Can't bootup with Installation

Neelakurinji123 / Thinkpad-x220-OpenCore

Repository for information, kexts, etc. relating to getting the Thinkpad x220 series working with macOS.

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Can't bootup with Installation #2

Open kskim7 opened 6 months ago

kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Hello there, what a nice work that you've done with an old machine like X220. I also have one, have been sleeping in the closet, but decided to give it a new life after seeing your work. I've tested that your EFI boots without any trouble, so I made the installation USB and went straight to installation but with no luck. The progress bar at the boot screen got stuck somewhere in the middle, not moving at all. Is there any solution to this? I wish I could figure out what's gone wrong with verbose mode on, but I can't find it on your EFI boot selection screen. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!!!

Neelakurinji123 commented 6 months ago

Hi, Have you try 'config.for.usb.installer.plist'? Just rename to 'config.plist'. These plists are same except the SMBIOS. The SMBIOS for x220 is 'MacBookPro8,1'. That is correct. But for new installation, macOS requires the newer SMBIOS. See this guidebook: Adjusting the SMBIOS

kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Thanks for the reply. Yes I’ve already used your installer config.plist. but it has the same result. The progress bar stops at the midpoint. I didn’t make any change to the smbios to your file. Should I make one, perhaps??

Neelakurinji123 commented 6 months ago

Hi, I installed macOS Venture to an external HDD without problems. I have updated same EFI to GitHub. Be patient. Sometimes installer looks like being stuck. There are a lot of errors in the screen output, but not fatal.

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kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Wow, big thanks to the updates and the pictures you took! Now i'm testing with your newly updated EFI's, hopefully it would work this time. I see that you have changed the boot screen into verbose mode, making things easier to find out what's going on, compared to the plain progress bar. Upon another test it looks as if it's stuck from time to time - now it's the 'ChangePowerState' section making no progress. But i'll try to be patient and see if it would finally work.

kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Currently stuck at this point, after 40 minutes of waiting. I guess that's how far it can get. Perhaps because of the difference in specs between yours and mine?

Neelakurinji123 commented 6 months ago

Hi, Stuck on the 'ChangePowerState' isn't good. I suppose the PC is going to sleep. There are a lot of causes of the problem. PowerManagement issue: Kernel>Emulate>DummyPowerManagement to 'on'. (disable CPU throttling) ACPI issue: ACPI>Add>SSDT-SLEEP.aml to 'false' Also change ACPI>Quirks and Kernel>Quirks. I had experienced the same problem before, but I don’t recall how to fix it.

kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Thanks, I have changed DummyPowerManagement to on, and SSDT-SLEEP into false and tested into installation but it goes to sleep again. Perhaps each machine has a little bit of different results. I think I should go for a further study on this matter. I wish I could figure this out soon. Thanks anyway!!

kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Hi bro, i'm still lost at the same point. Could you pls share your BIOS settings? I'm assuming that difference in BIOS setting is the key. Mine also uses modded 1.46 version. I wasn't able to find the VRam section, and the Secure Boot section as well.

Neelakurinji123 commented 6 months ago

Sure. I have some information for you. My x220 runs with Urtrabase because I accidentally made the built-in keyboard became unusable when I disassembled it. So, my PC's usb ports are three of x220, four of Urtrabase, two usb3s of ExpressCard and one for usb device of miniPCIe. I mapped maximum 15 ports for each controller including my devices in USBMap.kext.

'ChangePowerState' is most annoying problem which caused by AHCI but also related to other issues. I searched and found that usb issue could cause this at some site. If so, use USBInjectAll.kext instead of USBMap.kext or make USBMap.kext by yourself.

Also, "Skip Board ID check" mechanism is complicated, you can use 'boot-args -no_compat_check' instead. See Board-ID_VMM-Spoof .

My BIOS:images

Good luck.

kskim7 commented 6 months ago

Wow,, how kind of you to have every BIOS setting pictured!! Thank you so much for your kindness. Well, regarding USB mapping, that's what I have always been having trouble with this machine. USB mapping didn't really work for me when I tried to install other MacOS versions years ago - so I gave up back then. Now I see that changing your USBmap to USBinjectall doesn't do the trick as well, so far. I would have to find other OS versions if none of these work. Thanks anyway! Yours was a huge help!!!