- Joined
- May 6, 2012
- Messages
- 7
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H - Clover
- CPU
- i7-4770K
- Graphics
- GTX 1050 Ti
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi there, I guess I've been lucky over the years in that my Hackintosh builds have usually just worked for the most part. High Sierra was a bit slow to install but at least I'd get to the point where I could install Multibeast and continue.
I'm trying to do a clean install via USB boot of Mojave on my system, which is a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H and i7-4770K (Haswell). I have an nVidia 1050Ti card but am using integrated Intel for the time-being since there are no web drivers yet for the nVidia. High Sierra was running on an older 120GB Samsung 840 EVO SATA HD (APFS) and seemed to be OK. I downloaded Unibeast 9.0 and it made the USB boot disk OK. What I'm seeing:
1) USB boot to install macOS is pretty slow--about 20 mins or so before I get to macOS menu where I can select either the Disk Utility or install Mojave. I first erased the disk then proceeded with the install per the guide. But at least I can get to the macOS installer.
2) MacOS starts installing--this is the "white screen" part of the install. The PC reboots when the progress bar is around 75% or so. On the Clover screen it defaults to "Boot macOS X install preBooter", but I've also tried booting from the SSD (so whatever part of Mojave that's been installed so far.) This is the "black screen with Apple logo" part of the install. The progress bar sits at about 5% for about 15 mins, reboots, progress bar reappears but now at about 10%. This part of the install *very slowly* inches along but doesn't freeze. It gets to the end of the progress bar OK and reboots. I think it should finally be done. It starts booting. Clover booted from FileVault Prebooter this time. Again, progress bar gets right to the end. Finally...I get the solid grey screen with mouse cursor and....that's it. None of the initial steps to configure macOS appears. That's about 75 mins in since starting the install.
3) Aside from the initial first boot via USB, is there ever any point where I should be selecting "Boot macOS Install PreBooter from PreBoot" from the Clover menu, or should I always be choosing "Boot macOS Install from Mojave"? What about the "Boot FileVault Prebooter from Preboot"?
4) Should Mojave be taking an hour or so to install with my hardware?
Thanks,
Sir_Timbit
I'm trying to do a clean install via USB boot of Mojave on my system, which is a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H and i7-4770K (Haswell). I have an nVidia 1050Ti card but am using integrated Intel for the time-being since there are no web drivers yet for the nVidia. High Sierra was running on an older 120GB Samsung 840 EVO SATA HD (APFS) and seemed to be OK. I downloaded Unibeast 9.0 and it made the USB boot disk OK. What I'm seeing:
1) USB boot to install macOS is pretty slow--about 20 mins or so before I get to macOS menu where I can select either the Disk Utility or install Mojave. I first erased the disk then proceeded with the install per the guide. But at least I can get to the macOS installer.
2) MacOS starts installing--this is the "white screen" part of the install. The PC reboots when the progress bar is around 75% or so. On the Clover screen it defaults to "Boot macOS X install preBooter", but I've also tried booting from the SSD (so whatever part of Mojave that's been installed so far.) This is the "black screen with Apple logo" part of the install. The progress bar sits at about 5% for about 15 mins, reboots, progress bar reappears but now at about 10%. This part of the install *very slowly* inches along but doesn't freeze. It gets to the end of the progress bar OK and reboots. I think it should finally be done. It starts booting. Clover booted from FileVault Prebooter this time. Again, progress bar gets right to the end. Finally...I get the solid grey screen with mouse cursor and....that's it. None of the initial steps to configure macOS appears. That's about 75 mins in since starting the install.
3) Aside from the initial first boot via USB, is there ever any point where I should be selecting "Boot macOS Install PreBooter from PreBoot" from the Clover menu, or should I always be choosing "Boot macOS Install from Mojave"? What about the "Boot FileVault Prebooter from Preboot"?
4) Should Mojave be taking an hour or so to install with my hardware?
Thanks,
Sir_Timbit