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Hi, today I noticed something very strange. I removed a installed M2 ssd drive from my Hackintosh build. The drive is just NTFS formatted and it is not used by MacOS at all (I also don't have any NTFS drivers installed). MacOS is installed on a different standard SSD drive (inlcuding EFI).
When I select MacOS from the boot picker after removing the M2 SSD, then I can see the Apple logo and the progress bar, but it seems to stuck there for a while and then the system just reboots. I don't use any kext for nvme drives and also like mentioned the drive is not used at all - I can't really understand why MacOS does not want to boot when this M2 ssd is not installed.
After installing the M2 SSD again: It just works, even with a complete formatted M2 SSD drive. I am very curious about this, but didn't find the reason, yet.
When I select MacOS from the boot picker after removing the M2 SSD, then I can see the Apple logo and the progress bar, but it seems to stuck there for a while and then the system just reboots. I don't use any kext for nvme drives and also like mentioned the drive is not used at all - I can't really understand why MacOS does not want to boot when this M2 ssd is not installed.
After installing the M2 SSD again: It just works, even with a complete formatted M2 SSD drive. I am very curious about this, but didn't find the reason, yet.
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