Apologies ahead of time if this is in the wrong thread as it applies to pre-installation and post-installation, Mojave and Catalina, but I just had to get all this written down…
The issues:
MOJAVE 10.14.6 2019 SECURITY UPDATE
CATALINA INSTALLER USB
POST Mother Board UPDATE ISSUES
UEFI Bootloader disappearing from BIOS boot menu/setup
MAPS NOT WORKING/ CORRUPT USER/LIBRARY/CACHE
GPT HEADER CORRUPTION AT BOOT
This is my system which has worked flawlessly ever since 10.14.1 and automatic updates within the OS.
10.14.6 iMac 18,3
ASUS Rog Maximux X Code Bios v 2023
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 Special Edition
1 NVME System Drive, 1 x 1TB NVME Scratch Disk, 4 Internal 8TB HDD in raid 1+0, 4 x 3TB in a raid 5 setup with enclosure, 1 Backup System SSD, 1 2TB Time machine HDD (get to why I’m listing the drives later)
Instead of making different posts for all of these issues that I’ve spent that past two weeks trying to solve (I almost gave up) I thought for anyone else out there experiencing one or any of the above issues you might find a solution in this thread.
First let me say thanks to all the people out there in the various hackintosh communities (hackintoshers, tonymac, insanelymac, olarila, reddit) I researched everyone single one to find solutions for all these issues.
Second, invest in Carbon Copy Cloner and make sure you make constant backups of your system drives. Otherwise there would be no way to troubleshoot.
So this all stemmed from not being able to update to Mojave 10.14.6 2019 Security Update released in November 2019.
My original post:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/cant-install-mojave-security-update-2019-001-10-14-6.287574/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/e2naku/cant_update_mojave_to_security_update_2019001/
There were plenty of different errors through troubleshooting:
Kextdstall[1] (240s) ‘AppleACPICPU’
or
considerRebuildOfPrelinkedKernel com.apple.nke.webcontentfilter trigger rebuild
or
com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.system
<error>: Could not read path: path = /Library/LaunchDaemons, error=2: No suchfile or directory
And
IOG flags 0x3(0x51)
…
IOConsoleUsers” gIOScreenLockState 3, hs 0, bs0, now 0, sm 0x0
(The last two, still exist, but don’t stall/severely halt boot, and I’m not really sure if it’s an issue that needs to be addressed as I believe I’ve used the correct format of Device Properities to inject my framebuffer)
Then once I managed to get past some of the installer stalls I always ended at “Installer resources were not found” prompting a restart and continuous loop cycle of no successful install.
Then I tried making a bootable Catalina USB and couldn’t even install a fresh copy of 10.15.1 on a separate SSD. Again getting errors in verbose mode that would stall and go no further.
Then after cloning, and failing, and cloning and failing, changing bios settings, at some points my UEFI bootloader would completely disappear for my Samsung NVME 970 pro system drive.
Was really getting frustrated, but was determined to fix it. And they are one by one in the order I Fixed them:
Clover UEFI Bootloader Disapepared from Boot Menu
So first I figured out what was going on with the UEFI bootloader disappearing. I tried complete wipes of the APFS drive, Reinstalling Clover on the EFI partition. Nothing. Finally Found the solution here thanks to chibabah
Tips:
1) If you have lots of connected drives use the Page Up and Page Down key to scroll through results of bcfg boot dump
Use Disk Utility or Terminal before hand to verify the exact UUID of your EFI system drive that has disappeared.
Post Motherboard Update
Now this seems to apply to a lot of people in the community who have updated and unknowingly couldn’t boot their system, or in my case, couldn’t update the current OS to the latest version. This seemed to apply to my ASUS Maximus X Code v 2203.
Thanks mattystonnie for your ACPI patch found here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/fix-for-boot-hangs-after-bios-update-acpi-patch.275091/
Can’t Install fresh version of Catalina 10.15.1
So after almost giving up on not getting the latest Mojave Security update, I wondered if Catalina would have the same issues. Well it had different issues.
Stall - Virtual IOReturn ionvmecontroller
AppleACPICPU stalling
Requiring EC device
So I found this reddit thread thanks dracoflar:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/den28t/whats_new_in_macos_catalina/
And applied the SSDTTime.command create by corpnewt
here:
https://github.com/corpnewt/SSDTTime
The SSDT-EC.aml file it created from my DSDT.aml was the FINAL KEY in allowing the Catalina Installer to complete.
Tips:
1) If you haven’t already created a SSDT before, for example a custom USB SSDT, it is placed in your EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched/
2) In your config.plist under ACPI Check “AutoMerge” so that it is true. This will automatically load any custom SSDT files from your patched folder.
Apple Maps not loading
This had been something that I had issues with before, more so with location services not working. This time, location services was fine, but it was a blank grey grid, couldn’t find an address, get directions, load satellite image. Ended up being a corrupt User Library since other Users had no issues using application Maps.
To fix this I used the following resources:
https://appletoolbox.com/fix-corrupt-user-accounts-macos/
1)
Quit Maps
Give Terminal Full Disk Access and the type:
diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`
2)
Deleting The Entire User Library Cache folder
~/Library/Caches
3)
Delete folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Maps/
4)
Restart Mac. All these caches and temporary folders will repopulated themselves and Maps should resume working.
Installing Mojave 10.14.6 2019 Security Update
This by far is the craziest of them all. Wehter the above things I implanted to my EFI or config.plist actually played a part or not in it finally working I guess I’ll never know. But it is finally solved. Simply by unplugging all drives. Appears to be an issue with real macs too:
Didn’t have to go the terminal route as some did in the tonymac thread above.
So since I have A LOT of drives I simply turned off my external enclosure, unplugged by 2nd NVME scratch drive, and disabled the SATA connectors in the BIOS.
Low and behold after two restarts the Security update completed without a hitch or stall.
After install I re-enabled/ connected/turned on all my drives, an no issues.
This must be a Mojave issue as I didn’t need to do this when installing Catalina from a USB installer.
GPT header corruption has been detected
And lastly for anyone out there with an ASUS Maximux Motherboard that has updated to the latest BIOS. There seems to be an issue with external drives plugged into the PC (mine is in the back USB C port) During boot the PC can’t POST and forces users into setup.
I know there is nothing wrong with the GPT partition as I’ve run multiple tests in windows and mac. And it’s a known issue with other ASUS motherboard users:
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?114955-GPT-header-corruption
Temporary Solution:
Until a BIOS update addresses this go to your BIOS settings
BOOT\Boot Configuration
And change the Boot Sector (MBR/GPT) Recovery Policy to “Auto Recovery”
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