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- Motherboard
- GA-b250n Phoenix-wifi
- CPU
- i7 7700
- Graphics
- UHD 630
I am trying to setup a HP x360 Envy laptop for my partner.
Initial setup has been completed, and I have subsequently mounted the internal HDD and transferred the EFI Folder across which looks like this when I put both the USB's EFI and the HDD's EFI side by side:
The problem I am facing with this laptop is that once I reboot the system (Secure boot is off) with no USB attached.
1. it will detect the EFI folder that I transferred over and allow me to select MacOS to boot
1.1. after making the selection the boot sequence halts (I theorize that its not handing over the job to BOOTx64.efi:
I've tried:
1, refreshing the hard disk EFI contents by re-copying the working USB EFi over
2, double checking that the is the GUID partition map on my internal HDD which looks like this:
3, Tried running the Legacy Boot tool to add a MBR to my EFI folder to see if it would make a difference
(I thought it might have helped because this is a HP laptop where we needed to disable "secure boot" and its currently running in legacy mode)
Could anyone see anything obvious that I may have overlooked? atm I'm have the laptop automatically booting off the USB - this would have been fine if it was a desktop.. but less than ideal for this use case.
Initial setup has been completed, and I have subsequently mounted the internal HDD and transferred the EFI Folder across which looks like this when I put both the USB's EFI and the HDD's EFI side by side:
The problem I am facing with this laptop is that once I reboot the system (Secure boot is off) with no USB attached.
1. it will detect the EFI folder that I transferred over and allow me to select MacOS to boot
1.1. after making the selection the boot sequence halts (I theorize that its not handing over the job to BOOTx64.efi:
I've tried:
1, refreshing the hard disk EFI contents by re-copying the working USB EFi over
2, double checking that the is the GUID partition map on my internal HDD which looks like this:
3, Tried running the Legacy Boot tool to add a MBR to my EFI folder to see if it would make a difference
(I thought it might have helped because this is a HP laptop where we needed to disable "secure boot" and its currently running in legacy mode)
Could anyone see anything obvious that I may have overlooked? atm I'm have the laptop automatically booting off the USB - this would have been fine if it was a desktop.. but less than ideal for this use case.