Clover can't see itself?! Install Mac OS High Sierra does not show in clover menu

[weezul]

Hey

Just spent a fair while scanning the forums for any solutions to my problem.
I've made a boot key for High Sierra (latest version from app store) and I can't get the partition to show in clover, even though it;s the key's own EFI partition that is booting! (Clover r4297)

I've tried loads of stuff I found:

ICHI10 patches in KextsToPatch (just incase, I have a z170x)
Creating a custom bootloader entry with clover configurator (doesn't seem to show up at all when I reboot, checked 'OSXInstaller' as type, 'External' as volume type, and made an entry for both the installer partition and the EFI partition of the boot key (inception though?)
checking apfs.efi is the right version for the OS install

checking drivers64 folder for everything needed

 

Can anyone think of anything else?

Thanks

[MaLd0n]

check here

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/321872-guide-sierra-on-gigabyte-mobos-serie-200-kabylake-dsdt/

[weezul]

Hello, thanks for the reply.

However, I swapped out my CLOVER folder for yours, and aside from a different menu, I still see no partition listed for my USB key.... It just lists two Legacy Windows drives, SierraNVME and Recovery.

One other thing to note: If I unplug and replug the drive, i get this on the left hand side of the clover boot menu:

APFSStart:1454: Mounting with apfs_efi_osx-748.37.10
efi_container_create:1077: -efi_container_create, Status = 8000000000000007

[MaLd0n]

first, disconnect all others HDs/SSDs

 

use only one for Mac Osx

[weezul]

I have already done that, but I can't disable my NVMe in the bios (which is my target drive anyhow)

[Gigamaxx]

I have already done that, but I can't disable my NVMe in the bios (which is my target drive anyhow)

 

I don't have a NVME drive yet, but form every account I've read it is nearly impossible to mount directly to it.   99.9% of successful users load High Sierra onto a HDD or SSD then clone it to the NVME.    Do you have a spare HDD or SSD to install it on first, it can be hard enough to install on these its good to work the bugs out before you load onto NVME.

[weezul]

That's a shame to hear, I thought High Sierra had native support for NVMe now? Previously I've been using PikeRAlpha kext patches on my clover.plist to use my Intel 600p drive... it's worked great. But even so, installing to a spare drive is still not possible as the installer partition does not appear in clover? I'm all out of ideas at this point, may well have to just give up. 

[atomiccc]

Bummer, I have the same experience. I’m not sure why an m.2 ssd in the system would result in the HFS+ High Sierra installer partition on a USB stick not being visible inside clover? What does one have to do with the other? Really hoping to find a solution to this...

[t_chip]

I had a lot of trouble getting the High Sierra partition to be seen as well.  I went to the following troubleshooting bullet #19 and I was finally able to see the partition.  https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-8-troubleshooting-notes.235489/ .  The USB stick needs to be formatted as per #19 for the USB stick to show the High Sierra partition.

Edited April 20, 2018 by t_chip
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