- Joined
- Mar 21, 2011
- Messages
- 426
- Motherboard
- Z170 Pro Gaming
- CPU
- i7-6700K
- Graphics
- Vega 56
Thanks for your reply. I think you might be misunderstanding.Having the kexts duplicated on the CLOVER boot drive and in the /L/E folder is a recipe for disaster. I would recommend you have a read of Jaymonkey's third party kext guide - https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...an-sierra-high-sierra-mojave-catalina.268964/
Why did you choose to roll back, why not use your normal EFI folder to boot your Cloned Mojave drive? That is what the Clone is for, so you don't have to reinstall the OS and all your Applications etc. again if an update borks.
If you have a bootable USB pen drive or can access the EFI partition on your Mojave drive (to use your normal Clover folder), and have your Cloned drive connected to the system, try booting from the USB or your Mojave drive via the Bios Boot Menu. Select the Cloned Mojave drive on the Clover boot screen and you should be in macOS in no time.
You can Clone your Mojave drive from the clone, so you don't need to use the backup drive.
What happened was this.
1. I backed up my working Mojave install and it's EFI folder (not with CCC), to a separate backup drive, with Carbon Copy Cloner. That is a bootable backup.
2. I then proceeded to try to upgrade to Catalina. After the installer loaded and did its thing for a bit, it reboot like normal where I could continue the install from clover. I chose to boot into the install from Clover, as I have in the past, and it rebooted, then sat on a black screen for a long time. Over 45 mins.
3. I eventually gave up and decided to clone my Mojave backup back to my main drive. I copied my backed up EFI folder back as well.
4. I rebooted, noticed my custom Clover screen had changed, booted into Mojave. Everything seemed to work fine except for some USB issues, certain software losing their registrations causing me to have to re-register some things etc.
I'd love to be able to try to upgrade to Catalina again, this time I will try it on my backup drive so my main drive is still Mojave (when I can get this USB thing sorted). I just fear these issues again if I have to revert.
Does this make a bit more sense?
Thanks!