Lost my USB boot drive. Audio and video is broken

[KurtHectic]

Hi everyone.

I had to use my USB boot drive for Mavericks for something else, so I thought I'd copy the thing to my hard-drive and paste it back. This broke my boot drive. So I installed High Sierra on the boot-drive using Clover and UniBeast as prescribed on this website, and although I can noiw still boot into Mavericks, the audio is gone and the resolution and video is broken as well (I can't change the reolution to much else than the lowest setting).

I tried reinstalling the kexts I used on my initial installation of Mavericks back in 2014 but this proved unsuccesful.

So I suppose Mavericks is installed on my hard-drive but reinstalling the kexts did not work.

Any suggestions? I'd prefer to keep my Mavericks OS without having to move to a new system.


EDIT: It's worth noting that the version of OS X I use is 10.9.3

 

[P1LGRIM]

Each time that you update Clover a copy of your entire /EFI folder is saved to the system disk in /EFI-Backups, you may be able to restore a backup from there.

 

[trs96]

I tried reinstalling the kexts I used on my initial installation of Mavericks back in 2014 but this proved unsuccesful.

Did you use Chimera or the Clover bootloader when you installed Mavericks ?

 

[KurtHectic]

Did you use Chimera or the Clover bootloader when you installed Mavericks ?

I must've used Chimera. I used the installation guide for Mavericks on this forum for reference.

I'll look into the EFI-Backups thing


EDIT: Looking at the "About This Mac" window, I configured it to show I had a Mac Pro, but now it shows I have an iMac (with a Tiger wallpaper on it) and the Graphics shows I have an NVIDIA Chip Model 5 MB instead of the GTX770 which is installed in the computer.

 

[P1LGRIM]

I must've used Chimera

I'll look into the EFI-Backups thing

The backups only apply to Clover, Chimera does not provide that capability.

 

[KurtHectic]

Mavericks button in Clover says "Boot into OS X from macOS" ...

Why can't I fix my Mavericks OS if I can boot into it? What is going on here?

 

[trs96]

Why can't I fix my Mavericks OS if I can boot into it? What is going on here?

Try running Multibeast for Mavericks and make the same selections as you did initially for the Mavericks install. It's perfectly fine to keep using Chimera as the bootloader for Mavericks. I still do on an older Sandy Bridge desktop that boots legacy. It's 100% stable and reliable.