After tens of retries and premature reboots when originally loading the OS, I finally found a workaround that allowed me to successfully boot into my new Catalina install.
My installation was getting stuck on 2 minutes then rebooting. Then, when I tried to boot into Catalina, it would show an error on the “Installer Log”.
The fix is to get to this point of the process, then get access to a Mac. On the Mac download newest Catalina & install to a USB (took an hour or so) much slower than SSD obviously so make sure your Mac has lots of battery!
Once completed, clone the USB Catalina install to your Hackintosh via your original USB boot drive then in disk utility (make sure partition formats are the same APFS).
Once installed, shutdown, remove all USB boot drives and Catalina will boot.
TL;DR: you didn’t f up. It’s just a bug that restarts after 2 mins, I think it’s the 5700 GPU causing this (despite all the boot args I tried no concoction worked). Clone a new install via USB and boot. Problem solved!
My installation was getting stuck on 2 minutes then rebooting. Then, when I tried to boot into Catalina, it would show an error on the “Installer Log”.
The fix is to get to this point of the process, then get access to a Mac. On the Mac download newest Catalina & install to a USB (took an hour or so) much slower than SSD obviously so make sure your Mac has lots of battery!
Once completed, clone the USB Catalina install to your Hackintosh via your original USB boot drive then in disk utility (make sure partition formats are the same APFS).
Once installed, shutdown, remove all USB boot drives and Catalina will boot.
TL;DR: you didn’t f up. It’s just a bug that restarts after 2 mins, I think it’s the 5700 GPU causing this (despite all the boot args I tried no concoction worked). Clone a new install via USB and boot. Problem solved!
