Slice Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 On 12/4/2018 at 4:27 PM, Jief_Machak said: Tried FakeSMC & VoodoBatterySMC from your signature, but got the same messages. VoodoBatterySMC is now loading, so that's better. Should I have something in my DSDT for these keys BBAD and BSIn ? I forgot to implement these keys. You may add them manually into FakeSMC/Info.plist Information here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Is it possible to get rid of messages about failed png file ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 On 12/6/2018 at 1:15 PM, Jief_Machak said: Is it possible to get rid of messages about failed png file ? I don't know. May be look into FirmwareVolume sources and into EfiCalls.log by DumpUefiCalls.efi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumiol Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 FV2 noob here: Which of the drivers in Clover r4871 are needed for a Probook (non-AMI bios) to enable both ps/2 internal and usb wired keyboard? Or would there be conflicts? Thank you for help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 20 hours ago, sumiol said: FV2 noob here: Which of the drivers in Clover r4871 are needed for a Probook (non-AMI bios) to enable both ps/2 internal and usb wired keyboard? Or would there be conflicts? Thank you for help. Not a lot of alternative to check by yourself. May be only AptioInputFix, may be AppleKeyFeeder. May be plus UsbKbDxe. As well other drivers to support FileVault2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumiol Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 5 hours ago, Slice said: Not a lot of alternative to check by yourself. May be only AptioInputFix, may be AppleKeyFeeder. May be plus UsbKbDxe. As well other drivers to support FileVault2. Thanks, that's reassuring (I was a bit intimidated by the "only one of ...", "remove ..." advices, and by some folks having had trouble getting back into their machine.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Always test on a new partition ! Create a new partition on your hard drive, or on an external drive, install macOS and then encrypt. It seems crazy to encrypt your main hard drive without having done any test to be sure it works. You can also clone your current partition on an external hard drive and check you can boot it. All I'm saying : be careful and test beforehand ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumiol Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Jief_Machak said: All I'm saying : be careful and test beforehand ! Oooohhh yessss!! I learned once the hard waay. And: its very helpful to know which are the most promising drivers to test first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybod Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 (edited) I'm having lots of trouble getting FV to work on my laptop. It's an Asus ASUS GL502VT. It boots fine to OSX Mojave, but when I encrypt the drive and subsequently try to boot from the preboot partition, I get "Started LoginWindow Initialize", and the machine just sits there doing nothing. I've tried various efi files and am running the very latest Clover. Using Clover Configurator, I've installed all the drivers I think I need, but still get the "Started LoginWindow Initialize" message. Going back over this discussion, bratwurstinhalator had the same issue but it seems to have been sorted via private message so I'm not sure what to do. I've attached a list of the drivers I have in my setup (it includes the latest AppleSupportPkg). Any assistance is much appreciated. I think I must have encrypted/decrypted about 20 times now trying to get it working. Tony. Edited October 31, 2019 by tonybod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UefiBooter Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 i dont think you need all of those drivers. also looking at specs for gl502vt says it has GTX970M graphics, afaik thats not supported in Mojave. ( i have the GL702VT ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybod Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 The GTX970M is disabled on my machine (it's using the Intel graphics). The machine boots up and works fine, just cannot get past the "Start LoginWindow Initialize" when I've got FV enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UefiBooter Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 cool, i've not seen a way to disable the GTX970m on my model might be related to the G-Sync panel it uses. sorry i've no idea why it hangs at the point you describe, i neither use FileVault or Clover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhaeuser Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 @tonybod Understand what the drivers even do before you install them or ask for help 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybod Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 I'm still fairly new to this. Managed to get an old Sony laptop running years ago and tried this machine recently using a guide I found for the Asus GL552VW (almost identical hardware). I'm finding it difficult to actually find much info on what any of the drivers do. Any info I find assumes that you already have a fair amount of background knowledge (and I've yet to see a beginners guide). This is why I'm struggling and asking for help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UefiBooter Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Ok i would remove the following drivers from your folder apfs.efi apfs.efi.org ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi AptioInputFix-64.efi CsmVideoDxe-64.efi EmuVariableUefu-64.efi FwRuntimeServices.efi OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi OsxLowMemFixDrv-64.efi1 VBoxHfs.efi and check you can still boot without FV enabled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybod Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Yes, the machine still boots :). I've tried FV again and it's still stuck at the "Start LoginWindow Initialize" prompt . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybod Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Might the problem be something to do with booting from a NVMe drive? I've also got two user profiles, could that be an issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICKHAEL Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 2 hours ago, tonybod said: Might the problem be something to do with booting from a NVMe drive? I've also got two user profiles, could that be an issue? i have NVMe, all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybod Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 ok, finally managed to get it working. 1. Complete re-install of Mojave 2. Only set up one user account (I had two on the machine before). 3. Remove extra drivers as suggested by UefiBooter in a post above. 4. Follow the instructions in a guide by fewtarius called "Enabling FileVault" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phasslr Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) I am having some problems with getting more information about why my boot process sometimes crashes ... Reset before prebooter-start In about 20% of boot processes, Clover (5098) resets after selecting "FileVault Prebooter" but before showing any verbose output from the prebooter. I changed clover settings to debug = true and noticed something interesting: The reset always happens after "HFS+ driver loaded" (see debug-log.txt line 1488). After sucessfull booting it is followed by "APFS driver loaded". Is there any way to get some more verbose output from the APFS driver loader itself? I think this could be the reason for the reset. Error after filevault prebooter In about ~40% of boot processes, the filevault prebooter does not boot into the kernel. With verbose output enabled, I just see a black screen with a blinking cursor and without verbose I see a crossed grey circle. Looks similar to this: Any idea on how I could debug this? Thanks for your help! debug-log.txt Drivers ApfsDriverLoader.efi AppleImageCodec.efi AppleKeyAggregator.efi AppleKeyFeeder.efi AppleUITheme.efi AptioInputFix.efi AptioMemoryFix.efi DataHubDxe.efi FSInject.efi FirmwareVolume.efi HFSPlus.efi HashServiceFix.efi SMCHelper.efi UPDATE: FOUND A SOLUTION - HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CLOVER - Update my MB's BIOS from F5 to F8a (https://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-beta-bios.html) - NO MORE BOOT FAILURES Edited December 17, 2019 by phasslr FOUND A SOLUTION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICKHAEL Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 33 minutes ago, phasslr said: I am having some problems with getting more information about why my boot process sometimes crashes ... Reset before prebooter-start In about 20% of boot processes, Clover (5098) resets after selecting "FileVault Prebooter" but before showing any verbose output from the prebooter. I changed clover settings to debug = true and noticed something interesting: The reset always happens after "HFS+ driver loaded" (see debug-log.txt line 1488). After sucessfull booting it is followed by "APFS driver loaded". Is there any way to get some more verbose output from the APFS driver loader itself? I think this could be the reason for the reset. Error after filevault prebooter In about ~40% of boot processes, the filevault prebooter does not boot into the kernel. With verbose output enabled, I just see a black screen with a blinking cursor and without verbose I see a crossed grey circle. Looks similar to this: Any idea on how I could debug this? Thanks for your help! debug-log.txt hi. using just that efis. all good here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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