pastrychef
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Ahh, well. unfortunate as it may be it is my time of year again. I don’t know if you remeber but you’ve directly helped me through starting my pc to updating it to Mojave. As Big Sur comes out and Catalina is presumably pretty stable by now, I have tried to update, to no avail.
Now, usually the problems I have are just simple things that I would be able to fix on my own. However, this is kind of different. I had tried to boot with the USB and your most recent file of Catalina without OpenCore, and there’s a flashing underscore, which I have seen many times before. It means that it is not reading my USB as a bootable drive. So, therefore, I boot back into Mojave and reprocess anything and see if it was incomplete or anything like that.
After a couple times of doing this however, I have found that I cannot boot back into Mojave as my system takes ages to “scan the entries”. I am using Clover 5093, and I have an idea as to why, as it is scanning to find the EFI out of the almost full 500GB SSD that I have. I am assuming that searching through that would take a while, but my questions are why has this only happened now, and what is wrong with my boot drive for Catalina. When using UniBeast, it takes almost an hour to copy files (typically as it has before). However, there is not a specific EFI partition that is made on my drive, and the EFI file appears in the main page of the drive along with everything else, which I do replace with your file, and then I still get the underscore.
Any feedback would be appreciated whenever you can, as it is almost 2AM by me. Also, much thanks for helping me through the previous troubles I have had. Hopefully, one day, I will be able to update fully without your help . But thanks much.
If your system is not detecting your bootable drives, you may need to clear CMOS and re-do your BIOS.
When creating your USB flash drive, make sure to initialize it as HFS+/GUID. This will create the EFI partition.