Flavio1989 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 (edited) Hello everyone. I hope you’re all having a good day. I’m trying to do a clean install on MacOS Catalina 10.15.5. But I’ve not been able to even boot into the USB installer. My System Specs are: _ASUS X99 Deluxe II _intel i7 6950X Broadwell-E _AMD RX 5700 XT Anniversary edition _128GB of DDR4 RAM @ 2400MHz _ASUS Thunderbolt Card _Bootloader Clover r5119 (latest version) _The drive I’m trying to install to is a NMVE Samsung 950 Pro I’ve been trying for a couple of days as I was having some issues relating to the Memory Fix (AptioMemoryFix). But I solved those by changing the FakeCPU in my config.plst. I actually don’t know if it was that that fixed it since it’s together with a million other things I tried including trying to change boot loader to OpenCore. For now I prefer Clover. Now the boot process is going quite a bit further but I’m having some Kernel Panics and reboots at the point shown in the picture. I tried googling the issue before bothering this forum and several things but no luck yet. To troubleshoot the issue I’m currently doing the following steps: _I disconnected all not essential drives, I only have the target drive plugged in _I removed all the PCI-e Cards other than the GPU. _I Used all the suggested BIOS setting (no OC or other extra) _Left only 2 modules of RAM out of 8 in the correct slots (per MOBO manufacturer Manual) _ALL external peripherals are disconnected. Just my monitor, keyboard and mouse _the monitor is connected to the GPU via HDMI _Plug the USB Installer into a USB2 port, and even creating another installer on a spare drive and connecting internally via SATA I have a MacBook Pro where I can modify the EFI folder and do the necessary changes. I must point out that the Hack was working amazingly for the past 3+ years with a GTX 980 Ti (last working OS High Sierra). Since I was having issue in booting into the installer from the start I ditched the old EFI folder and build a new one I’m attaching the photo of my Kernel Boot and my EFI Folder. If anyone can help me I’ll be very grateful. I bet it’s an extremely stupid fix I overlooked due to being tired. Thanks in advance EFI_10_15_5_X99D2_i76950X_FB_23062020.zip Edited June 24, 2020 by Flavio1989 problem solved 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344253-solved-catalina-x99-macpro71-smbios-i7-6950x-kernel-panics/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavio1989 Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 UPDATE - it appears that I had to learn the hard way not to use Clover Configurator, I cleaned up the config.plst file with xcode and not at least I was able to boot into the installer. Hopefully there will be more successful updates. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344253-solved-catalina-x99-macpro71-smbios-i7-6950x-kernel-panics/#findComment-2726570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavio1989 Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 UPDATE 2 - apparently it works.....proceeding now with post install Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344253-solved-catalina-x99-macpro71-smbios-i7-6950x-kernel-panics/#findComment-2726572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavio1989 Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 UPDATE 3 - I'm having the memory issue again and I get stuck at boot at the string of ++++++++ The issue presents when I'm trying to insert more RAM modules and also adding their details to the config.plst file. Right now I'm booting with 32GB of RAM, whenever I try to go higher (I started with other 2 modules so 64GB), the issue presents itself. Any Ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344253-solved-catalina-x99-macpro71-smbios-i7-6950x-kernel-panics/#findComment-2726575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavio1989 Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 UPDATE 4 - I was able to fix the above by changing SMBIOS to MacPro7,1. Hopefully this will be my last update before I can edit this thread as SOLVED Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/344253-solved-catalina-x99-macpro71-smbios-i7-6950x-kernel-panics/#findComment-2726611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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