- Joined
- Oct 18, 2011
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z370 Designare
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
At the risk of opening up a can of worms , what "sleep crashes" are you experiencing? And what suggestions have you attempted already?...I am getting some sleep crashes (though no freezes since I did a CMOS reset)
I somehow screwed up the post installation. I think I may have overwritten my custom EFI folder with the default Clover one. Now, when I try to boot from either the USB or the install, I get this, "ERROR allocating 0x11c85 pages at 0x00000000057cc000 alloc type 2 Couldn't allocate runtime area Boot failed; will sleep for 10 seconds before exiting". I don't have another Mac to check this with. Are there boot flags or other such wizardry I can use get the thing to start up again and fix the EFI folder with Clover Config?
Yes.
- Are you installing Catalina by following the Catalina Mini-Guide?
I'm doing a hardware upgrade from my previous hackintosh. My wife has a PC (using it now)
- If so, how did you create the USB install disk if you don't have another Mac?
Yes, I did this.
- When you try to boot from the USB Install Disk, are you pressing F12 at the BIOS Splash Screen to invoke the BIOS Boot Menu?
- If so, then you must select the USB flash disk from the BIOS Boot Menu.
- This should bring you to the Clover Boot Menu.
- Now you should be able to select Boot macOS from Catalina (if you named the internal SSD "Catalina"}
- If you continue to experience the ERROR allocating xxx pages at xxx, then try the following:
- Shutdown the system and flip power switch on PSU for 10 seconds. Then flip it back and boot up. Does it get past the error?
- If not, then perform a CMOS Reset by shorting the two designated pins on motherboard with a flat head screwdriver as explained in the Designare User Manual. This will reset BIOS parameters to factory defaults, so configure them again starting with Save & Exit --> Load Optimized Defaults.
- Do you still get ERROR allocating ... ?
Hello @dlight
Several comments:
- Are you using Samsung 970 EVO or EVO Plus?
- Are you using Clover 51xx?
- How long do you wait when the boot process appears to hang? Sometimes it takes 7 to 10 minutes before it continues by itself.
- Did you click "Generate" under Clover Configurator --> RtVariables --> ROM?
There may be a hardware issue, but first please try disabling IGPU in BIOS to see if that stabilizes the system.Yes.
I'm doing a hardware upgrade from my previous hackintosh. My wife has a PC (using it now)
Yes, I did this.
This worked, sort of. I shut off the power and reset the CMOS, then fixed the bios settings. Then I tried booting from the ssd. It took about five minutes and I ended up at the screen pictured (a graphic spray). I tried rebooting from the usb, and it chugged along for a while before hanging again.
Do I have a hardware problem? My bios navigation is sluggish and I've been plagued with freezes and forced restarts throughout this process.
EDIT: Just booted the install usb drive, ran disk utility, then tried to reboot and got the ERROR allocating xxx pages at xxx again.
No joke, you really are a genius! I disabled internal graphics and booted up from my SSD no sweat. So... what does this mean?There may be a hardware issue, but first please try disabling IGPU in BIOS to see if that stabilizes the system.
No joke, you really are a genius! I disabled internal graphics and booted up from my SSD no sweat. So... what does this mean?
P.S. Just checked, and I didn't overwrite the EFI folder on the USB drive after all.
This is odd, but let's do this:No joke, you really are a genius! I disabled internal graphics and booted up from my SSD no sweat. So... what does this mean?
P.S. Just checked, and I didn't overwrite the EFI folder on the USB drive after all.