Unibeast not showing the installer USB

[T0asta]

Hi,

I created a USB drive with unibeast. Now when I boot from this USB Clover shows me no boot option. I can't boot the installer. I have checked, that the apfs.efi is on the stick.

Anyone can help?

 

[cmn699]

Hi,

I created a USB drive with unibeast. Now when I boot from this USB Clover shows me no boot option. I can't boot the installer. I have checked, that the apfs.efi is on the stick.

Anyone can help?

4 steps need meticulous attention for High Sierra Installer USB (or for that matter any OS X or macOS) to show up on the Clover Boot Manager (CBM) screen and boot to its destination screen , i.e, the Installation screen to open Disk Utility/MacOS installation.

They are:

• Creation of USB installer [in UEFI or Legacy Mode depending up on how old (Legacy:usually Intel 5 Series and occasionally Intel 6 series) or how recent (from Intel 6 series to 300 Series at present) the MoBO we are using.]
• Selection of ALL the BIOS Setup menus [not just what is specially emphasized in the GUIDE;the emphasis is only because they are often overlooked. Even though the GUIDE may not have emphasized the importance of choosing the right Graphics options, if that is not properly done, boot problems are sure to occur.]
• Attention to CLOVER contents :
  • CLOVER/kexts/Other with the Essential kexts (the list of items have increased since HS 10.13.2 because of Graphics problems without some newer support kexts in "Other")
    • removal of unnecessary and often empty "numbered" kexts folders like 10.6 to 10.3.
  • CLOVER/drivers64UEFI -Example need for the latest APFS.efi
• config.plist [properly edited:ACPI section/ Boot section/Devices Section/Graphics section/Kernel & Kexts Patches section/ Gui section/ Rt Variables section >CsrActiveConfig =0x67/SMBIOS section with appropriate Product Name/System Report section]

If you have boot problem, to get help from the Forum, you need to provide screen shot images uploaded to the forum of the preceding stage where you could see the disk on your screen.

• Please provide Screen photo images uploaded to the forum of
  • BIOS > "Boot Options Priorities" list and the
  • "Device Selection Screen" on reboot and pressing the Hotkey like F-12/F10/F8 (depending up on the Motherboard make)

 

[T0asta]

Thank for the answer. I attached two images of my boot screen. I have only one ssd connected that ist not formatted, on which I want to install osx. I use UEFI mode. I also attached a screenshot of my USB drive.

 

[elas123]

i have exact same problem

 

[weezul]

I have this problem too, and it's doing my head in. I've been a hackintosh user since SL and never had a problem like this.... I've made a boot key with Unibeast, and also with DiskMaker X and custom Clover and kexts/drivers, both end the same way. I boot the clover bootloader from the USB key, but it can't see it's own partition. I can't see it if i boot normally either, the partition is just not in the list.

I've checked apfs.efi , checked all my clover settings, tried setting a custom bootloader entry, everything. I just can't make the partition show up. I just reflashed my bios as well.

I'm on a gigabyte Z170x with 6700k. NVMe boot drive (works great with Sierra), and three other SATA drives. I've disabled all my SATA drives, and removed all external peripherals. It all makes no difference, i've posted in other forums as well and no one has anything new to suggest (Check clover, check 64bit drivers, check apfs.efi.... The problem seems to be with clover. It just can't see the partition, even though the boot loader on the USB itself loads perfectly fine. Fairly certain the vanilla key I made myself, had the EFI folder on the main partition, and the UniBeast key makes an EFI partition for clover. Both end up the same. They boot, but can't see the install mac os high sierra partition.

Would appreciate anything I may have missed.

edit: also tried these clover patches just incase:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-ich10r-and-high-sierra.233435/page-2#post-1608408

 

[Gigamaxx]

Do any of you have a way to format your target disk? Connect to a usb to Sata adapter and at least format in HFS+?

Edit, have any of you tried to remake the USB using legacy mode or bootloader option in clover which will place the EFI on the same partition as the HS install app.? Once you have the OS installed you can run Multibeast it target your disk with UEFI mode.

 

[T0asta]

Do any of you have a way to format your target disk? Connect to a usb to Sata adapter and at least format in HFS+?

I can try this maybe later or tomorrow

 

[cmn699]

Thank for the answer. I attached two images of my boot screen. I have only one ssd connected that ist not formatted, on which I want to install osx. I use UEFI mode. I also attached a screenshot of my USB drive.

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Sorry for my belated answer to your response. I was briefly out of town for an errand and was away from my computer for several hours and just noted your response.

Thank you for the images.

• BIOS "Boot Option Priorities" list image is not uploaded.

• From the posted Boot Device Selection screen shot and subsequent CBM screen shot , I can say that only the USB installer's CLOVER folder (in its EFI Partitions EFI Folder) has reached CBM.
• For reasons unclear to me at this time, the "System Volume" of the USB Flash drive, that should have been created in HFS+J format in the Disk Utility and filled in with files from macOS High Sierra (10.13.0 or higher version) Installer in Applications folder that should have been copied to the partition by Unibeast 8.xx or "CreateInstallMedia" cmd in terminal followed by Clover installation, is missing and therefore the High Sierra USB Installer icon is missing in CBM.

• I have never experienced this problem before in any of my builds ; 99.9% are Gigabyte Boards.
• Use anything I say below as just on assumption not on experience.

• If I had this problem , I will go back to the system the disk was created and start all over again.
• Take a 16GB Flash disk (Ex Lexar / Kootion 16GB: my favorites because of good LED lights and longivity)
• Run the partition and format commands in Terminal
  • Launch Terminal and run diskutil list command
  • diskutil list [ENTER]
  • From the output find the Disk Identifier number for the USB Flash disk [Example Disk 3]
• Run the Partition and format command targeting /dev/disk3
• diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk3 GPT JHFS+ HighSierraUSBInstaller 0b [See image of actual cmd output]
• Next use CreateInstallMedia command in the same terminal

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USB --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app --nointeraction​

• Once the cmd is completed, download and run Clover EFI Bootloader from source forge.net Download Clover_v2.4k_r4359.zip
• This is the only time you can see EFI partition of this USB installer seen automatically mounted on the desktop. After this EFI will be hidden and will require an EFI Mounter like Clover Configurator Vibrant or EFI Mounter V3 or Terminal command
• Open EFI >EFI>CLOVER and check contents of /CLOVER/kexts/Other and make sure it has all the needed kexts by copying and pasting the latest FakeSMC.kext Your Ethernet. Kext , special kexts like Lilu.kext IntelGraphicsFixup.kext, ,WhateverGreen.kext, NvidiaGraphicsFixup (I like RehabMan's Bucket for kexts if available as they work 100% of the time for me) depending upon your hardware.
• I also install these special Graphics related kexts into /L/E using kext wizard or Kext Utility.
• I will open /CLOVER/config.plist in the latest Clover Configurator and check all the sections to make sure required items are properly configured for a flawless boot using the kexts I have installed in the USB Installer Disk.

I realize this is not the answer you want or expect from a Forum. But I hope this will rule out any problem during Installer Creation as the cause of its failure to show up in CBM screen.

I will also suggest you to check your BIOS setup options once again including all menu with regard to USB ports Enabling.

I have seen this problem reported by a few but unfortunately they never come back to post the outcome of their efforts and hence most of those posts remain open with no conclusions.

Many don't have the tenacity to try long and difficult troubleshoots and often give up quickly out of frustration.

Without the exact hardware, It is not possible for me to try and create the problem and create a fix either.

 

[T0asta]

I just found another solution by accident. I used my ssd from my (very) old macbook from 2009 und inserted it in my pc. By accident I installed the SSD with the system on it. Just booted this Volume und installed drivers and stuff and everything is working fine. I know it's not a solution for the problem with the usb drive, but my build is running just fine now.

 

[mholling]

I've encountered this problem this week. I can add a useful data point: it only seems to occur with the 10.13.2 installer. I've made USB installers using both UniBeast and createinstallmedia methods. Using the 10.13.1 High Sierra Installer, the installer boot option appears in the Clover menu and I can boot from it. When I use the 10.13.2 installer, the installer disappears from the Clover boot menu. So this would seem to rule out BIOS-related problems, and suggest that something in the 10.13.2 release and/or Clover is the culprit.

(I was hoping to do a clean 10.13.2 install, but installing 10.13.1 and then upgrading might be the solution for me.)