blackswan22 Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Hi everyone!!! Just finished my first build and everything seems to be running correctly on the hardware end. However, I am having trouble with the USB installer booting into actually installing the OS. When I select my USB which is loaded with Clover, it just goes to this screen (see attachment) and then I am stuck. Any ideas what is going on here? I am using the Clover installer V3241 Computer Specs: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH LGA 1150 Z97 Dual Thunderbolt 2 ATX Motherboard (Bios Version F4) Intel i7 4.4 4790K Quadcore Processor Cooler Master Seidon 120M Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 UDIMM RAM EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0+ Corsair AX760 Professional Series Power Supply TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Make sure you are using Clover UEFI and make sure it installs to the EFI partition. Boot the installer in UEFI mode. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 I followed the Vanilla instructions, as I couldn't find a guide for preparing a USB stick for clover. Mine is formatted as (Mac Os Extended Journaled) Guid Partition. Then there is a folder called EFI on that drive from the Clover installation. Does that sound correct or do I need to create an actual EFI partition on my USB in disk utility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendietinha Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 if you prepare the usb correctly, what can cause this is bios settings. like secure boot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 You should have an actual EFI partition on the drive with the Clover folder on that. Most BIOSes don't have HFS+ filesystem drivers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 Thanks for your help everyone. Yes, I only have one partition named Clover (formerly OS X Base System) that has an EFI folder on it. To clarify, it is the Clover software that creates the EFI partition on your usb drive, correct? Here are the settings I used in Clover, is there anything that I'm missing that should be selected here? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 You should select "Install Clover for UEFI booting only" since you have a UEFI motherboard. You probably don't need DataHubDxe; only install one OsxAptioFix (I recommend OsxAptioFix2); test if you really need EmuVariableUefi, most UEFI Gigabyte boards (7-series and newer) have native NVRAM (my Z77X-UD5H does, you should test). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 Ok thanks! It's starting to work now. I got Clover to boot but I believe I am hitting a kernel panic? Any ideas how I can fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendietinha Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 take a proper pic, please 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 The website uploader flips the pic upside down when I upload for some reason. I am monitoring on my HDTV for now which is cutting off some of the readout. HEre is a slightly better screenshot. Seems like it is panicking on Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp :1590 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 Still stuck on my build, getting the error above when Clover begins. Suggestions anyone on what to do next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I have a build very similar to yours. I have the Z97X-UD7 and the 4790K but a 760 Invidia video card. One problem I started off with on my first install was, I had not disabled the on-board video. It seem when booting a Clover generated USB, it jumps first to the on-board CPU based video and you are looking through the video card. Past that and assuming you installed Clover on the USB flash correctly, you should get through the retail install. I am also assuming you used the App Store version of Yosemite and used the createinstallmedia script using the Terminal to create the install and bootable USB? I found the information on www.rampagedev.com very useful as they have a step by step file you can download to make a Z97 install. I now have a working dual OS with 2-Fusion drives and both Mavericks and Yosemite bootable volumes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thank you for the tips! Yes, I've went back and it appears that all of my bios settings are ok, but I had definitely prepared my USB installer wrong. I started with the Vanilla guide which is more for Chameleon. The rampage dv guide is pretty good, although there always seems to be some gray areas with the instruction guides no matter how detailed they come. For instance, the command script to copy the OSX did not work on my system because it was a script for Mavericks and Yosemite and I am still on Snow Leopard (Although I have downloaded Yosemite from the app store and its in my applications, I have yet to install it on my real iMac. I wanted to get the new computer going first before I update. Anyways, I re-prepared the USB and it is booting up now, but it doesn't boot up to install OSX, now it gets stuck in a loop where it boots to the Clover boot screen, starts to load us OSX with the apple logo and then goes back to the clover boot screen. Seems like the EFI partition didn't install correctly, so I will re-prepare the USB and try again. Fingers crossed, but I am definitely getting closer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I followed the rampagedev as closely as I could using the Haswell.dmg download file that is provided. If you have access to a Mavericks or Yosemite OS loaded computer you can easily load the Usb correctly that also includes the Restore partition. You can use DiskUtility to make one via instructions on Macworld.com. I also found that using Snow Leopard doesn't make a correct USB loader because the current crop of Clover boot loader installers uses a different software than what is necessary. Make sure when you are configuring Clover during it's installation you set it correctly for UEFI boot, as your motherboard is capable of using it. That allows the computer to boot MacOS much more like a real MAC where Chameleon does not. I struggled until I was able to produce my USB loaded on mavericks and used the Haswell.dmg file from rampagedev,con to complete the install. PS: be sure to disable the on=board video when using a video card. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 Aha, then Snow Leopard is part of the equation after all... Ok, then I will prepare it today from my computer at work which has Yosemite installed already. Yes, I was able to turn off the Onboard video last night in the bios. I will follow the haswell guide as best as I can and will keep you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Ok I followed the rampage dev guide and still did not have any luck with the bootup. I cannot get past step 8- I can see the bootloader menu but nothing happens. Not sure if the USB installer got prepared correctly from the haswell instructions, as I suspect the clover command script from the link may not have copied all the necessary files over to the USB drive.That is a key step and I would have no way of knowing that. My USB installer named Clover after the clover installation has just one file one it called "install yosemite X" Does that sound correct? If not, I guess I can try again by copying over the base system files in disk utility using the restore tab, would that be an option with the clover preparation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Did you follow the procedure documented on rampagedev.com, where by you format the USB with DiskUtility as GUID and then run the Terminal program sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app That requires having the Yosemite.app installed in the Applications file of the hard drive and the USB to be titled "Untitled" to start. Using DsikUtility and the restore tab works as well, except that it doesn't create the Restore partition on the GUID disk when it finishes loading. Let me reasure you that if you follow the Haswell.dmg steps EXACTLY, the installation will work, assuming you don't have any hardware problems. Also the picture seems to have Start UEFI shell highlighted, you should choose boot USB. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 Thank you, I did not know that the USB drive needs to be actually named Untitled to start, so I will try again. I used the command that it linked to in the guide (Clover 10.10 command) which I believe was entering a similar command into terminal. The rampage dev guide I followed instructed to format the drive first, name it "Clover," and then run the command script after Clover is installed onto the USB named Clover. Usually on the first bootup it shows a USB boot drive right under the Mac icon, but then when you select that it tries to boot, can't and then restarts to the screenshot you see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 I did a MacUser group presentation on building a Hackintosh on June 6 and I created a Word document that gives step by step instructions that are based on the information on rampagedev.com. I will try to get it to you as this is the document I wrote as I was loading my latest hack. It goes step by step and it seem to work ever time. I will put it on my Dropbox server and post the link here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmyvo613e6sz0pf/Mac%20or%20Hack1.docx?dl=0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Thank you!!! I will try this out next and see if I can get it going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Ok I read over the complete guide along with the rampage dev writeup on the haswell. Some murky areas with my install worth noting were that 1) I did not mount the drives after Clover bootloader successfully installed using terminal because after the install they were already mounted on the mac desktop. Not sure if that makes a difference. I was able to drag in all the plist and aml files to the EFI partition without using terminal. The latest guide opts for the command script which may be working for me afterall, I'm just not sure how I would know. 2) When I used the kext helper B7 app as instructed by the haswell guide, it said the install was successful but afterwards when I checked I did not find any kexts located in the 10.10 folder (the location where the kexts were supposed to be installed per the clover bootloader guide on rampage dev. The kexts steps between the guides seem to overlap- do i install the kexts using the bootloader method, the haswell method, or both? 3) The clover bootloader rampage dev guide instructs you to name the USB drive Clover, but I didn't see any mention of the USB drive in any of the guides I read having to be named Untitled at the start of the disk format. I will prepare a new USB bootloader tomorrow but from what I'm reading it seems like I'm doing the prep correctly, just wasn't totally sure about the steps involving the command script and kexts install. Also, what is CSM and where do I find that in the Bios menu? I have the same board as you but I did not see any options regarding that in the setup menu so that would probably be something else to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 7, 2015 Author Share Posted August 7, 2015 Ok I believe what it is that the OS X is not properly being installed by the clover 10.10 command. The file copy happens way too fast for the Mac OS System to load onto the USB. Also, when I tried the recommended manual command for create install media, it sent back this message (see screenshot) Sorry, don't know much about terminal, so I wouldn't know what to type in differently to point it to my flash drive correctly. I am preparing on a computer with Yosemite 10.10.3 if that makes a difference. "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Is your USB drive named MyVolume? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackswan22 Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 No it was named Clover, that was part of my problem. In a follow up I've gotten past that part but still having trouble booting up. I was able to get the OS X onto the USB using the terminal command once I changed the script so that it points it to my flash drive. I've tried installing the kexts in the haswell folder from rampage dev and also the generic kexts as well and none are seeming to allow it to boot up. I get to the Clover install screen where it says boot to "Name of Drive." I select the USB, then a Mac logo against a black bg comes up, it loads to about 40%, and then just restarts and enters a loop where it goes back to the same screen. I just tried the suggestion of removing VBoxHfs-64.efi and replace it with HFSPlus.efi, as the guide had also said to do that if it's in a reboot loop, but that's not changing anything either. I need to get to that next screen where I can tell it to install on my SSD drive. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRacerMaster Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Boot in verbose mode, it's kernel panicking and then rebooting somewhere. You should be able to see some panic info before it reboots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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