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Thinkpad T440p Hackintosh (macOS Mojave 10.14.x / Catalina 10.15.x) - Clover config.plist + kexts
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Installing Mojave 10.14.X always gets stuck at "estimating time remaining" while installing Catalina doesn't #80

Closed codereason closed 3 years ago

codereason commented 3 years ago

My laptop is thinkpad t440p ( i5-4200M version, with one SSD for installing MacOS, and with my optical drive replaced by a HDD.

At first I tried installing Catalina 10.15.3, it works. But somehow it has a few bugs, and works not so fluently, therefore I tried installing Mojave 10.14, just the way I installed Catalina. Only one thing different: becuz of a few certificate thing , you should change the date in the terminal after you format the disk to APFS. Everything else I did was totally the same. So was EFI files ( I downloaded the latest version of EFI ( Master branch ) in this repo for both Catalina and Mojave.

And I'm sure both mirror files are correct ( already checked md5 before)

After I installed, rebooted the machine one or two times, there was a progress bar and apple logo on the screen where it shows the ETA. (About 10 mins or so). Then it shows "estimating time remaining" and the progress looks like it's nearly finished. That's where it got stuck. After 40 minutes the USB installer is really hot (I think is still doing IO reading/writing) So I just gave up.

I tried other versions of Mojave such as 10.14.3, 10.14.6, none of them working. But Catalina works. I don't know what I did wrong in the progress. Maybe Mojave and Catalina is slightly different. Or maybe I used the wrong EFI.

jloisel commented 3 years ago

Try to remove kexts one by one, starting from the least important ones like itwlm or intel mausi (ethernet). Also try to start the installer in verbose mode to see where it hangs.

jloisel commented 3 years ago

Also try to remove the ultrabay, and leave only the SSD first.

jloisel commented 3 years ago

It could also be that your USB drive is simply very slow.

codereason commented 3 years ago

Also try to remove the ultrabay, and leave only the SSD first.

Thanks. This is it. I removed the ultrabay HDD, and finally it works. Also High Sierra works ( with a early version of the EFI ). Looks like all the unnecessary peripherals should be removed when installing hackintosh.