tchit Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Hi, I have a Hackintosh with a Z77-DS3H Gigabyte motherboard. I updated from Maverick to Yosemite with no big issue with Chimera/Chameleon. I wanted to solve the iMessage issue, so I decided to switch to Clover (UEFI). I did install Clover on the same disk as OS X. Each time, the EFI partition was created with no issue. But here is what happens everytime: - I install Clover, mount the EFI partition to change the config file. - Reboot... Everything working perfectly. ... until.... - Try to mount the EFI again to make some changes in the config BUT this time the partition won't mount. EFI shows in the terminal when I list the drives (disk1s1), though. I tried with command lines, EFI Mounter and Disk Utility. - When I try to mount it with the clover configurator, I get a "EFI" folder in /Volumes instead of a drive. And that folder is empty. - Each time after booting, OS X won't start, which I think is normal since EFI disappeared. I then have to setup my Hackintosh all over again. I tried 3 times. Even with creating the FAT32 EFI partition myself, I get the same problem each time. Does someone know the reason and how to fix it? Do I need to install Clover on a bootable USB instead of the system drive? I couldn't find if this was the issue (and didn't have a USB key available). Also, is this a known issue? Thanks in advance... Any piece of advice would help me a lot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Used Disk Utility debuger type this on terminal just copie and paste the command defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1 Open disk utility Mount EFI by the disk Utility 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tchit Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 That's what I did and that's where I can't mount EFI after a reboot! I get an error like "Can't mount this partition". Same with Terminal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 That's what I did and that's where I can't mount EFI after a reboot! I get an error like "Can't mount this partition". Same with Terminal With the disk Utility debuger ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tchit Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 With the disk Utility debuger ? Yes the utility debugger that shows hidden partitions. The 3 times I tried after install then reboot, I was unable to mount the EFI partition and the 2nd reboot was impossible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Reformate EFI with this command cheek if its the right EFI partition type this on terminal diskutil list sudo -s Exemple here to erase EFI and create New EFI msdos newfs_msdos -v EFI -F 32 /dev/rdisk0s1 and reinstall clover 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phytonix Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Reformate EFI with this command cheek if its the right EFI partition type this on terminal diskutil list sudo -s Exemple here to erase EFI and create New EFI msdos newfs_msdos -v EFI -F 32 /dev/rdisk0s1 and reinstall clover Does Clover installer install anything in the EFI partition? If not, we have to copy the EFI folder there? What is the situation with Fusion Drive? Because there are two EFI partitions effectively. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 so basiclly, how many hard drive you connect to the system? try to connect the boot drive only. you can use tool from Clover Configurator to mount EFI partition. check to see before install clover you need to format EFI first before clover can install to it. good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniac10 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 @tchit: have you used cvad’s “Kext Utility” recently? It modifies 2 kexts on /S/L/E — one is msdosfs which is related to mounting FAT32 partitions — breaking the signature of the kexts and resulting in the system blocking them from loading. You can fix this by adding “kext-dev-mode=1” in arguments or by restoring the original msdosfs kext. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phytonix Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 so basiclly, how many hard drive you connect to the system? try to connect the boot drive only. you can use tool from Clover Configurator to mount EFI partition. check to see before install clover you need to format EFI first before clover can install to it. good luck I might try disconnecting other drives. I formated EFI partitions (2 of them, one on each of the drives that make up the fusion drive) as FAT32. After installing Clover nothing appeared in these EFI partition. I saw other tutorials say you need to copy EFI folder in there but I am not sure if it is generally so or only for Fusion drive. It doesn't seem to be booting off the other connected drives though, based on the info on the screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 What is the situation with Fusion Drive? Because there are two EFI partitions effectively. Thanks! Since no one answered that setup is just like a RAID effectively you copy the files to both "Boot OS X" partitions usually the s3 or third slice on each disk, that is what did it for my RAID 0 install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 i have not try the Fusion drive, so for the basic thing work first, just try on one drive. when you know about it, then get to the fusion later, it is not too late for trying thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2072779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.H Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I might try disconnecting other drives. I formated EFI partitions (2 of them, one on each of the drives that make up the fusion drive) as FAT32. After installing Clover nothing appeared in these EFI partition. I saw other tutorials say you need to copy EFI folder in there but I am not sure if it is generally so or only for Fusion drive. It doesn't seem to be booting off the other connected drives though, based on the info on the screen. Did you check "install on ESP" option when installing Clover? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2073588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phytonix Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Did you check "install on ESP" option when installing Clover? Yes I checked both. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2073606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErEr Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I had the same problem time to time. I had getting a problem on boot for msdos.kext failed to load. I think this problem is related with this kext not being loaded. try boot options kext-dev-mode=0. then see if this kext loaded or not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2075149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naujoks Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Apparently Kext Utility currently messes up the singing of some files. That's why kext-dev-mode=0 should fix it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2075516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvsg Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Where can we find (or manually restore) the original `msdos.kext`? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2100109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiethemorris Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Where can we find (or manually restore) the original `msdos.kext`?you should be able to get it from either the installer or the (maybe) combo update with pacifist. BTW as far as I know the latest kext utility does not modify msdosfs anymore. Where can we find (or manually restore) the original `msdos.kext`?you should be able to get it from either the installer or the (maybe) combo update with pacifist. BTW as far as I know the latest kext utility does not modify msdosfs anymore. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/301715-disappearing-efi-partition-with-clover/#findComment-2101142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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