Mavericks reinstall: Logical volume group / partition issues w. Clover

[Maik-]

My HD started dying so I just reinstalled my 10.9 system which ran stable for 2 years + now to a brand new toshiba 3 TB HD but I’m having trouble with partitions.

I ran the Mavericks install stick, with disc utility I deleted the blank disk creating one volume (or so I thought) and restored from time machine backup.

I have a running system now (starting up from my old clover usb bootstick) but I cant install clover to the HD - it installs to the main hd root instead of the EFI partition. I’m trying with the very old version 2999 - I just want the system up and running again quick exactly as before - but the trouble seems to be the automatically created logical volume group: Core storage made a logical volume I didn’t want, so the EFI partition is on a different disk.

Heres the failed clover install log:
 

Clover EFI installer log - Thu Jan  5 21:30:39 CET 2017
Installer version: v2k r2999 EFI bootloader
======================================================
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         3.0 TB     disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Hurx                   *3.0 TB     disk1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 GB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS KLEE                    1.9 GB     disk2s1
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Dreier                  3.0 TB     disk3s2
======================================================
Backing up EFI files

Backing up stage2 file /Volumes/Hurx/EFIROOTDIR/boot  to /Volumes/Hurx/EFI-Backups/r2999/2017-01-05-21h30/boot
Backing up /Volumes/Hurx/EFIROOTDIR/EFI folder to /Volumes/Hurx/EFI-Backups/r2999/2017-01-05-21h30/EFI
Stage 2 - Written boot6 (x64) to //boot
======================================================
Installing RC Scripts



======================================================
=========== Clover EFI Installation Finish ===========
======================================================

And here ist diskutil output (disk2 is the usb stick, the rest should be *one* disk):

i7:~ maik$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         3.0 TB     disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Hurx                   *3.0 TB     disk1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 GB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS KLEE                    1.9 GB     disk2s1


i7:~ maik$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 856C33D6-F164-4CC8-8064-8E2139F8FB35
    =========================================================
    Name:         Hurx
    Status:       Online
    Size:         3000249008128 B (3.0 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 
    |
    +-< Physical Volume EF576C5E-9EE6-4A99-8BB6-5F2C2145ADD0
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     3000249008128 B (3.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 67DBEF2B-7D2A-404D-80A8-47FCB7ED8741
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 5B48D2C6-B826-42A1-91A1-B9813D34F291
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          2999913455616 B (3.0 TB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Hurx
            Volume Name:           Hurx
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

It says revertible: no
How can I fix this? Why hasn’t this happened on the first install? Is it the disk size?
Thanks!
 

[0000-1248]

Yeah mate, biggest HFS+ partition size (without corruption) is 2 TB. You can use a 3TB disk with OS X, but you will encounter lots of problems. Go ahead and format it so that it has 2TB and 1TB partitions. Reinstall OS X to the 2 TB partition and you should be good to go.

 

Best regards,

 

- Matt

[Maik-]

Cheers for the reply. Didn't expect disk size to be an issue nowadays ... will have to find some extra backup space & resintall w. 2+1 gb partitions.