Forbidden sign when booting from usb to install High Sierra

HI ! I'm struggling installing High Sierra, when booting from the installer drive, I got a Forbidden sign at mid loading

First of all, I created my installer drive using this tutorial : https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...0k-with-working-imessage-and-facetime.232320/ (Using VmWare on HighSierra)

(I have the same chipset, from the same manufacturer, nearly the same processor, so it make sense in my opinion, only the graphical part is different but this is not the issue here I guess)

I added -v to boot options to know the error, the problem is in the usb number of port "AppleUSBXHCIPCI::createPorts: ports limit reached. Not creating the remaining 6 ports"

-Tried to boot the usb from my two rear usb2 port, still not booting into installer -Also tried nv_disable=1 as some people reported solving the "forbidden sign" using this flag

Googling this error I found this : https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/usb-new-raise-port-limit-patch-for-macos-10-12-sierra.202329/ and https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/new-usb-raise-port-limit-patch-for-high-sierra.226072/

I downloaded the kext and pasted it to "other" in "EFI", edited the config.plist, tried with the full text on the github (https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-USB-Inject-All/blob/master/config_patches.plist) and also tried using only the text from the tutorial for High Sierra, removing the "PB1" as i'm not installing the public beta 1, and replacing 24 to 20 since I'm on 9 series chipset, both failed, also tried manually enable the kext from clover.

I'm probably doing something wrong with the patch since it's my first install of macOsX.

  • I created a new partion on my second Hard Drive, installed the installer as I did with the usb, hoping since It's connected with a SATA 6gbp it will not bother me about usb issue, booted to clover using the usb since my bios wasn't detecting my newly created partition as a bootable one, then booted the hard drive partition using clover. The same error showed up.

  • First time I missed something when dealing with config.plist, forgot to add the neccesary numbers to find and replace in my paste, so I did it with the values provided at http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/324194-pre-release-macos-high-sierra/page-14#entry2437692 (83 7D 8C 10 -> 83 7D 8C xx , xx= 16 for 97 chipset) still same error, I don't even know if the kext is loading

  • Tried with the kext USB 3.0 GenericUSBXHCI FakePCIID FakePCIIDUSBMUX from https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-with-z97mx.227155/ without sucess, I pasted the kext in the other directory, no success. I also tried creating another stick with only the minimal setup as provided in the "offcial" guide to install High Sierra by tonymacx86, still not booting

Can you please enlighten on my possible mistakes on installing the patch to enable all the USB or if you have any suggestion on how to get the installer booting, let me know ! Thanks for your help :)

-- Asus Z97-A / i5-4670K / Zotac 1080 Amp Extreme ! / SSD Samsung 850 EVO 500GB --

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