HELP. Can't get Fusion Drive to boot

[noddingdog1]

Hi all!

I wonder if anyone can lend me any advice on how to get my Fusion Drive to successfully boot WITHOUT my USB stick being plugged in.

I can successfully get the Clover bootloader to run and select my fusion drive OS installation whilst the USB stick is plugged in but cannot without it. I have tried copying the contents of the EFI partition on the usb stick to my primary drive's EFI partition in the fusion logical group (SSD) but without any success. I have tried following the advice in these two threads:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/fusion-drive-clover-boot-loader.156743/

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294035-fusion-drive-easy-step-with-clover-efi/

neither seem to work for me and i don't know what else to try.

 

[noddingdog1]

anybody?

 

[Adrian B]

Is the SSD set up to be the first boot device in the motherboard UEFI/BIOS settings?

 

[noddingdog1]

Yes the in UEFI i have the SSD set as priority 1, it skips this though and boots into my Windows drive... i f i disconnect the windows drive it just shows a flashing cursor with the words boot error

 

[rudebwoy321]

Definately sounds like a problem with the EFI partition on the boot drive...

Did you use multibeast after installing OS X? If so, your problem might be to do with that.

I had a similar problem where a fresh install onto a fusion drive wouldn't boot. The thing I changed was to not use multibeast and instead use clover to make the fusion drive bootable.

I hope this helps

 

[Adrian B]

I have not tried a Fusion drive, but using Clover Configurator is also what I would likely do to in order to copy the EFI folder to the first disks EFI partition.

 

[noddingdog1]

The first time round i did use Multibeast before i stumbled across the issue. Multibeast only allows me to install to the fusion drive as a whole, and cant install just onto the EFI partitions. Since then i've done the process of:

-Recreating Unibeast USB stick for macOS Sierra
-Reformatting the Fusion Drive group
-Installing macOS Sierra onto the Fusion Drive
-Using the 'EFI Mounter' to mount both EFI partitions of the two separate drives (SSD+HDD) of the Fusion
-Using EFI Mounter to mount EFI partition of the macOS Sierra USB Stick
-Using terminal to copy the files on the EFI partition of the USB onto the EFI partitions of both drives ... I've done this process using several different methods via terminal aswell as just manually drag and dropping the files across.
-Setting my SSD as the priority boot drive within the UEFI Bios of my Asus board

and still i either boot straight into my Windows Hard drive when connected, or just receive the flashing 'Boot_error0'


the terminal commands i tried to use were in this thread on insanely mac http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/294035-fusion-drive-easy-step-with-clover-efi/

and here

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/fusion-drive-clover-boot-loader.156743/


Is the way forward to use Clover Configurator?

I'm posting this via my macbook pro but when i get onto my Hackintosh i'll post an image of my 'diskutil list' output from terminal if this helps

 

[noddingdog1]

Where can i find the latest version of the Clover Configurator to download?

 

[P1LGRIM]

Where can i find the latest version of the Clover Configurator to download?

The app has the capability to update itself.
Run any version and then 'Check for updates'.

 

[noddingdog1]

diskutil list