Unable to even boot to installation on Skylake board

[wackman]

Hello,

 

I've been trying for several days to get El Capitan to install on my computer. Last payday, I upgraded my computer with a new Z170 motherboard, CPU and RAM. With a new board, I thought I'd go back to working on hackintosh. I've gotten my dell laptop installed with OSX, but I haven't gotten it to install on my desktop. Here's my current setup:

 

MSI Z170A PC Mate (firmware A.90)

Intel Core i5 6500

16GB Patriot RAM (2x8GB - DDR 4 2133)

EVGA 750TI

Patriot Ignite SSD (960 GB)

Seagate 1.5 TB SATA HD

Western Digital 2 TB SATA HD

(all drives formatted GUID)

 

And if I remember correctly, I've set in the UEFI Virtualization enabled, but VT-d disabled. I couldn't find anything on CSM, but I made sure I was UEFI only. I enabled XMP instead of the click BIOS (I think). I disabled legacy serial and parallel ports.

 

 

I'm sorry if I gave too much/too little hw info. And I've been looking and haven't found anything any similar to my issue. When I first started trying, with my Nvidia card in the computer, I somehow got it to get almost to the install program. It went through the boot process. I was able to load Bluetooth (even though I don't have any bt on my computer). But just a couple lines about successful BT messages, the screen got corrupted and a circle in the center of the screen with a line through it. But the boot messages were still behind it, but corrupted. I squinted to try to read the last line. It *looks* like it's that old "unable to find root device" message, but I could be wrong. I later tried the "rootless=0" boot option, but that didn't help.

 

I saw someone's post somewhere that said you want to start with only the onboard video, so I remove the 750TI, but that's where it went south. No matter what I do, I can only get a "Error allocating 0x11aff pages at 0x00000000056c1000 alloc type 2" message followed by "Couldn't allocate runtime area."

 

I tried several combinations of the following boot options:

 

dart=0

-v -f -x -s

GraphicsEnabler=No (or Yes, didn't matter)

nv_disable=1

cpus=1

Maybe some others. I vaguely remember from when I've done hackintosh before, the "npci=" option, but I'm not sure that would help. I've tried in clover to enable or disable the Intel injector (when I was using onboard video). I've tried manually setting the version as "10.11.1" or just "10.11." 

 

Tonight, I tried going back to using the 750TI because I got furthest with that, but now I'm just getting the Error allocating pages error. And I've tried 2 different USB drives.

 

Does anyone have any idea?

 

Thanks,

 

Wackman

[C.Frio]

hi...

I have seme MB,with a i5 6400 and a gt 220..it install ok..

assuming your pen is correct, play with usb ports (for forbidden sign), disable the other virtualization..boot with nv_disable=1 to install.   I'm using DVI connector, I suggest install with only 4gb and only the pen drive and the HDD target

I used basically this..  http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/311309-el-capitan-skylake-usb/ ,'cause is more practical to me..as I know what I'm looking for (I think), and if you feel comfortable..I used Pandora's box to check some stuff too...(the new one has a lot of new options)

I'm not on it now, but as soon as I go there, will send my config...

c.frio

[wackman]

Made a little bit of progress...in a way.

 

So, I removed 1 8 GB stick of RAM from the computer and have 1 8GB stick left in it. Then, I disabled both virtualization options in the UEFI. To make a long story short, I switched USB 2 ports for the USB flash drive, used boot flags "-v -f" only and stopped using "GraphicsEnabler" and "nv_disable." I got back to the point where I got pretty far in the boot process. But then it froze and the text corrupted. And there was a circle with a slash in the center of the screen. The text was corrupted, but if I squint my eyes, it looks like the last line was that old root filesystem error. I tried adding "rootles=0" and "rootless=1" to it with no luck.

 

So far, that's the most progress I've made. I remembered I had a different USB drive. The previous one I was using, *may" have been using tonymac tools. I prefer the insanelymac community and forums, but I was grasping at straws. So, the other, newer USB I had made last Monday to upgrade my girlfriend's actual macbook to EC. I figured since I had an EC install flash drive, I may as well try to use it for my desktop. So, I installed the lastest version of Clover to the flash drive. But that's working even worse than the previous USB drive. No matter what options I add or remove, I get that other error, Error allocating 0x11aff pages at 0x00000000056c1000 alloc type 2."

 

But I'm back as getting pretty far in the boot process.

[C.Frio]

hi....

 

I got this error sometimes..'ill now my trick is,turn off, disconnect the PSU from AC or turn it off from a switch,

then press the power button to discharge the system ..and after turn on an reboot again..

this is my config..is it not perfect but..it has nv_disable=1 checked...use clover configuratorto check..

at chat look for @stehor..he has MSI rigs

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdyritgs7hdcqln/config.plist?dl=0

I read about that error at somewhere but don't remember where.

c.frio

 

ps..and try changing OsxAptioFix2Drv to OsxAptioFixDrv, if you have it...

[wackman]

Success! I'm 90% there. Changing to OsxAptioFix.drv wasn't it. That just gave me the same error that everyone else gets about "OsxAptioFixDrv: Error - requested memory exceeds out allocated relocation block" The main fix for that I could find was to switch back to the other OsxAptioFix2Drv.

 

Instead, it was the plist. The second I put that on my usb drive, I could get all the way into the install routine. My problem now is that I'm planning on multibooting. Actually planning on going overboard and doing some quadbooting. But Osx does not like having Windows already on the disk. Disk Until isn't playing nice.

 

Anyway, I'll probably close this later today. I just want to keep this open for a bit longer. I want to see if I can get the rest of the way through the install.

[wackman]

OK, go ahead and close this thread.

 

I got El Capitan installed on my computer. I have my ethernet drivers installed and the Nvidia Webdrivers installed (even though I can't tell they're working. I still get graphical corruption until it's on the desktop). 

 

I also have Clover installed to the EFI partition and I can get to it from my boot menu. The current problem is that Clover isn't able to boot Mac when I run it from the hard drive. But I can still get to it from my USB drive. It probably has to do with either the boot options OR the config.plist. I'll keep playing with it.

 

But the installation problems are over. Thanks C.Frio for your help. 

 

Hackman

I also have to put my other 8 GB stick of RAM back in.