Hello,
I was able to get Hackintosh up and running (i5-9600K, RX 580, Gigabyte Gaming WIFI motherboard) off a USB and installed to my SSD. After this, I used Clover to open up the EFI partition on the USB and copied it over the EFI on the SSD. After doing this copy, I shutdown the computer and decided to boot off the SSD itself. To my surprise, about halfway through showing the apple boot logo (too quick on the verbose screen) the screen cuts to black. It happens at the same step each time and the GPU's fans stop spinning as well. I can tell the SSD LED indicator light is still blinking for about 5-10 seconds after this, so there is some activity going on. Interestingly, the same behavior is observed booting off the USB stick now, having the GPU randomly power off. I am trying to reinstall MacOS Mojave however now the USB does not load to the install screen (right as it is supposed to it cuts to black and does not come back -- although the GPU fans are still spinning in this case).
I thought maybe I overwrote the USB with the Hackintosh default partition but I recopied the known good EFI from the computer to USB with the same behavior observed.
How could the configuration that consistently booted the installer and let me install MacOS suddenly cease working when seemingly no changes were made to the USB or BIOS settings? I am at a loss as to why this happened. Perhaps macOS is still booting but since the GPU cut off I cannot see it or some other reason?
Does anyone know of such an issue and can help me out? I may try again from scratch but macOS is already installed onto the drive so I think it may still be salvageable!
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