Clover boot stuck at Apple logo

[RedBlueGreen]

Hi I’ve been trying to install mojave following the clover guide by RehabMan
After preparing my bootloader USB I started facing a problem:
Boot gets stuck at Apple logo screen
However after doing a forced shut down and restart several times, It somehow booted into macOS mojave successfully.
However it was extremely slow and installing clover to my HDD (the next step in the guide) seemed to be taking forever so I had to do a force shut down again.
After getting stuck and having to force shut down multiple times, I was finally able to boot with normal speed. Clover installation to HDD took seconds to complete.
I was hoping that I wouldn’t run into the same problem booting from my HDD but I am.

Sometimes I’d even encounter something more bizarre: I can see both the desktop AND the “Apple logo with progress bar” screen together wherein either the desktop is in the foreground and works normally or the desktop is in the background in which case the cursor moves but clicking the dock makes it disappear and clicking anything else does nothing.

In another scenario, if I enter my password at the black screen with Apple logo, the desktop doesn’t show up but I see the circular “loading” animation between the Apple logo and the progress bar exactly below where the password field should be which is its otherwise normal position

These make me believe the problem is not with the booting process itself but may instead have something to do with the graphics. (Just a guess. I’ve absolutely no idea how all this actually works.)

Since macOS mojave does boots successfully once in several times I don’t even know if I’m doing something wrong or not. (Not sure it’s relevant but I always boot in verbose)

Any help on why I get different outcomes from the same process and how to get things to work as intended would be greatly appreciated.

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Bump

 

[Feartech]

Hi I’ve been trying to install mojave following the clover guide by RehabMan
After preparing my bootloader USB I started facing a problem:
Boot gets stuck at Apple logo screen
However after going through several “holding down power button to shut down and then restart only to get stuck at Apple logo again” cycles It somehow booted into macOS mojave successesfully.
However it was extremely slow and installing clover to my HDD (the next step in the guide) seemed to be taking forever so I had to do a force shut down again.
After many more “restart and getting stuck at Apple logo/ boot successfully only to get stuck at clover installation” cycles later I was finally able to boot with normal speed. Clover installation to HDD took seconds to complete.
I was hoping that I wouldn’t run into the same problem booting from my HDD but I am.

Sometimes I’d even encounter something more bizarre: I can see both the desktop AND the “Apple logo with progress bar” screen together wherein either the desktop is in the foreground and works normally or the desktop is in the background in which case the cursor moves but clicking the dock makes it disappear and clicking anything else does nothing.
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In another scenario, if I enter my password at the black screen with Apple logo, the desktop doesn’t show up but I see the circulation “loading” animation between the Apple logo and the progress bar exactly below where the “field in which you enter the password” should be which is its otherwise normal position

These make me believe the problem is not with the booting process itself but may instead have something to do with the graphics. (Just a guess. I’ve absolutely no idea how all this actually works.)

Since macOS mojave does boots successfully once in several times I don’t even know if I’m doing something wrong or not. (Not sure it’s relevant but I always boot in verbose)

Any help on why I get different outcomes from the same process and how to get things to work as intended would be greatly appreciated.

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[RedBlueGreen]

I had formatted my HDD to install a different OS because I needed it for work.
When I try to run the macOS installer from my USB again, this is what I get before getting stuck at the apple logo screen:

 

[Feartech]

I had formatted my HDD to install a different OS because I needed it for work.
When I try to run the macOS installer from my USB again, this is what I get before getting stuck at the apple logo screen:

you haven't uploaded your zipped clover folder

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Here

 

[Feartech]

Here

looks like a normal boot, what happens when you wait?

 

[RedBlueGreen]

I never tried that because whenever it did boot properly, it did so in no time.

I just tried to boot the installer and went out after getting stuck at the logo screen.

When I came back I expected to see the same logo screen but got a blank screen (with a moving cursor) instead. (The display had turned off. Had to press spacebar to see the blank screen)

After a while my laptop automatically restarted but the display didn’t turn on. After pressing spacebar I got the same back screen. (It seemed to somehow have gone directly to the blank screen without showing the Acer logo or having me to open the clover menu.)

After a while it restarted again and I got the same thing except some parts of the Apple logo became visible after I moved the cursor over that region.

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Is there anything else I can try?

 

[RehabMan]

I never tried that because whenever it did boot properly, it did so in no time.

I just tried to boot the installer and went out after getting stuck at the logo screen.

When I came back I expected to see the same logo screen but got a blank screen (with a moving cursor) instead. (The display had turned off. Had to press spacebar to see the blank screen)

After a while my laptop automatically restarted but the display didn’t turn on. After pressing spacebar I got the same back screen. (It seemed to somehow have gone directly to the blank screen without showing the Acer logo or having me to open the clover menu.)

After a while it restarted again and I got the same thing except some parts of the Apple logo became visible after I moved the cursor over that region.

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