Can’t boot without USB

[azazaazur]

Hello, as I have stated above I can not boot into my hackintosh without the USB even after following Dortania’s guide on how to do so. I have not used any configurators, I only followed Dortania’s guide on how to do anything. I formatted my MacOS drive with GUID and APFS beforehand using the disk utility in recovery boot option so that MacOS automatically creates an EFI partition. And while I CAN see the boot option on EasyUEFI (which points to /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi). Whenever I look at my UEFI BIOS I can only see my Windows disk (which is on a different disk).

Also yes I am aware that I need to put the EFI folder on the root of the partition not the contents inside.

Solutions I tried:
1. Creating a seperate exFAT partition named EFI using disk utility. Didn’t work
2. Updating BIOS firmware. Didn’t work and caused me a lot of headaches
3. Adding a manual entry in EasyUEFI and/or editing the existing one to point to /EFI/OC/OpenCore.efi. Didn’t work and weirdly it reset itself every time I rebooted.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[EliteMacx86]

Hello, as I have stated above I can not boot into my hackintosh without the USB even after following Dortania’s guide on how to do so. I have not used any configurators, I only followed Dortania’s guide on how to do anything. I formatted my MacOS drive with GUID and APFS beforehand using the disk utility in recovery boot option so that MacOS automatically creates an EFI partition. And while I CAN see the boot option on EasyUEFI (which points to /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi). Whenever I look at my UEFI BIOS I can only see my Windows disk (which is on a different disk).

Also yes I am aware that I need to put the EFI folder on the root of the partition not the contents inside.

Solutions I tried:
1. Creating a seperate exFAT partition named EFI using disk utility. Didn’t work
2. Updating BIOS firmware. Didn’t work and caused me a lot of headaches
3. Adding a manual entry in EasyUEFI and/or editing the existing one to point to /EFI/OC/OpenCore.efi. Didn’t work and weirdly it reset itself every time I rebooted.

Any help would be appreciated!

To boot without the USB, you must install the EFI into the ESP.

 

[azazaazur]

To boot without the USB, you must install the EFI into the ESP.

I have! My EFI folder is inside the EFI system partition of the drive.

 

[azazaazur]

FIXED

Turns out it WAS picked up by the BIOS but since MSI’s interface is absolute dogshit you can not see UEFI OS on Boot Priority. Instead you should go to Settings>Boot>UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities>Change the load order so the OpenCore one is the first. This essentialy changes the Windows Boot Manager in favor of OpenCore. You can not have both on Boot Picker.