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Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS
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Stuck at populate_macos_target_disk stage #319

Closed jprojas2 closed 3 years ago

jprojas2 commented 3 years ago

Hi! Thanks very much for making this installer! I'm having certain issues though:

First, I was having trouble at the populate_bootable_installer_virtual_disk stage, I kept getting the "sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence" error, which I think it's been mentioned in issue #313 . I solved that by typing LC_CTYPE=C && LANG=C and running bootinst.sh again.

Everything went on fine until I got to the populate_macos_target_disk stage, where both concurrent scripts startosinstall.sh and nvram.sh are run but only startosinstall.sh finishes, nvram.sh is just stuck in a blank terminal.

Any idea why this might be happening?

This is my troubleshoot file:

macOS_troubleshoot.txt

myspaghetti commented 3 years ago

The sed error indicates that Catalina_InstallInfo.plist is corrupt. Could you copy it to Catalina_InstallInfo.plist.txt and attach it here please?

jprojas2 commented 3 years ago

Catalina_InstallInfo.plist.txt

myspaghetti commented 3 years ago

Yup, the file is definitely corrupt, and I suspect the other Catalina_* files are corrupt too. These are the md5 hashes of the macOS Catalina installer files version 10.15.7.0.0.1600727528:

03c413f6d55c67eb7b5ea9230e658516 *Catalina_BaseSystem.chunklist
47a78e4da956d712a9a307ee8c685cd5 *Catalina_BaseSystem.dmg
a3102f19e7e8b5d4f648f6957ef1e6ae *Catalina_InstallESD.part00
e69d3c60180472aabb5601662df1a14f *Catalina_InstallESD.part01
2ff9f6bce21d66cb29ddb86d054536ed *Catalina_InstallESD.part02
174f03efa7c9210b2037a931ccabcd97 *Catalina_InstallESD.part03
fb0223541180abfd4aeca78d601a2f25 *Catalina_InstallESD.part04
7fa7a79103f276618b37c7d45a16e67e *Catalina_InstallESD.part05
0ac8875fc35e697d740f5acd87c9995d *Catalina_InstallESD.part06
364add8049044e9dfb3040f9b8441543 *Catalina_InstallESD.part07
0bc562caacdb67f0f9d3aed6c8ac63c4 *Catalina_InstallESDDmg.pkg
ced8e0407d153ad2cbc851b49edb39ce *Catalina_InstallInfo.plist
d5f77fade0e8fc6fe9de8d3509f22e02 *Catalina_AppleDiagnostics.chunklist
f924524231976c694062ba7bfd6716e3 *Catalina_AppleDiagnostics.dmg

Catalina_InstallInfo.plist is an XML file and if you edit it (and it's not corrupt) you can see the version number of the installer under <key>version</key> <string>10.15.7.0.0.1600727528</string>

Closing as won't fix because I don't plan on implementing integrity checks for the downloaded files, but I'd be willing to accept pull requests.

jprojas2 commented 3 years ago

Thanks! I downloaded the files manually from here and the installation went on smoothly.