SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I am looking towards get some assistance in putting together the Hack for my workflow and personal use. I open to Cat or Big Sur, I am new at this and need alot of help starting, Please HELP!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 Hi, Have you installed or create an USB Pen to install? where are you locked? 🙂  1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Nothing just have windows 10 install, but have another ssd for the mac OS side The drive is the Xpg SX8100, or is it better to use the 970 pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 Have you ever installed OSX on a Hackintosh?  you have to build your boot EFi USB pen with an OSX installer inside from windows you have to use: https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS  you can try to translate the istructions you can find here:  this is the only part of the process you have to do by yourself 😉   1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I"ll work on creating the USB for the bootable installation, any recommendation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Yes, by following a youtube vid, with lots of pausing and playing again and again, but this is something I'm will to do to get off the ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 no, only check your motherboard bios settings CSM disable 4g On then if you have problem you can change these two trying different combination Check all if you have latest bios installed for it  4 minutes ago, SQA said: I"ll work on creating the USB for the bootable installation, any recommendation?  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I have a Imac so if that would help to simplify the process 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I updated the latest from P1.40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 5 minutes ago, SQA said: I have a Imac so if that would help to simplify the process yes from our download area download InstallMaker before download on your IMAC OSX you want to install (instalMacOS.app I mean) then you can create your bootable usb if you want you can also clone your IMAC osx on a new disk with carbon copy cloner then put on this one a bootable EFI (Opencore boot loader is the best a secure solution) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Bios is now P1.70, can't find csm in the menu settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Lost internet connection, back up now and running again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 bios P1.70, CSM disabled, About 4G Decoding enabled, what you want me to do next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 you have two option as I have said above Clone your iMac OSX disk on your 3970x disk or you have to download from a your iMac OSX installer from apple and then use Install maker to build an USB bootable drive  1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 IÂ made a Catalina bootable usb with install maker, so I take it, now the EFI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 EFI.zip mount your USB EFI partition and if you want try this if it boots and install we have then calculate your proper MMIO to refine your system check on the useful link in general MMIO part 😉  1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I don't see the usb drive in the biod window area, but there is a usb power delivery in soft off state= disabled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 do i need to format the XPG SX8100 before I can use it? the I was able to see the usb drive, but a message appeared ( Error loading operating system) how do I overcome this errow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 sorry you have in your Mac to mount your usb EFI then you have to copy in that EFI my EFI restart your system and choose usb pen to boot if you did it well you should see opencore boot loader menu with your disk and also macosinstall icon if you choose it installation process will start in usual way you should then format your disk via Disk Utility before continuing process of installation  if you not see or you have some errors you have to do your homework better 🙂 🙂  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Yes I have issues with the system starting up, must be a bois setting, it's not booting from the usb, I remove to other two drives, the xpg sx 8100 and the 970 pro, now only the usb is left in the rear plug into the mother board, keeps going back to uefi: PMAP, Partitopm 1, what setting in the bios need to be changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I never have any issue installing windows 10, so i'm uncertain what is going wrong with the system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 11, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 11, 2021 Try during bios post to press f11 or f8 function key (I do not know asrock one to select boot disk on bios post, see if you see your usb if not your usb is wrong made remember to format it properly I will see your progress tomorrow morning  1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQA Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I also tried the sudo for catalina from apple wedsite into terminal and the name of my usb and still it wont boot, I'm at a lost, I'll keep trying, the bios for asrock is F11 and F2 for setting the ufui, so I'm not sure, the only thing new is the updated bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervisor fabiosun Posted January 12, 2021 Supervisor Share Posted January 12, 2021 if you press f11 when bios is posting do you see in the disk list your USB? If not, have you tried to change USB port?  you can also with carbon copy duplicate your OSX system on xpg sx 8100 drive and from your iMac fill it with my EFI...  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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