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EETagent / T480-OpenCore-Hackintosh

OpenCore 0.6.9 configuration for T480. Optimized for Catalina and Big Sur.
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Installation problem #59

Closed diegolinhares closed 3 years ago

diegolinhares commented 3 years ago

Hi, it's my first time trying to do Hackintosh on my T480.

I follow the installation guides using Windows and for the EFI folder, I've used your files.

I reboot and installed OSX on my SSD, after the installation reboot, I can't see my SSD on Open core with OSX to select.

I can see only when I enter the recovery.

What I'm missing?

EETagent commented 3 years ago

Which SSD you use? PM981? Did installation finished successfully or it resulted in a kernel panic? What can you see in OC boot menu?

Installation must have failed, I can't imagine any other reason why macOS boot partition shouldn't be visible.

Try reinstalling with keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 -v boot arguments and notice possible errors.

diegolinhares commented 3 years ago

Hi my SSD is Samsung MZVLB256HBHQ.

I have on my boot options:

When I try to enter on OpenCore or the SSD it doesn't works (I'm using the usb stick).

When I select the usb stick I got only these options:

When I select OPENCORE and try to install again it works, main problem is after the initial reboot. I can't see my SSD, only these two options above.

I followed these steps:

1 - Downloaded last stable Open Core (0.6.3).

2 - Used the macrecovery script to take the two needed files (Big Sur).

3 - Created a folder to these two files on the root of an USB sticker.

4 - Created a EFI folder on the USB sticker root and pasted your files.

Do you think I did something wrong?

EETagent commented 3 years ago

Hi my SSD is Samsung MZVLB256HBHQ. I try to format it using the Disk Utility, it starts, but, the notebook reboots

Yes, that's PM981. If ThinkPad reboots during disk formatting or during installation, it's perfectly normal PM 981 behaviour. That drive is simply not compatible with macOS, I did not have success with it either so I ( And other people in this repo ) bought compatible drive instead.

NVMeFix solves this for few people, but because you use this repo, I suppose you have it already enabled.

Unfortunately, nothing can be done about it. You may have success with copying existing installation from compatible drive to PM 981 using program like Clonezilla. While I still had the disk, that "worked" but was heavily unstable.

diegolinhares commented 3 years ago

I see, thank you for the help. I think I'll buy the same SSD as yours.