SO CLOSE CATALINA 15.5.1 / Asus Rog Strix Z390-E / i9-9900K/ Gigabyte Radeon 5700XT

[DBinnall]

Okay giving that a shot.

 

[DBinnall]

OK I did what you said. I completely erased the SSD. Tried to install and still got the error at 2 min. Here is the latest log file in case something changed. Thanks for the help. Today is the day. I can feel it.

 

[Namok88]

The logs say you used HFS Extended to format your SSD.

You must use GUID partition map and "APFS" only (not case-sensitive nor encrypted)

Also, make sure you have "ApfsDriverLoader.efi" in your EFI/CLOVER/drivers/UEFI/ folder.

Mar  3 09:55:17 iMac-Pro Disk Utility[626]: Initialized /dev/rdisk0s2 as a 931 GB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 81920k journal
Mar  3 09:55:17 iMac-Pro Disk Utility[626]: Mounting disk
Mar  3 09:55:17 iMac-Pro Disk Utility[626]: Creating a new empty APFS Container
Mar  3 09:55:17 iMac-Pro Disk Utility[626]: Unmounting Volumes
Mar  3 09:55:18 iMac-Pro storagekitd[627]: Couldn't get physicalStoreUUID (SKAPFSStoreDisk { APFS UUID: --, CONTAINER UUID: --, DISK ID: disk0s2 } ): -69499

 

[DBinnall]

Yes I do have that in my driver folder.
and I selected APFS and GUID partition, but I will do it again right now just to make sure.

 

[Namok88]

Boot with the Installation disk on your USB drive and after the language selector, Open Terminal in the menu and type:

diskutil list

Take a clear picture of the result (resize the window if necessary so all the informations can be seen)

 

[DBinnall]

Hope this helps

 

[DBinnall]

 

[Namok88]

What version are you trying to install? (your title says 15.5.1?)

 

[DBinnall]

 

[Namok88]

That's the installer version, not the actual Catalina version. My guess it is 10.15.5.

I found some other people having that issue and coincidentally they also tried to install on a 1TB SATA SSD.

Do you have, by any chance, another Sata disk you can try to install Catalina on?