[SOLVED] NVIDIA Card and Error Allocating Pages Issue Installing Sierra

[noahhurst]

Thank you all to anyone who reads this. I will be so thankful for any help you guys can get me. I have been a lurker for a few years but I have ran into some issues and just can't get through them.

Hardware:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz) (BX80646I74790K)
Graphics: EVGA GeForce GT 740 4GB GDDR5 Dual DVI mHDMI Graphics Cards 04G-P4-3748-KR
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH LGA 1150 Z97 Dual Thunderbolt 2 ATX Motherboard

Error

Guide as Resource

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.200564/

Thumb Drive Setup

I went through it step by step. I had some issues installing on an 8GB thumb drive I was using and had some issues with it. One of the first things I read was that sometimes the 8GB thumb drives have issues. I went out and bought a 16GB to make sure that wasn't the issue.

Installation on to thumb drive appears to be successful.

BIOS Setup

1. Optimized Defaults
2. VT-d is Disabled
3. CFG-Lock - Could not find
4. Secure Boot Mode - Could not find
5. OS Type is Other OS
6. IO Serial Port - I could not find but found Super IO - Serial Port... I went ahead and tried disabling this. Did not effect. I left disabled.
7. XHCI Handoff Enabled

Installing Sierra

After it was installed on the thumb drive I put into the my computers USB drive and I was met with apple logo and then about 5 seconds later the prohibit sign.

Error Allocating Pages

I then ran it in verbose mode and I got this error:

I browsed this site and attempted this thread:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...install-problems.173991/#ErrorAllocatingPages

Since this seemed to be the hang up I started there.

• If it next says Error loading kernel cache then you may have SIP enabled and it can't generate a kext cache
  • Figure out which config.plist you're using, and check it for the RtVariables needed to disable SIP for El Capitan (covered in this guide) (This was already there... I tried removing it and that didn't fix it. Restored config.plist.)
  • If that's not it, try using a different USB port for the install drive (front/back, USB2/USB3, etc.) (I tried all of my USB 3 Ports, front, back, and used my Belkin multi-prong adapter. It's USB2 plugged into a USB3. I have no USB 2 on my board.)
  • If that's not it, try replaced VBoxHfs.efi with HFSPlus.efi in EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/ (I tried this and didn't work. Restored VboxHfs.efi.)
• Otherwise if it doesn't have the kernel cache message:
  • One user reported getting this but not on every boot and using a different USB port fixed it (I tried all of my USB 3 Ports, front, back, and used my Belkin multi-prong adapter. It's USB2 plugged into a USB3. I have no USB 2 on my board.)
  • Others report that replacing EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi with OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi fixes it. (I did this and it gave me a new error saying in could allocate... see below).
    
  • If you have more than one of OsxLowMemFixDrv-64.efi or OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi or OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi then remove all but one (I made sure there wasn't one in there. Also, there was no OsxLowMemFixDrv-64.efi so it wasn't an issue.)

* Updated 10/12/2016 - I tried to use the OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi and it didn't work.

 

[noahhurst]

* Updated 10/12/2016 - I tried to use the OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi and it didn't work.

• Others report that replacing EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi with OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi fixes it. (I did this and it gave me a new error saying in could allocate... see below).
  

I did get a new error with this. So I don't know if that means that this is the issue or if it just made things worse.

 

[BreBo]

1. Remove all OsxAptioFixDrv files from your /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI folder.
2. Download and place OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi in your /EFI/ClOVER/drivers64UEFI folder.
3. Restart

 

[noahhurst]

1. Remove all OsxAptioFixDrv files from your /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI folder.
2. Download and place OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi in your /EFI/ClOVER/drivers64UEFI folder.
3. Restart

That yielded this error:

Thanks for your help by the way!

 

[BreBo]

Clover's config.plist key CsrActiveConfig is set to 0x67 not 0x3?

 

[noahhurst]

Clover's config.plist key CsrActiveConfig is set to 0x67 not 0x3?

I didn't not have that set. I set 0x67 and yielded this:

This was with "OsxAptioFix2Drv-free2000.efi":

This was with "OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi":

This was with "OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi":

I attached my EFI folder.

 

[BreBo]

Did you try to boot with the EVGA GeForce GT 740 removed?

 

[noahhurst]

Ok, I removed my graphics card and I was able to install MAC OS Sierra. I installed the Alternative Drivers for my Card. I took it for a test drive and it worked great. I used multibeast and rebooted. Started up like a charm.

I put my card in again and I am getting the same error.

 

[P1LGRIM]

I put my card in again and I am getting the same error.

Which system definition are you using ?

 

[noahhurst]

Which system definition are you using ?

I used the default iMac 14,1.