chris1111 Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago (edited) Hi @Zenith432 Happy to see you again 😀 Try this config attaching here, its yours but with the SMBIOS more completed You can clear the NVRAM first before booting to the USB install media config.plist.zip Edited 6 hours ago by chris1111 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith432 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 4 hours ago, chris1111 said: Hi @Zenith432 Happy to see you again 😀 Try this config attaching here, its yours but with the SMBIOS more completed You can clear the NVRAM first before booting to the USB install media config.plist.zip 3.71 kB · 2 downloads Thanks. I'll try this later. Here's an update. The problem is not a faulty SSD. I tried (with my initial config) on an external USB magnetic drive with a 120 GiB APFS partition and ended up with exactly the same result. The time countdown during the 2nd stage actually went to down to 1 minute before reboot. Here's a little more detail of what I see I start out with a formatted APFS partition (newfs_apfs -C) and add one volume MacHD on it. Owners are enabled. After 1st stage install, there is still only one volume MacHD with one folder on it 'macOS Install Data'. It appears to contain everything (about 17.48GB). I can find no log. The APFS partition also has the Preboot, Recovery and VM volumes. After 2nd stage install, there are now two volumes. MacHD and "MacHD - Data". The one named MacHD is 11GB+ big and appears to have pretty much everything on it, maybe even too much (see later). The Data volume is nearly empty (about 312MB), with only one non-empty folder on it com.apple.installer that has most of the boot files of a recovery boot partition. It has a prelinked kernel, but no file named boot.efi (although there are boot.efi with various extensions.) What should be the Data volume can be found on the MacHD volume under System/Library/Templates/Data. It's not really a deployed Data volume, but some kind of template to be made into a Data volume. So this is something that looks like it should have been copied to the Data volume and 'filled in' from a template, then removed from the MacHD volume. But none of this got done. It's as if the installer decided to quit midway for some reason. There's a boot.efi in /usr/standalone/i386 under MacHD, but no com.apple.Boot.plist except in the right place under System/Library/Templates/Data where it's just a template without entries filled in. I couldn't find anything which may be a log of what happened during the 2nd stage. 😳 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockDown Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago It could be a bad macOS Installer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith432 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 7 minutes ago, LockDown said: It could be a bad macOS Installer I used softwareupdate on Mac mini to download macos 15.7.7 and created a USB stick (which is new) with createinstallmedia. You think this can go bad? I can redo it. I just think if there were corrupted files there it would crash in a less subtle way. I could try to do the install on a mac mini to the external USB magnetic drive and see if that succeeds. 🤔 Edited 1 hour ago by Zenith432 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted 32 minutes ago Share Posted 32 minutes ago @Zenith432 Try clear NVRAM before booting in the preboot Volume Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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