- Joined
- Jul 8, 2012
- Messages
- 51
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gam. 7
- CPU
- i7-8770K
- Graphics
- RX 570
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
**Solution in final post**
Everything worked fine until last week. 5+ years this Hackintosh has been rolling along. Then, accidentally updated for Security Update 003, and boom.
Long story short, in attempting to fix it, I made it worse. Ended up doing a clean install of El Capitan from an existing USB thumb drive (+Unibeast 6.2.0), and successfully installed a fresh El Capitan system.
But I can't boot into the OS. The progress bar hangs almost immediately. (screenshot of verbose mode attached). I can boot into the Recovery volume using the same USB installer, but not without it.
My current "workaround", if you can call it that, is that I am able to run the same installer from USB and *reinstall* the OS. For whatever reason, the system will load on the *first* reset after the installation. This continuous installing-over-the-existing system doesn't seem to do any harm, but it takes 20+ minutes each time, and obviously it's annoying as hell just to restart the computer.
Clearly, there's something wrong in the Boot setup. I'm well versed in MultiBeast, but as that software changes, I have to change my settings too, based on my hardware. I'm learning a lot about Clover/Clover Configurator as well, but clearly there's more under the hood I don't know.
Can anyone offer insight or help in to how I should configure my system?! My hardware, admittedly from 2012, is listed in my avatar. But I don't think that's the problem because it literally worked perfectly until last week! The question is how to configure this hardware properly.
Here's some specific questions:
Your help is massively appreciated — I'm at wit's end over here.
Everything worked fine until last week. 5+ years this Hackintosh has been rolling along. Then, accidentally updated for Security Update 003, and boom.
Long story short, in attempting to fix it, I made it worse. Ended up doing a clean install of El Capitan from an existing USB thumb drive (+Unibeast 6.2.0), and successfully installed a fresh El Capitan system.
But I can't boot into the OS. The progress bar hangs almost immediately. (screenshot of verbose mode attached). I can boot into the Recovery volume using the same USB installer, but not without it.
My current "workaround", if you can call it that, is that I am able to run the same installer from USB and *reinstall* the OS. For whatever reason, the system will load on the *first* reset after the installation. This continuous installing-over-the-existing system doesn't seem to do any harm, but it takes 20+ minutes each time, and obviously it's annoying as hell just to restart the computer.
Clearly, there's something wrong in the Boot setup. I'm well versed in MultiBeast, but as that software changes, I have to change my settings too, based on my hardware. I'm learning a lot about Clover/Clover Configurator as well, but clearly there's more under the hood I don't know.
Can anyone offer insight or help in to how I should configure my system?! My hardware, admittedly from 2012, is listed in my avatar. But I don't think that's the problem because it literally worked perfectly until last week! The question is how to configure this hardware properly.
Here's some specific questions:
- Should I be using particular boot arguments? (e.g. nv_disable=1)
- Should I be using particular System Definition? (e.g. Mac Pro 3,1)
- Would I be better served using an older version of MultiBeast or Clover? If so, which one?
Your help is massively appreciated — I'm at wit's end over here.
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