Can't boot Clover (Even if my life were depanding on it)

[dada10000]

Hi,

I have been hackintoshing on and off since 2011.

Recently I wanted to try again and installed High Sierra using tonys way.

 

I am now trying to install a "vanilla" macOS with clover but I can't get to a point where I have a bootable USB drive and this is driving me insane (I tried everything !)

 

I am using a gigabyte P67-UD4-B3, Intel 2600K, SanDisk SATA 3 SSD and Nvidia geforce GTX 960.

I am unable to even boot Clover from a USB drive but I am able to boot an installation USB drive created with tonys way(that uses clover).

When trying to create a USB drive using the Clover installer Clover won't even load and the PC will keep waiting or looking for some bootable drive saying :

"Loading Operating System............" As if no bootable drive was found (the same will happen if I boot without any bootable drive connected to the PC).

 

I tried all settings in the Clover installer and nothing boots while using Legacy mode in tonys way works flawlessly.

 

I even tried coping the contents of my bootable clover EFI to the EFI partition of the USB drive but this even didn't work, same file system, same content, will boot from the SSD but not from the USB.

After a week of trying to boot into Clover i'm actually starting to lose my mind.

 

Any idea on what am I doing wrong ?

Edited July 28, 2018 by dada10000

[Allan]

Try this: [Guide] Sierra / High Sierra / Mojave on Intel 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Chipset Series / Nehalem, SandyBridge, IvyBridge, Haswell, Broadwell 

[dada10000]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply,

that's exactly what I am  trying to do but I can't do the step : --Install Clover in USB stick

 

It just won't boot into Clover no matter how I format the drive, what options I select in the installer or what BIOS settings I have.

I tried everything and it still doesn't boot, just says Loading operating system......

 

 

[Allan]

Strange...

 

Are you using the last BIOS version of P67-UD4-B3 board?

[dada10000]

Yes, version F8 and the strange part is the with tonys tool that same USB stick inserted in the same USB port boots without any problems.

 

I'm considering on just buying a new PC because I am so frustrated with it but I am worried I might have similar strange unfixable problems there...

 

EDIT 1 : OK it was version problem related, I'm able to boot with older versions of Clover, Tried r4428 and it works in the first try.

Any ideas why newer versions of Clover won't boot ?

 

EDIT 2 : A fresh install of a new version of Clover won't boot but installing r4428 and them Installing the latest version on top of it will boot...

Edited July 29, 2018 by dada10000

[Allan]

12 hours ago, dada10000 said:

Any ideas why newer versions of Clover won't boot ?

All depends in which way do you prepared (create) the USB installation.

 

Look this: Making a 10.10/10.11 USB Installer /w Clover (UEFI and Legacy) the correct way! 

[C.Frio]

14 hours ago, dada10000 said:

Yes, version F8 and the strange part is the with tonys tool that same USB stick inserted in the same USB port boots without any problems.

 

I'm considering on just buying a new PC because I am so frustrated with it but I am worried I might have similar strange unfixable problems there...

 

EDIT 1 : OK it was version problem related, I'm able to boot with older versions of Clover, Tried r4428 and it works in the first try.

Any ideas why newer versions of Clover won't boot ?

 

EDIT 2 : A fresh install of a new version of Clover won't boot but installing r4428 and them Installing the latest version on top of it will boot...

hi..

I have the same issue with two versions of clover..maybe it is due to a kind of usb pen drive.

the 4422 works on a pen but in another pen the version 4624 does not works well 4617, and 4595..

...but the 4595 version in another pen drive model/brand it works...

c.frio

[fusion71au]

On 7/29/2018 at 6:33 AM, dada10000 said:

I tried all settings in the Clover installer and nothing boots while using Legacy mode in tonys way works flawlessly.

 

On 7/29/2018 at 2:22 PM, dada10000 said:

EDIT 2 : A fresh install of a new version of Clover won't boot but installing r4428 and them Installing the latest version on top of it will boot...

 

The Clover wiki explains the boot process here.  From your first post, I assume you tried UEFI booting from a GUID formatted USB but it didn't work?  Which drivers did you install with Clover?  If your BIOS is set to UEFI booting only, did you remember to install an aptiofix (AptioMemoryFix or OsxAptioFixDrv) driver in /drivers64UEFI?

 

Regarding legacy booting, the fact that your USB boots when using r4428, but newer versions hang on "Loading Operating System", suggests a problem with missing boot sectors.

 

Apparently Clover r4541+ and newer switched to using dd to write legacy boot sectors (due to fdisk440 being 32bit and deprecated by @Slice).  Unfortunately, this introduced a bug in the code that prevented boot0af to write to the target disk's MBR - see this post.

 

Edit Can manually install boot0af to target disk MBR with dd from terminal ...

1.  Download i386 folder (attached to this post) with boot0af inside to your ~/Downloads folder

2.  Determine disk number of target disk with diskutil list command - in my case, USB = disk1

3.  Unmount target disk

sudo diskutil unmountDisk rdisk1

4.  Write boot0af to MBR with dd

sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk1 bs=512 count=1 of=~/Downloads/i386/origMBR
cp ~/Downloads/i386/origMBR ~/Downloads/i386/newMBR
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/i386/boot0af of=~/Downloads/i386/newMBR bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/i386/newMBR of=/dev/rdisk1 count=1 bs=512
sudo diskutil mountDisk rdisk1

i386.zip

Edited August 7, 2018 by fusion71au
Procedure to manually install boot0af to MBR