Not sure what to do

Not sure what to do

Hello there, newbie to the Hackintosh scene here. I wanted to give Catalina a try (and maybe debug some code). My mobo is a PowerSpec Haswell i5 board. I tried everything I could throw at it (reconfigured the config.plist, swapping ram, changing bios settings). The poor thing gets stuck in a boot loop. I have gotten OpenCore to start successfully, but I can't seem to enter the Catalina recovery/base image file. Embedded below is the last screen shown before the system reboots (this was a very hard shot to take)

BTW, here is the specs I'm working with here:

  • CPU: i5-4570 @ 3.2 GHz
  • GPU: iGPU-only (HD Graphics 4600)
  • RAM: 12 GB DDR3 (8GB + 4 GB) @ 1600 MHz
  • Mobo: H81H3-WM v1.0 (some weird mobo?)
  • Ethernet: Onboard Realtek Gigabit LAN 8111
  • Audio: Realtek HD Audio ALC662

I'm using the OpenCore vanilla guides, and My flash drive is a generic 32 GB USB 2.0 flash disk (though I have tried a SanDisk Ultra 32GB USB 3.0 drive).

Any help would be helpful.

Pardon the potato camera: Had to find a use for my iPod Touch 5G.

More specific info:

/EFI/BOOT: BOOTx64.efi

config.plist/nvram/long string of what/boot args: -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=5

/EFI/OC/ACPI: SSDT-EC-DESKTOP.aml and SSDT-PLUG-DRTNIA.aml

/EFI/OC/Drivers: HfsPlus.efi and OpenRuntime.efi

/EFI/OC/Kects: AppleALC & AppleALCU, Lilu, RealtekRTL8111, SMCSuperIO, USBInjectAll, VirtualSMC, WhateverGreen

/EFI/OC/Tools: acpidump.efi, OpenShell.efi

/com.apple.recovery.boot: BaseSystem.chunklist and BaseSystem.dmg

submitted by /u/MikeDeveloper101
[link] [comments]