JahStories Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Hi there guys, i was wondering if someone managed to boot yosemite with the gray background and the apple logo, or are we stuck with black screen and progress bar only? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs0d Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 its an issue that only affects hacks. normal grey screen with apple logo is shown on real mac h/w. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 i know that, but i think its just clover missing something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirone Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 I am also looking for a solution for this. look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcO8nX_5KtI must be related to something else 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 It seems that its happening only on hackintosh, my macbookpro5,5 boot with the new progress bar but with the usual grey background.... i've sended Slice a PM i'm sure that he know more about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniac10 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Does it still show up if you boot your macbook with the kext-dev-mode boot flag? sudo nvram boot-args=kext-dev-mode=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 13, 2014 Author Share Posted June 13, 2014 yeap, even with kext dev mode 1 there is even a beautiful shading animation between OS X loading and the login screen or desktop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polyzargone Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 The BOOT USB OS X YOSEMITE 10.10 DP.pkg recently released boots like in the video if no verbose mode is activated. I don't know how but it seems possible to hack the Clover config.plist to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiethemorris Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 It shows up on my z68 build, but not on my vivobook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franmglp Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Mine is black and no logo. And grey with no logo (at the moment that the logo appears in the video and the bar loads faster) if I boot in verbose. If I boot normally I can't see the bar loading fast before the desktop appear. EDIT: I only see the grey screen booting in verbose mode but setting it by this way (not using config.plist): sudo nvram boot-args="-v" And using Clover in Fast mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vuhothang Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 With Chameleon bootloader r2377 Yoosemite V2 post by chris1111 in org.chameleon.Boot.plist have: <key>Legacy Logo</key> <string>No</string> no -v in boot-flags i can see background gray, apple logo and progress bar With Clover bootloader i have only black screen and progress bar, has no apple logo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domini99 Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 I am also looking for a solution for this. look at this video: must be related to something else Jesus that thing boots fast! My yosemite boots 5 times slower than my mountain lion installation. I find the loading bar to remind me off Linux, a few Linux distros have a loading bar like this. It's not bad, but it isn't apple.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 it's really similar to the iOS loading screen now on hacks. btw Slice sended me a pm, its not related to the boot loader, apple changed something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhaeuser Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Wow, how many speculations here are around I will get some of the facts right: 1) Chameleon's Apple boot screen is fake. Everything is drawn entirely by Chameleon. When using Clover, OS X's boot.efi draws it. 2) The Clover video with the apple shows a "fake" apple. The boot process does NOT show it, it pops up after graphics are initialized and the OS is ready to show the login UI. In my case I do NOT see an apple there as my graphics need initialization and thus my screen turns black and on again in mean time. If my gfx would be supported by the boot process (sounds weird indeed), my screen would not turn black and I would see the apple aswell. Apple pretty much renders the boot screen twice. 3) It's not Clover's fault it doesn't show up, as it's drawn by boot.efi. But I think Clover needs to pass a variable over to boot.efi. Why? Because: How would boot.efi even know it should draw the grey or the black version? I don't know how it decides. I'm 100% sure it decides to use the grey version as I get a grey screen after my screen turns on again. 4) Black and grey version? Yes. Some newer Macs got firmware updates and have a black boot screen aswell... with an white Apple. 5) The logos are contained in an efires file. If you're interested, grab them with this script: Yosemite DP1 Includes new EFI images/sound files 5.1) The boot.efi refers to a black Apple logo file... well, two as the others is 2x. However, such a file is not present in the archive. The logo used for "black" EFIs is the generic one without a color name in its file name. Maybe we need a way to edit these files? I'm entirely sure that we should wait for at least DP2 as the appleLogo.efires is entirely new and yet not all Macs got firmware updates. We shall see. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 thanks for the super detailed explanation now it makes sense... lets wait so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirone Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 without the Apple logo still in DP2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 yeah still a black screen with progress bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBoatman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Apologies posted in the wrong forum topic due shortcut issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 @the boat man hi there, this is not the right topic to ask for that question, but you can open a topic in the section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Look into a real mac's ioreg under the display port ("<framebuffername>,@0"), you will find some values called AAPL,grey-page and AAPL,grey-color (or something like that). If you start osx with clover, the grey-color is 00,00,00,00 in ioreg. The zeros means black... So.... maybe this is why we get black screen at boot? I tried to inject proper grey value into there via DSDT but nohing changed, it doesn't got saved in ioreg. Any idea how to change that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 This is something interesting, thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniHack Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 I think Pike has the answer….http://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/yosemite-dp-includes-new-efi-imagessound-files/ (see towards end of post). If I understand correctly - and possible I don't! - then the boot loader will need to recognise and load the efires images/logos mentioned. So guess it is probably just waiting on Clover/Chameleon implementation in due course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I think Pike has the answer….http://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/yosemite-dp-includes-new-efi-imagessound-files/ (see towards end of post). If I understand correctly - and possible I don't! - then the boot loader will need to recognise and load the efires images/logos mentioned. So guess it is probably just waiting on Clover/Chameleon implementation in due course. Tried the "meter=0" bootarg, and now I have the spinner on the bootscreen instead of the progressbar, nice! Btw as I understand, apple implemented a dark and a light bootscreen mode. So maybe it will be different colour on different mac models. So there is a dark and a light apple logo as well in the efi file. I hoping a clover update with choosable dark or light bootscreen mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayang-NT Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I am also looking for a solution for this. look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcO8nX_5KtI must be related to something else hi ... that's my video ... sorry for the quality whitw apple boot logo still appear in Yosemite DP2 ... but when booting into Mavericks (dual boot) I get the boot logo as usual, gray background with silver apple logo carved ... * Clover v2k 2721 - Gigabyte Z68 - AMD HD7970/R9 280X/HD 6870 --> give the same result -- I use SMBIOS MacPro6,1 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirone Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 here even changing the SMBIOS anything done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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