I'm well on my way to getting Yosemite dual booting with my Windows 8 on the same HDD. I understand Clover is the best option for dual booting, but that's about where my knowledge ends.
I created a Clover USB in windows using BootDiskUtility. I did not add/remove any EFI files from the hidden EFI folder on the flash drive used to boot into clover. I then prepared a flash drive with the OS X installer using TransMac (also in Windows).
I can boot into Clover just fine, and select my OS X install disk just fine (i have kext_dev_mode=1 because its Yosemite, and i also added -no-zp because i got constant "Unable to extract files from essentials/BSD.pkg" errors). I press Space and select Verbose+Single user (safe mode gives me kernel panics for some reason). The distro I am using includes a Customize option at install, and one of the options is to install Clover UEFI. I have no idea what this does, because I thought I already was using clover from my flash drive to boot?
Anyway, I select my options and maybe 1/3 attempts at installing Yosemite it finishes and automatically reboots my laptop. Now when I boot back into clover, my new Yosemite install is no where to be found. I did create an HFS+ partition named "Yosemite" and installed it there, but all I see is a Mac Recovery partition and my OS X install flash drive (the rest are windows partitions).
Booting back into the installer, disk utility checks and verifies the Yosemite partition I just installed on, and it shows a high count of files/folders on the partition, so I assume the install is fine?
I'm not posting specs right now because I don't believe it is a hardware thing, but I'd be glad to run CPU-Z if I need to provide that info. Does anyone know why Clover isn't seeing my Yosemite install?
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