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High Sierra is installed but won't boot without USB

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I went through and made my USB with unibeast and got High Sierra installed on my internal SSD.
It will not boot without the USB stick as it will just load the apple logo and just reboot.
Strange things are happening as well including my boot selector in the bios screen is super messed up with odd symbols...

What I have tried:
- I had a crazy error before but putting my one stick of DDR4 into the A1 slot fixed that issue
- Tried redownloading the installer multiple times and creating a new stick with unibeast
- reformatting the SSD and reinstalling high sierra

The image attached is -v flag trying to boot from my SSD install of high sierra
 

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after install you are used multibeast?

if yes, multibeast have a "bootloader" - clover eufi boot, need to turn on.
 

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after install you are used multibeast?

if yes, multibeast have a "bootloader" - clover eufi boot, need to turn on.

Yes I did. The clover loader shows up when I boot the PC without the USB. And when I select "boot from "Hackintosh SSD" it will bootloop and the image I attached is that boot with -v flag. It repeats like that for a long time then boots to clover, then repeats.
 
Are you using onboard graphics or a discreet graphics card? If it's the latter, try disabling onboard graphics in BIOS and see if it boots. It may be possible that your config file does not have correct parameters for the onboard graphics.
 
Are you using onboard graphics or a discreet graphics card? If it's the latter, try disabling onboard graphics in BIOS and see if it boots. It may be possible that your config file does not have correct parameters for the onboard graphics.

I did have a 960 in there but I have since removed it and sold it actually. I also had a second SSD for Windows but I disconnected it as well as to not interfere with the installation...
 
Start with the computer powered off.
Insert your USB installer.
Power on the computer and press your boot menu key - Usually F12 but YMMV.
At the boot menu screen select your USB flash drive as the boot device and boot.
At the Clover menu screen select your hard drive and boot.

When you get to the desktop download and run EFI Mounter and mount the EFI partition of your USB.
Copy the entire /EFI folder from the EFI partition of your USB to the desktop.
Eject the USB.
Run EFI Mounter again and mount the EFI partition of your SSD.
Delete the entire /EFI folder from the EFI partition of your SSD.
Copy the /EFI folder from your desktop to the EFI partition of your SSD.
Restart

You should now be able to boot from your SSD in the same way that you could previously boot from your USB.
 
Start with the computer powered off.
Insert your USB installer.
Power on the computer and press your boot menu key - Usually F12 but YMMV.
At the boot menu screen select your USB flash drive as the boot device and boot.
At the Clover menu screen select your hard drive and boot.

When you get to the desktop download and run EFI Mounter and mount the EFI partition of your USB.
Copy the entire /EFI folder from the EFI partition of your USB to the desktop.
Eject the USB.
Run EFI Mounter again and mount the EFI partition of your SSD.
Delete the entire /EFI folder from the EFI partition of your SSD.
Copy the /EFI folder from your desktop to the EFI partition of your SSD.
Restart

You should now be able to boot from your SSD in the same way that you could previously boot from your USB.

Really appreciate the help but no luck. Now I get this message when my PC boots. Booting from internal SSD with -v doesn't hang long enough for me to read anything or snap a pic... This has been a difficult process compared to my Sierra build.

On a side note. It took me multiple tries to get it to boot to the internal SSD... No idea what's going on with this build.
(*** On the most recent attempt at erasing the SSD completely I did format with APFS (there was no other option...). Not sure if that is messing me up? ***)
 

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Start with the computer powered off.
Insert your USB installer.
Power on the computer and press your boot menu key - Usually F12 but YMMV.
At the boot menu screen select your USB flash drive as the boot device and boot.
At the Clover menu screen select your hard drive and boot.

When you get to the desktop download and run EFI Mounter and mount the EFI partition of your USB.
Copy the entire /EFI folder from the EFI partition of your USB to the desktop.
Eject the USB.
Run EFI Mounter again and mount the EFI partition of your SSD.
Delete the entire /EFI folder from the EFI partition of your SSD.
Copy the /EFI folder from your desktop to the EFI partition of your SSD.
Restart

You should now be able to boot from your SSD in the same way that you could previously boot from your USB.

It is worked for me thanks a lot
 
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