wheeliemonster Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Hi All, I have (or did have) a perfectly working Hackintosh on an HP ProBook. Up until earlier today, I was able to dual boot between Win8 and OSX (ML) using Clover installed to the EFI partition on my HD. I don't know what has changed, but now when I boot to Clover, I only have the option to boot Win8. For some reason, Clover can't see the OSX partition. The OSX partition is fine, I can see it using HFSExplorer from Windows and I've even done fsck.hfsplus using a Linux rescue liveCD. Can anyone think of a reason why Clover seems unable to see (or boot from) the OSX partition? Thanks for any and all help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 hello u don't change nothing in clover efi drivers ? http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/What-is-what#EFI-drivers good hack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 Thanks for your reply. I haven't touched the Clover drivers. I believe it's using the VBox-HFS driver to access the OSX partition. Those files are existing in the Clover EFI partition... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hello In here have a Ste by step to install Clover in UEFI: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/298027-guide-aio-guides-for-hackintosh/?do=findComment&comment=2019606 I hope it help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 Thank you. I have Clover installed and working. Looking at the preboot.log file from Clover, it would seem that it can see the partition, but is struggling to find the /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi file on that partition: 0:246 0:000 Custom entries start0:246 0:000 Custom entry 0 "\System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi" "" (1) 0x0 matching "921E5A2A-B66B-4FA0-9B31-B5E7859B42D0" ...0:246 0:000 Checking volume "EFI" (PciRoot(0x0)\Pci(0x1F,0x2)\Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)\HD(2,GPT,E950EDA2-A310-4CCF-A342-33505293E501,0x42000,0x64000)) ... skipped0:246 0:000 Checking volume "OS X" (PciRoot(0x0)\Pci(0x1F,0x2)\Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)\HD(6,GPT,921E5A2A-B66B-4FA0-9B31-B5E7859B42D0,0x154A6000,0x7800000)) ... skipped because path does not exist I've mounted the partition from Windows using HFSExplorer and I can see the file there. Could anyone please check the permissions on that file so I can confirm I have them correct? Mine is set to root:root 644 (-rw-r--r--) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Hello I think clover work with boot.efi(file that Apple use to boot EFI mobos) But a question: You can boot you PC and get Desktop Screen of OSX? If yes i don't see any problem in boot.efi because the Clover+OSX use it to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 No I can't boot to OSX! That is the problem! It seems like Clover cannot find that file but when I boot to WINDOWS and mount the OSX partition, I can see the boot.efi file... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 OK, so its definitely something hosed on Clover on my EFI partition. I created a bootable Clover USB stick and it can see my OSX partition and boot it. Just need to reinstall Clover on EFI I guess and we should be away....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hello Your mobo is UEFI? What's your hardware? Did you choose Install for modo UEFI in Clover installer? Because only mobos with UEFI can create a EFI partition that has boot.efi... non-UEFI don't create any partition, and put boot.efi in root folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hi guys, Thanks for your help but I now have it working. Not sure what the problem was but after I managed to boot via USB, it now detects it from my EFI-installed Clover, so I'm up and running again! For reference, yes I have UEFI m/b (HP ProBook) so I'm dual-booting using Clover. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimentel Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hello I happy because you make it working... Congrats!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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