Lost access to OSX partition from Clover

[wheeliemonster]

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...

 

 

[artur_pt]

hello

 

u don't change nothing in clover efi drivers ?

 

http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/What-is-what#EFI-drivers

 

good hack

[wheeliemonster]

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...

[Pimentel]

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.

[wheeliemonster]

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 start
0:246  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)) ... skipped
0:246  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--)

 

[Pimentel]

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.

[wheeliemonster]

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...

[wheeliemonster]

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....!

[Pimentel]

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.

[wheeliemonster]

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.

[Pimentel]

Hello

 

I happy because you make it working...

 

Congrats!!!