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Austin James Andres edited this page Sep 19, 2015 · 16 revisions

Manually Create An Installation Media

  1. Format USB Stick & Install Clover:

    1. Format an 8GB USB 2.0 stick with an MBR partition map.
    2. Create a 200MB FAT32 partition labeled "EFI".
    3. Using the remaining space, create an hfs+ partition labeled "install_osx".
    4. Install Clover for UEFI Booting to the EFI partition, selecting the OSXAptioFix2 driver and Bluemac theme when prompted.
    5. Add the HFSPlus driver from the CLOVER/tools/drivers64UEFI folder of the repository to the same folder on the EFI partition of the installation USB.
    6. Add RehabMan's branches of FakeSMC and VoodooPS2 to the CLOVER/kexts/Other folder - these are the only kexts needed during installation.

  2. Next, clone the base binaries to the the hfs+ partition:

    1. mkdir /tmp/install_esd
    2. hdiutil attach "/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" -readonly -mountpoint /tmp/install_esd -nobrowse
    3. sudo asr restore -source /tmp/install_esd/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_osx -erase -format HFS+ -noprompt
    4. diskutil rename "OS X Base System" install_osx
    5. rm /Volumes/install_osx/System/Installation/Packages
    6. cp -a /tmp/install_esd/Packages /Volumes/install_osx/System/Installation
    7. cp -a /tmp/install_esd/BaseSystem.dmg /tmp/install_esd/BaseSystem.chunklist /Volumes/install_osx
    8. hdiutil detach /tmp/install_esd
    9. rmdir /tmp/install_esd

  3. Replace the config.plist in the USB's CLOVER directory with the one located in the repository's INSTALLATION directory.

Boot From USB & Format Target Disk

  1. Either set your BIOS to boot from USB, or use F12 to manually select it from the boot menu to reach the Clover boot menu, and select "Install OS X". Without graphics acceleration, it will take upwards of 3-4 minutes to fully boot into the language selection screen of the OSX installer. Be patient.

  2. Use disk utility to format your HDD with a GUID/GPT partition map with one HFS+ partition labeled as you like. Optional: It is at this point that I now reboot the machine back into the OSX installer and select my newly created partition when prompted, rather than exiting disk utility continuing the original installation. I have less issues with OSX converting my HDD to CoreStorage, among other things. Read the entire "Post-Installation" section before rebooting after the installation successfully completes.

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