[Solved] Can't do an Update Direct and can't do a clean install of High Sierra

[pastrychef]

It will be on the drive where you are installing macOS on.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

When I boot up from Clover Boot Manager on the drive where I'm installing High Sierra, I get a black screen with the Apple Logo and the progress bar freezes at 50%.

 

[pastrychef]

Boot in verbose mode and take a picture of where it gets stuck.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

Hi pastrychef. I am not able to boot from the HDD. I copied the EFI folder from the UniBeast USB to the HDD, and that fixed it. But now I can no longer mount the right EFI folder so I can continue my post install set up. I've tried every disk option in EFI mounter. I opened the Terminal and did a diskutil list and disk0 looks like the right option, but still, no clover folder.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

Here is the terminal diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk4 1.0 TB disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Hackintosh Clone 999.2 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3


/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS Extra Drive 999.9 GB disk2s2


/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1

2: Microsoft Reserved 16.8 MB disk3s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data 1.0 TB disk3s3

4: Windows Recovery 477.1 MB disk3s4


/dev/disk4 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk4

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Hackintosh 12.6 GB disk4s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 57.8 MB disk4s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 1.5 GB disk4s3

4: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk4s4

 

[pastrychef]

Yes, disk0s1 is the EFI partition for your APFS macOS. If there's no Clover there, just install it. Or copy your working EFI folder to it.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

I did copy the EFI folder from the UniBeast USB there, and I do see the Clover Boot Manager on the HDD when I start the computer. I also installed this clover. But still, I can not find the clover folder when mounting any disk. I was able to earlier today, that's how I was able to copy the EFI folder from the USB. But now I can not find it.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

Update: I installed clover again. restarted. then did diskutil list, now it's disk3. Used that in EFI Mounter, and now I can see the CLOVER folder.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

Thanks for your help pastrychef. I got everything working. I followed the instructions here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/cant-boot-up-via-clover-boot-manager.241866/#post-1661081