• System
  • CPU: i7 4790 Haswell
  • GPU: MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8G
  • MB: ASUS H81I Plus
  • SMBIOS: iMac 17,1
  • No dedicated wifi or bluetooth card (Ethernet only)
• Issue
  • macos installer gets stuck in a loop with errors like:
    • failed lookup: name = com.apple.dock.fullscreen
    • OS_REASON_LIBSYSTEM | Bluetooth fatal error - crashing { build=release, reason,114 }
  • OpenCore debug text file consistently stops at [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START]
• What I've tried (software)
  • Recreating my config.plist from scratch
  • Booter
    • Whitelisting MMIO regions one at a time
    • SetVirtualMap Quirk
    • EnableWriteUnprotector -> True
    • RebuildAppleMemoryMap -> False
    • SyncRuntimePermissions -> False
  • Kernel Patch
    • AppleXcpmCfgLock -> True
  • UEFI
    • ProvideConsoleGop -> True
    • IgnoreInvalidFlexRatio -> True

Effectively, I've tried everything (as far as I can tell) that the Dortania guide here recommends to solve this issue.

Misc info about this project:

I recently received 3 itx PCs from work and have been on a mission to convert them into dualboot hackintosh & windows systems for my friends and myself. The other two PCs are running with the same motherboard, the i5-4570 that they came with, and no GPU. Due to a defect on one of the Motherboards I was not able to update the bios properly to run the i7-4790 (wouldn't post), and cannot be arsed to figure that out.

This hardware ran macos with the i7 and no gpu, but with a different install of course. Later, this system ran macos with the GPU and i5. I then swapped the cpu (GPU + i7) and it booted (with iMac 17,1 SMBIOS) but only once. When attempting to start the system later my macos drive disappeared as a bootable drive in the BIOS. By this time I had wiped my install thumbdrive, and this kernel issue has been present ever since I recreated the installer.

As such, I don't believe it to be an issue with my hardware, but with my install thumb drive.

First, I pulled the EFI from one of the other systems, changed the GPU boot args and the SMBIOS, and first got this error. I've reviewed all of the config.plist to check the parameters and all appears to be good. I then went through the guide to troubleshoot this error to no avail.

I will be creating the installer and the config.plist from scratch, but feel quite stuck otherwise.

Any and all help solving this would be much appreciated!!