jamaly Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I tried that. It shows "Current" and has 5 blocks. There is one block with no name and when I click on it it tells me that it is free space. I'm not able to format it. But it is the 100GB partition that I created in Windows 7 Disk Management. Did you try and click the little plus box underneath that space?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 It is grayed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 When you created the partition in Windows Disk Manager, did you format it as NTFS? If so, you need to format it as FAT32. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I got it. When I created the partition in Windows, I just left it as unallocated space. I went back in and formatted the partition as exFAT. Now it shows up in Disk Utility. I then formatted it for Mac use and OS X is installing right now. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamaly Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I got it. When I created the partition in Windows, I just left it as unallocated space. I went back in and formatted the partition as exFAT. Now it shows up in Disk Utility. I then formatted it for Mac use and OS X is installing right now. Thanks for the help. OK, just a tip: free space technically isn't a partition until it's formatted. Grats though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Ok, the install was successful. Now do I keep following the ML guide or is there some other guide I need to follow to complete the Mavericks installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 Just install Clover onto your hard drive so that you will have dual boot, be sure to add the DSDT and SSDT and use the settings that worked for your USB installer, including the Lapic patch and smbios. Also, add the MavKexts I uploaded so you will have FakeSMC, Ethernet, AppleHDA Disabler, VoodooPS2, VoodooHDA and ACPIBattery in S/L/E of your Mavericks installation. That should do it. Use Kext Wizard to install the kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I have decided to install another hard drive just for Mac OSX. I installed it tonight and installed Mavericks. Is there anything I need to do different since I'm installing to a dedicated hard drive for Mavericks? I'm still a little foggy on how to actually do the post installation. What do I use to install the DSDT, SSDT, Lapic patch, SMBIOS. Thank you. Almost there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 Do you have Clover installed on your new hard drive or your old one? You only need one installation. That's where all the stuff you wanted to know about goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Clover is installed on my USB drive right now. So I use Clover to install all the post installation files? Is there a guide somewhere about Clover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282787-clover-v2-instructions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Can someone tell me what I need to do next. I have installed Mavericks onto my second hard drive. I need to do the post installation, but I'm not sure how to use Clover to do the installations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 I'm happy to help you out but you need to read up on this. We're not like Tonymacx86 here. First, have you tried installing Clover on your new hard drive? Did you use the same settings that you used on your USB installer? What happened? If you haven't done this, I suggest you try it out and report back. After you have Clover installed and working, we can modify it so that you have it working on your EFI partition with all your custom kexts located in Clover instead of S/L/E of your Mavericks installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I'm happy to help you out but you need to read up on this. We're not like Tonymacx86 here. I don't know what this means, but I'm having trouble getting Clover to my hard drive. I have been relentlessly searching everywhere the correct ways to do it. This is all new to me. I can't boot into the newly installed Mavericks. Could someone point me in the right direction. I have been using the guide for ML, but the guide uses Chameleon instead of Clover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamaly Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I don't know what this means, but I'm having trouble getting Clover to my hard drive. I have been relentlessly searching everywhere the correct ways to do it. This is all new to me. I can't boot into the newly installed Mavericks. Could someone point me in the right direction. I have been using the guide for ML, but the guide uses Chameleon instead of Clover. No offense, but either you don't know how to use Google, or your being lazy. I just googled your question and found the answer/method in less than 10 seconds. Look again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I can assure you that I'm not lazy. I have googled all day. I just don't understand Clover. I'm a novice, not an expert like everyone else. I'm trying to learn this, but I'm having a little trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamaly Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I can assure you that I'm not lazy. I have googled all day. I just don't understand Clover. I'm a novice, not an expert like everyone else. I'm trying to learn this, but I'm having a little trouble. I'm going to point you in the direction for now. READ some links, then try and move forward with what you read Google: install clover mavericks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 I can assure you that I'm not lazy. I have googled all day. I just don't understand Clover. I'm a novice, not an expert like everyone else. I'm trying to learn this, but I'm having a little trouble. I suspect you are sincere about all this but just a bit overwhelmed. Send me a PM telling me when you can go into the chatroom here and I will set up a time where I can try to talk you through the process. For anyone interested, here's an icon for the HP Envy 17t-3200 CTO. I suspect it can be used for any HP Envy 17. Mine has the icon name for the MacBookPro10,2. for it to show up in your "About This Mac", you need to have the name match the system with the same smbios as yours. com.apple.macbookpro-13-unibody.icns.zip When installed as instructed in this tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293246-mavericks-on-dell-vostro-3450-inspiron-14r-uefi-clover/ It looks like this: I like the look. Feel free to do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I suspect you are sincere about all this but just a bit overwhelmed. I'm very sincere and truly grateful for your help. I have been working on this for a while and I have googled many times how to install Clover. I have tried a few of them to no luck. Last night I got your ML guide and followed some of the Post-Installation steps. I used MacDrive to move files from your Mavericks ktext folder to the S/L/E of the Mac hard drive. I restarted and was able to boot into the newly installed Mavericks. Everything was kind of laggy though. I installed Clover to a Fat32 formatted EFI partition on the Mac hard drive. I moved the DSDT and the SSDT to the appropiate places as stated on your guide. I installed the ktexts using Ktext Wizard. I also moved the ktexts to the EFI/Clover/ktext/10.9. on the EFI partition. I still haven't installed the Lapic patch and SMBIOS. Does I use the mach_kernal from my USB drive for the Lapic patch? Also, my wireless internet isn't working. I also have to boot into Windows or Mavericks using my USB drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 You need to go into your laptop's EUFI settings and select the file to boot from. It's /Volumes/EFI/EFI/BOOT/CLOVERX64.efi. Then, select your EFI partition as the next boot partition. That way, your laptop knows to boot from EFI. Otherwise, it will look to boot from your system volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 You need to go into your laptop's EUFI settings and select the file to boot from. It's /Volumes/EFI/EFI/BOOT/CLOVERX64.efi. Then, select your EFI partition as the next boot partition. That way, your laptop knows to boot from EFI. Otherwise, it will look to boot from your system volume. I don't see anywhere to modify UEFI settings in BIOS. Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 I don't see anywhere to modify UEFI settings in BIOS. Am I missing something? Use the bootloader on your USB drive. Just before you see the Clover page, there should be some code in the upper left corner for about 1-2 seconds. Right after you see that, click on the Esc key a few times. That should bring up the UEFI settings page in your BIOS. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techgeek Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Ok, I got it. Thank you for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it. For some reason, my wifi card isn't being recognized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted May 3, 2014 Author Share Posted May 3, 2014 Ok, I got it. Thank you for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it. For some reason, my wifi card isn't being recognized. If you have the stock intel wifi card, it will never work. Go on eBay and get yourself an Atheros wifi card, the half-mini pci-e, and install that instead. You may also want to swap your bluetooth card as well. Each is about $10 or less. I use the Atheros AR9285. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qdezi Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Any ideas on Yosemite, guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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