[Solved] Cannot mount EFI (APFS)

[captainreynolds]

Hello,

I am unable to mount my EFI partition on my APFS Samsung EVO 970. I previously have had no problems doing this. Clover Configurator (latest version) crashes completely when I open the mount EFI folder.

I believe my build will show in my signature. But I'm running 10.13.6 on a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 with an i7 8700K CPU and a 980ti. Everything is super stable except for this issue.

Mounting using diskutil only returns errors. APFS is odd in that it creates a synthesized volume. My output of diskutil list is below. Mounting the EFI folder as disk0s1 results in a failure message. Mounting readOnly results in a failure message.

Any ideas for a fix? Does this issue indicate a problem with APFS? Should I switch to HFS+J? How can I do this if my EFI partition is unmountable?

/dev/disk0 (internal):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         1.0 TB     disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1000.0 GB  disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1000.0 GB  disk1

                                Physical Store disk0s2

   1:                APFS Volume High Sierra             433.0 GB   disk1s1

   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 21.6 MB    disk1s2

   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.0 MB   disk1s3

   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

 

[P1LGRIM]

Any ideas for a fix?

Try sudo.

 

[captainreynolds]

Try sudo.

That did the trick. Feel pretty dumb for not trying this originally. I do wonder why this is required now to mount the partition, and why Clover Configurator crashes when trying to mount it. Thanks P1LGRIM.