<< Solved >> Can't boot Catalina from local SSD without USB installation driver

[Javenl]

CPU: E5 1660 v3

GPU: Asus 5700xt reference model (water cool modded)

RAM: DDR4 8G * 4

SSD: Intel 600p 512G (also tried Samsumg SM961 256G)

Motherboard: Asus X99 deluxe

Basically I followed 2 guides:

1. KGP's X99 guide
2. Opencore vanilla desktop guide especially the section for Haswell-e

And after installed Catalina 10.15.3 with Opencore 0.56 successfully, I am stucked at how to make the build boot from local SSD rather than the USB disk. I searched on Google and followed various guides(including the one in Opencore vanilla Desktop) to copy my EFI in USB disk to EFI partition which is created by Catalina installation automatically. However, nothing works for me and I can't see the option to boot from my SSD in bios either.

Here is the steps I followed:

1. Bios setting before installation
   1. CSM disabled
   2. Fastboot disabled
   3. UEFI set to "other OS"
   4. "Clear Secure Boot keys" and Secure boot is disabled
2. During installation -- only 1 SSD is connected to my system
   1. In diskutil, select show all devices and erase my SSD totally with "APFS" & "GUID parition Map"
   2. Choose to install Catalina to the SSD
3. Post installation
   1. Verified my SSD partition is GPT

2. Copy EFI folder of my installation USB disk to download folder


3. Umount the USB disk and unplug it.

Mount EFI partition of my local SSD(nothing there in the partition)

"sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi"

Copy the content in EFI folder which is previously placed in download folder to EFI partition



4. Here is the final structure in EFI partition



However, this doesn't boot my system at all. Once you reboot the build, it directly goes to bios and the SSD is also not listed in Bios as an item under "Boot Option Priorities " or "Boot Override"


Appreciate if anyone can help me about what's wrong here.

 

[Feartech]

CPU: E5 1660 v3

GPU: Asus 5700xt reference model (water cool modded)

RAM: DDR4 8G * 4

SSD: Intel 600p 512G (also tried Samsumg SM961 256G)

Motherboard: Asus X99 deluxe

Basically I followed 2 guides:

1. KGP's X99 guide
2. Opencore vanilla desktop guide especially the section for Haswell-e

And after installed Catalina 10.15.3 with Opencore 0.56 successfully, I am stucked at how to make the build boot from local SSD rather than the USB disk. I searched on Google and followed various guides(including the one in Opencore vanilla Desktop) to copy my EFI in USB disk to EFI partition which is created by Catalina installation automatically. However, nothing works for me and I can't see the option to boot from my SSD in bios either.

Here is the steps I followed:

1. Bios setting before installation
   1. CSM disabled
   2. Fastboot disabled
   3. UEFI set to "other OS"
   4. "Clear Secure Boot keys" and Secure boot is disabled
2. During installation -- only 1 SSD is connected to my system
   1. In diskutil, select show all devices and erase my SSD totally with "APFS" & "GUID parition Map"
   2. Choose to install Catalina to the SSD
3. Post installation
   1. Verified my SSD partition is GPT

2. Copy EFI folder of my installation USB disk to download folder


3. Umount the USB disk and unplug it.

Mount EFI partition of my local SSD(nothing there in the partition)

"sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi"

Copy the content in EFI folder which is previously placed in download folder to EFI partition



4. Here is the final structure in EFI partition



However, this doesn't boot my system at all. Once you reboot the build, it directly goes to bios and the SSD is also not listed in Bios as an item under "Boot Option Priorities " or "Boot Override"


Appreciate if anyone can help me about what's wrong here.

BOOT and OC folder should be inside a folder called EFI

 

[Javenl]

BOOT and OC folder should be inside a folder called EFI

Thank you a lot. That really solve my problem.

Can't believe I was stuck here for days...

 

[cafpeter]

BOOT and OC folder should be inside a folder called EFI

Holy...my man you solved my problem. Also can't believe that.