Installation
Step 1:
Reboot your Desktop PC, after the screen turns on, press F9 repeatedly to enter into the Boot Menu.
On the Boot Menu, choose the USB Drive and press "Enter"
Now it should bring you into the Clover Bootloader menu, select Install macOS Catalina (USB Drive) and press enter.
The Installer now should boot and reach installation menu.
I'm in this weird boot loop in Step 1. I choose "install macOS Catalina" and it gets half way and says error (macOS page with the different languages) then, it says click to restart again. goes halfway on the progress above, then goes back here again.
I have tried to do the USB Installer twice.
I have a couple questions in the guide that may be the cause of this?
1. the step which says "Step 2: Format USB Drive as "HFS+J" with "GPT Partition Table" and make sure to name it: install_osx" How do we do this with disk utility? I googled "HFS+J" with "GPT Partition Table" and it seemed to be a windows type of format for which I don't have a windows machine (my hp6300 is Mojave only thanks to
@trs96's guides for Sierra, high Sierra and mojave). since Step 3: [Download macOS Catalina from the Mac App Store, after the download process has been finished, create the USB Installer by opening Terminal and writing the following command:
Code: sudo "/Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume /Volumes/install_osx --nointeraction Press "Enter" and it will ask for your "User" password, type your Password, wait for the process, wait for the process to end, it should take around 10-30 minutes.] has a format function I thought I could bypass step 2?
2. the step in copying the kexts and efi file to the EFI installer where "VirtualSMC.efi" is only available in 1.0.9 and as of today, the current version is 1.1.4, leaves me with this last question - should I copy
VirtualSMC.kext and
SMCProcessor.kext from 1.0.9 where I got VirtualSMC.efi? Or, should I copy those two kexts from 1.1.4 the newest release?
Thank you for your help and the answers for these questions!