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Bounty for onsite Clover configuration with Mavericks


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Located in Silicon Valley, I have a twin Supermicro machine with 2 nodes with X8DTFF MB (non UEFI). Each node contains:

1 x HDD (for installation purposes only)
2 x SSD configured in RAID 1 (Built as Superduper clone of HDD)


With Chimera, both nodes boot correctly to Mavericks installed on the HDD. Although I have spent many hours trying to configure the boot.plist to use the RAID UUID, I cannot get either node to boot to the RAID partition. When I try to boot to the RAID partition, I always see this error:

  Can't find mach_kernel


With Clover, the entire boot process gets stuck with a display of:

  b1f: init5


I would like onsite assitance of a Clover expert who can visit the machine and get both nodes to boot correctly. For a successful cure, I am willing to offer a $200 Amazon Gift certificate, Apple gift certificate or PayPal.

I will accept 2 possible solutions:

1. Clover installed in EFI partition of SSDs, boot to RAID (preferred)
2. Clover installed in UBS thumbdrive, boot to RAID


If you live in Silicon Valley and are a hackintosh stud, contact me!

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I'm going to start off by saying that I don't have one of the two solutions but I do have a third one. Also, if this works I don't want any money, just happy to help out. With Chimera/Chameleon what the Can't find mach_kernel is that it can't locate where the file is stored on your raid. If you have an OS X installer.app, you can find this in InstallEsd, Packages, BaseSystemBinaries.pkg. open it with Pacifist. Then copy mach_kernel to the root of your raid disk (or, to be safe, copy it to both of them.) Then boot with Chimera/Chameleon.

 

 

 

Hope i could help,

 

 

- Matt

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I have tried the solution of copying mach_kernel to the helper partitions on the RAID disks. Unfortunately, after mach_kernel, the system then begins seeking the kexts and all other boot files in the same helper partitions. These helper partitions are too small to contain all the kexts and other files.

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