No boot drives displayed with ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi r4658

[indiekiduk]

Hi I was hoping someone could help me debug this problem with no boot drives appearing in Clover. My install was working fine until one day I rebooted and no drives appeared. Using my old USB worked fine. I can workaround the issue by replacing ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi with the real apfs.efi which makes me think that the loader is not finding it automatically on my disk at /usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi like it is supposed to. How can I debug to find out why it is not finding it? Am I right in saying there is no boot log if it didn't boot?

 

Macintosh HD EFI Partition (on disk6 below) that shows no drives at boot running r4658:

 

AppleImageCodec-64.efi FSInject-64.efi

AppleKeyAggregator-64.efi FirmwareVolume-64.efi

AppleUITheme-64.efi SMCHelper-64.efi

AptioInputFix-64.efi VBoxHfs-64.efi

AptioMemoryFix-64.efi ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi

DataHubDxe-64.efi

 

Replacing ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi with /usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi does make it work and drives are displayed. I'm not using FileVault and deleting AppleKeyAggregator-64.efi had no effect.

 

USB EFI running r4509:

 

AppleImageCodec-64.efi FSInject-64.efi

AppleKeyAggregator-64.efi FirmwareVolume-64.efi

AppleUITheme-64.efi OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi

DataHubDxe-64.efi apfs.efi

EmuVariableUefi-64.efi

 

Here are my disks, my 2 SSDs are APFS and the HDs are all HFS (the USB is inserted just now):

 

malcs-imac:~ mh$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         512.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS SSD2                    511.7 GB   disk0s2

 

/dev/disk1 (internal):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         512.1 GB   disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk1s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk6         511.8 GB   disk1s2

 

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 TB     disk2

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine            8.0 TB     disk2s2

 

/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *5.0 TB     disk3

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Blue                    5.0 TB     disk3s2

 

/dev/disk4 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk4

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Toshiba 500             499.8 GB   disk4s2

 

/dev/disk5 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Spinpoint               2.0 TB     disk5s2

 

/dev/disk6 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +511.8 GB   disk6

                                 Physical Store disk1s2

   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            498.0 GB   disk6s1

   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 21.5 MB    disk6s2

   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.1 MB   disk6s3

   4:                APFS Volume VM                      24.6 KB    disk6s4

 

/dev/disk7 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *15.5 GB    disk7

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk7s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS USB                     15.1 GB    disk7s2

Edited September 13, 2018 by indiekiduk
screenshot added

[Matgen84]

Hi

 

• I hope that OTHERS will be able to help you, in the meantime, type bdmesg in terminal to see if apfsdriverloader is sucess loading 
• what clover theme ? Post screenshot is better to understand your problem with apfsdriverloader. add vol_internal_apfs.icns by copy/rename vol_internal.icns via desktop

[savvas]

Hello, load ApfsDriverLoader debug version from uefi shell, and give me a log

[savvas]

Soooo... No logs = no problem. Fixed!

[kalsdfjaksfiejk]

Have any more details on where to get the debug version? I'm seeing the same thing -- using r4658 with the same driver, can't see any boot options at all, even for HFS. 

 

[indiekiduk]

On 9/13/2018 at 1:34 PM, savvas said:

Hello, load ApfsDriverLoader debug version from uefi shell, and give me a log

 

Sorry I've been unable to find out how to do that. If you wouldn't mind telling me I'll try to get the first wiki page to be on that.

[indiekiduk]

A user on the other forum told me I needed PartitionDxe-64.efi which fixed the problem of drives not appearing. Perhaps the driver detail text box in clover could be updated to state it's a requirement for standard installs, right now it says the opposite.