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

[DBinnall]

We'll, we fixin' to find out....

 

[DBinnall]

It failed with the same error message.

 

[Namok88]

Well, that's a bad but good news. At least you know your SSD is fine.

Did you build your own EFI folder?

There's a guide for your motherboard you probably have seen and someone succeeded installing Catalina on it and shared their EFI (can you give it a try?):

<< Solved >> - [Success] Catalina 10.15.1 Asus ROG Strix Z390E-Gaming, i9 9900K and RX 5700XT

[Success] Catalina 10.15.1 Asus ROG Strix Z390E-Gaming, i9 9900K and RX 5700XT Hardware: Processor : Intel Core i9-9900K Motherboard : ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING RAM : 32GB DDR4 PC3000 GPU : Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB IGPU : Intel UHD630 graphics 630 Storage : NVME Intel 512GB Ethernet : Intel...

www.tonymacx86.com

I found a Clover/OpenCore Github repo too:

GitHub - czombos/asus-rog-strix-z390-i-gaming-hackintosh: A guide to build your own Hackintosh based on ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING Motherboard and AMD GPU

A guide to build your own Hackintosh based on ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING Motherboard and AMD GPU - czombos/asus-rog-strix-z390-i-gaming-hackintosh

github.com

 

[DBinnall]

That is actually the EFI I am using. I'm not familiar with OpenCore. I took a look at it and it seems like it might be a little above my pay grade. I just checked the BIOS and noticed my SSD was plugged into SATA 2. Would that be a problem?

 

[Namok88]

Not really, it's just gonna be running slower that what it is capable of.

I'm starting to think that there's something going on with 10.15.5.
This section of the forum is filled with Z390 chipset owners having issues updating from an earlier version of Catalina to 10.15.5.

 

[DBinnall]

Well I just checked that BIOS settings that cat on GitHub was using and he's running in XMP2, so gonna give that a try, Yeah I looked like crazy for one of the gigabyte designaire boards but they were sold out everywhere, and I do notice a lot of people having issues with this particular board.

 

[Namok88]

I do notice a lot of people having issues with this particular board.

I'm helping another person with the exact same board (without dGPU), so once I get his to work, we'll know if the issue is caused by that specific motherboard.

<< Solved >> - [ PCI Configuration end, Bridges 4, devices 12 ] - Catalina Installation

Try to boot from different USB ports. Make sure these BIOS settings are set as below: * USB XHCI Hand-off is enabled * CSM is disabled * VT-d is disabled * Super IO > Serial and Parallel Ports disabled * DVMT PRe-Allocated is set to 64M * Platform Power Management is disabled

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[DBinnall]

I'm helping another person with the exact same board (without dGPU), so once I get his to work, we'll know if the issue is caused by that specific motherboard.

<< Solved >> - [ PCI Configuration end, Bridges 4, devices 12 ] - Catalina Installation

Try to boot from different USB ports. Make sure these BIOS settings are set as below: * USB XHCI Hand-off is enabled * CSM is disabled * VT-d is disabled * Super IO > Serial and Parallel Ports disabled * DVMT PRe-Allocated is set to 64M * Platform Power Management is disabled

www.tonymacx86.com

Other folks have gotten it to work. Thats why I chose it. It seemed like the closest thing I could get to the Designaires, on a 300 series chipset with baked in USBC. This has turned into such a time sink and its keeping me out of the studio for much longer than I had anticipated. I sure hope once I get it set up I'm not chasing problems down all the time. I'm getting a little despondent.

 

[Namok88]

I've setup several Hackintoshes for friends over the years, it's always easier when you have the hardware in front of you...

 

[DBinnall]

Oh yeah, I’m sure. I’m thankful for everyone’s help. I’m technology proficient but no expert when it comes to deeper computer functions, so the expert advice is greatly appreciated.