Installation nightmare continued… (BOUNTY)

Installation nightmare continued… (BOUNTY)

In my last post I described an issue preventing a successful High Sierra install: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1evs81j/unmounting_apfs_errors_during_install/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Since then, I've tried swapping my NVMe out, resetting the Nvram 3-5 times, cleared CMOS, even pulled out my ram and reinstalled them, created a brand new installer on a new usb thumb drive this time attempting Mojave.

The main differences with this installer are as follows: SMBIOS 18,3 -> 19,1 Excluded USBInjectall Kext Included an extra ACPI: USBX (I had only added EC on my HS build.) Fixed Kext load order to: Lilu, VirtualSMC, SMCProcessor, SMCSuperIO, WhateverGreen, IntelMausi, SmallTreeIntel82575, USBToolBox, UTBDefault, itlwm, IntelBluetoothFirmware, IntelBTPatcher, IntelBluetoothInjector

The problem now looks like this, Installing Mojave reboots at 2 minutes remaining then will sometimes detect a “macOS installer” in OC picker then boot into the Apple logo and progress bar screen. Then system restarts and brings me back to the picker with the only options being my usb installation medium, open shell, and reset nvram. No option to boot into my Macintosh HD where I’m trying to install Mojave. I’ve even tried picking the OS drive manually from the bios which I can only get to show up post install after clearing cmos.

I think this is somehow related to the amount of disk images in diskutil list, this issue started when I was ejecting them in my original build, but I’m using entirely new everything.

I installed ubuntu on the same machine successfully to create the install media and create the ssdt’s using ssdt time.

I’m offering $20 Venmo or PayPal to anybody who knows what’s happening. I really need this machine to work for school and need help desperately.

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