Jack Doe Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Greetings to all members of this great forum. I'm kindly asking for you help and expertice into solving one problem of mine. I am completly unable to install Mojave on my brand new Dell Latitude 7490 laptop (full specs down below). The computer reboots itself everytime I try. I was able to catch the error using slo-mo on my phone since everything was happening so quickly. debug=0x100 doesn't help. For unknown reason the install is unable to convert my drive into APFS. First time I tried to install on GUID partition, then formatted the whole drive (both with Disk Utility and later with terminal). After reboot I see new drive in Clover. I'm able to boot into it and I see that "Mojave can't be installed on this computer". I was using Jake Lo's guide on Mojave install https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8506-dell-latitude-inspiron-precision-vostro-xps-clover-guide/?do=findComment&comment=87342 , his bootpack and ioncatana's clover folder from this thread https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/11259-dell-latitude-7490-mojave/. CPU: Intel Core i7 8650U SSD: M.2 Micron 2280 SATA GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 DISPLAY: FullHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted February 12, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 12, 2019 post the clover folder minus the themes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Doe Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 Sure, here you go. CLOVER.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted February 12, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 12, 2019 Try add to boot arg -no_compat_check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Doe Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 No luck, same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted February 12, 2019 Moderators Share Posted February 12, 2019 Set to Default, apply, then set SATA Operations to AHCI, set Boot List Option to UEFI, disable secure boot When formatting drive, select GUID / Journaled Extended. Installation will convert it to APFS Other had try formatting to APFS, you could try that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Doe Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 Well the only difference I had was Legacy enabled. I followed your instructions anyway. Still facing same error. Previously I was reading forums about this error and one guy said that formatting to HFS or APFS with terminal would help. Not my case obviously. It's not the "fixing permissions" error right? I can't figure out what's wrong. Seems like all drivers and kexts I would need are in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eC//FrEaK Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Could you please provide a terminal screenshot from the macOS Installer after you executed "diskutil list"? Just to make sure we provide you the right commands. Anyways, you can try it on your own this way... 1. Boot macOS Installer 2. Start terminal 3. Erase your HDD/SSD from terminal with "diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ macOS /dev/>>YOUR-DISK-ID<<<" 4. Create a GPT partition on that disk from terminal with "diskutil partitionDisk /dev/>>>YOUR-DISK-ID<<< GPT JHFS+ macOS 0b" 5. close terminal 6. Start the macOS Installation and choos "macOS" as installation drive NOTE: replace the whole ">>>YOUR-DISK-ID<<<" with a value that matches your to your system maybe "disk0" or "disk1" or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Doe Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 Sure, here's the output: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Doe Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 Installation fails anyway. I've noticed "failed to open <private" to be latest sentence in installation log. Then I see black screen with text and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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