you could try HFS but it will also convert to a APFS during install anyway