Help / HDD Parsing, bootloaders corrupted?

[Sachka]

Hi, this is the first time I ask for a solution to an issue, since I could always fix my issues by searching, however I cannot find anything related to my current issue.

 

Here's what happens: I'm currently running Mavericks on a sandy bridge notebook, I was able to build both a clover USB boot drive and a chameleon USB boot drive, no problem with that, It boots without any issue. I managed to install clover to the EFI partition of the HDD and boot from there, again no issue. I uninstalled clover to thinker with chameleon a bit (I'm learning about bootloaders), I managed to install chameleon on the main partition as normal but got a boot0:error, I fixed that by copying boot1h to the HDD from my Installation Disk, now chameleon boots from HDD, However it seems the extra folder is all messed up since I cannot apply any changes to org.chameleon.Boot.plist, chameleon wizards say there is no chameleon installed and I cannot even edit it from the wizards (they say the plist is corrupted). Even If I delete the whole Extra folder from the HDD it would still boot as If it was there! It seems the Extra folder is somehow hardwritten on the HDD.

 

Any ideas on how to solve this?

[iFIRE]

crapware installed in the hd, this seems a problem with the best tool from tmac, other option is copy the boot.plist to desktop and edit it

[Sachka]

I've only done manual work, using official installers, what crapware are you talking about? The fact that editing is posible is irrelevant, since no matter what I put in the HDD it seems the Extra folder is hardwritten, I can change the folder, rename files even delete the folder and no changes would appear at all, as If it was a ghost file. I just use one partition and I never pointed the installer to a different direction.

[fusion71au]

How did you "uninstall" Clover? 

 

It looks like you have leftover boot files & NVRAM settings from Clover.  Try reformatting the EFI partition in terminal:

sudo newfs_msdos -v EFI -F 32 /dev/rdiskXs1

where X is the disk number where the EFI partition resides, then reinstall chameleon.

 

 

For good measure, also delete your current NVRAM settings in terminal:

sudo rm /nvram.plist
sudo nvram -c

and delete any Clover rc scripts in /private/etc eg rc.clover.lib (NB the folder is hidden).

 

 

PS If you want to experiment with both Chameleon & Clover, why don't you build a USB multi boot disk

• in Windows with cVaD's BootDiskUtility
• in OSX with chris1111's EFI Mavericks Box

and tweak your bootloader settings with that.  This has both boot loaders and is much safer than fiddling with boot loader settings on your main hard drive...

 

FWIW, I would recommend you stick with Clover.... .