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- Feb 10, 2011
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- Asus P7P55D-E LX (1602 BIOS)
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-860 @ 2.8Ghz
- Graphics
- ATI XFX 5850 1GB
Hi everyone!
My apologies in advance -- it's been a while since I've posted here, simply because I haven't had any problems to report, until now. To preference, I've been running the same hackintosh hardware since I installed Lion on this machine, and each time a new OS comes out, I create a USB installer and install the OS on top using the thumb drive. That's always worked perfectly for me, until trying to install 10.13 High Sierra. When I boot off of the USB thumb drive I created, using Clover r4220, neither the Install macOS option nor the Disk Utility option see my internal HDDs. DU only shows the mounted USB thumb drive. I know the thumb drive works correctly because I used it to install High Sierra on my MacBook Pro, and it worked perfectly.
My computer is an old Lynnfield-series Intel desktop. Each version of the OS has worked perfectly in the past, including running Sierra 10.12.6 on it right now. My BIOS is set to use AHCI for the HDDs (these are not SSDs). The OS volume is on a GUID HFS+ partition, that also happens to have an NTFS partition as well (which may be the source of my problem?). The only third-party Kexts I use are injected through Clover, in the kexts/Other directory, which only contains FakeSMC v1723 and RealtekRTL81xx v0.0.90.
I've searched all I can for help, and come across a few older threads with similar problems for older OSes. They've suggested trying AppleAHCIPort.kext and AHCIPortInjector.kext, which I've placed in Clover's kexts/Other directory, but the problem remains. It just seems so weird to me that the Sierra USB installer last year recognized the HDDs, but the High Sierra USB installer doesn't.
I've attached a screenshot of "diskutil list" as well as a copy of my Clover config.plist file. ANY help you folks could give would be immensely appreciated at this point, as I've spent hours trying to fix this only to come up empty. Thank you so much!
My apologies in advance -- it's been a while since I've posted here, simply because I haven't had any problems to report, until now. To preference, I've been running the same hackintosh hardware since I installed Lion on this machine, and each time a new OS comes out, I create a USB installer and install the OS on top using the thumb drive. That's always worked perfectly for me, until trying to install 10.13 High Sierra. When I boot off of the USB thumb drive I created, using Clover r4220, neither the Install macOS option nor the Disk Utility option see my internal HDDs. DU only shows the mounted USB thumb drive. I know the thumb drive works correctly because I used it to install High Sierra on my MacBook Pro, and it worked perfectly.
My computer is an old Lynnfield-series Intel desktop. Each version of the OS has worked perfectly in the past, including running Sierra 10.12.6 on it right now. My BIOS is set to use AHCI for the HDDs (these are not SSDs). The OS volume is on a GUID HFS+ partition, that also happens to have an NTFS partition as well (which may be the source of my problem?). The only third-party Kexts I use are injected through Clover, in the kexts/Other directory, which only contains FakeSMC v1723 and RealtekRTL81xx v0.0.90.
I've searched all I can for help, and come across a few older threads with similar problems for older OSes. They've suggested trying AppleAHCIPort.kext and AHCIPortInjector.kext, which I've placed in Clover's kexts/Other directory, but the problem remains. It just seems so weird to me that the Sierra USB installer last year recognized the HDDs, but the High Sierra USB installer doesn't.
I've attached a screenshot of "diskutil list" as well as a copy of my Clover config.plist file. ANY help you folks could give would be immensely appreciated at this point, as I've spent hours trying to fix this only to come up empty. Thank you so much!
