El Capitan stopped booting after FileVault turned 'ON' and restart!

[Going Bald]

I shelved this idea a while ago and am just coming back to it. How does a hot swappable drive help me? When I get on the corporate VPN I am immediately prompted to enable File Vault on my boot drive. After I click OK, it tried to reboot and all I can do is a full re-install at that point. I am not sure when I would swap drives?

Any idea if booting off of a flash drive would solve my issues?

What is the missing magic that exists in Apple Macs vs. Hacks that prevents boot drives from working with File Vault?

Thanks again, I always get useful information here, even if it is not always the answer I wanted.

You can use FileVault 2 since Clover v3877 according to vit9696 on insanelymac. Search there for FileVault 2.

 

[Buddasac]

i had successfully installed OS X El capitan on my Hack yesterday. Was going through my System Preferences in the morning today, and turned the FileVault ON and the system asked for a reboot.

I haven't been able to log into my system since then. Upon a fresh start, both the main disk as well as recovery disk, load the OS halfway with the apple logo, then shows a glitch, the loading bar disappears and the logo turns into a STOP/TERMINATED Sign with a circle and a slash through it.

i have tried to reboot a 1000 times now but to no good. So, i gave up and tried to start a fresh/clean OS Install with my El capitan Install pen drive ( i made with unibeast) and even that seems to be not working. the loading get's completed but this time the system freezes on a completely white screen (once with the cursor and the other times without)- there is no progress beyond this and i am literally locked out of my Mackintosh.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! URGENT! My work is literally stuck in the middle-no other way to resume and i have deadlines to meet

I have gigibyte z77x ud5h, that had been running great using clover. But then I enabled filevault on the os drive and I can't boot. I have my install usb but I can't seem to figure out how to boot to it. I can't select it in the bios. The boot options never list the usb. Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

 

[Buddasac]

Fixed! Thanks.

followed this: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2...ecrypt-your-filevault-2-encrypted-boot-drive/

I tried to follow the guides here for updating to Sierra so I can use my new 1070 card. But I screwed up my mobo in all my fiddling. So I am waiting for my new skylake cpu, Maximus VIII Hero mobo, and DDR4 RAM. I wish I didn't have to spend the money but...

 

[mmm.333]

This here really helped me! OMG I thought I was doomed. https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2...ecrypt-your-filevault-2-encrypted-boot-drive/

This link saved me thanks so much for posting it. I'll explain what I did here in case the link goes down. I enabled FileVault in Sierra not knowing it doesn't work on Hackintoshes. This will only work if you know your password. Used the recovery partition to first mount Macintosh HD then used the command

diskutil corestorage list

to get the logical volume name - it's the long hex string, NOT the label or physical disk identifier. Then I issued

diskutil corestorage revert (logical volume name)

to disable FileVault. Then reboot and you can get back in!

 

[Frostreaver]

Luckily this saved my Hack a couple of minutes ago! Thank you!