ISSUE: I can't reach the installer, prohibited symbol shows up. Debug message `
still waiting root device`.
Tried many common boot flags already. -v and kextdebug (something like that) dumped some useful info: "Still waiting for root device" (something like that) is the last message I see after the hang. It also prints: "scheduling to unload unused kexts in 60 seconds", then, about 55s later, it shows the prohibited symbol.
I'll be trying the fixes you guys mentioned.
- Just need to use lilu and whatevergreen kexts with the -raddvi
- Clover in UEFI with Drivers64UEFI bellow
FIX:
TL;DR: Use partitions on a hard drive and not a USB flash drive for the install medium.
Assuming you've got your USB flash drive:
Grab a spare hard drive.
Make a 300mb partition and format as `
vfat`.
Make another 9GB partition, format as `
hfsplus`
Use a tool (linux tooling, probably) to mark the 300mb partition as an ESP (EFI System Partition).
Mount it. (`
diskutil list` to see the identifier, `
diskutil mount <diskIdentifier>` to mount).
Plug your USB flash drive.
Mount its ESP too.
Copy over EFI folder from USB to the 300mb partition.
The hard drive ESP now has clover installed.
Use `
diskutil list` to find the disk identifier of the 9GB partition.
Following the
guide, do step 2, substep 12 but change the `
--volume=` part to the 9GB partition identifier.
Now your hard drive has the Mojave install files.
Reboot computer, boot from spare hard drive ESP.
Proceed normally.
I used linux's `
fdisk` and `
mkfs.vfat` `
mkfs.hfsplus` to get it done.
