Guide To Install Mavericks with Clover Bootloader

[TimeToWin]

Its possible to boot into Recovery HD ? slowly, slowly i reach the perfect hack book

Edit : i am stuck with the apple logo when i try to boot into.

 

[RehabMan]

Its possible to boot into Recovery HD ? slowly, slowly i reach the perfect hack book

Edit : i am stuck with the apple logo when i try to boot into.

If you follow the guide in post #1, the Recovery partition works (even though it is fairly useless).

 

[TimeToWin]

If you follow the guide in post #1, the Recovery partition works (even though it is fairly useless).

i thought that we can uses time machines with, i will leave it like this if it so..

 

[RehabMan]

i thought that we can uses time machines with, i will leave it like this if it so..

Yes, that is one use, provided you're not planning to repartition the drive in any way. And generally, the reason you're using TM, is because of HDD failure, where a recovery partition on the failed HDD will do you no good. Always keep a bootable installer USB for these cases.

 

[TimeToWin]

Yes, that is one use, provided you're not planning to repartition the drive in any way. And generally, the reason you're using TM, is because of HDD failure, where a recovery partition on the failed HDD will do you no good. Always keep a bootable installer USB for these cases.

Thanks for the advices, i read that carbon copy is a good one to avoid a new installation.

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks for the advices, i read that carbon copy is a good one to avoid a new installation.

TM works fine too, and you can launch TM restore from the OS X installer on USB...

 

[TimeToWin]

Can you tell me how i can please unmount the EFI partition ?

Even when i do it manually in finder or by using terminal commande "diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s1/" the EFI partition disappears but back at every reboot..

Also, anyone have the distorted spinning wheel at the apple boot screen ?

 

[RehabMan]

Can you tell me how i can please unmount the EFI partition ?

Even when i do it manually in finder or by using terminal commande "diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s1/" the EFI partition disappears but back at every reboot..

Also, anyone have the distorted spinning wheel at the apple boot screen ?

Maybe you installed the scripts that mount EFI when you ran the Clover installer. I'm not sure where those scripts live (I've never installed that option, so have never had to go looking for them).

To get rid of the distored spinning wheel, enable CSM in BIOS, then use a "stretched" theme. This is discussed at length in this thread.

 

[nguyenmac]

Can you tell me how i can please unmount the EFI partition ?

Even when i do it manually in finder or by using terminal commande "diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s1/" the EFI partition disappears but back at every reboot..

Also, anyone have the distorted spinning wheel at the apple boot screen ?

Go to System Pref > Clover > NVRAM Variables > set Force mount selected ESP at startup to No.

 

[67BGTEV]

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6. Install screen will appear, use Disk Utility to format your drive as GPT, create a Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) partition and Install Mavericks. The installer will extract necessary files to "Install OS X Mavericks" (not your target partition). This takes a lot of time at the end, though you only see "a minute remaining". This will end PHASE 1.

Nguyen, Thanks for the guide and it is really nice.. I completed initial install successfully and I do have suggestion. I did try to install couple of times (because of they way I understood was not correct) to install by selecting the target as USB "Install OS X Mavericks".

Could you pleas add below text marked in Red to make it more clearer for a novice like me coming from Unibeast?
6. Install screen will appear, use Disk Utility to format your drive as GPT, create a Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) partition and Install Mavericks by selecting <your Partition>. The installer will extract necessary files to "Install OS X Mavericks" (not your target partition). This takes a lot of time at the end, though you only see "a minute remaining". This will end PHASE 1.