AlexanderWillner / runMacOSinVirtualBox

Run macOS 10.16 Big Sur (and other versions) in VirtualBox on macOS
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Only "EFI" (1MB) installation disk available when installing Mojave #54

Closed jlc closed 5 years ago

jlc commented 5 years ago

Hi!

To reproduce, I've just clone the repository and "make all". macOS Mojave image is in the Application folder, and VMWare + Ext have been installed (I've tried with both 5.2.26 and 6.0.4.

After having created the image, booting macos installer for the first time, clicking on the "install macos" menu, accept the license, macOS detect only one disk named "EFI" of size 1MB (with 414kB available), and nothing else, so nowhere to install macos... :(

It's an awesome job!!! Thank you so much!

jlc commented 5 years ago

Tried with release 1.2, seems cleaner but same pb, except it doesn't propose even one disk to install macOS on.

Can it be due to the available space available on disk? (At the time of selection of installation disk in mojave installer, there are 37GB available on my hard drive).

AlexanderWillner commented 5 years ago

Now an additional step is needed in the installer to initialize the disk first. So in the disk utility within the installer you've create a partition first. This step was automated before, but I'm now trying to remove the dependency for the tool that I used before.

jlc commented 5 years ago

Thank you! :)

But...

With version 1.2 as well as the current code, after about 75% of installation macOS installer never finish and keep rebooting the guest os, impossible to finish the installation. (I've tried with virtual box 5.2.26 and 6.0.4, formating the disk in APFS or HDFS+).

Should I open a new ticket? Do you need more info?

AlexanderWillner commented 5 years ago

You've to eject the installer after it reboots. That's why there is the line Press enter to stop VM 'macOS-Mojave' (e.g. after installer restarted).... within the make all target.

AlexanderWillner commented 5 years ago

Also see Item 3 at https://github.com/AlexanderWillner/runMacOSinVirtualBox#faq

jlc commented 5 years ago

Work perfect!!!