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Can't mount EFI is my problem.

I have to boot Yosemite with the inject kexts, on the Clover bootloader screen, by hitting space bar and then using the arrows to go down to boot with inject kexts. If I don't do that I get a black screen with a white apple logo and a progress bar that goes half way and stops.

Anyway, once booted in Yosemite, when I go to mount the EFI partition, I get a empty folder instead of a partition.

I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite, btw...

Hope there is a fix, cause Yosemite, once booted seems snappy and stable.

Tim
 
If you are handy with a terminal you can try something like this to manually mount an EFI partition.

1) Open a terminal.
2) Run "diskutil list" and assess which disk is your system drive (usually disk0).
e.g. here it is disk0s1 (sX is the partition, diskX is the disk)
Code:
[FONT=Menlo]/dev/disk0[/FONT][FONT=Menlo]   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.4 GB   disk0s2[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3[/FONT]
3) Run "mkdir /Volumes/efi" (this gives a place to mount your EFI partition).
4) Run "sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi" which mounts your EFI partition identified earlier at the directory you just created.
 
Can't mount EFI is my problem.

I have to boot Yosemite with the inject kexts, on the Clover bootloader screen, by hitting space bar and then using the arrows to go down to boot with inject kexts. If I don't do that I get a black screen with a white apple logo and a progress bar that goes half way and stops.

Anyway, once booted in Yosemite, when I go to mount the EFI partition, I get a empty folder instead of a partition.

I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite, btw...

Hope there is a fix, cause Yosemite, once booted seems snappy and stable.

Tim
downloads -> community software -> EFIMounter2 app

works for me. Be sure to run terminal diskutil list and get the correct HDD/SSD to mount the EFI partition if you have more than one drive installed.
 
After I updated I can't get to the EFI partition either. I tried to mount it multiple ways and I get nothing. I have even tried the EFI mounter v2 App. It worked before on 10.9 but after 10.10 upgrade.. nothing.

$ sudo mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI
mount_hfs: Invalid argument

$ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (49294)

Any ideas or is there a way to undo the EFI partition all together and just put the Chimera bootloader back on the main partition?
 
use clover configurator!
 
After I write the sudo command it asks me for my password. But the problem is that it won't let me write anything in the terminal after i hit enter to run the command. So the only choice is to quit. Does anyone what to do?
 
After I write the sudo command it asks me for my password. But the problem is that it won't let me write anything in the terminal after i hit enter to run the command. So the only choice is to quit. Does anyone what to do?

Your password will not show up when you are entering it. Just type and you won't see anything but press enter and if your password is correct you get to keep going.
 
Hi all - I can only boot into safe mode right now - and I can't get to my efi partition while in safe mode - I tried both versions of EFI Mounter - but still have an issue:

"AppleEvent handler failed"

Any suggestions?
 
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