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Sierra on Virtualbox 5.1 on Haswell - Stuck while booting - alignment error?


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Hey guys and girls,

 

No USB Booting, Only USB 1.1 available on Virtualbox 5.1

I've got Virtualbox 5.1 installed on Ubuntu via Virtualbox's sources.list entries. It's supposed to support booting directly from a USB flash drive, but that wasn't an option and it wouldn't allow me to set the Mac VM's USB controller as 2 or 3. It only allowed the USB controller to be USB 1.1. Apparently that can be caused by virtualbox-ext-pack not being installed, however it's not included with virtualbox-5.1 directly from virtualbox.org and only the 5.0 Ubuntu version is available.

 

Virtualbox could not boot from the DMG InstallESD.dmg

Virtualbox allowed me to mount the DMG file as a optical disc image, but I was unable to boot from it with or without EFI.

 

Dmg2Img didn't work

I saw a guide to convert the DMG image to an ISO file with dmg2img. It was very simple but the iso created was not bootable with or without EFI.

 

I made some progress

I followed this guide: https://www.howtogeek.com/289594/how-to-install-macos-sierra-in-virtualbox-on-windows-10/

Which seems to have copied instructions from: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309654-run-vanilla-os-x-el-capitan-sierra-yosemite-or-mavericks-in-virtualbox-5010-on-a-windows-host/

 

But it seems to leave out the compact and resize steps? :/

 

I tried both Ivy Bridge CPU ID's (each screenshot is from a diff CPU id. Then I also tried the i5 Lynnfield CPUID) They all boot in EFI mode but get stuck as per the screenshots.
They all show disk 1s2 alignment error.

On my next attempt, I'm going to repeat making the ISO with the insanelymac steps.

If that doesn't work I also found this guide: http://sqar.blogspot.co.za/2014/10/installing-yosemite-in-virtualbox.html

 

Any tips will be appreciated :)

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I re-created the ISO again. This time I was careful to make a sha512sum to double check that it copied correctly onto the host. I confirmed that it has.

Again it got stuck in the same place as per the above screenshots.

Then I created a new virtualbox VM. I set the GUI settings and not the other special settings via commandline. And again, it got stuck in the same place.

 

Now I just uninstalled virtualbox 5.1 and installed Virtualbox 5.0 with USB2 ports. It got stuck in the same place.

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This is a known issue. Virtualbox can't install anything newer than 10.12.3 from an ISO.

 

Workaround #1

Install 10.12.3 or older and then upgrade.

I don't have an old installer, so I can't do this.

 

Workaround #2

 
I've not tried this. Let me know if it works for you?
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