SSD does not appear in Disk Utility after running USB installer for OS X

[Rdbuchmann]

I installed a clean SSD into my laptop for OS X install, created a USB flash with OS X installer and booted into it. When running Disk Utility to partition the SSD, the drive does not appear. Only the disk images for the USB are displayed. How can I get the SSD to be seen in Disk Utility?

I am unable to use Legacy mode to boot the USB. The BIOS won't see it.

I used the following procedure to create my USB installer:
[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover

 

[RehabMan]

When running Disk Utility to partition the SSD, the drive does not appear.

Post output of 'lspci -nn' in Linux Terminal.

 

[Rdbuchmann]

See attached.

View attachment lspci-nn.txt

 

[wed]

I'm encountering the same problem; what do you get when doing "diskutil list" from terminal, while in the installer?

 

[RehabMan]

See attached.

View attachment 184085

Post EFI/Clover folder as ZIP (omit 'themes' folder).

 

[Rdbuchmann]

I can only see the following:
/dev/disk0
0: GUID_partition_scheme 31.6GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS install_osx 31.3GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1
0: GUID_partition_scheme 7.1GB disk1
1: EFI 209.7MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS OS X Install ESD 6.7GB disk1s2

/dev/disk2
0: GUID_partition_scheme 2.1GB disk2
1: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 2.0GB disk2s1

and then a bunch of little disk images /dev/disk3 - /dev/disk15, ranging from 524.3K to 6.3MB. In short, no reference to the internal SSD. Then again, would I? It's completely unformatted.

 

[RehabMan]

I can only see the following:
/dev/disk0
0: GUID_partition_scheme 31.6GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS install_osx 31.3GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1
0: GUID_partition_scheme 7.1GB disk1
1: EFI 209.7MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS OS X Install ESD 6.7GB disk1s2

/dev/disk2
0: GUID_partition_scheme 2.1GB disk2
1: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 2.0GB disk2s1

and then a bunch of little disk images /dev/disk3 - /dev/disk15, ranging from 524.3K to 6.3MB. In short, no reference to the internal SSD. Then again, would I? It's completely unformatted.

I don't see EFI/Clover attached.

I'm pretty sure even not initialized, it would still show as a disk. You could always partition it to check.

 

[Rdbuchmann]

See attached zip. I don't have that many themes added.

View attachment CLOVER.zip

 

[RehabMan]

See attached zip. I don't have that many themes added.

View attachment 184154

Your SATA controller is not working because you're dropping the SSDT associated with it.

You cannot use DropOem=true without having the patched SSDTs in ACPI/patched.

Set config.plist/ACPI/SSDT/DropOem=false.

 

[Rdbuchmann]

With DropOEM set to false, the installer boot process halts at "ACPI: sleep states S3 S4 S5." No further booting from that point. No kernel panic. It just freezes.