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macOS Catalina Patcher (http://dosdude1.com/catalina)
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Restart with USB drive goes to "full bar" but never makes it to the menu #240

Open roddym4 opened 12 months ago

roddym4 commented 12 months ago

Hello. I have a 2011 (12,x) iMac, and I have tried using two different USB drives, but the same thing happens. After successfully running the patcher program, restarting the machine and selecting the USB drive, the progress bar goes to completion but then just sits there and never makes it to the menu. My only option is unplug the machine. Everything runs smoothly but it just never quite completes.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Thomas-Cee commented 11 months ago

I have the same issue. MBP 8.1, i7, 16gb ram. Seeking to install Catalina from 10.13.6 High Sierra, already verified the internal SSD is formatted in APFS. I didn't think I needed it, but I ran the APFS BootROM updater anyway from Dosdude1's Catalina site. Having the exact same issue @roddym4 is reporting.

EDIT: I will move this discussion to a help forum if someone can link me to one. I did look! Was not able to find a link.

I tried instead of booting off of the install USB, I reopened the CatalinaPatch app and this time selected "install on my machine". This triggered a error of "must disable System Integrity Protection". -Reboot into recovery mode (Command + R) -Open Terminal under Utilities (has to be done in recovery mode) -Enter "csrutil disable" to disable SIP -Reboot

I once again tried "install on my machine" and this time it went through it's steps without issue, UNTIL... The computer rebooted, and it seems to be hanging, and the install progress bar does not seem to be moving. I will leave it all day and see what happens.

Not having System Integrity Protection disabled seemed to be part of my issue, but... the tests were not exhaustive to determine if that was the case, plus I may be stuck mid way through this installation process I'm not sure...

EDIT 2: It hung for hours upon hours, and only went to 2ish%. I attempted it twice (trying this on a spare SSD). Will now have to reinstall High Sierra, and attempt the Catalina install again. As this is my work computer, I have just popped my work SSD running High Sierra back in and may leave this project for another time. I am currently stumped on what I have done wrong and seem to be having the same issue as @roddym4 .