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- Oct 1, 2020
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- Motherboard
- ASUS P8H61-I R2.0
- CPU
- i5 > Need model # > See Rules!
- Graphics
- GT 730
- Mac
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I am running Clover v4674 (I know that it's not up-to-date, but it has been working flawlessly until about 2 weeks ago), to boot MacOS Sierra on ASUS P8H61-I R2.0 (Hackintosh) motherboard, but I am 99.9% sure that I do not have a hardware problem. Some background---about two weeks ago, I mistakenly used Hackintool to try to repair a sleep/wake problem, my intervention with Hackintool scrambled my Clover boot such that the system booted to the null sign....arghh. Fortunately, I had a cloned backup of the SSD (a dual boot Win10/Hackintosh) on a USB drive. I restored the EFI file from USB backup to the SSD, and now, the system will not boot from the SSD, will only boot from the USB, but in a very strange way. Here are the symptoms--- when I boot the system to the SSD (without the USB drive connected), the clover boot menu has an item to boot the MacOS on the SSD, when this option is chosen, the system boots to the null sign. When the system is booted with the USB drive connected, the Clover boot menu includes options to boot to (1) MacOS on the USB, and (2) MacOS on the SSD, when (1) is chosen the system uses the USB as the boot device, but boots to the MacOS that resides on the SSD, and when (2) is chosen the system uses the SSD as the boot device, but boots to the MacOS that resides on the USB. I've been struggling to figure out how to fix this for more than two weeks now, this post is my white flag of surrender. I have tried just about everything that I can think of, and has been posted on the various hackintosh fora. I have used the Clover EFI shell to examine the EFI map (everything seems to be in order). I have attempted to "reinstall" MacOS Sierra using a bootable USB (in which case the Clover menu does not show an option for booting to the MacOS install USB, so no joy there). Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions for how I can get the system to boot from the SSD to the MacOS that resides on the SSD?