Hackintosh Troubleshooting

If you’re unsure where you’re currently stuck, please see here: Understanding the macOS Boot Process

• OpenCore Boot Issues
  • This section refers to booting the actual USB and getting to OpenCore’s picker. Anything after the picker, like booting macOS, should see below
  • Issues surrounding from initial booting the USB itself to right before you choose to boot the macOS installer
    • Stuck on a black screen before picker
    • Stuck on no vault provided!
    • Stuck on OC: Invalid Vault mode
    • Can’t see macOS partitions
    • Stuck on OCB: OcScanForBootEntries failure – Not Found
    • Stuck on OCB: failed to match a default boot option
    • Stuck on OCB: System has no boot entries
    • Stuck on OCS: No schema for DSDT, KernelAndKextPatch, RtVariable, SMBIOS, SystemParameters.
    • Stuck on OC: Driver XXX.efi at 0 cannot be found
    • Receiving “Failed to parse real field of type 1”
    • Can’t select anything in the picker
    • SSDTs not being added
    • Booting OpenCore reboots to BIOS
    • OCABC: Incompatible OpenRuntime r4, require r10
    • Failed to open OpenCore image – Access Denied
    • OC: Failed to find SB model disable halting on critical error
    • Legacy boot stuck on BOOT FAIL!
• Kernelspace Issues
  • Covering everything that many occur in early boot from the moment you select macOS in the OpenCore menu, till the point right before the Apple logo and the installer GUI loads

  • Issues surrounding from initial booting the macOS installer to right before the install GUI pops up.

    • Stuck on [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START]
      • Booter Issues
      • Kernel Patch Issues
      • UEFI Issues
    • Stuck on EndRandomSeed
    • Stuck after selecting macOS partition in OpenCore
    • Getting the error X64 Exception Type… on AMD FX systems
    • Kernel Panic on Invalid frame pointer
    • Stuck on [EB|LD:OFS] Err(0xE) when booting preboot volume
    • Stuck on OCB: LoadImage failed – Security Violation
    • Stuck on OCABC: Memory pool allocation failure – Not Found
    • Stuck on Buffer Too Small
    • Stuck on Plist only kext has CFBundleExecutable key
    • Stuck on This version of Mac OS X is not supported: Reason Mac…
    • Couldn’t allocate runtime area errors
    • Stuck on RTC…, PCI Configuration Begins, Previous Shutdown…, HPET, HID: Legacy…
    • Stuck at ACPI table loading on B550
    • “Waiting for Root Device” or Prohibited Sign error
      • USB Issues
      • SATA Issues
    • Kernel panic with IOPCIFamily on X99
    • Stuck on or near IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock…/gIOLockState (3…
    • Scrambled Screen on laptops
    • Black screen after IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock… on Navi
    • Kernel Panic Cannot perform kext summary
    • Kernel Panic AppleIntelMCEReporter
    • Kernel Panic AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
    • Kernel Panic AppleACPIPlatform in 10.13
    • macOS frozen right before login
    • Keyboard works but trackpad does not
    • kextd stall[0]: AppleACPICPU
    • Kernel Panic on AppleIntelI210Ethernet
    • Kernel panic on “Wrong CD Clock Frequency” with Icelake laptop
    • Kernel panic on “cckprngintgen”
    • Stuck at Forcing CS_RUNTIME for entitlement in Big Sur
    • Stuck on ramrod(^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
    • Virtual Machine Issues
    • Reboot on “AppleUSBHostPort::createDevice: failed to create device” on macOS 11.3+
• Userspace Issues
  • Covering the process from loading macOS’s GUI to installing macOS on the drive
  • Issues regarding once you’ve booted the installer and the GUI has loaded.
    • MacOS installer in Russian
    • MacOS Installer being damaged
    • Stuck on or near IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock…/gIOLockState (3…
    • Scrambled Screen on laptops
    • Black screen after IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock… on laptops and AIOs
    • Black screen after IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLock… on Navi
    • Frozen in the macOS installer after 30 seconds
    • 15h/16h CPU reboot after Data & Privacy screen
    • MacOS frozen right before login
    • MediaKit reports not enough space
    • DiskUtility failing to erase
    • SATA Drives Not Shown in DiskUtility
    • Stuck at 2 minutes remaining
    • The recovery server cannot get contacted
    • Keyboard and Mouse broken in Big Sur
    • Stuck on Your Mac needs a firmware update in order to install to this volume
• Post-Install Issues
  • Covering issues once macOS has been installed and is fully booted
  • Issues revolving around macOS once properly installed.
    • Broken iMessage and Siri
    • No on-board audio
    • BIOS reset or sent into Safemode after reboot/shutdown
    • Synaptics PS2 based trackpad doesn’t work
    • Fix for Dell breakless PS2 keyboard keys
    • MacOS GPU acceleration missing on AMD X570
    • DRM Broken
    • “Memory Modules Misconfigured” on MacPro7,1
    • Apps crashing on AMD
    • Sleep crashing on AMD
    • AssetCache Content Caching unavailable in virtual machine
    • Coffee Lake systems failing to wake
    • No brightness control on Dual GPU laptops
    • No temperature/fan sensor output
    • “You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk” error
    • Selecting Startup Disk doesn’t apply correctly
    • MacOS waking up with the wrong time
    • No Volume/Brightness control on external monitors
    • Time inconsistency between macOS and Windows
    • Disabling SIP
    • Writing to the macOS system partition
    • Rolling back APFS Snapshots
    • Apple Watch Unlock issues
    • 4K iGPU output issues over HDMI
• Miscellaneous Issues
  • Covering issues after macOS’s installation or with other OSes
  • Others issues not revolving around macOS itself such as multibooting.
    • Can’t run acpidump.efi
    • Fixing SSDTTime: Could not locate or download iasl!
    • Fix Python: Python is not installed or not found on PATH
    • Windows Startup Disk can’t see APFS drives
    • Incorrect resolution with OpenCore
    • Can’t find Windows/BootCamp drive in picker
    • Selecting Startup Disk doesn’t apply correctly
    • Booting Windows results in BlueScreen or Linux crashes
    • Booting Windows error: OCB: StartImage failed – Already started
    • iASL warning, only X unresolved
    • Time inconsistency between macOS and Windows