Yep, like a charm. I cloned my OSX drive, shut down, hooked up the clone and disconnected the original drive and it worked fine, didn't have to do a thing to make it bootable.
And yeah I use time machine as well, but I wanted an exact, bootable copy of my OSX drive in case installing an OS...
I'm looking for the best way to just completely clone my drive, EFI partition and all so that if something goes awry, I could just switch to the clone drive without skipping a beat. Anyone know the best (and hopefully free) way to do this?
Ok thank you, I will make sure I have the latest BIOS installed! But when you said "There is a fix for this. Hang in there a little longer until it is published." what were you referring to exactly? What is the fix a part of (Clover? Post install package?)? Thanks again! Really excited to...
I decided to start over completely. I re-made my installer, wiped my SSD and reinstalled. Got the clover installer, installed it. Same exact issue. If I set up my bios for UEFI only then my SSD no longer shows up at all. :\
Yep, I did. Tried a couple times, even tried following the instructions just prior to the EFI folder copying, with the install settings for clover. Also tried copying the boot folder in addition to copying the clover folder. :(
Thanks for the suggestions, but no luck. :\ I was able to mount both the HDD and USB EFI partitions and copy over the contents to the HDD partition, but upon rebooting without the USB drive plugged in, my motherboard doesn't think the HDD is bootable.
Hey thanks for the reply -- can't believe I forgot to put my setup in the OP.
No it's not the X58 Sabertooth (funny enough though I used to have one of those, and it was a PITA to install OSX on, I remember), it is an ASRock Z87E-ITX, which I believe supports UEFI booting...
I had this same problem. It has something to do with the USB installer seeing OS X stuff on your SSD. I had to wipe the SSD from another machine, then the installer booted fine.
Thanks.. But what do I do after that? Do you mean mount it before installing Clover? (I just tried doing that and still have the same results).
For what it's worth, when I run the clover install pkg file, I see the efi partition show up in my devices in Finder.
So I've got a working install of El Cap now, but I need to boot with the USB installer, otherwise my SSD isn't recognized as bootable. I ran the Clover_v2.3k_r3270_UEFI.pgk, as well as CustoMac Essentials.pkg. The clover package said it installed successfully, but if I reboot without the USB...
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