gazza35 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Hi guys, im here to ask for help, i cant get Mojave to install on my computer at all, I did have it all running on my current setup, but after a series of unfortunate incidents, im left having to perform a fresh install. THE STORY ------------- About 5 weeks ago during a 4 hour lightning storm, my computer got taken out by a power surge, my fault, i wasnt using a surge protector. I had an MSI mobo, that was the only part affected thankfully, rest of hardware proved ok and had survived, The mobohowever was for a 2nd gen intel i5, an LGA1155 board, which i discovered is pretty impossible to buy new now as its so old, i am not working now, been very ill, and cant afford a complete system upgrade which was going to set me back around £300 for board, cpu and ddr4 ram, So thanks to Amazon i finally found an LGA1155 ITX Asus board, not great, but it works and does the job, will do for now till i can save up, and it has a nice Asus UEFI bios, the board is - P8H61-I/LX/RM/SI, with 16gb DDR3, Intel i5 2400, and a AMD 7970 3gb. Thats the basics and is as previous setup apart from the MOBO. After fitting everything and firing it up, my hard drives all booted, windows and clover and my Mojave installation, had to sort Audio kext, but that was only issue, everything was fine. Then within a week, whilst booted on the windows side, i was hit whilst away from the computer by PHOBOS ransomware, encrypting all my backup drive and windows hdd, Mojave was untouched, after 3 days of recovering files with a data recovery package and reinstalling windows, all was ok once more, At this stage, tired and annoyed, i decided to clone my HDDS in case of further problems and save the backups, I used a app called HDCLONE, which promised to do the job fine. UNFORTUNATLEY, the pc, for whatever reason, completely froze up at 6% of the task, i had no option but to hit the reset button, Nothing would boot, Not even mojave, MOBO could see the drives, but i couldnt boot or reinstall anything, i later discovered the app had locked all my HDDS in the system GRRRRRRR, so, after more investigation i discovered the only way to unlock them easily was DBAN or Killdisk, I did this, losing everything including my Mojave install, and wiped the drives with killdisk, that brings me to present day. CURRENT STATE ------------------- Disks are all fine, windows is reinstalled, some docs, photos etc, recovered, but everything i needed to reinstall Mojave 10.14.1, is lost, forever, so, after trying to find the same image i was previously using i could only find OLARILLA 10.14.5, i assumed it would be fine, it boots the usb installer after burning it to flash, it boots to GUI, select language and wiped the disk rdy for installing with Disk utility. But it wouldnt let me install as my SMBIOS was showing as imac12.1, after a bit of searching i found a config file in STEF EFI, that was on this site, on here, i pulled the config from it which shows as IMAC 17.1 and stuck it on my USB installer, upon booting, it now lets me attempt to install to the HDD, but after a few minutes, it fails, and tells me it cant be installed and to reboot and press D for diagnostics, which i cant get to appear at all when i try that, ive tried a fresh hdd, same issue, so, im guessing its eith Boot flags, Kexts, the SMBIOS or a combination of all 3. Im stuck and dont know what to try next, if anyone can please help, as i have no mac up n running, i cant use clover configurator, so im reliant on solving the usb side on my windows install, so im needing to find an appropriate Config.plist if thats whats needed, that can be downloaded, please please, if anyone can help at all, im desperate just to get everything back up and working again, its been a nightmare 5 weeks, im really at snapping point with it now. Yours hopefully Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 Hi buddy, hope youre well Herve, thanx for replying. I have attatched my EFI folder, the exact contents of the EFI folder are included as is. Hope you can help fix or advise. EFI.rar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2686883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 Anyone able to help ???? I have the usb installer by olarila, it boots after changing the smbios to 14.2 imac, in fact ive tried many configs, it starts to install, then the |hdd light stops flashing at 16%, goes no further, then the nag "Macos could not be installed on this computer" eventually appears. What ive tried - 4 different hard disks, formatted in HFS+ and APFS roughly 8 different smbios configs Bootflags, no bootflags High Sierra - Installs fine, no problem whatsoever with that. The problem is Mojave, i dont understand what im doing wrong, usually the olarila images work perfect, but they arent for me since fitting the new asus board, its been 48 hours straight, My head is spinning, im tired and losing the will to live. Im thinking its got something to do with Olarilas clover folder, that has to be the issue here, im thinking drivers and uefi drivers, something is wrong there, for my gen2 sandybridge setup, i have spent hours googling, but no joy, different people saying stuff about aptiodrivers etc, but im at a loss what to keep or delete, and as im trying to create the installer from windows, theres no guide to make a NON OLARILA installer, as they all seemto be guides for a mac, which is totally useless to me when using windows. Has anyone please, got any idea where im going wrong, thanks guess, pure stressed out now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ricoc90 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 (edited) While at the installer go to Window -> Installer log, it will show you why it can't install. 1 hour ago, gazza35 said: theres no guide to make a NON OLARILA installer, as they all seemto be guides for a mac, which is totally useless to me when using windows. There are tons of them For instance: Edit: SMBIOS data is blanco in both your configs... Edited August 23, 2019 by ricoc90 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted August 25, 2019 Author Share Posted August 25, 2019 On 8/23/2019 at 11:35 AM, ricoc90 said: While at the installer go to Window -> Installer log, it will show you why it can't install. There are tons of them For instance: Edit: SMBIOS data is blanco in both your configs... Cheers bud - Fixed the smbios, tried quite a few from 13 up to 18 imacs, still no joy, Mojave starts to install at 17%, drops to 16% and then stops, probably 1 minute into the installation. Ive tried APFS and HFS+, same error, loads of configs, drivers, kexts, bios settings, etc etc etc, nothing, getting nowhere, tried Catalina, just get kernel panic with that. I truly have absolutley no clue what i can do next except to bite the bullet and start looking at a distro. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ricoc90 Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 A distro is a) never a good idea and b) won't make a difference. I asked if you could provide the installer log. It will show why the install fails. Without it I'm not able to help you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted August 25, 2019 Author Share Posted August 25, 2019 41 minutes ago, ricoc90 said: A distro is a) never a good idea and b) won't make a difference. I asked if you could provide the installer log. It will show why the install fails. Without it I'm not able to help you Hi bud - how do i take a log, i can click the log and bring the window up during installation, but when i hit the save button it does nothing, so unsure how to capture a log file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ricoc90 Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, gazza35 said: Hi bud - how do i take a log, i can click the log and bring the window up during installation, but when i hit the save button it does nothing, so unsure how to capture a log file. You can select a location where to save the file Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted August 25, 2019 Author Share Posted August 25, 2019 Cool thnx man, ill give it another shot when i get home. Failing that, i was thinking, IF, i was to install High Sierra as APFS, would i be able to update it through updates to Mojave that way ?, if all else fails. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ricoc90 Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 Hard to say. In theory yes, but since you're unable to perform a clean install I'm not sure if it's going to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/339985-installing-mojave-help-needed/#findComment-2687284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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