@momavujisic
I had my UD5H/i7-3770K system working 100% under the last Clover build, outstanding in every way. But like an idiot I just HAD to update Clover to the latest build, and then it wouldn't boot. I'd get the boot screen but then an immediate kernel panic. Same BIOS settings, same DSDT, same EFI config.plist. I made my own Clover r3215 with CloverGrowerPro, and when that didn't work I tried the SourceForge build but that didn't work either. I got the same kernel panic during boot with both versions. Reflashed BIOS to virgin state, started from scratch with fresh OS X install, nothing. Now I'm back on MultiBeast and all is well thanks to the tweaked F16 BIOS.
I feel like in the last several months of getting up to speed with Clover (thanks to xenophon61) I got pretty good at knowing how to properly install and configure it, and have successfully moved a number of our Sandy and Ivy Hacks over from Chimera to Clover. But this new Clover build seems to have issues, at least with my UD5H. I don't think it's properly formatting an EFI partition for the UEFI BIOS to see, because before I used to see a "Mac OS X" bootable drive option in BIOS after installing Clover, but with the latest build all I see is my SSD. Even installing Clover exactly as before, I don't think it's properly installing a boot loader, because trying to boot was just like booting a Hackintosh with an OS X installation but no boot loader added. Instant KP.
Like I said, I'm indebted to xenophon61 for helping me get Clover working on my UD5H, and the months it worked it was great. Everything worked right, even the stuff that's problematic with MultiBeast like Messages and FaceTime logins. But this episode has taught me to be a bit more wait-and-see with Clover. UEFI boot loaders seem to be the way forward, but Clover's support framework is ****-poor to be frank. You can't just install Clover and boot into Yosemite, you have to consider a whole array of EFI config.plist options which are cryptic and non-intuitive and make no sense if you're used to Chameleon/Chimera/MultiBeast. The "best" road map for properly configuring config.list is the unofficial Wiki guide at
http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration but it's outdated and incomplete.
I mean, seriously - the main site for Clover, ProjectOSX, WENT DOWN BECAUSE THE CLOVER GANG MESSED UP THE SITE FILES, and it doesn't look like it's ever coming back online. Look, I've killed Wordpress sites because I messed with a single file. it happens. But these geniuses, these master hackers, can't be bothered to get the only site with all the official Clover info and files back online? That tells me this isn't something I want to lean too hard on for my work computers.
If you're a hobbyist and this is just fun and games for you, great, dick around with Clover till the cows come home. If you're a professional who depends on Mac uptime, Clover is way too iffy unless you luckily hit upon the magic combination of Clover version, config.plist settings, DSDT edits, UEFI drivers, fakesmc location depending on whether your specific version of Clover prefers it to be in EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.10/ or S/L/E, etc. etc. And if you hit the jackpot and your system boots into OS X without any issues, NEVER UPDATE CLOVER. Stop reading the forums, don't check out SourceForge, and above all don't install that Control Panel widget that tells you there's a new Clover version available for download. We're all human, and of course we're going to click download, and then your day's shot because some Russian kid forgot to include a hyphen in line 672.
I hope the Clover gang gets it together. Right now it's a @%#$ crapshoot. Wake me when it's suitable for grownups who don't relish a whole day spent screaming obscenities at a boot screen.
