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Fusion Drive - Clover boot loader

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MajorMeatintaco

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I've been searching for a guide on creating a fusion drive (SSD with HD) and installing clover, since iMessage is so picky. If anyone has comes across or can post a detail way to do this I would be very interested.
 

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neilhart said:
Hey why not make up a USB Clover Test Drive device and try it out? The guide is here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/127134-test-drive-how-create-clover-usb.html

Good modding,
neil
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I've gotten everything working @ 100% on a USB i just don't know how to make a bootable fusion drive without the USB stick. I've tried transferring everything to the "EFI partition" but it didn't work. It gave me some boot file error.

I was hoping that someone might know a detailed guide on how to make the drive bootable without a USB stick.

thank you for the suggestion neil.
 
MajorMeatintaco said:
I've gotten everything working @ 100% on a USB i just don't know how to make a bootable fusion drive without the USB stick. I've tried transferring everything to the "EFI partition" but it didn't work. It gave me some boot file error.
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Installing Clover to the SSD EFI should work. Make sure it goes there and not the combined SSD+HDD volume.
 
Going Bald said:
Installing Clover to the SSD EFI should work. Make sure it goes there and not the combined SSD+HDD volume.
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So I started out by installing a fresh copy OS X using unibeast, then I proceed to downloading the latest clover , mount the EFI partition and run the clover installer to the EFI partition? I might have forgot to mention that I'm running a legacy build LGA 775.

Thank you everyone for all the positive input.
 
MajorMeatintaco said:
So I started out by installing a fresh copy OS X using unibeast, then I proceed to downloading the latest clover , mount the EFI partition and run the clover installer to the EFI partition? I might have forgot to mention that I'm running a legacy build LGA 775.

Thank you everyone for all the positive input.
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Okay you might want to completely identify the configuration of the system that you are working with. I had assumed that we were working with the one in your profile... but not the case.

It sounds as though you have a fresh install on your fusion drive (set). If this is the case and you can boot into it (again assuming you can with the test drive USB stick), please run a terminal session "diskutil list" and paste a copy into your reply which will contain the system description.

Good modding,
neil
 
All I have listed there is /dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1. /dev/disk0 is my SSD and /dev/disk1 is my HDD. The fusion drive has been created and system boots fine using USB stick but I'd like to ditch the USB STICK.
 
MajorMeatintaco said:
All I have listed there is /dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1. /dev/disk0 is my SSD and /dev/disk1 is my HDD. The fusion drive has been created and system boots fine using USB stick but I'd like to ditch the USB STICK.
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Okay. I can not help you when you do not follow instructions.

Good modding,
neil
 
You need to run distutil list

My hack:

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[FONT=Menlo]/dev/disk0[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk0[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         239.7 GB   disk0s2[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]/dev/disk1[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         3.0 TB     disk1s2[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk1s3[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]/dev/disk2[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   0:                  Apple_HFS Yosemite               *3.2 TB     disk2[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]                                 BCE23B0F-E298-42C6-B77B-B30024C4E6AA[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive[/FONT]

This is the output of my Fusion Drive. I have selected the SSD (disk0) as the primary boot device in BIOS.

You need to put the files to /dev/disk0s1

1.
mkdir /Volumes/EFI

2.
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI

3.
cd /Volumes/USBStick (Path of your USB Stick)

4.

sudo cp -rf * /Volumes/EFI

5.

Should look like this:

/Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER



Good Luck
 
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Thank you mad!

This was exactly what I needed, just a listed detailed instruction.

Cheers man!

I just wanted to add this in case anyone might get confused. After cd /Volumes/USB you'll need to copy and past the files on the USB to the EFI that is mounted in the previous step. Copying over the files, should look like this

sudo cp -r /Volumes/USB/ /Volumes/EFI/

Thanks again MAD
 
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