Booting a RAID0 setup

[SteveEvans]

Firstly, as this is my first post in this forum, and I'm typing it on my new Hackintosh, I have to say a big thank you to everybody who've clearly put a huge amount of effort into making this a possibility.

I've managed to find solutions to all the other problems I've encountered in installing OS X on a Dell T3500, but I'm still having issues in that I need to boot clover from a USB memory stick rather than being able to do so from disk.

I installed two HyperX Savage 480G drives in a RAID0 (striped) configuration. During the install I used the terminal to enter the following:

diskutil AppleRAID create stripe SteveMacPro JHFS+ disk0 disk1

This gave me the desired disk configuration.

The end result now looks as follows:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk0
  1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
  2:                 Apple_RAID                         479.8 GB   disk0s2
  3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk1
  1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
  2:                 Apple_RAID                         479.8 GB   disk1s2
  3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:                  Apple_HFS SteveMacPro            +959.5 GB   disk2
/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *62.0 GB    disk5
  1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS 64G USB3                61.7 GB    disk5s2

Where disk5 is my USB memory stick. There are a couple of rotating rust drives in the system too for backups etc, so I've removed them from the above display for clarity, hence there being no disk3 or disk4 shown.

When I ran MultiBeast it would only offer to install Clover on SteveMacPro, the RAID0 array, or 64G USB3, the USB memory stick, rather than on one of the disk0 or disk1 EFI partitions as I have expected, given that's all that the BIOS would be able to understand.

How should I go about installing Clover such that it will boot without needing the USB memory stick?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[SteveEvans]

Firstly, as this is my first post in this forum, and I'm typing it on my new Hackintosh, I have to say a big thank you to everybody who've clearly put a huge amount of effort into making this a possibility.

I've managed to find solutions to all the other problems I've encountered in installing OS X on a Dell T3500, but I'm still having issues in that I need to boot clover from a USB memory stick rather than being able to do so from disk.

I installed two HyperX Savage 480G drives in a RAID0 (striped) configuration. During the install I used the terminal to enter the following:

diskutil AppleRAID create stripe SteveMacPro JHFS+ disk0 disk1

This gave me the desired disk configuration.

The end result now looks as follows:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk0
  1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
  2:                 Apple_RAID                         479.8 GB   disk0s2
  3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.1 GB   disk1
  1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
  2:                 Apple_RAID                         479.8 GB   disk1s2
  3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:                  Apple_HFS SteveMacPro            +959.5 GB   disk2
/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *62.0 GB    disk5
  1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS 64G USB3                61.7 GB    disk5s2

Where disk5 is my USB memory stick. There are a couple of rotating rust drives in the system too for backups etc, so I've removed them from the above display for clarity, hence there being no disk3 or disk4 shown.

When I ran MultiBeast it would only offer to install Clover on SteveMacPro, the RAID0 array, or 64G USB3, the USB memory stick, rather than on one of the disk0 or disk1 EFI partitions as I have expected, given that's all that the BIOS would be able to understand.

How should I go about installing Clover such that it will boot without needing the USB memory stick?

Thanks,

Steve

I side-stepped the issue in the end and installed Clover on one of the other disks in the system.

I'd still be interested if there's a solution to booting from the EFI partition of a member of a RAID array.

Steve