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bavariancake / XPS9570-macOS

macOS Mojave/Catalina on Dell XPS 9570.
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Catalina installer boots to macOS Recovery instead of proceeding #49

Closed attilagyorffy closed 5 years ago

attilagyorffy commented 5 years ago

I've created a Catalina USB installer using the createinstallMedia method described here and have successfully booted into it, repartitioned my internal SSD drive using a single partition (macOS - Mac OS Extended Journaled format) and proceeded to the install process. The installer restarted, reported to take 25 minutes (but it completed that phase a lot faster) and then once rebooted, I've chosen the Boot macOS install from Install macOS Catalina option through my USB drive's Clover boot screen.

Instead of continuing with the install process, I end up on the macOS Recovery screen with the usual "Reinstall macOS", "Disk Utility" and the rest of the options. So I appreciate that at this point there's no boot loader on my installer target volume, but based on Disk Utility, the installer has already converted my HFS+ volume to APFS and created2 volumes: "macOS" and "macOS - Data" within an APFS container. I seem to fail to continue with the installer at this point. I don't recall this issue when I've installed Mojave, only just now.

How do I debug this?

I'm using Clover v5097 and your EFI directory with a small change to config.plist (that has to do with serial numbers to avoid conflicts).

Thanks in advance.

attilagyorffy commented 5 years ago

Choosing "macOS" as the boot target from Clover at this phase seems to work fine. Closing the issue.