[solved] Dell Inspiron 15 7559 - "OSInstall.mpkg missing"

AGuyWhoIsBored said:

Here's what my EFI root folder looks like with hidden files enabled:
View attachment 267155

To re-create my macOS Install partition, I ran the following commands:

To erase the install partition:

Code:

Duncans-iMac:~ duncan$ diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ USB disk7s2
Started erase on disk7s2 Install macOS High Sierra Beta
Unmounting disk
Erasing
Initialized /dev/rdisk7s2 as a 15 GB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 8192k journal
Mounting disk
Finished erase on disk7s2 USB

To re-create the install partition:

Code:

Duncans-iMac:~ duncan$ sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USB --applicationpath  /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra\ Beta.app --nointeraction
Password:
Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%...100%...
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Copy complete.
Done.

I then went ahead and reinstalled a clean Clover v4114 install into my EFI partition, and then copied all of the relevant data into place...

Error still shows up!

Maybe the installer I'm using isn't working properly? I'm not too sure at this point...

-Duncan

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Try with EmuVariableUefi-64.efi.
And make sure you clean all native NVRAM variables (probably can do within a UEFI shell... or with CMOS reset).

RehabMan said:

Try with EmuVariableUefi-64.efi.
And make sure you clean all native NVRAM variables (probably can do within a UEFI shell... or with CMOS reset).

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Tried it with and without EmuVariableUEFI-64.efi, still the same issue...
I also tried restoring BIOS defaults in an attempt to clear the NVRAM..
Along with that, I tested to make sure my native NVRAM works (by adding a test key and seeing if it persists, and it did), and also clearing the macOS NVRAM multiple times with "nvram -c"...

Thes same issue!

This is really starting to puzzle me now...

-Duncan

AGuyWhoIsBored said:

Tried it with and without EmuVariableUEFI-64.efi, still the same issue...
I also tried restoring BIOS defaults in an attempt to clear the NVRAM..
Along with that, I tested to make sure my native NVRAM works (by adding a test key and seeing if it persists, and it did), and also clearing the macOS NVRAM multiple times with "nvram -c"...

Thes same issue!

This is really starting to puzzle me now...

-Duncan

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Just went though the same thing doing an update to latest beta...
Removed EmuVariableUefi-64.efi.
Rebooted.
Removed nvram.plist from EFI partition (you should check other partitions, just in case old Clover wrote it to other places...).
Rebooted into the 10.13 installer (all updates so far are handled as installers).
Worked.

RehabMan said:

Just went though the same thing doing an update to latest beta...
Removed EmuVariableUefi-64.efi.
Rebooted.
Removed nvram.plist from EFI partition (you should check other partitions, just in case old Clover wrote it to other places...).
Rebooted into the 10.13 installer (all updates so far are handled as installers).
Worked.

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Hmm...

Followed all of your steps multiple times, and I still get the error! I even created a NVRAM.plist and deleted it again...Very odd ... Good to know that it can be fixed though...

-Duncan

AGuyWhoIsBored said:

Hmm...

Followed all of your steps multiple times, and I still get the error! I even created a NVRAM.plist and deleted it again...Very odd ... Good to know that it can be fixed though...

-Duncan

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Why would you "create... nvram.plist"?

RehabMan said:

Why would you "create... nvram.plist"?

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At this point I'm just grabbing at straws ...
I'm going to try to completely wipe my SSD (via Windows) and then going through these NVRAM things and see if it'll work! Let's hope it will ...

-Duncan

Hey all,

One thing that I noticed when I was booting into the installer was the line (I may have gotten the spelling slightly off)

Could this be one of the reasons why my NVRAM is potentially not working and thus not letting me install macOS High Sierra (with the "OSInstall missing" error)?

-Duncan

AGuyWhoIsBored said:

Hey all,

One thing that I noticed when I was booting into the installer was the line (I may have gotten the spelling slightly off)

Code:

AMFIloadtrustedkeysfromNVRAM: no nvram variable

Could this be one of the reasons why my NVRAM is potentially not working and thus not letting me install macOS High Sierra (with the "OSInstall missing" error)?

-Duncan

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We already know that NVRAM does not work on newer laptops without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi + "RC scripts".
The problem is for the installer, you have to either go with EmuVariableUefi-64.efi only, where NVRAM variables will not survive across reboots (lack of RC scripts), or without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi at all, where we know native NFRAM doesn't work.

RehabMan said:

We already know that NVRAM does not work on newer laptops without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi + "RC scripts".
The problem is for the installer, you have to either go with EmuVariableUefi-64.efi only, where NVRAM variables will not survive across reboots (lack of RC scripts), or without EmuVariableUefi-64.efi at all, where we know native NFRAM doesn't work.

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Hmm...

Is there a way to install RC scripts onto the installer USB? I tried it before but I don't think it really "worked", but I'm not too sure if I did it "properly". I installed it via the installed and it showed up on the mac "install_osx" partition under private/etc/rc.scripts (or something of that nature).

What if we can't get NVRAM to work at all? Would we still be able to proceed with the installation?

-Duncan

Hey all,

I've attempted to "re-build" my installer (basically starting from scratch and only adding the things that will let me boot into the installer)... It boots into the installer fine, but the error still shows up!

At this point, I'm more concerned at the current fact that the NVRAM doesn't seem to be working, as with or without EmuVariableUEFI-64.efi, no nvram.plist is being created! I've searched high and low, and I can't find any plist...

I wonder what the probable cause for this could be. I might try re-installing Sierra and then attempting to upgrade to High Sierra with NVRAM confirmed working on the Sierra install... (since we can't have RC-scripts on installer USB)

-Duncan