chris1111 Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 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 11 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 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours 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 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours 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 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours 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...
Zenith432 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 1 hour ago, Zenith432 said: I could try to do the install on a mac mini to the external USB magnetic drive and see if that succeeds. 🤔 I went ahead and tried this. Installing macos 15.7.7 from an installer USB on a mac mini to an external USB hard drive. It worked. This is what happened Booted mac mini into 15.7.7 installer USB. Formatted APFS partition as before with single volume MacHD to start. Ran 1st stage install. One thing I noticed is some messages reporting successful connections to Apple servers retrieving some update data that I did not see happen on a PC. This might be because of incomplete SMBIOS information or ACPI information that's used to identify the system. At completion of 1st stage install I turned off the mini, moved the disk to a PC to see what's on it. It appeared pretty much the same as after the 1st stage install on a PC, and the same size. There might have been some small changes in data files I didn't notice. Then moved disk back to mini to restart 2nd stage install. 2nd stage install completed. Again, I shut off the mini and moved the disk to PC to see what's on it. Again, it seemed in the same state as after the 2nd stage on a PC and the same sizes. The same nearly-empty Data volume. Again, Clover doesn't show an entry for it because it doesn't recognize it as anything bootable. Moved disk back to mini and voila - mini recognizes it as something bootable and knows how to boot it into 3rd stage install. 3rd stage install goes on for awhile with a bar moving at the bottom but no timer and completes. Then reboots. At this point I no longer had patience to move the disk to PC to see what's on it. I let it continue. Booted into 4th stage install. Again this went on for awhile with a bar advancing at the bottom and no timer. Eventually completed and rebooted. Again, didn't have patience to move the disk to a PC to see what's on it and let it continue. Booted into the 5th stage which is the final one. It took a long time to boot because of the slow magentic media but eventually arrived at the setup screen with "Select your region". I was able to safely shut it down by holding the power key and selecting shut down. So now there's a working system on the hard drive which can hopefully be replicated to SSD with asr command to be set up and used there. Conclusion Clover knows how to boot the installer USB. Clover knows how to boot the disk after first stage into 2nd stage. Clover doesn't know how to boot the disk into the 3rd stage. Needless to say I have no idea about the 4th stage. The 5th stage is final so Clover may be able to do that. 1 hour ago, chris1111 said: @Zenith432 Try clear NVRAM before booting in the preboot Volume It is very well possible that might work to boot into the 3rd stage with Clover, but it'll have to wait for another day... 1 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago For example I installed Tahoe on my first computer all stages with Clover automatically. First time on HDD and second time on SSD as upgrade on Sequoia. If the EFI folder is good enough then all stages passed without a problem. I see no what is the possible error in your case. See my Quirk set config.plist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago @Zenith432, Did you compiled Clover by yourself? By what compiler? You may have a problem with file names so why Clover will not see file "boot.efi". Just a glitch of Xcode clang compiler. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284656-clover-general-discussion/page/1242/#findComment-2852231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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