2 Yosemites installed Clover's EFI is only in one the old one

I have a strange problem, I read a few threads about people trying to find Clover, but my case is weird, I used to have a perfectly working system until my motherboard died .. so I had to create a new one the one I'm using to write this, that's working although some really weird thing happened, the old disk has an EFI folder where CLOVER is, but my new one doesn't!!! It's the same installation, just a new system, so it supposed to create one ... I guess ... still clueless where the missing directory can be as it's absent even in the terminal!
One thing I did was to download EFI Mounter v3 and mount both of the EFI partitions it found, but there's no CLOVER directory either ... in neither of them ...

ic3cold said:

One thing I did was to download EFI Mounter v3 and mount both of the EFI partitions it found, but there's no CLOVER directory either ... in neither of them ...

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I can see both EFI partitions in your screenshot, but did you open them?

BreBo said:

I can see both EFI partitions in your screenshot, but did you open them?

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Yes I did and clover is missing in both ... BTW it's present inside my old Yosemite, and missing completely from the new one ...
I'm trying to fix audio ... and it's pretty simple in Clover as my Sapphire ATI HD 6870 is fully supported ... so HDMI is not a problem, so I need to find Clover ...

ic3cold said:

Yes I did and clover is missing in both ... BTW it's present inside my old Yosemite, and missing completely from the new one ...
I'm trying to fix audio ... and it's pretty simple in Clover as my Sapphire ATI HD 6870 is fully supported ... so HDMI is not a problem, so I need to find Clover ...

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You only need one installation of Clover. The location is up to you. If it's a legacy install the missing Clover could be on an HFS+ partition. See the Clover wiki for details:

MBR sector

Master Boot Record (MBR) is the boot sector in the very beginning of a storage device (HDD, SSD, CD/DVD or any kind of USB storage device like USB stick, USB-HDD, etc.). The first 440 bytes contain data from one of the following:

• boot0 - searches for an active partition in the MBR and passes control to its PBR sector. Hybrid GPT/MBR layout is possible. However if the filesystem is pure GPT, boot0 passes control to the EFI partition, further referred to as boot0af (active first).
• boot0hfs - searches for the first HFS+ partition - that would be a partition with signature (type) 0xAF. If it contains an OS X installation, control is passed to its PBR. This way the system can be booted from a HFS+ partition on a GPT partitioned drive, however the limitation is that OS X partition may only be the first partition on the disc. Further referred to as boot0ss (scan signature).
• boot0ab - searches for a partition with signature 0xAB - Apple Boot Partition.
• boot0md - combined variant which searches multiple drives for a HFS+ partition, not just the main one.

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vulgo said:

You only need one installation of Clover. The location is up to you. If it's a legacy install the missing Clover could be on an HFS+ partition. See the Clover wiki for details:

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Well the problem is when I did the installation, I mean created the disk from a blank one that used to be an old Win 7, I started fresh, and used the USB Yosemite installer I have, the same one I used before for my old system, and installed a fresh Yosemite there, so my question is, even if I just added the other old Yosemite, why can't I find a new clover directory? As the the old disk wasn't even plugged when I did this ...

And if for some reason it is, the config.plist should have the new info, and the old Clover directory only has the old setup in the log file????

ic3cold said:

Well the problem is when I did the installation, I mean created the disk from a blank one that used to be an old Win 7, I started fresh, and used the USB Yosemite installer I have, the same one I used before for my old system, and installed a fresh Yosemite there, so my question is, even if I just added the other old Yosemite, why can't I find a new clover directory? As the the old disk wasn't even plugged when I did this ...

And if for some reason it is, the config.plist should have the new info, and the old Clover directory only has the old setup in the log file????

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If you enter the following in terminal you will see which disk Clover is loading from

bdmesg | grep -B 2 SelfVolume

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vulgo said:

If you enter the following in terminal you will see which disk Clover is loading from

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Unfortunately bdmesg isn't found ... I tried several commands but they don't work for instance make bdmesg returns this >>
ic3s-iMac:~ ic3$ bdmesg

-bash: bdmesg: command not found

ic3s-iMac:~ ic3$ make bdmesg

xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools. // After that I downloaded xcode tools ... but still >>>>


ic3s-iMac:~ ic3$ make bdmesg

make: *** No rule to make target `bdmesg'. Stop.

ic3s-iMac:~ ic3$

ic3cold said:

Unfortunately bdmesg isn't found

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If you can make a copy of ioreg and upload it I'll tell you which disk Clover is loading from.

vulgo said:

If you can make a copy of ioreg and upload it I'll tell you which disk Clover is loading from.

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I did and I just uploaded ... finally the other day I tried and it got stuck.

ic3cold said:

I did and I just uploaded ... finally the other day I tried and it got stuck.

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Clover is loading from USB, the label on the main partition fs is 'OS X Install USB'