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chris1111
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Hi @Zenith432 Happy to see you again 😀

Try this config attaching here, its yours but with the SMBIOS more completed

You can clear the NVRAM first before booting to the USB install media

config.plist.zip

 

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Zenith432
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4 hours ago, chris1111 said:

Hi @Zenith432 Happy to see you again 😀

Try this config attaching here, its yours but with the SMBIOS more completed

You can clear the NVRAM first before booting to the USB install media

config.plist.zip 3.71 kB · 2 downloads

 

Thanks.  I'll try this later.

 

Here's an update.  The problem is not a faulty SSD.  I tried (with my initial config) on an external USB magnetic drive with a 120 GiB APFS partition and ended up with exactly the same result.  The time countdown during the 2nd stage actually went to down to 1 minute before reboot.

 

Here's a little more detail of what I see

  • I start out with a formatted APFS partition (newfs_apfs -C) and add one volume MacHD on it.  Owners are enabled.
  • After 1st stage install, there is still only one volume MacHD with one folder on it 'macOS Install Data'.  It appears to contain everything (about 17.48GB).  I can find no log.  The APFS partition also has the Preboot, Recovery and VM volumes.
  • After 2nd stage install, there are now two volumes.  MacHD and "MacHD - Data".  The one named MacHD is 11GB+ big and appears to have pretty much everything on it, maybe even too much (see later).
  • The Data volume is nearly empty (about 312MB), with only one non-empty folder on it com.apple.installer that has most of the boot files of a recovery boot partition.  It has a prelinked kernel, but no file named boot.efi (although there are boot.efi with various extensions.)
  • What should be the Data volume can be found on the MacHD volume under System/Library/Templates/Data.  It's not really a deployed Data volume, but some kind of template to be made into a Data volume.  So this is something that looks like it should have been copied to the Data volume and 'filled in' from a template, then removed from the MacHD volume.  But none of this got done.  It's as if the installer decided to quit midway for some reason.
  • There's a boot.efi in /usr/standalone/i386 under MacHD, but no com.apple.Boot.plist except in the right place under System/Library/Templates/Data where it's just a template without entries filled in.
  • I couldn't find anything which may be a log of what happened during the 2nd stage.

😳

Zenith432
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7 minutes ago, LockDown said:

It could be a bad macOS Installer

I used softwareupdate on Mac mini to download macos 15.7.7 and created a USB stick (which is new) with createinstallmedia.  You think this can go bad?  I can redo it.  I just think if there were corrupted files there it would crash in a less subtle way.

 

I could try to do the install on a mac mini to the external USB magnetic drive and see if that succeeds. 🤔

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