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Hi all, so I get the installer made and boot up and go ahead and go through the first install process formatting the drive etcetera Etc and then when it reboots to go into the second phase to do the clean install it gets almost all the way done and then gives me an error message with no specifics just failed to initialize properly or something like that and my only option is to restart so I go back into the boot disk and find out that even though I formatted hfsplus the High Sierra installer converted it to a PFS so my question is, is this why my install keeps failing and do I need to add the a PFS file or text to my EFI volume on the new boot disk? Or do I use Clover to configure it differently or add it in there? I think this is the only thing holding me up at this point but I'm not sure what to do or how to do it so if someone could explain that part to me I would be ever so grateful. I'm installing onto a solid state drive and I do have a Santa to USB connector so I can easily connect the drive to my MacBook error and mount the EFI partition if I need to so if anyone could help me maybe figure out this last step I think I'm good to go and I can handle the rest I just need to get to that second part of the installation so it can finish properly without giving me the failed message with the only option to restart and try again. Thank you so much I look forward to any and all help that I can get I'm so close LOL thank You!
High Sierra installer from Mac App store, boot disk (usb 16GB) created with unibeast for High Sierra,
Target disk is a SanDisk 480GB 3D Ultra SSD formatted as HFS+ Journaled using disk utility.
I have injected nvidia drivers and also tries injecting the intel graphics 4000 also and booted each time in their respective settings and after the initial boot when I reboot back and select the hfs+ newly created volume to finalize the installation where you setup keyboard and language etc that's where it gets to the end and then gives me the error and the restart button and just keeps doing the same. I THINK what might be going on is High Sierra is converting to APFS even though I formatted as hfs+ and so I put the apfs.efi driver in the SSD (target drive) so it's "supported" but not sure if that's the correct procedure for that or if there's a better one. Hope that helps.
High Sierra installer from Mac App store, boot disk (usb 16GB) created with unibeast for High Sierra,
Target disk is a SanDisk 480GB 3D Ultra SSD formatted as HFS+ Journaled using disk utility.
I have injected nvidia drivers and also tries injecting the intel graphics 4000 also and booted each time in their respective settings and after the initial boot when I reboot back and select the hfs+ newly created volume to finalize the installation where you setup keyboard and language etc that's where it gets to the end and then gives me the error and the restart button and just keeps doing the same. I THINK what might be going on is High Sierra is converting to APFS even though I formatted as hfs+ and so I put the apfs.efi driver in the SSD (target drive) so it's "supported" but not sure if that's the correct procedure for that or if there's a better one. Hope that helps.
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