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Apologies in advance for the long post; this is a summary of about a week's activity.

 

I had a very stable Mavericks running on an ASUS P8Z77-V PRO. It was booting with Chameleon from a fusion drive.  I needed to upgrade to Yosemite to be able to run the latest Xcode.

 

I used the latest Chameleon to upgrade to Yosemite, but ultimately I had to give up on it because Chameleon would fail on boot with a "Can't find mach_kernel" message and could not get it to go away no matter how much goggle advice I applied to my configuration.

 

I had been meaning to try Clover anyway so I downloaded v2k_r3021 and created a working USB installer.  I was able to boot the new Yosemite install, I ran the clover installer on the fusion drive and rebooted. However, If I tried to boot directly from the hard-drive, I would get the Chameleon boot screen instead of the Clover one. Looking at the boot option at the UEFI screen, I notice that the only UEFI device is the Clover USB stick, the HD is listed as BIOS bootable.

 

(Much) more googling ensued to no avail. I went so far as to repartition the drive using DiskUtility (note that I did not re-fusion the drives,) and reinstalling Yosemite.  I then did a newfs_msdos of both the SSD and HD EFI patrons and copied the EFI partition from the USB install drive.

 

Still the situation remains: I can boot Yosemite from the fusion drive using the USB installer, but if I boot directly from the hard drive I get the Chameleon screen.  An the SSD drive still does not show up as a UEFI bootable device.

 

Obviously I've missed a step or 2 and some vestiges of Chameleon remain.  Can someone advise me on what to do next?

 

Thanks.

 

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