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    XHCI function in Mac OS

    Hi All, The machine I am building is intended to work with a Thunderbolt 4 port JBOD storage system, and I've read on some manufacturers' websites that this requires XHCI, which is not implemented in MACOS. Can anyone tell me if this is correct, or if this is correctable, as this could be a...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    Hi Folks, Stunning news this week. First of all I got the multi-boot box working well, with Clover coming up after the UEFI and offering to boot into Windows or Mojave. The Mojave runs perfectly on the PC box, so much so that I have been using that instead of my old iMac, which feels slow and...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    Well I've had a nice rest and took out my nice new macOS SSD and replaced it with my old windows Seagate HDD. I then veered off into discovering why my win 8.1 utilises 100% disk for the first 5 minutes after boot. I think I've narrowed it down to some "Services" but not yet fixed it. Now I am...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    Another step down the long road to success. I remade my Mojave installation USB. It worked. Now I have a working Mojave on the Mackintosh box. So a simple step by Windows to create an additional partition trips over the entire process. Now I am exploring Mojave and finding out what works...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    I have confirmed that win 8.1 put an extra partition on my SSD, and so I deleted it with Diskpart, but that didn't help, so now I'm creating a new boot mojave USB to see if I can succeed with a perfectly clean SSD. Interesting how simple things like a quick install of windows to check out the...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    Thanks for the advice. I re-flashed my BIOS and achieved nothing, except that the list of boot override options has been updated. Interesting that Gigabyte download a file that is an .exe and one that needs to be extracted before use. Fortunately my iMac can still do that. I can boot into...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    Hi, First of all I will check the processor details as soon as I can boot up. What is the issue there? Secondly, no I can't boot at all, even with the Clover USB, even though I could before I ran Multibeast.The clover menu is not offering booting now. Thirdly, thanks for the hint on using...
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    << Solved >> No booting after post installation

    Hi All, I have carefully completed all of the steps in installing Mojave on my Mackintosh box, and before I ran Multicast, I could boot from the install USB Clover menu, and see Mojave running very well. Now that I have completed the post install process, and theoretically made my macOS...
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    Unibeast failed - cannot edit plist

    It appears that unibeast failed after trying to install boot loader, as shown in the log below. Doesn't help me solve the problem, though. In Any case, I have a new problem. After reading the troubleshooting notes, I deleted my copy of ElCapitan install and tried to get another one, but the App...
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    Unibeast failed - cannot edit plist

    Is there a way I can identify which file is causing the trouble and why? Thanks Ace
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    I Was Lost But Now I've Found New Problems

    Thanks. I've learnt that the hard way but no harm done. Now I have to figure out why the boot drive isn't working. Ace
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    I Was Lost But Now I've Found New Problems

    I should add that I discovered that my PC has 2 HDDs, one WD and the other Seagate. The WD is the Windows 8.1 boot drive and boots quite happily when it is the only drive. My first installation of OSX was to the seagate. Quite successful, but I had to invoke the boot override to get it to boot...
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    I Was Lost But Now I've Found New Problems

    So, the first time I tried the installation, I crossed a few hurdles and got it all working. What I didn't realise at the time was that the installation instructions are for making a Mackintosh and NOT a dual boot PC with windows on it as well. So I started again, knowing that my PC uses UEFI...
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    [Solved] I've Got Lost

    Well, I was wrong. I have since found out that disabling Vt-d prevents my Windows disk from booting, so I could have OSX only, which was no good. I've dismembered the PC and set up the UEFI with only one HDD present and this allows me to have both OSX and win 8.1, but it is very inconvenient...
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    [Solved] I've Got Lost

    I consulted a friend who is very experienced in BIOS &c. and he went with my settings with me and found AHCI not set. He said that no HHDs would be found while that was wrong. So now I have a Hackintosh that immediately upgraded Itself to Mohave, and appears to be faster and smoother than my old...
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