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jamesfawcett / Thinkpad-X201-Hackintosh-Catalina

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Does not boot (incomplete instructions?) #5

Open ViktorNova opened 1 year ago

ViktorNova commented 1 year ago

Hi! I can't get this to boot on my X201, and have followed all instructions. It boots into a black screen with a single cursor in the upper-left corner and stays there forever.

However I think the error may be in the parts not covered by the instructions (which I'm guessing is the part where Clover is installed to the USB drive?) The instructions don't mention anything about installing Clover so I'm lost

Can you provide some guidance? I've done a handful of Hackintosh builds but never Clover with a non-EFI system, so I think there's something I'm missing here. Sorry for the ignorant question if this is obvious! Thank you

ViktorNova commented 1 year ago

I figured it out - in addition to the instructions in the Readme, I had to do a few extra steps to get the USB to boot:

After using the Dosdude1 Catalina patcher to install patched Catalina to USB stick (as outlined in the Readme), I did the following:

  1. Download Clover from the official site and install it to the USB drive. During installation, click the "Customize" button and check the following options:

    • Install boot0af in MBR
    • CloverEFI 64-bits SATA

  2. Mount the EFI partition on the USB drive using Clover Configurator (it will likely be empty) - copy over the contents of the EFI folder in this repo into the EFI partition on the USB drive, and eject it.

I wanted to outline this here so you can add these missing instructions to the Readme =) thanks for sharing this cool project!