[Solved] Computer No Longer Boots After Update

[TonyTech]

Hello,
After completing the 10.13.1 update, I am no longer able to boot.
I get a prohibited sign, and in verbose, I get garbled text and “still waiting for root device”. I tried nv_disable=1,safe mode,nvda_drv=1,no cache....

I’m using Clover and am using an NVMe SSD as the primary boot device (perhaps the 10.12.5/6 NVMe Kext no longer works?).

I’d appreciate any suggestions on how to make my computer boot again.

Thanks,
TonyTech86

 

[blitzkrieg263]

I had the same. You need to delete hackrNVME kext in S/L/E. NVME drives are supported natively in high Sierra.
Make sure you remove it from the EFI partition if you put it there

 

[TonyTech]

I had the same. You need to delete hackrNVME kext in S/L/E. NVME drives are supported natively in high Sierra.
Make sure you remove it from the EFI partition if you put it there

After removing the 10.12.6 NVMe Kext, successfully booting into the install process, updating the NVIDIA Web Drivers, updating CUDA Drivers, and updating the Audio drivers with the CloverALC .command file, it still has the same error “still waiting for root device.”

 

[TonyTech]

After removing the 10.12.6 NVMe Kext, successfully booting into the install process, updating the NVIDIA Web Drivers, updating CUDA Drivers, and updating the Audio drivers with the CloverALC .command file, it still has the same error “still waiting for root device.”

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[blitzkrieg263]

Are you sure you removed all HackrNVME kexts ?
Did you look in S/L/E ?
What did you do appart installing audio & nvidia drivers ?

 

[TonyTech]

Are you sure you removed all HackrNVME kexts ?
Did you look in S/L/E ?
What did you do appart installing audio & nvidia drivers ?

Yes, I removed all HackrNVMe Kexts and I looked in S/L/E.
I did nothing other than installing audio and NVIDIA drivers...
Is there any way to store the verbose log to a device while booting?

 

[Arthurgom]

Did you enabled SIP to attempt to install Nvidia drivers?

 

[TonyTech]

Did you enabled SIP to attempt to install Nvidia drivers?

SIP is off and always has been.

I also tried removing all USB devices but the keyboard and mouse...
I tried removing all but the necessary kexts...

Should I proceed to modify the config.plist? Perhaps there’s a bad configuration... But how would I modify it from my Windows boot?

 

[TonyTech]

PROBLEM SOLVED!
I still had some stuff left over from my NVMe patch...

First, I deleted the following from my config.plist (it's pointless now, anyways):

An entry for _DSM->XDSM would be:
Comment: Change all _DSM to XDSM
Find: <5f44534d>
Replace: <5844534d>
​

I also deleted the following:

EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched/SSDT_NVMe-Pcc.aml​

The computer will now boot without any issues... Thanks for your help!