So I just bought this motherboard, i9-9900K and a Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 XT. I used the mini guide for Catalina and worked great. I can't thank you enough for how easy this was.
I have the same specs, Gigabyte Designare, i9 9900K, Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT, I also have the Fenvi T919 installed. My plan is running dual both Hackintosh and Win, so I install 2 Nvme on both M2m and M2p (M2p for Hackintosh and M2m for Win). Windows will be installed in the near future.
I’m newbie Hackintosh. I followed the mini guide on page 1021 to install Catalina 10.15.2 on my pc. Everything run smoothly, I can restart few times and my system can boot by itself without using the usb bootable. I installed all the app and software that I need. And then, all the suddenly, my pc was unable to boot, it just showed the prohibited sign no matter what I tried (change the setting in Bios, use the backup final config in my Usb installer,..).
And it happped 2 times already. I wiped off everything and start from scratch again.
- The first time, it happened after I used the Clover Configurator to edit the time boot from 5s to 2s. And then I rebooted it, and saw the prohibited sign. In that case, I thought I messed the config file up, so I just wiped out my ssd and started over again (the Fenvi card wasnt not installed this time)
- The second time, I installed Fenvy card, add another ssd nvme M.2 and started installation. It just happened after I run test in half an hour, restart few times, no problem at all, and then I started installing all the apps and software (I disabled the gatekeeper and turned on the SIP to install some apps). When I thought I’m ready to make an backup, I restarted my Pc and then it broke again, the prohibited sign showed up.
I checked in the (-v) mode, and it showed the problem: “Couldn’t allocate runtime area”
I’m not sure what I missing here and how to fix it.
Anyway, CaseySJ you are doing awesome job here. You’ve created the whole new hackintosh world for newbie hackintosh like me. I’m a Windows fan boy, and didn’t update any new technique Pc since 2011. And you know what? I spent 3 *****ng whole days to read all your instructions from the first page. That a lot of works have been done here. It has been a long time I haven’t had the feeling interesting to learn new PC stuff like this time. Great job man!
I’ll try to use Catalina 10.15.1 instead of 10.15.2, create usb installer again with that version.
One thing I want to update:
I saw one comment CaseySJ said the Fenvy card should be installed in PCIex1 (the one at the bottom), but actually I have to install it into the PCIex1 on the top (near Ram slots) because I can’t install the Sapphire Nitro+ 5700XT into PCIe slot 1 (near Ram slots) the GPU is big so it hit Ram connectors, and bend the GPU card a little bit to get it position. The PCIe slot 3 same problem since it won’t get enough space at the bottom for the GPU. >> Therefore I have to install GPU to the 2nd slot and install Fenvy card on the top slot.
