Then, I connect back my SSD via SATA to my PC. Then, I shut it down and detach the SDD from my external enclosure. After logging in to the desktop, I mount the EFI partition and copy my EFI folder that I used to install Catalina previously. I didn't login my iCloud yet at this point though.ĥ. After installation finished, I booted the external SSD using my Macbook Pro and continue creating user account. I grabbed my external HDD enclosure, connect my SSD to it and start installing Big Sur to my SSD (which is now connected externally via that HDD enclosure) by clicking on the downloaded Install macOS Big Sur.app. Select Language and Click Continue Catalina. Select English on the language page then click Continue Arrow. Open VMware and on the macOS Catalina VM window Click Power on this Virtual Machine. Luckily, I have a real Macbook Pro (mid 2014). Step 5: Install macOS Catalina as VM on VMware. But when it tries to go for its first reboot to finish the installation, the same thing happen - I got into a boot loop of misery.ģ. The installation went well since its not crashing (or so I thought). After Catalina got installed, I try to do a direct upgrade to Big Sur from within Catalina. This made me realized that the problem with Big Sur is exactly at when it tries to reboot the installer for the first time.Ģ. There's a few reboot after that but that's normal since the progress bar keeps going to its end. However, in Catalina, the 2nd reboot succeeded and the installer continued its progress. While I was trying to install Catalina using OpenCore 0.6.3 (the same one I used to install Big Sur), I had the same issue. Hackintosh freezes when installing MacOS Catalina CPU: i5-10210U (Intel NUC10i5FNK) GPU: UHD 620 RAM: 8gb Crucial DDR4-2400 SODIMM What guide/tool followed: (Edit: I used OpenCore v0.5. The routine built into the macOS installer is designed to create a bootable USB flash drive installer. Should you need to install macOS just clone the partition to another drive or partition. I found this out when I was about to give up and decided to go back to Catalina. If you don't wish to give up that 16GB partition or re-partition the drive, then install the basic macOS system which takes less than 16GBs of space. What I thought to be "installer crashing" at 12 minutes mark turns to be a non issue. I finally made it to Big Sur after more than 30 hours of bathing in blood and sweat fiddling around to achieve it.ġ. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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