Install not finishing

[openstep]

Hi,

I followed your guide and was able to perform the initial setup, BUT only until 12%, got stuck. There was a reboot, the mac installer new menu item appeared, selected that and after a few seconds the computer rebooted. I tried again but this time the boot menu disappeared and Apple logo showed, few seconds black screen, reboot.

I have very similar setup:

• i5-8400
• 8GB RAM
• no discrete graphics card
• Gigabyte Z370M D3H mainboard
  I generated new Serial Number, SystemUUID and MLB.

Got any ideas what have I done wrong or what needs to be done?

Many thanks

[openstep]

Got rid of the problem by disabling SecureBootModel in the plist.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/stuck-on-catalina-install-opencore-0-7-2-reboot-loop.315803/

[kinoute]

@openstep Thanks for letting me know! I'm glad you were able to finish the installation. Your post might help some people.

What SMBIOS did you pick? I have my SecureBootModel set to default but apparently I should change it to one of these values:

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Post-Install/universal/security/applesecureboot.html

[openstep]

I used iMac19,2 like you suggested.

What I do not know, what will happen when I use the upgrade button in OSX. I suppose it will go ahead an update the os but will break during the EFI boot or not? I have not tried that.
I have a real mac too running Ventura and so far I do not like the way they redesigned stuff.

[kinoute]

I recently upgraded from 12.6 to 12.6.1 (and many other minor releases before) and I didn't have to edit my SecureBootModel setting before upgrading.

I will check tonight at home if my Hackintosh really has this setting enabled.

[openstep]

And what is the update/upgrade process with a Hackintosh?
Also when I was done and had a working Hackintosh, I inserted my old hackintosh ssd and booted up. That messed up the boot menu and was not able to boot to the new hackintosh any more. I was able to boot only via the install USB but was not able to make this work without it. EFI folder was in place thouth. I know that somehow the montherboard holds references to the boot data on disk but was not able to manipulate that. Do you have how to manipulate that menu?

[BwithOn]

Did you try to reset nvram? It's an option you can add in Open Core.