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I wonder if anyone has previously encountered or solved this very specific problem. I'm currently on macos Sierra (10.12.6) using Clover r4173. I want to upgrade Clover to a newer version (r5138) so that I can upgrade to Big Sur. The problem is that I have a B250 chipset and an m.2 NVME SSD -- under Sierra, this means that I need the IONVMeFamily Pike R. Alpha Patches to allow booting. With my ancient version of Clover, I've been using <KextsToPatch> to install the patches, and it's worked great for years. When I try to upgrade my Clover to r5138 it seems that those patches either aren't effective or fail, and I end up with the "Apple NVME assert failed" ... IONVMEBlockStorageDevice::start failed with status 0xe00002c7 error which is expected for non-patched Sierra.
I'll probably end up taking an extra step and upgrading to either High Sierra or Mojave as a way to bootstrap Big Sur. Hopefully that way I won't need the IONVMeFamily patches, and I can get a working r5126+ clover, and after that I can install Big Sur. But it's a bit disappointing that for all the work that's gone into making in-place upgrades "just work", I can't seem drop in a new Clover without simultaneously making a coordinated upgrade to the OS. Has anyone found a way to run new Clover with Sierra and an SSD that needs the IONVMeFamily patches?
I'll probably end up taking an extra step and upgrading to either High Sierra or Mojave as a way to bootstrap Big Sur. Hopefully that way I won't need the IONVMeFamily patches, and I can get a working r5126+ clover, and after that I can install Big Sur. But it's a bit disappointing that for all the work that's gone into making in-place upgrades "just work", I can't seem drop in a new Clover without simultaneously making a coordinated upgrade to the OS. Has anyone found a way to run new Clover with Sierra and an SSD that needs the IONVMeFamily patches?