Moving OS to new disk

[UtterDisbelief]

Thank you. I copied all content in the working EFI folder to the EFI folder on my new disk (system disk has already been cloned). Chose the new disk as startup disk i n system preferences, but still not working. It stops at the clover startup page and I have to manually choose system disk as the startup disk. The new disk does not show up as an alternative

Okay.

When an APFS volume does not show up it can be caused by a few things ...

Sadly I do not know which applies in your case, but I'll list a few:

1) Have you upgraded the bootloader? Old Clover might not play well with NVME SSDs.

2) Are you using the same system-definition?

3) Some brands of NVME SSD cause issues. Which model did you get?

4) You might need the NVME SSD kext.

There is a good Guide on our site for you here:

Easy successful NVMe Mojave installation

I just wanted to put it out there. There is an easy way to install the OS on a NVME drive that requires very little extra work and no terminal experience, no extra kexts and no extra fidgeting around in the OS. I have tried it on a couple of different NVME drives (Plextor M8Pe, XPG SX8200 Pro...

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