I recently tried installing vanilla Yosemite via Clover on my Lenovo Z580 (i7 3520M, 8GB 2x4GB ram), and I have multiple problems. The installer loads fine (I get the OS X Utilities screen when it finishes booting, it's not solely the installer), and I can start the installer just fine.
However, my first problem lies in that I cannot get Disk Utility to perform any actions on unallocated space of my internal HDD. Whenever I attempt to make a HFS+ journaled partition out of ~80gb of free space, Disk Utility hangs on "preparing to partition," and the progress bar loads continually. I can close the Disk Utility window without causing and harm to my data, so I'm assuming my HDD isn't mounted/can't be accessed for some reason?
Lastly, when I attempt to install Yosemite to an external 128gb USB (3.0) flash drive, the installer proceeds just fine and actually makes it to the end. It hangs on "about a second remaining" for around 5 minutes then tells me that there was "an error preparing the installation." Isn't this an error that usually occurs prior to installation, not at the very end? This doesn't seem to even have done anything, because the flash drive is still empty (save for the .Trashes folder) when I check it by Terminal after the install.
To my knowledge, the installer doesn't create a recovery partition until after the first reboot, so I shouldn't need to be making 2 partitions or leaving unallocated space on the flash drive because the installer will do that after the first reboot, correct?
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