Clover just WILL NOT see OS X!

[DaveLloyd]

Hey guys,

First post here, I am always very weary of posting my problems, because usually someone has already asked the same question somewhere on the internet - but I have searched and searched and I cannot find a comprehensive answer to this one!

Yesterday I began what i foolishly predicted to be an easy upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite. After hours of tweaking and googling, I was able to get my system to an almost perfect state. Basically it would only boot if I had the '-f' flag on. Funnily enough, if i ONLY boot with -f, it boots really fast, but if i boot with -f and -v, it takes like 5 minutes to boot.

So, this got me thinking that it was perhaps time i made the move to clover, to see if that resolved the issue. This was also a good idea for me, because the only way i have been able to boot into my UEFI Windows 8, was by selecting that hard drive in the boot selection screen.

I have followed the very detailed clover guide on here, and have cross checked it with many other clover guides, but try as I might, I just CAN'T get it to show my OS X Yosemite volume as an option to boot from. Windows 8 shows up though, listed 4 times, and boots just fine.

Something even weirder - I checked the hidden section of clover configurator, and it had 'bootUEFI32' or something like that listed, so i removed it incase it was os x. Removing it added another two listings to the clover bootloader which just say 'UEFI boot from EFI partition'. Clicking either of these will show the apple legacy boot screen, but one of them hangs forever, and the other boots into windows 8 AFTER showing the apple screen!?

Useful Info: Yosemite is installed on a 500GB SSD, the partition name is 'OS X Yosemite'. I created a fat32 EFI partition on this drive, and clover is installed to this partition in UEFI mode.

Things I have tried...

• Installed HFSPlus driver to Clover
• Created a custom listing in Clover Configurator, pointing to the UUID of my Yosemite drive
• Reinstalled clover about 5429394039 times
• Formatted the EFI partition and started again from scratch

I would welcome any help or advice you have to share, hopefully this helps someone else in this position!

Currently I am booting my system with a chimera thumbdrive, with '-f' as my only boot flag.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[DaveLloyd]

Anyone got any ideas? I am at a total loss here

 

[P1LGRIM]

Anyone got any ideas? I am at a total loss here

You could read the Rules while you are waiting,
particularly the one that says "Bumping a thread is allowed after waiting at least 24 hours with no more than one bump per day".


Good Luck

 

[DaveLloyd]

I'm really sorry, I know the rules well. I have a deadline i have to meet, and bumped it out of desperation - was wrong of me and i will follow the rules from now on.

 

[Walril]

What version of clover? There is an issue with r2988. Go back to r2976 and see if youre getting the same issues.

 

[DaveLloyd]

I'm on 2988, I wasn't aware of that, I will download the old version now and give it a go - thanks!

 

[DaveLloyd]

Thanks for your suggestion. Sadly it didn't work, I downgraded to v2976, and still clover doesn't list my yosemite installation in the boot options.

Any other ideas?

 

[Asus-Freak]

Post a screen shot of "Disk Utility"

Terminal: diskutil list

 

[DaveLloyd]

Here's the output of diskutil list.

/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS OS X Yosemite 499.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC 314.6 MB disk1s1
2: EFI NO NAME 104.9 MB disk1s2
3: Microsoft Reserved 134.2 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 8 999.3 GB disk1s4
5: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC 367.0 MB disk1s5
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac Storage 2TB 2.0 TB disk2s2

Here's a screenshot of disk utility attached.

Thanks a lot for your help!

 

[Asus-Freak]

Run this in terminal: diskutil list and screen shot please