As long as you don't get 'Error 107', which means it failed to rebuild the prelinkedkernel.Ĭlose Terminal and reboot into your hard drive. That's fine too, macOS does that sometimes. Sometimes you don't get an ID at the end. If you get a 'KernelCache ID' at the end of that, that means that the prelinkedkernel rebuilt succesfully. Ignore those errors, the prelinkedkernel should still rebuild just fine. You may get errors like 'Warning: /Volumes/Catalina/AppleInternal/Library/Extensions: No such file or directory' or even really fast scrolling text, like shown on the screenshot below. If you are stuck on '/Volumes/Catalina locked waiting for lock', leave the VM alone for up to 5 minutes and it should start. Rm -rf /Volumes/Catalina/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernelįor that last command, this is where the results may differ for some people.

`cp -rf /Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/Kernels/kernel /Volumes/Catalina/System/Library/Kernels/ (replacing 'Catalina' with whatever you named your hard drive earlier): Reboot the VM back into the BIOS, select the installer and open Terminal once again. Reboot the VM via the Apple logo and leave it to install. Type this command in Terminal (replacing 'Catalina' with whatever you named your hard drive earlier): cp -rf /Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel /Volumes/Catalina/'macOS Install Data'/'Locked Files'/'Boot Files'/ Once the installer has booted, click on 'Utilities' in the Finder bar and select 'Terminal'. Start your VM, enter the BIOS and boot back into the Catalina installer. If the VM restarts and you get a 'CPU is disabled' error, close the error window, attempt to close the VM window, select 'Power Off' and reopen VMware. Keep an eye on the virtual machine since it auto-restarts. This will take about 5 mins, depending on your machine. Select the hard drive that we erased earlier with Disk Utility and press 'Install'. When the installer opens, press 'Continue'.

Select 'Reinstall macOS' and press 'Continue'. Change 'Format' to APFS and press 'Erase'. Select 'VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media' under 'Internal' hard drive. Select 'Disk Utility' and press 'Continue'. This will take a few minutes to boot, so sit back. The Apple logo should pop up with a moving status bar, like a real mac. This is our Catalina installer that we are booting. Select 'EFI VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive (2.0)' and press enter. This is only happening because there's no ISO selected in our virtual DVD drive.Īs soon as you see the VMware logo pop up on a black background, immediently hit any key to enter the BIOS. If you are greeted by this message, press 'No'. Now that we've made the virtual machine, it's time to install macOS onto it.

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