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[Solved] No EFI partitions on APFS SSD anymore?

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After installing (upgrading) to High Sierra on an SSD (which took long because of conrsion to APFS) i'm no longer able to mount the EFI partiotion of this drive. Gone and away. To proof this I upgrrade a clone on an NVME SSD ti High Sierra: Same result, nor more EFI Partition. EFI Mounter app does not find it.
Even via terminal listing I can't see EFI-Partitions.
All is working but I need to repair audio and did not do this in advance.
Does anybody know what has happened?
 
kiu77 said:
After installing (upgrading) to High Sierra on an SSD (which took long because of conrsion to APFS) i'm no longer able to mount the EFI partiotion of this drive. Gone and away. To proof this I upgrrade a clone on an NVME SSD ti High Sierra: Same result, nor more EFI Partition. EFI Mounter app does not find it.
Even via terminal listing I can't see EFI-Partitions.
All is working but I need to repair audio and did not do this in advance.
Does anybody know what has happened?
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They don't get touched in an upgrade conversion.
 
vulgo said: They don't get touched in an upgrade conversion.


Do you have any idea why "diskutil list" in terminal gives this?:

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +255.7 GB disk3
Physical Store disk1s2
1: APFS Volume Platte 181.0 GB disk3s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 19.0 MB disk3s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 520.0 MB disk3s3
4: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk3s4
 
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I have the exact same issue. Pre-upgrade I copied the apfs.efi file to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/ and High Sierra boots perfectly. Though I can't see my EFI partition anymore in clover, the whole OS X boot disk won't show up.
 
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Got it:
It is a virtual drive. Mounting disk1s1 worked. This is the physical EFI partition.
 
I'll be damned, for me it was a different one, but it worked indeed. Thanks!
 
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