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Can't get my hackintosh to boot from clover


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hey,

so I want to switch from chimera to clover on my working Yosemite installation. First of all I tried to get a working Clover USB stick so I don't mess up my system, and I got one so I thought I could just install clover to my SSD with the same settings as on my USB stick. But after installing clover, my computer just boots with chimera again. I've checked, and the clover files are in the EFI partition, so I don't know why my computer just continues booting with chimera. I've tried the following clover versions: 2953,2957 and 2941, same problem with any of them. Is anyone able to help me? Thanks

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Hey Brian, we are in the same boat. Here is what I did: 

- Back up your data or just get a new SSD 

- Format the darn thing, 1 partition with GPT , Mac OS extended Journaled. For some reasons, I was never able to get rid of Chameleon bootloader without problem, so I formatted the whole thing and start from scratch. 

- Install Yosemite from USB ( you can use the Uni%^$$&$# thing from Tony$&*%^$&* to make USB installer if you want) 

- Using that USB to boot to your newly installed SSD 

- Install Clover onto SSD. Pick the options that works with your system. (install clover to ESP, RC scripts ...). Remember to migrate the Kexts  to Clover folder ( fakesmc, etc...)

You should be able to boot from clover. Since I switch to clover, I get a boost of 5-10% performance wise, especially OpenGL compared to Chameleon. 

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