Legacy Bios Clover will not Read HFS+ Drives

I'm attempting to migrate a hackintoshed Dell D620 from an ancient Chameleon setup to something a little more modern. The computer has GMA950 graphics, and a 32bit processor, so 10.6.8 is the end of the line. I installed both Clover r3196 and r3203; both had the same results.

I've tried using the 32bit non-uefi VBoxHFS.efi and HFSPlus.efi (obtained from Clover Configurator; tried using both at the same time, individually, and without either), and while the Clover log indicates the hfs drivers load, it never detects the drive. If I boot this Clover USB on my Acer (x64UEFI), it'll detect HFS+ partitions, leading me to believe this is a problem with the 32bit HFS drivers. The drive is formatted GPT by the OSX 10.6.0 installer. It only has one partition.

I installed Clover to a MBR/FAT32 formatted USB drive with these options:


System:
Dell D620
Intel Core Solo T1400 (1.86GHz)
ICH7 Chipset
Intel GMA950 1280x800

Attached is my EFI folder.

Anyone have any ideas?

shinzon said:

I'm attempting to migrate a hackintoshed Dell D620 from an ancient Chameleon setup to something a little more modern. The computer has GMA950 graphics, and a 32bit processor, so 10.6.8 is the end of the line. I installed both Clover r3196 and r3203; both had the same results.

I've tried using the 32bit non-uefi VBoxHFS.efi and HFSPlus.efi (obtained from Clover Configurator; tried using both at the same time, individually, and without either), and while the Clover log indicates the hfs drivers load, it never detects the drive. If I boot this Clover USB on my Acer (x64UEFI), it'll detect HFS+ partitions, leading me to believe this is a problem with the 32bit HFS drivers. The drive is formatted GPT by the OSX 10.6.0 installer. It only has one partition.

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I think with a legacy Clover install, HFS is built-in to CloverEFI. No need to add drivers...

RehabMan said:

I think with a legacy Clover install, HFS is built-in to CloverEFI. No need to add drivers...

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right; I remember reading that.

Ah ha! I got it! I just stepped back to an even older version of Clover, 3168, and it's detecting the drive. I must have discovered a bug with newer versions of Clover.