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Clover-stick only? Mavericks Installation


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Hello guys!
 
Lately I was once again trying to get OS X running on my PC (specs below), last Night I cleaned up the whole drive and installed on my SSD Windows 8.1 (should be kept for gaming and such).
 
 
Now I'd like to install on a 500GB Drive my OS X, which worked successfully using MyHack. But after the Installation I couldn't boot up without using -x, nor I couldn't boot using the "build-in"-bootloader that comes with Ozmosis.
 
I heard there is some new boot loader, that also allows you to use bootcamp and such, called Clover? I was following the Tutorial of the official Clover site, but it didn't worked. It just won't boot, nor show me anything at all.
 
Since I do not own, a real Mac (nor another Hackingtosh) I am limited with using the iMac at work. (Mavericks) and I wanna get the things prepared, in case something doesn't work. So my main Question basically is:
 
Can I setup an normal OS X Installer using myHack (including the myHack's boot loaders) on an 8GB Pen drive, and Clover (Only Clover!) on an 4GB Pen Drive, in case the myHack one won't work, or I can boot the Hardrive-OS X with Clover after the Installation?
 
 
If so, on what I should look for? Clover is still pretty new to me, so it'll also be really appreciated if somebody can give me a bit more explanation, or research links to read.  ^_^
 
Greetings, Max.
 
 
Specs:

  • Gigabyte Z77-D3H (rev. 1.0)
  • Intel i7 @ 3.90GHz
  • Nvidia GTX660
  • - the rest is unimportant -

 

 

 

I posted in the wrong section, right?  :hysterical:

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You should only use Clover for UEFI, because it's just better. Ozmosis should work too. But keep in my mind that you need to boot with -x after a successful installation to set up your username and boot successfully into OS X, then you have to install your kexts and after that you can boot without -x. With clover you can avoid this by injecting kexts.

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my recommendation, with your board, would be to use a precompiled ozmosis Bios for your board. the biggest benefit is that the boot loader will always work and you can store your Kexts under the EFI partition /Volumes/EFI/EFI/Quo/Darwin/Extensions/Common

any changes to your DSDT, is stored in EFI/Quo/ACPI/Load

 

 STLVNUB's list of variables and how to change them  for this type of booting.

 

Ozmosis Bios for your Board, precompiled

 

HBP

 

PS, remember you need to add kext-dev-mode=1 in the boot args to make any unsigned kexts load, that includes sound and networking.

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