Can anyone help us with the right efi

Mike Lensen

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We do get the Apple logo when booting macOS on our AMD-based HP Pavilion laptop, but the progress bar never appears. Can someone help us troubleshoot this?
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Welcome to the forum.

Unfortunately, your HP laptop isn't compatible with the AMD Vanilla process. It has the wrong CPU and IGPU for macOS.
 
What do you mean, we get the apple logo, but we can't go further, which efi can we better use. And which MAC OS. Or do you mean, we can use one these
Asus Strix X570-F Gaming, Ryzen 9 5900X, 64GB RAM, RX 6700 XT, 1 x SN 770 1TB, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Asus TUF Gaming B550 Plus WiFi II. Ryzen 9 5900X, VEGA 56, 64GB RAM, 2 x WD SN 770 1TB, macOS Sequoia 15.5 & Win11 Pro
Asus TUF Gaming B550m Plus WiFi II, Ryzen 9 3900X, VEGA 56, 32GB RAM, 1 x Crucial P3 Plus 1TB, 1 x Kingston NV2 1TB, macOS Sequoia 15.5 & Win 11 Pro
GenMachine Ren7000, Ryzen 5 7530u, Radeon Graphics (IGPU),32GB RAM, 1 x Crucial P3 Plus 1TB, 1 x Integral 512GB, macOS Sequoia 15.5
ASRock DeskMini X300, Ryzen 7 5700G, Radeon Graphics (IGPU), 32GB RAM, WD SN770 1TB, macOS Sequoia 15.5

so yeah, do you have a donwload link for us,

greetings,

Bob and Mike
 
No I didn't mean for you to use the EFI from one of my systems.

No, I don't have a download link for you.

I meant for you to provide a copy of the EFI you are trying to use. So we can see what you have created and why it is kernel panicking.
You need to compress/zip the EFI folder you are currently using and attach it to a post here.

How are you creating the USB installer, Full macOS App with CreateInstallMedia Terminal command or Windows Recovery method?
 
sorry for the late respons, here is our efi, we see the white apple logo, i hope you wil en try to help us
 

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I will have a look at the EFI when I am next at my desk, later today.
 
If you would do that, i totally appreciated it. I hope you find the problem and the solution, so that we go further with this.
 
Try this revised EFI, see if it gets you any further,

I have made a number of changes to your original EFI.

The changes included replacing the SMBIOS with one for a MacBookPro16,2 and swapping WhateverGreen.kext for NootedRed.kext, as those will give you the best chance of booting in to macOS.
 

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We've tried your EFI but he didn't boot up, so my father has to download Opencore, and then we get this problem (as you see on the photo i just send you).
Do you have a fix for that problem?
 

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Not without seeing your current EFI folder.

What exactly happened when you tried the EFI folder I provided?
 
Here is the EFI-folder, so that you can look what the problem is and what the solution is. I'm very grateful that you will (and still wanna) help us. I appreciated it.
 

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The folders organisation is wrong.

In that you have a the EFI folder I created located within the first, and a second EFI folder located within the _MACOSX folder. That is why your boot loader didn't work. Because it couldn't find the files it needs in the correct locations.

Screenshot 2025-08-19 at 18.50.52.png Downloaded EFI folder contents viewed in macOS Finder.

I renamed the EFI folder I created to EFI-v1, so the two 'EFI' folders could sit in the same downloads folder. The one contained in the _MACOSX folder is something created by Windows.

I assume as the _MACOSX folder is present that you are using Windows to create the USB installation drive and OpenCore EFI.

There should only ever be one EFI folder present and it needs to sit in the Root of the drive, on a USB installer created in Windows.

Try again with the EFI folder attached.
Rename it to EFI.
Copy it to the Root of the USB installer you have created with the macOS Recovery files.

Make sure it is the only EFI folder on the USB drive.
 

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We've did what you say and then it gave this problem (as you see on the photo), and by the way we want to install Catalina. That's why we send the photo of the OpenCore, so that you can see which macOS we want to install. Plus the EFI we used to try it. Can you solve the EXITBS-problem. Thanks again for that.

P.S. Do you think it can work on HP Pavilion 15-cd010nd?
 

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P.S. Do you think it can work on HP Pavilion 15-cd010nd?
No better/different than on Big Sur, Monterey or Ventura. Same issues with AMD CPU and IGPU no matter which versions of macOS you use.

Try the revised EFI folder attached.

I have removed some elements that aren't required for Catalina.
I have added MinDate and MinVersion entries to the UEFI > APFS section of the config.plist so the Catalina APFS format will work.

See if this helps.
 

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Nope, still the EXITBS-problem. By the way, i'm from The Netherlands, which land or country are you from?
 
UK, London.
 
Secure Boot is disabled, and as for the others, we don't have that options, but only Secure Boot. but i have a question which macOS must we use in HP Pavilion 15-cd010nd, if Catalina doesn't work?
 
To be honest I think you are wasting your time with this HP laptop, as neither the CPU or IGPU are compatible with macOS Catalina or any other version.

You would probably have more joy running macOS in a Virtual Machine. See this link.

 
I tried the Virtual Machine and it worked. Is it true that we from the Virtual macOS we could make an EFI that works on a HP Pavilion 15-cd010nd. I know that this experiment is not complete, but thanks for your help, i really appreciated it that you make time for us to help us, and i hope that you will help us in the future with experiments.
 
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