ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 (edited) Still don't care about that boot screen, it's not affecting operation at all so it doesn't bother me. What IS pissing me off is Clover not wanting to boot Yosemite when installed on SSD while it works perfectly installed on USB. Edited June 11, 2014 by iPoco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 {censored}. AMFI is now part of OS X No big deal, Pike: computers can always be "rooted", meaning software jailbreaking will never be the only option for us to hack OS X. I think it will affect real Mac (which has the firmware controlled by Apple) users more than Hackintosh users. But thank you for the warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirone Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Lol? Why he has light boot screen? I have no idea, I'm trying to figure this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 @theconnactic: Thank you bro. You've always been one of the most helpful people around, especially on the AMD thread. I'm gonna go check out the new Chameleon, but at this point it's so frustrating giving up when it really seems so close to working the way it is. So if I wanted to uninstall Clover and reinstall Chameleon, I just need to wipe the EFI partition, correct? And then install Chameleon as usual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabio1971 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 @ADHDMedia Could you post the efi folder Fabio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Yes, give me two minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I think so, and - as always - keep your Clover USB. You'll never know. there's a handful of related topics since Chameleon for Yosemite surfaced. I suggest you search and follow chris1111 tutorial, since he's actively supporting it. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 EFI folder from SSD: http://puu.sh/9pdyY/b841f3024d.zip EFI folder from USB: http://puu.sh/9pdCq/f94f2e95b7.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Describe, in as much detail as possible, how you installed Clover to your SSD. Don't omit anything. If there is something wrong with your installation procedure, someone will be able to tell you. What usually happens when people switch to Clover is that some part of Chameleon wasn't overwritten. This prevents Clover from working properly. We have a ton of posts about that particular issue. Adding to what theconnactic said; you have to keep in mind that many users here experiment aimlessly until they get a satisfying result. This means that things start working by accident, with nobody actually knowing why it works now, or why it didn't work before. Asking a question about your hardware and getting no answer is perfectly normal, it happens all the time. Speaking for myself, I know why my hardware works and what I need to do to get it working, I don't know anything about yours. The only benefit to having Clover installed on your system drive is that it's installed to your system drive! If you can boot from USB for now just do that, and keep experimenting with Clover on the SSD until you get it working. I don't really keep up with this but by the looks of it most people are using Clover to boot Yosemite. If there really is an issue with Clover then I'm sure it will be fixed in time for the public release of Yosemite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 See, I think that was a very good point. I'm not that type of guy who likes to experiment until I get a satisfactory result, I want the proper result lol that's why I didn't wanna let go of the possibility of installing to my SSD so I didn't have to worry about having a USB stick plugged in all the time. Plus it's a waste of a perfectly good 16GB USB stick lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Still don't care about that boot screen, it's not affecting operation at all so it doesn't bother me. What IS pissing me off is Clover not wanting to boot Yosemite when installed on SSD while it works perfectly installed on USB. So your problem is "Still Waiting for Root Device"?? ----> NoCache is a possible solution ....Your kernelcache goes crazy, if you boot from different devices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 So your problem is "Still Waiting for Root Device"?? ----> NoCache is a possible solution My Yosemite install gets stuck at PCI Configuration Begin, but only when booting from Clover installed on SSD. It boots fine from Clover USB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I'm sorry but I did not realize it was for the installer. tryed with npci=0x2000 or npci=0x3000 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burkett375 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Anyone else having trouble with youtube? It crashes all the time, and even embedded videos cause a crash. Flash plugin maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 (edited) npci=0x2000 or npci=0x3000 ? Also tried both, didn't really think that would be it tho because I don't need those flags on any other install... Edited June 11, 2014 by Micky1979 removed a dowble "Quote" with same thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Have you try with only the Intel HD integrated gpu, disabling or removing the one in your PCI slot? ...Of course, only to see if the video card is the problem (no more other suggestions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Pettigrove Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I cannot get my system to boot and am constantly getting a back screen or white fuzzy screen. I have tried all of the common boot flags with no luck. I have a perfectly working Mavericks on a separate hard drive. Is there a way I can figure out from that a boot flag that will get my system to boot. Is it definitely a boot flag issue? Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Craig, it is a bit difficult without knowing anything about your hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Pettigrove Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Thanks Micky1979 for the quick response. I have an Intel HD4600 Integrated card, Intel I7-4700K CPU, GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD4H, HDMI Connection to my Monitor. Let me know if there is anymore information that you need. Just as I finished typing my system did boot into the Yosemite installer. My boot flag was PCIRootUID=1. There is about a 20 minute delay bw me typing exit in the clover installer to my seeing the installer with the monitor going to sleep. Can you give me a brief summary of the steps that I will follow once my Yosemite install finishes and computer restarts. I am hoping that the PCIRootUID=1 Boot flag will work again on the Yosemite hard drive for reboot. Thanks for any advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burkett375 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 EFI folder from SSD: http://puu.sh/9pdyY/b841f3024d.zip EFI folder from USB: http://puu.sh/9pdCq/f94f2e95b7.zip Are you using BIOS or UEFI? I had a similar problem once and got it to work by blind luck. I ended up formatting a clean EFI, then installing Bios method with all drivers, then UEFI only with all drivers and got it to work. However, I switched my UEFI settings to boot only UEFI and installed a clean EFI with the UEFI only settings and drivers and got it to work right away. Honestly, I think blind luck is the only thing that will work at this point. The only other thing I notice is the SSD has an APPLE folder and USB does not, do you know why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 This is what I installed: ...which I'm just now being told is incorrect. I'll report back if I get it fixed. This is what I installed: ...which I'm just now being told is incorrect. I'll report back if I get it fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsusFreak Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Are you using BIOS or UEFI? I had a similar problem once and got it to work by blind luck. I ended up formatting a clean EFI, then installing Bios method with all drivers, then UEFI only with all drivers and got it to work. However, I switched my UEFI settings to boot only UEFI and installed a clean EFI with the UEFI only settings and drivers and got it to work right away. Honestly, I think blind luck is the only thing that will work at this point. The only other thing I notice is the SSD has an APPLE folder and USB does not, do you know why? You can delete. OS X installs it, Clover ignores it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Thanks Micky1979 for the quick response. I have an Intel HD4600 Integrated card, Intel I7-4700K CPU, GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD4H, HDMI Connection to my Monitor. Let me know if there is anymore information that you need. Just as I finished typing my system did boot into the Yosemite installer. My boot flag was PCIRootUID=1. There is about a 20 minute delay bw me typing exit in the clover installer to my seeing the installer with the monitor going to sleep. Can you give me a brief summary of the steps that I will follow once my Yosemite install finishes and computer restarts. I am hoping that the PCIRootUID=1 Boot flag will work again on the Yosemite hard drive for reboot. Thanks for any advice. Yep, you can inject the ig-platform-id, please search about in the Clover Wiki, and a list of value to try (specific for Hasswell cpu) somewhere else in this forum ...which I'm just now being told is incorrect. I'll report back if I get it fixed. Is not a UEFI installation... your MoBo is not capable? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADHDMedia Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 < Clover noob, was just doing as I was told. I think it's working now. Thanks a million @snatch. Instead of just throwing out the first thing that came to mind, you actually payed attention to what I was saying and helped me identify my error in installation. I tried asking over and over again if I was installing Clover incorrectly... It took me two days of ranting on the thread before I got a DM from someone really helpful... In the end, the problem was caused by installing the bootloader to my system's EFI partition, which apparently wasn't the correct way to do it if you are booting with BIOS and not UEFI. In the installation options even, there are options for installing for UEFI and for installing to the EFI partition (separate options even) that made me think these were two different things. No where did it tell me that installing to the EFI partition required UEFI mobo. Oh well, either way I got it fixed by installing the bootloader to the boot partition and not to the EFI partition. Really appreciate everyone's help, especially you snatch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHacker66 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Well, It seems I've finally located my boot issue, it's the IOATAFamily.kext I use in Mavericks to be able to see my SATA drives, since I need SATA set as IDE and not AHCI in bios for Win 8.1 to work properly. First thing I did to check this was copying kexts from Yosemite HDD to Yosemite USB, which before had only FakeSMC and NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. I booted with the USB and surprise surprise, screen didn't work. Then I rebooted into Mavericks and removed the kexts, booted again and voilà, display worked right away. Finally, I booted into Yosemite HDD in single user mode and ran the usual kextcache command to rebuild the thing, which gave me the same Segmentation Fault 11 error I saw appearing two days ago, but I didn't pay attention to it. To make Yosemite discard the problematic kexts i ran kextcache --prelinked-kernel, which said, among the lines, "IOATAFamily has an invalid signature, omitting", meaning it was going to be excluded from the linking and cache. Gave exit command and Yosemite booted fine from the HDD. Now I need to find another working IOATAFamily.kext which works, or discover if Clover can show those SATA drives that now are disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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