Hackintosh won't boot (stuck at unmount...)

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I have no idea what I did in the first place (and I suspect that I messed it up by not following a guide, or half-following several guides).

I'm using a script called EFI Mounter v3 to launch my EFI volume, and it tells me: "Multiple EFI partitions found..." Is that normal? Shouldn't I have an EFI volume on only one drive?

To make that question more specific: should my EFI partition be on my SSD or on my USB drive?

 

[Feartech]

I have no idea what I did in the first place (and I suspect that I messed it up by not following a guide, or half-following several guides).

I'm using a script called EFI Mounter v3 to launch my EFI volume, and it tells me: "Multiple EFI partitions found..." Is that normal? Shouldn't I have an EFI volume on only one drive?

it may be picking up your usb stick, anyway, mount your macos partition, open your config.plist with clover configurator in the clover folder and then you mentioned you got it to boot by removing 0x00000000? then you need to look around in there and remove, save it and hopefully after a reboot oyu should be back to where you were

 

[ichris93]

To make that question more specific: should my EFI partition be on my SSD or on my USB drive?

There will be one on both. For boot issues you should focus on the one on your SSD.

 

[ichris93]

it may be picking up your usb stick, anyway, mount your macos partition, open your config.plist with clover configurator in the clover folder and then you mentioned you got it to boot by removing 0x00000000? then you need to look around in there and remove, save it and hopefully after a reboot oyu should be back to where you were

I would actually find the correct ID to put in there if I were OP. Otherwise he may have graphics issues.

 

[Feartech]

I would actually find the correct ID to put in there if I were OP. Otherwise he may have graphics issues.

yes, good idea! no graphics in his profile though...

 

[Feartech]

or are you using the gtx 960 or onboard video?

 

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yes, good idea! no graphics in his profile though...

All right. I used Clover Configurator to open config.plist on my SSD's EFI partition. I looked through there and couldn't find anything like 0x00000000. But I did remove the thing I previously changed to make it auto-boot from SSD. Then I saved the config.plist and restarted the computer. It returned me to the Clover screen, as I'd expected. So now I think I'm about back where I began, before I created this problem. Good news: my hackintosh works. Bad news: it does not boot automatically into Mac OS.

 

[ichris93]

All right. I used Clover Configurator to open config.plist on my SSD's EFI partition. I looked through there and couldn't find anything like 0x00000000. But I did remove the thing I previously changed to make it auto-boot from SSD. Then I saved the config.plist and restarted the computer. It returned me to the Clover screen, as I'd expected. So now I think I'm about back where I began, before I created this problem. Good news: my hackintosh works. Bad news: it does not boot automatically into Mac OS.

It is easy to fix that in clover configurer. http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/how-to-set-clover-to-automatically-boot-system-drive.174322/

 

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It is easy to fix that in clover configurer. http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/how-to-set-clover-to-automatically-boot-system-drive.174322/

Thanks - these instructions (editing config.plist with text editor) are the ones that I had originally followed, but they didn't work for some reason. So I tried making changes using Clover Configurator, but that caused the big mess.

Today I tried again doing exactly what it said, but again it didn't work. My drive is named "SSD" and I put "SSD" in the relevant space, with 1 as the timeout, rebooted and... it sat at the Clover boot screen, waiting for me to select a drive. There, however, my SSD drive is called "HFS" because - I don't know why, just because. So I got the idea to try editing config.plist again, except calling the drive HFS instead of SSD. Rebooted and... it sat at the Clover boot screen, waiting for me to select a drive.

Seems like such a weird problem because it strikes me as very straightforward, just five steps, yet I still can't get it to work.

 

[ichris93]

Thanks - these instructions (editing config.plist with text editor) are the ones that I had originally followed, but they didn't work for some reason. So I tried making changes using Clover Configurator, but that caused the big mess.

Today I tried again doing exactly what it said, but again it didn't work. My drive is named "SSD" and I put "SSD" in the relevant space, with 1 as the timeout, rebooted and... it sat at the Clover boot screen, waiting for me to select a drive. There, however, my SSD drive is called "HFS" because - I don't know why, just because. So I got the idea to try editing config.plist again, except calling the drive HFS instead of SSD. Rebooted and... it sat at the Clover boot screen, waiting for me to select a drive.

Seems like such a weird problem because it strikes me as very straightforward, just five steps, yet I still can't get it to work.

That is strange. HSF is the format not the name... I don't know.