No path to Chameleon written in UEFI after install of ML via USB

[tilopa]

System:

Asus Q500A - laptop

Proc I5 3230M

Intel graphics HD4000

Install method: ML Vanilla (guide from this forum) via USB

Asus MB uses UEFI - Aptio setup utility from American Megatrends

 

Searched for hours for a solution before I posted this.

 

I Did the USB install with no major issues, had to boot with flag UseKernelCache=no. At the first screen of the installtion I opened disk utilities and erased the entire disk that previously had windows 8 only. Then I created 2 partitions and formatted them both with mac extended journaled. After the installation the system rebooted, I removed the USB drive and now it cannot find the hard drive. I go into UEFI setup, the hard drive is listed but in the boot tab there is no option to boot to the partition for the os I just installed.

 

Not sure why the installation did not write to UEFI to point to chameleon, but how can I get it to do that now? In the UEFI setup util in the boot tab I can add a new boot option to point to a boot loader but I don't know the syntax how to do that. I downloaded the manual for the Aptios setup utility and it was a joke, it basically went through every option with little more than the description found in the setup itself. How f***ing annoying. Can anyone tell me how I would write the path to the bootloader (chameleon) in UEFI?

 

When I boot with the USB stick it runs installation again and at the first screen I can open a terminal and run diskutil list. It shows the USB stick as disk0 and the mac partition as disk1. Does it dynamically assign disk numbering, meaning if I did not have the USB drive plugged in and was able to boot my install would be listed as disk0?

 

There is an EFI partition at disk1s1 of about 200MB, a EFI on the USB drive at disk0s1. Disk1s3 is where my mac install is located. Disk1s2 is the second partition I created.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

 

[tilopa]

After further research I feel that I should have installed Clover instead of Chameleon as my system is EFI GPT. The whole UEFI GPT vs BIOS MBR thing is confusing to me. I have an EFI partition on my ML Disk but when I point chameleon to it it does nothing (maybe I'm not using the right flags in chameleon). Is the bootloader (chameleon or clover) supposed to be installed on the EFI partition?

 

How do I install Clover on the EFI partition???

 

At this point I cannot even load the newly installed ML disk. I have a clover boot disk, when I boot to it in gui mode it lists my ML drive with the option to boot to it but when I choice that it does nothing. can someone point me to how to use the clover boot disk to load my ML drive? Do I need to have clover installed on the ML drive to do that? If so how and where do I install clover?

 

Thanks very much.

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