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[opencoremacUser]

May need to "show all devices" first.

There is one critical step to remember when formatting your USB or other drives in Disk Utility. Always click View and then Show All Devices instead of leaving it at "Show Only Volumes"

May need to "show all devices" first.

There is one critical step to remember when formatting your USB or other drives in Disk Utility. Always click View and then Show All Devices instead of leaving it at "Show Only Volumes"

 

[Feartech]

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not in macOS, boot into recovery with your usb installer

EDIT:
REMOVE ALL OTHER HARD DRIVES

 

[opencoremacUser]

not in macOS, boot into recovery with your usb installer

EDIT:
REMOVE ALL OTHER HARD DRIVES

Yes , at the time of installation , first click Disk Utility and done that and then started installation

 

[Feartech]

Yes , at the time of installation , first click Disk Utility and done that and then started installation

your image still shows 2 hard drives?

 

[opencoremacUser]

your image still shows 2 hard drives?

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while erasing , I put "Rana macOS SSD " along with APFS and GUID .
I erased the physical hard drive name CT.....
I deleted a drive showing under the container then erased the whole physical drive named CT ...w which is the generic name

 

[Feartech]

while erasing , I put "Rana macOS SSD " along with APFS and GUID .
I erased the physical hard drive name CT.....
I deleted a drive showing under the container then erased the whole physical drive named CT ...w which is the generic name

ok, then mount the efi partition on disk1s1

 

[opencoremacUser]

your image still shows 2 hard drives?

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seeing this "your image still shows 2 hard drives?" , I went for another go from start . It turns out that as below ..
At first time , I partitioned it in two parts - one as GUID APFS and 2nd as ExFAT ..that might be the reason when I erased by SSD generic name nothing else I have against got disk2 .But when I mount boot drive named Rana macOS SSD using MountEFI , I got the EFI with IDENTIFIER as disk1s1 ..Please have a look

 

[opencoremacUser]

seeing this "your image still shows 2 hard drives?" , I went for another go from start . It turns out that as below ..
At first time , I partitioned it in two parts - one as GUID APFS and 2nd as ExFAT ..that might be the reason when I erased by SSD generic name nothing else I have against got disk2 .But when I mount boot drive named Rana macOS SSD using MountEFI , I got the EFI with IDENTIFIER as disk1s1 ..Please have a look

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Please note that boot drive's Identifier is disk2s5s1 but its EFI's identifier is disk1s1

 

[opencoremacUser]

Please note that boot drive's Identifier is disk2s5s1 but its EFI's identifier is disk1s1

NAAAAAH , it is not happening ..

 

[Feartech]

seeing this "your image still shows 2 hard drives?" , I went for another go from start . It turns out that as below ..
At first time , I partitioned it in two parts - one as GUID APFS and 2nd as ExFAT ..

which is why i said to have just one partition