Error during installation - Kernel panic !?

[Who_Am_I]

I have a desktop with AMD Ryzen 5600G (no graphics card), Motherboard Gigabyte B450MDS3H V2. Tried the Opencore method to dual boot MacOS & Windows 11 and getting the below kernal panic


I have also tried the Olarila vanila image dual boot install using youtube video guide (

) but getting the error

Also, while USB port detection I got this message which I didn't see on any tutorial videos. I've tried both Ignore & Disable options but the result is the same.

Can anyone help ?!

 

[Edhawk]

NVME Drive:
Which NVME drive are you using?
What is on the drive?
How is it formatted?
Do you have CSM disabled in your Bios?

Bluetooth:
Which Bluetooth module/dongle are you using?
Which kexts have you added to your OC EFI to allow the BT device to connect?
Have you added the Bluetooth NVRAM entries to your config.plist?

Apple drive formatting:
The macOS drive showing as empty in Windows is normal.
Windows doesn’t natively read APFS formatted drives.
You need to add a third-party driver/app for Windows to be able to read/write APFS or HFS+ drives.

 

[Who_Am_I]

Here is the drive/SSD situation

Do you have CSM disabled in your Bios?

Yes I do.

Bluetooth:
Which Bluetooth module/dongle are you using?

Which kexts have you added to your OC EFI to allow the BT device to connect?
Have you added the Bluetooth NVRAM entries to your config.plist?

I've attached the EFI that I used to install the macOS, but like I said in my last post I could not mount ESP as no drives are showing when I choose that option in OCAuxiliaryTools !

 

[Edhawk]

You have some issues with your drive formatting:
1. The macOS drive should be HFS+ if running an older version, pre High Sierra.
2. The macOS drive should be formatted GPT/GUID & APFS if running any version since High Sierra.
3. As you have posted in the Sequoia forum, I assume that is the OS you are using.
4. Your macOS drive should not/never be formatted as ExFat.

Your Windows drive is a mess as far as formatting and the order of the partitions. Is this a cloned drive?
5. The ‘System’ partition should be first on the NVME drive, I.e. before the main NTFS partition containing the Windows OS. With 2 x additional ‘Microsoft’ partitions following the main Windows partition.
6. OpenCore will be looking for the Windows ‘System’ partition, in order to include an icon or text entry on the OC Boot screen.
7. If it doesn’t find it where it expects it to be located, or named as expected, then your Windows drive won’t be available via OpenCore.

With regards your Bluetooth module, you need to be more explicit about the make and model of the device. That Device Manager screen snip tells me nothing useful.

Not being able to mount the hidden EFI partition is down to you using the ExFat format on your macOS drive. The ExFat format doesn't create a 200MB EFI partition as the first partition on the disk. The partition it does create isn’t an EFI partition, which is full of data, it has the wrong name and format for an EFI partition. It should be an empty FAT32 formatted partition 200MB in size, which is created as part of the APFS format process.

The best thing you could do is to wipe and reinstall macOS, but this time use Disk Utility, which is available as part of the install process, to format the disk correctly, I.e. APFS & GUID/GPT.

Your choice what’s to do with your Windows disk. But a clean install wouldn’t hurt, as you want dual boot both OS’s from the OC boot screen.

Just make sure you backup anything you can’t reinstall from an existing backup.

 

[Who_Am_I]

I think there's a misunderstanding about my drive/SSD setup. Here's the details:

Current SSDs:

• NVMe SSD: Windows 11 installed. I first tried installing macOS here by shrinking a partition and creating an exFAT one (per tutorials), but it failed (see my original post with errors).
• SATA SSD: Had one data partition initially. I wiped it clean for macOS install.

What happened recently:

1. Disconnected NVMe SSD, installed macOS Sequoia on SATA SSD—successfully.
2. Couldn't mount SATA SSD in macOS (it didn't show up to copy EFI from pendrive). Also had Bluetooth issues like I mentioned in my previous post. (Attached screenshots for reference)

Current loop/problem:

• Reconnected NVMe: Couldn't boot into macOS.
• Disconnected NVMe again: Pendrive boot no longer shows the SATA macOS install drive to boot into—had to reinstall macOS.
• Stuck: Can't dual-boot, and can't even boot macOS from SATA SSD without pendrive.

Any advice on fixing the SATA SSD mounting/EFI, dual-boot, and stable boot?

Regarding the bluetooth device, its from a budget Indian brand called Enter & below are the Hardware Ids

 

[Edhawk]

So with the new macOS installation how have you formatted the SATA SSD, APFS?
Does it have a hidden EFI partition as the first partition?
Download and install Hackintool application, then post a screenshot showing the Disks Tab.

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Still have no idea which Bluetooth device you are using. So can’t tell you if it will or won’t work in macOS. Just because it works in Windows there is no guarantee that it will work in macOS.

You need to increase the amount of RAM allocated for the AMD IGPU. 512MB is too low, it should be 1GB as a minimum, this is clearly stated on the NootedRed website. 2GB is a better split seeing as you have 16GB RAM available for the system.

Check that you have your system Bios setup for running macOS.

Ryzen and Threadripper(17h and 19h) | OpenCore Install Guide

 

[Who_Am_I]

So with the new macOS installation how have you formatted the SATA SSD, APFS?

Yes

Does it have a hidden EFI partition as the first partition?

I can't tell ! I've attached a screenshot from the disk utility app in mac in my previous post, does that not show or indicate anything ? When I use Opencore configurator / OCAuxiliary tools to mount the drive where I installed macOS, the drive just doesn't appear to mount & transfer the EFI folder from the pendrive to it so that I can directly boot to macOS without the need of the pendrive. BTW, according to this screenshot taken from the Minitool partition app from Windows 11 I think it is there ...

Download and install Hackintool application, then post a screenshot showing the Disks Tab.

I will definitely do that, I have to disconnect my NVMe SSD & then boot through the pendrive & hope it boots to the installed macOS then I'll be able to do that.

You need to increase the amount of RAM allocated for the AMD IGPU. 512MB is too low, it should be 1GB as a minimum, this is clearly stated on the NootedRed website. 2GB is a better split seeing as you have 16GB RAM available for the system.

How do I do that ? BTW here is the screenshot of UEFI in the config.plist file that I used to install Sequoia.

Check that you have your system Bios setup for running macOS.

Ryzen and Threadripper(17h and 19h) | OpenCore Install Guide

I think I do have the BIOS setup for running macOS (as far as I understand). I've already shared the screenshot of most of the settings.