Hey everyone,
I just tried this build. Hitting a giant snag, but I have some things I'm going to try. Just want to lay out my thought process here in case someone sees a glaring, obvious solution.
Once I try to boot from my El Capitan USB, I get the Apple logo with progress bar, but it just hangs there indefinitely.
Booting in verbose mode, it hangs up at "mbinit: done [128 MB total pool size, (85/42) split]"
I followed Stork's El Capitan guide that is linked in Post #1 of this thread. Posting this here because there doesn't seem to be any activity on that thread, and I don't expect that the installations would be vastly different.
Few things didn't go quite as expected in the BIOS settings:
1) I can't seem to find an explicit XHCI handoff parameter in the Gene BIOS. I was running the latest BIOS version (3504), then backtracked to 3401 to 100% coincide with this build guide. No luck. Not sure if this is something I should worry about?
2) To disable secure boot, I had to delete all the drive keys. Again, this step wasn't explicitly stated in the original guide, so not sure if I should worry about this either.
3) When I made the USB El Capitan Unibeast drive, I used the version of El Capitan that I downloaded as the free update from 10.6.8, linked here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886 ( I had tried building an Ivy Bridge hackintosh but never got past 10.6.8 (boot 0 errors), so that gave me an excuse to just start completely over with new components. ) Does anyone know if there is a difference between this version of El Capitan and a "standard" version?
Path forward:
- I am going to remake the USB thumb drive. I was an idiot and used a 3.0 drive.
Again, just a stream of consciousness to maybe help someone else, or get some input from more experienced people!
Thanks!