• 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, requestor = Language Choose[153], error =3: no such process
    • OS_REASON_LIBSYSTEM | Bluetooth fatal error - crashing { build=release, reason,114 }
  • OpenCore debug text file (in EFI) consistently stops at [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START]
    • in looking successful OpenCore log files it looks like this is normal??
• What I've tried (software)
  • Recreating my config.plist from scratch
  • Effectively, everything (as far as I can tell) that the Dortania guide here recommends to solve the [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START] error, but again, I was seeing this in the OpenCore log, not the installer, so it looks like this is may not be my issue.
  • 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

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. This is when I 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 in solving this would be much appreciated!!

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