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

[SuperheroRobot]

How do I find the right Drive?

 

[SuperheroRobot]

EFI Mounter says: "Current Boot Disk is disk4s1" But there is no disk4s1 option. It goes from 0 to 5 but it skips 4.

 

[pastrychef]

Launch Terminal and enter:

diskutil list

What is the output?

 

[SuperheroRobot]

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Microsoft Reserved 16.8 MB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data 1.0 TB disk0s3

4: Windows Recovery 477.1 MB disk0s4


/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_APFS Container disk4 1.0 TB disk1s2


/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 Hackintosh Clone 999.2 GB disk2s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2s3


/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1

2: Apple_HFS Extra Drive 999.9 GB disk3s2


/dev/disk4 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk4

Physical Store disk1s2

1: APFS Volume Hackintosh 21.2 GB disk4s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 18.1 MB disk4s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 506.6 MB disk4s3

4: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk4s4


/dev/disk5 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *30.8 GB disk5

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk5s1

2: Apple_HFS Install macOS High S... 30.4 GB disk5s2

 

[SuperheroRobot]

disk4s1 would be the right disk right? But in EFI Mounter, that disk4s1 is not an option.

 

[pastrychef]

Mount /dev/disk1s1

 

[SuperheroRobot]

I used EFI Mount to mount disk1s1 (don't see /dev/disk1s1). And this Mounts EFI. There is a folder called EFI, and the folders in there are Apple, Boot, Microsoft. Nothing else.

Also, I've tried to run MutliBeast several times and it fails. It displays, "The installation failed".

I've restarted several times.

I can only boot into the disk using the UniBeast Installer. When I try to boot into via Clover it hangs.

 

[pastrychef]

This is where you should install Clover if you are working with your APFS partition. Once you've installed Clover here, it should also be the drive you boot from when you want to run macOS from the APFS partition.

 

[SuperheroRobot]

Doesn't MultiBeast install Clover?

 

[pastrychef]

Yes, you can use MultiBeast to install Clover, but you have to install it to the right drive.