Sierra & El Capitan install fails, SuperMicroX9DAi

[misterphoton]

Hello, please look at the images below. I am unable to install vanilla El Capitan or Sierra. I am getting close. It locks up at the very last minute before the installer screen, but I cannot see what the error/errors are.

Here are my hardware specs:

SuperMicro X9DAi motherboard with two 6 core XEON E5 processors
Nvidia / Apple Geforce 9800 with 512 mb that I pulled from my real Mac Pro (stock video card) it's the stock GeForce GT120
32 gb ram
Legacy Bios setup but I can also try the UEFI Bios
Unibeast method of OS X installer
USB Install: MBR with a GUID / OSX USB format (placed installer on USB by Unibeast)
Apple GeForce 9800 (NVIDIA GT 120 with 512 V RAM) (from my older Mac Pro)
I also can use a GeForce 210 if need be.

MB Specs:
https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x9dai.cfm
Dual socket R (LGA 2011) supports
2x Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600
and E5-2600 v2 family† 2. Intel® C602 chipset; QPI up to 8.0GT/s 3. Up to 1TB ECC DDR3, up to 1866MHz;
16x DIMM slots 4. Expansion slots:
3x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 2x
PCI-E 3.0 x8 & 1x PCI-E 3.0 x4 (in x8) 5.
Intel® i350 Dual port GbE LAN 6. 8x SATA2 and 2x SATA3 ports
4x USB 3.0 and 7x USB 2.0 ports

Boot flags:

I tried this group first: -v -x dart=0 (turned off in bios as well) npci=0x3000 PCIRootUID=0 DropSSDT=Yes DSDT=Null

AND then just -x -v (this gets me just as far in the install before the NO-GO icon appears under unreadable text.

Both times the machine locked up and after the firewire message. I can't make out the error, but if someone can help please.

I'm using Clover from the Unibeast Method.

SMBIOS:

Mac Pro 3,1 & tried 4,1

or I can also try 5,1

Clover menus:

Debug DSDT
Add DIGP
Fix Darwin
Fix Shutdown
Add MCHC
Fix HPET
Fake LPC
FIX IPIC
Add SMBUS
Fix Display
Fix IDE
Sata SATA
Fix Firewire
Fix USB
Fix LAN
Fix Sound
Fix New Way
Fix RTC
Fix TMX
Add IMEE
Fix Wake
Fix ADPI
Add PNLF
Fix S3D
Add HDMI
Fix Regions

CPU Menu

Generate P
Generate C
C2
C4
6
Patch APIC

Graphics Man

Inject EDID
Inject NVIDIA
Load Video Bios

Binaries Menu

Kext Patch
Kernall PM
AppleIntel CPU
Apple RTC

Tables Drop

Drop All

In the install phase (either El Capitan or Sierra)

After enabling the boot flags AND the clover options above, I get to a point where the "ghost busters" or NO-GO icon appears with some text that I cannot read. If any other Super Micro users or users have experience with this set up or if anyone knows where I am crashing or even has better setting recommendations, I'm listening. Thanks for the forum and your time, Nick.

 

[ThunderDome]

I can't believe I've found someone else trying to do this right now. I am very interested in this solution as well. Same motherboard, 2x 2680v2, and gtx970.

 

[misterphoton]

I can't believe I've found someone else trying to do this right now. I am very interested in this solution as well. Same motherboard, 2x 2680v2, and gtx970.

It seems my bios is better on UEFI for El Cap & Sierra. I wish I could provide you contact information via this post but the rules prohibit that. Ask the moderator for my contact information please you have my permission to ask them for my email. If you can post external URL references would the moderator let me know please? You are authorized to ask for user name: misterphoton's contact email by the moderator.

We installed the OS on a generic comparable machine and brought the hard drive to my Super Micro system. I just boot with flags: npci=0x2000 (to designate the video card slot) and dart=0

I'm sure there is another way to get the OS straight on your machine, but I do not know enough about Clover to do so. If there are any other SuperMicro users please contact us as well please via the forum. Nick Teti, thanks.

 

[ngugi1]

Can someone help me I'm new to HT.
I'm trying to run sierra 10.12.5
Spects:
Super micro x10dax-o
32gb ram
Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 Broadwell-EP
AMD FIREPRO W4300 4GB GRAPH SBY

My bios is set according to tonymacx86 setting to run sierra.

Clover options:
GUI - mirror
SBIOS- product name: iMac14,2

DSDT fix mask
Clover menus:
Under ACPI patching:
Debug DSDT

Under DSDT fix mask:

Add DIGP
Fix Darwin
Fix Shutdown
Add MCHC
Fix HPET
Fake LPC
FIX IPIC
Add SMBUS
Fix Display
Fix IDE
Sata SATA
Fix Firewire
Fix USB
Fix LAN
Fix Sound
Fix Airport
Fix RTC
Add PNLF
Fix TMR
Add IMEE
Fix _Wak
Fix ADPI
Add PNLF
Fix S3D
Add HDMI
Fix Regions

CPU tuning- General pstates, general Cstates, enable c2, c4, c6, patch APIC

Graphics Injector:
InjectEDID, ATI, load video bios

Binaries patching:
Kernel PM patch
Kernel Lapic patch
Kernel Hawell-E patch
Kernel support CPU
AppleIntel CPUPM patch
Apple RTC patch

Verbose
Single user
Safe mode
Set nvidia to versa
Debut kexts
Don't reboot on panic

At the end of it all I get a nanosecond code

 

[misterphoton]

I would try not enabling anything on the graphics in the clover many, and boot in EUFI mode not legacy mode.

 

[misterphoton]

You could try installing OS X on another machine with the hack HDD and taking that HDD to your machine? Sometimes this works. My friend did a vanilla install on a Gigabyte motherboard and the same video card I have, then we put the hack HDD in my machine and I was finally able to Run OS X. You have a newer motherboard so install may be easier straight onto your machine than the hard time I had..

 

[misterphoton]

I would try not enabling anything on the graphics in the clover many, and boot in EUFI mode not legacy mode.

I can't believe I've found someone else trying to do this right now. I am very interested in this solution as well. Same motherboard, 2x 2680v2, and gtx970.

I heard that OS X does not support more than 16 CPU cores in the newer 10.10 or onward.. IS this true? That may be your install problems unless you disable some cores ? (to Thuderdome)

 

[ImaPirate]

I know this is late in asking, but ThunderDome, did you finally get things working in Sierra? I had El Captain working for a bit with Dual CPUs and Dual 980 Ti GPU setup, but kept freezing every 2 to 3 hours. Someone mentioned that it could've been a memory leak in the cards, don't know though. Upgraded to Sierra and now after the startup Apple logo it goes black. Put a lot of time and effort in this particular build. Here's a couple of pics to show you what I've done so far. By the way I hit Geekbench scores of over 59,000. Doesn't matter now as I just want this thing to work. Look forward to your reply here soon, later...