- Joined
- Nov 1, 2011
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3
- CPU
- i5-2500K
- Graphics
- GTX 760
Hey,
Sorry for the lack of expertise here, but I was hoping someone could guide me out of update hell...
So I started with my system of a GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 running Yosemite and had not switched over to Clover yet and was running a fairly old BIOS of F11. Everything was running well except the typical iMessage not working.
Trying to update to El Capitan, it looked like I had to update my boot loader to Clover, and I was led to believe that this would be easier if I updated my bios to UEFI. Well after a day of trials and failures getting the UEFI to install I finally got it. So then trying to boot my drive with Yosemite (not having updated to Clover yet), it almost immediately gives me a kernel panic. So I had already created a USB drive with Clover and El Capitan installer (as described in the El Capitan Install guide) so I tried booting off that and I successfully get into Clover, but then I have four choices:
1. "External" - Boot Mac OS X from USB
This option gets about 1/3 through the startup and freezes
2. "HFS" - Boot Mac OS X from ProServer SSD
This would be my Yosemite boot drive - it gets about 1/3 through the startup then gives me a circle with a line through it.
3. "HFS" - Boot Mac OS X Install from ProServer SSD
I guess this would be the El Capitan Install on my Yosemite drive, this option gets about 2/3 through then gives me a circle with a line though it.
4. "Recovery" - Boot Recovery from Recovery HD
?? I didn't think I had a recovery HD. - gets about 1/2 through startup and gives me a circle with a line though it.
To get past the circle with the line through it I tried plugging my USB stick into one of the on-board USB because those should be USB 2.0 and I saw that there were problems with USB 3.0 dropping out sometimes and causing the circle with a line though it because the drive basically disappears.
If anyone has any guidance on where to go from here I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!!!
Sorry for the lack of expertise here, but I was hoping someone could guide me out of update hell...
So I started with my system of a GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 running Yosemite and had not switched over to Clover yet and was running a fairly old BIOS of F11. Everything was running well except the typical iMessage not working.
Trying to update to El Capitan, it looked like I had to update my boot loader to Clover, and I was led to believe that this would be easier if I updated my bios to UEFI. Well after a day of trials and failures getting the UEFI to install I finally got it. So then trying to boot my drive with Yosemite (not having updated to Clover yet), it almost immediately gives me a kernel panic. So I had already created a USB drive with Clover and El Capitan installer (as described in the El Capitan Install guide) so I tried booting off that and I successfully get into Clover, but then I have four choices:
1. "External" - Boot Mac OS X from USB
This option gets about 1/3 through the startup and freezes
2. "HFS" - Boot Mac OS X from ProServer SSD
This would be my Yosemite boot drive - it gets about 1/3 through the startup then gives me a circle with a line through it.
3. "HFS" - Boot Mac OS X Install from ProServer SSD
I guess this would be the El Capitan Install on my Yosemite drive, this option gets about 2/3 through then gives me a circle with a line though it.
4. "Recovery" - Boot Recovery from Recovery HD
?? I didn't think I had a recovery HD. - gets about 1/2 through startup and gives me a circle with a line though it.
To get past the circle with the line through it I tried plugging my USB stick into one of the on-board USB because those should be USB 2.0 and I saw that there were problems with USB 3.0 dropping out sometimes and causing the circle with a line though it because the drive basically disappears.
If anyone has any guidance on where to go from here I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks!!!