Clover with the old guard: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0

[hackman2012]

maybe this has been addressed above but I have missed it...

How do you use the /EFI partition as a boot partition?; my install goes into the EXTRA folder; even if I manually move the clover contents to /EFI partition, it does not boot from there.

to clarify I am not on same board but using legacy bios on Z68

thanks

 

[spos86]

maybe this has been addressed above but I have missed it...

How do you use the /EFI partition as a boot partition?; my install goes into the EXTRA folder; even if I manually move the clover contents to /EFI partition, it does not boot from there.

to clarify I am not on same board but using legacy bios on Z68

thanks

The option should come up in the installer when you first install Clover. This would not only install it on the EFI partition but it will also set the bootflag on that partition.

There are several images out there with the options you have to click for either Legacy EFI or UEFI.

This guides worked just fine for me:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-desktop-guides/144426-how-install-os-x-yosemite-using-clover.html

 

[spos86]

Has anyone made progress with optimizing clover for performance on our systems and getting the tripple channel memory set-up figured out?

Has anyone played with different DSDT.aml files or patches, FakeSMC, AppleACPIPlatform, NullCPUPowerMangement, besides the config????

I still haven't managed to get triple channel memory recognized or get Cinebanch scored as high as when booting from Unibeast USB.

 

[neatokino]

I am posting just to say that I've had apparent success switching to Clover using the methods suggested by damx and Neil. I had Yosemite running pretty well using Chimera, but had difficulty with bluetooth (using the Apple card and adapter sold by OSX Wifi), occasional problems with sleep, and, of course, no iMessage.

I followed damx's suggestions in post #50 of this thread and was able to switch from Chimera to Clover without incident. My motherboard is a GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 1 with F6 Bios. I downloaded the DSDT for my board and bios from the library here. I did NOT get onboard sound to work after the switch (it did before), but I've got an old Griffin iMic, and it gives perfectly good sound via USB, so I'm not going to bother messing with it. Haven't tested sleep extensively, but if I put the computer to sleep for 10 minutes and wake it up, everything comes back fine. Bluetooth now works as it should.

I have not noticed any performance changes since moving to Clover; geekbench scores are basically the same as they were before. Eventually I'll try to get iMessage to work, but my confidence level is low on that, so I'll wait until I have many free hours again. If anyone has managed to get iMessage working on this setup, please feel free to offer me any hints.

Thank you all for providing the help and the confidence that this ancient setup could work well. Happily, I won't be spending hundreds of $$$$ on component upgrades for a little while longer, at least.

 

[Henties]

Hi damx !

I read this thread as well as the clover guide rather thoroughly and after studying your post #50 I believe that you will be able to help me take the plunge migrating from a working Yosemite 10.10.1 multibeast with dsdt installation to an installation with clover as the boot manager.

My specs and then my questions.

Specs:
Mobo GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0 bios FH
12 gig memory something something Redline 6 pieces @ 2 gig each
onboard usb3 disabled am using 2 X Fresco pcie usb 3 add on cards which work fine as they are supported natively by OS X
providing a total of 4 usb 3 ports
Video GTX 285
Spare drive with working Yosemite 10.10.1 installation available for testing - Cloned from my hdd main drive - tested and working
The multibeast boot files are on the EFI partition - formatted to OS X extended (Journelled)
I already do have a 650 mbyte recovery partition.

I believe that I should be able to just migrate to Clover.

Question.

Where and at what bullet position of the Clover Guide do I have to start in order to migrate ? There is no migrating section in that guide although it appears that at Step 4: Post installation is a good place to start migrating.

How can I get Clover to install to the EFI partion ? Whenever I attempt to install Clover it creates an EFI folder on the main drive
and not on the EFI partition - using Clover V2k r3021 - this although I checked "Install Clover in the ESP" and uncheched
"Install for UEFI booting only" as our boards don't support UEFI.

Hoping you can shed some light for me on this issue.

Thks Henties

 

[spos86]

Hi damx !

I read this thread as well as the clover guide rather thoroughly and after studying your post #50 I believe that you will be able to help me take the plunge migrating from a working Yosemite 10.10.1 multibeast with dsdt installation to an installation with clover as the boot manager.

My specs and then my questions.

Specs:
Mobo GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0 bios FH
12 gig memory something something Redline 6 pieces @ 2 gig each
onboard usb3 disabled am using 2 X Fresco pcie usb 3 add on cards which work fine as they are supported natively by OS X
providing a total of 4 usb 3 ports
Video GTX 285
Spare drive with working Yosemite 10.10.1 installation available for testing - Cloned from my hdd main drive - tested and working
The multibeast boot files are on the EFI partition - formatted to OS X extended (Journelled)
I already do have a 650 mbyte recovery partition.

I believe that I should be able to just migrate to Clover.

Question.

Where and at what bullet position of the Clover Guide do I have to start in order to migrate ? There is no migrating section in that guide although it appears that at Step 4: Post installation is a good place to start migrating.

How can I get Clover to install to the EFI partion ? Whenever I attempt to install Clover it creates an EFI folder on the main drive
and not on the EFI partition - using Clover V2k r3021 - this although I checked "Install Clover in the ESP" and uncheched
"Install for UEFI booting only" as our boards don't support UEFI.

Hoping you can shed some light for me on this issue.

Thks Henties

http://www.tonymacx86.com/attachmen...tall-os-x-yosemite-using-clover-clover-10.png

 

[Going Bald]

Hi damx !

I read this thread as well as the clover guide rather thoroughly and after studying your post #50 I believe that you will be able to help me take the plunge migrating from a working Yosemite 10.10.1 multibeast with dsdt installation to an installation with clover as the boot manager.

My specs and then my questions.

Specs:
Mobo GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0 bios FH
12 gig memory something something Redline 6 pieces @ 2 gig each
onboard usb3 disabled am using 2 X Fresco pcie usb 3 add on cards which work fine as they are supported natively by OS X
providing a total of 4 usb 3 ports
Video GTX 285
Spare drive with working Yosemite 10.10.1 installation available for testing - Cloned from my hdd main drive - tested and working
The multibeast boot files are on the EFI partition - formatted to OS X extended (Journelled)
I already do have a 650 mbyte recovery partition.

I believe that I should be able to just migrate to Clover.

Question.

Where and at what bullet position of the Clover Guide do I have to start in order to migrate ? There is no migrating section in that guide although it appears that at Step 4: Post installation is a good place to start migrating.

How can I get Clover to install to the EFI partion ? Whenever I attempt to install Clover it creates an EFI folder on the main drive
and not on the EFI partition - using Clover V2k r3021 - this although I checked "Install Clover in the ESP" and uncheched
"Install for UEFI booting only" as our boards don't support UEFI.

Hoping you can shed some light for me on this issue.

Thks Henties

Since you are using Chimera as your boot loader at the present time, you have installed Legacy Mode.
Since you are using the Legacy Mode settings in your Clover install Clover creates an EFI folder in the root of your install just like your /Extra folder.
What you do is download EFIMounter2 app from the forum downloads ->community software and put it in your app folder.
Install Clover
first thing to do is copy your DSDT from /Extra to EFI\ACPI\Patched.
Run Clover configurator to create an SMBIOS system definition in your config.plist.
Launch EFIMounter2 to mount your EFI partition. Move your EFI folder to the EFI partition. Move your Extra folder to desktop or somewhere other than the root directory so you have it as backup.
Use EFIMounter to unmount your EFI partition.
Run "Show all files" so you can see the boot file in your root - move it to your backup extra folder for right now
Reboot.

You can worry about using clover to patch audio and network to leave your OS X installation as "vanilla" as possible if this is important to you for the next update.

 

[damx]

Hi damx !
...
Question.
Where and at what bullet position of the Clover Guide do I have to start in order to migrate ? There is no migrating section in that guide although it appears that at Step 4: Post installation is a good place to start migrating.

How can I get Clover to install to the EFI partion ? Whenever I attempt to install Clover it creates an EFI folder on the main drive
and not on the EFI partition - using Clover V2k r3021 - this although I checked "Install Clover in the ESP" and uncheched
"Install for UEFI booting only" as our boards don't support UEFI.
Hoping you can shed some light for me on this issue.
Thks Henties

Hi,
First of all I also used the help of other great people in this thread, and only described the process in details. So all credits go to them ))

If you want to use your existing Yosemite installation I guess you may skip the part which tells you to install Clover on USB stick first. Start exactly at Step 4 - item 5:
- Install Clover on your HDD. Do not reboot yet.
- Rename or move your /Extra folder so it doesn't affect the boot process (it shouldn't anyway)
- Follow other steps in the guide (6 to 10) and prepare config.plist file
- After double-checking that you've done everything reboot the system and it should be bootable
- Use Multibeast to install sound and network if missing.

Regarding EFI partition/folder I don't think you should worry about it in the beginning. I have done it twice - first time with partition and second with folder, and honestly see no difference. If the folder bothers you then you can create the partition and move the contents to it later after you have your system up & running.

Good luck and keep us updated.

 

[damx]

... If anyone has managed to get iMessage working on this setup, please feel free to offer me any hints.
...

Congatulations!

iMessage took me few days to fix it. That's because I was so exited to go for Clover that I have forgotten to record my working ID's from Chimera installation. If you are not like me then just use them in Clover Configurator and it should work.
Otherwise, you have to create them again.
- Disconnect from Internet and do not attempt to test iMessage before you finish.
- Use Magic wand in Clover Configurator (SMBIOS section), make sure you select the model type close to CPU/Socket type that you have. I use MacPro4,1 but we also have good reports from other guys using MacPro5,1 and iMac11.
- Run iMessage_Debug tool and get MLB and ROM values. Paste them also into Clover Configurator (RT Variables section) as described in Post #2.
- Save config.plist and remove USB/external HDD if any, then reboot.

An error message telling you to call Apple means you've done everything correctly.

 

[Henties]

Thks everybody for your assistance in getting me on the right track. I have progressed
considerably thanks to all your inputs.
Clover is currently running on my EFI partition formatted to HFS and not FAT32 ESP as
the UEFI specification recommends. Both formatting types work equally well.
I use the Apple format for the EFI pertition because Apple is deliberately deviating with its own hardware from the UEFI spec. I think Apple considers it's HFS formatting scheme superior and more robust than FAT32 ESP. I somehow agree however on such a small sized partition I would assume the advantages of HFS over FAT32 ESP are negligible. But I want to build an "Apple" hence my choice to go for HFS in EFI.
Clover had no problems installing itself on my HFS EFI partition.

I did migrate from a working Yosemite 10.10.1 Uni/Multibeast Chameleon installation to
Clover, starting at point 4 of tonymac86's guide. Everything was working one shot.
Sound, networking sleep you name it, except Face Time and iMessage, which I have never attempted to get working before my excursion into Clover.
That I will however tackle next, using the MacPro5.1 system definition, which appears
pretty close to what we are using in terms of our mobos.

I still have quite a bit of reading to do before I make my hands too dirty in trying to get
iMessage and Face Time working, although I don't think it will take me ages to accomplish, as Clover is stable and functional.

At the moment I would like to cleanup Clover's boot screen, preferably booting straight
into Yosemite bypassing that screen altogether. I use multiple operating systems with only data disks installed inside the machine. ALL opsyses I use are dedicated external HDDs which slide into a kind of slipway, on top of my case, on an as and when required basis.

This eliminates all the complexities of multibooting into different opsyses. My main data storage is provided by a NFS configured Linux NAS server. With Yosemite, Windows 8.1 Enterprise, Win 7 Ultimate and Linux desktop all supporting NFS well.
In Windows I was able to disable all the funny Microsoft protocols that just consume
Network bandwidth. The only protocol that is active is TCP/IP nothing more. Netbios over TCP/IP and all others are gone and as expected the CPU loading and thus temps on my Windows opsyses have gone down considerably.

If anybody can provide advice as to how to bypass the Clover bootscreen it will be most appreciated. I guess doing some more reading on my part will also help me in accomplishing that.