Yosemite Issues, Quirks....

Hello all,

Yosemite is up and running and has been now for about a week or so. I installed as a completely fresh install, wiped my partition and booted from unibeast flash drive. Everything is functionally working, but there's still two issues and one weird boot/shutdown quirk I can't figure out.

Issue #1-
USB 3.0 not working, period, whatever I try. Just followed this guide with no success at all with any of the ideas for help:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...-ga-z77x-ud5h-tips-yosemite-vs-usb-3-0-a.html

Issue #2-
iCloud/AppStore actually let me sign in and everything worked great the first time I booted up, the only thing that didn't work was iMessage. But a few boots later I went to check something in the appstore and I was signed out and CANT sign back in. I even deleted my iCloud account from my computer and tried to re-add the account but can't. It just tells me I can't sign in at this time.
I've followed this guide in the past which worked, but not this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ERhsM9pFGI



And lastly, I CANNOT boot without the -v flag, so I always have to boot verbose. If I let my computer try to restart go through Chimera without hitting -v I'll get stuck on a "waiting for root device" line. As long as I type -v it boots. But no matter what if I shut down from Yosemite, I get a kernel panic. So I have to hold my power button to power down and restart. Very frustrating.

Any help would be great.

Board is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 running in UEFI.

realmenfinishlast said:

And lastly, I CANNOT boot without the -v flag, so I always have to boot verbose. If I let my computer try to restart go through Chimera without hitting -v I'll get stuck on a "waiting for root device" line. As long as I type -v it boots. But no matter what if I shut down from Yosemite, I get a kernel panic. So I have to hold my power button to power down and restart. Very frustrating.

Any help would be great.

Board is a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 running in UEFI.

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I have the same board and BIOS. The "waiting for root device" error came up for me as well and I had to delete "AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext" from S/L/E and was able to get past it on subsequent boots. I did upgrade from Mavericks so you may not have that kext at all. Another kext known to cause errors like this is "GenericUSBXHCI.kext".

My USB3 though does work and I have GenericUSBXHCI.kext and I boot fine with either Clover or Chimera. I recommend you try rehab man's version of GenericUSBXHCI.kext here:

https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-generic-usb3/downloads

On a side note, I am on my 3rd replacement board from Gigabyte as the rear USB3 ports (the ones right on the board) keep dying on me and they're dead AGAIN right now. My front USB ports from the motherboard header do work.

I can't help you with the Appstore errors though, runs fine for me but little consolation to you.

Good luck!