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- Jun 18, 2015
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- Gigabyte Z390 Designare
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- i9-9900K
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- RX 5700 XT
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Panic mode enabled 
This is weird...
I was struggling to create a bootable clone of my Catalina hackintosh with CCC. I'ver got a Designare Z390. The hackintosh itself ran smoothly for the past 3 years but I wanted to try an update so I thought hey, why not make a clone of it and play on that. What did I do ???!!
Enventually I managed to have a booting clone. I went in the task settings and ticked everything that was in "include". That should be the default thing the cloning process does but it wasn't copying everything. Then I copied the EFI.
I got a "Boot from osx-backup" icon from the clover boot screen and it went through. I had some messages from CCC (this is a backup drive etc...) but nothing to worry about.
Then I did the ultimate test: I removed the original SSD on PCIe and tried to boot to the other one. And boom, I had a different clover boot screen with only recovery. Wut ? So I plugged back the original...and I got the same dumb screen. And booting from recovery didn't do anything. And all the args from the Clover options are gone...
So I went into panic mode Also after that, the hackintosh wouldn't go anywhere, looping the initial boot and nothing. Black screen, it wouldn't show me the BIOS.
I finally went into the Bios to find out it had been reset (the BIOS told me), so I put back all the Z390 settings. I may have accidentally reset it myself when I was frantically pressing arrows, del, F8, etc... tI had a black screen remember ?)
And now, it boots only from the clone. It's like the original lost its EFI settings or something. I found out that if I plug the original disk, well, it ****s everything up. How is that possible ? And it looks like it puts it back in primary boot option so I might have to check the BIOS but I'll do that tonight when I'm back from work.
Should I try to copy the EFI back from the clone to the original ?
I wonder if I shouldn't try to do a full OS install from scratch on the original, using the last OS, as the clone seems to be working. I4ve ordered a new Crucial PCIe drive to try and install the latest OS with Open Core. It's gonna take me until next year ah ah ah
Ideas ?
This is weird...
I was struggling to create a bootable clone of my Catalina hackintosh with CCC. I'ver got a Designare Z390. The hackintosh itself ran smoothly for the past 3 years but I wanted to try an update so I thought hey, why not make a clone of it and play on that. What did I do ???!!
Enventually I managed to have a booting clone. I went in the task settings and ticked everything that was in "include". That should be the default thing the cloning process does but it wasn't copying everything. Then I copied the EFI.
I got a "Boot from osx-backup" icon from the clover boot screen and it went through. I had some messages from CCC (this is a backup drive etc...) but nothing to worry about.
Then I did the ultimate test: I removed the original SSD on PCIe and tried to boot to the other one. And boom, I had a different clover boot screen with only recovery. Wut ? So I plugged back the original...and I got the same dumb screen. And booting from recovery didn't do anything. And all the args from the Clover options are gone...
So I went into panic mode
Also after that, the hackintosh wouldn't go anywhere, looping the initial boot and nothing. Black screen, it wouldn't show me the BIOS.I finally went into the Bios to find out it had been reset (the BIOS told me), so I put back all the Z390 settings. I may have accidentally reset it myself when I was frantically pressing arrows, del, F8, etc... tI had a black screen remember ?)
And now, it boots only from the clone. It's like the original lost its EFI settings or something. I found out that if I plug the original disk, well, it ****s everything up. How is that possible ? And it looks like it puts it back in primary boot option so I might have to check the BIOS but I'll do that tonight when I'm back from work.
Should I try to copy the EFI back from the clone to the original ?
I wonder if I shouldn't try to do a full OS install from scratch on the original, using the last OS, as the clone seems to be working. I4ve ordered a new Crucial PCIe drive to try and install the latest OS with Open Core. It's gonna take me until next year ah ah ah
Ideas ?