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Click 'Change Install Location' to select where you want to install Clover. Click 'Customize' to select what you want to install. Apr 11, 2018 - More videos on YouTube. You need to use a FAT32 formatted drive to support booting in both the UEFI and the Legacy BIOS. Download Clover Bootloader ISO here. Open this file and continue to open the folder until you see an ISO file. Continue to open the ISO file and copy all the folders to the drive.
So you’ve locked yourself out of macOS by making changes to your Clover EFI folder and you don’t have a backup to get back in. Fortunately there is a way to make changes to your EFI partition on Windows in case this happens to you.
Step 1. Mount EFI Partition on Windows
In order to be able to access the macOS EFI partition on Windows we first need to mount it. There are a couple ways to mount an EFI partition, in my opinion the simplest way is to give it a drive letter.
- Install MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition
- Open MiniTool Partition Wizard
- Right-Click the EFI partition and click Change Letter
- Select an unused drive letter (I picked Z:)
- Click Apply
- Apply pending Changes? : Yes
- Click OK
The EFI partition will not be mounted as you can see in Windows Exporer, but you wont have permission to access or edit it just yet.
Step 2. Access & Edit EFI partition on Windows
In order to open the EFI partition on Windows and be able to make changes to it’s contents we are going to use a third party program called Explorer++
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- Download Explorer++
- Unzip explorer++.zip by right-clicking the zip file and selecting Extract All… and click Extract
- Open the now unzipped explorer++ folder
- Right-Click Explorer++ and select Run as administrator
- You should now see your EFI folder which you can open and make changes too through the Explorer++ program.
Done.
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Clover Bootloader is a great boot loader, it supports both UEFI and Legacy. This article will guide you how to install Clover Bootloader on USB from Windows and Linux.Clover Bootloader
What is Clover Bootloader? Perhaps it is too familiar for Hackintosh users, Clover is a specially designed boot loader that allows us to boot and install macOS on a non-Mac computer. Clover also supports booting many other OS such as Windows, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
Clover Bootloader supports booting in both UEFI and Legacy modes. Interestingly, it supports UEFI firmware emulation, this allows us to boot into UEFI mode from Legacy mode. It is capable of booting .efi files even if Clover is booted in Legacy BIOS. You can also use the commands in UEFI Shell from Clover to do some things like moving, renaming files…
AIO Boot has been supporting Clover since its initial release. This is the solution you can use Clover, Grub2, Grub4dos, rEFInd and Enoch Chameleon on just one drive.
Clover has an installer and an ISO file. Its installer only supports macOS, so we just have to use the ISO file to install Clover on USB from Windows and Linux.
- You need to use a FAT32 formatted drive to support booting in both the UEFI and the Legacy BIOS. Supports USB and HDD, MBR and GPT.
- Download Clover Bootloader ISOhere. Its ISO file was compressed into a file named CloverISO-4428.tar.lzma. This is a 64-bit version, the 32-bit version has been discontinued.
- Open this file and continue to open the folder until you see an ISO file. I use 7-Zip to do this.
- Continue to open the ISO file and copy all the folders to the drive. There are 3 directories that we need to extract: EFI, Library and usr.
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If you want to install Clover on the EFI partition on Windows, simply use the
mountvol
or diskpart
and 7-Zip commands under Admin.- Run Command Prompt under Admin (right click and select Run as Administrator). Use the following command to mount the EFI partition to the Z: drive.
- Run 7-Zip File Manager under Admin and extract Clover to drive Z:.
- Unmount Z:.
With these simple steps, you can install the Clover Bootloader on Windows and Linux without using the installer on macOS. However, you can only boot it in UEFI mode, if you want to install Clover Legacy, use the Clover Legacy Installer.
Clover Legacy Installer
Clover Legacy Installer is a program that I wrote to help us install Clover Legacy in just one click. However, currently it only supports running on Windows, for Linux you can use
dd
to install as instructed here. After installation, you will be able to boot Clover in Legacy BIOS mode. This makes it possible to boot and install macOS in this mode.- Download Clover Legacy Installer and extract the .exe files inside.
- Copy the CloverLegacyInstaller.exe file to the drive where Clover was extracted.
- Run CloverLegacyInstaller.exe to install Clover Legacy. Supported on Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10.
Restart the machine or boot USB in VirtualBox and VMware virtual machine for testing.
If Clover reports “boot0ss: Error“, try Active for the FAT32 drive where you installed Clover. Here I will use diskpart to do this. Run Command Prompt under Admin and use the following commands:
G: is the drive where I installed Clover.
Configuration
Clover Configurator is a well known application used to configure Clover. Unfortunately, this application does not support the Windows and Linux versions. We can configure Clover as guide from its official site, see here.
The Clover configuration file is /EFI/CLOVER/config.plist. You can edit this file to configure Clover such as change theme, SMBIOS, Arguments…
The Clover driver is located in the /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI directory (for UEFI) and /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64 (for Legacy). Unused drivers will be located in /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-Off directory. You just need to move or delete the .efi file to enable or disable the driver. Since macOS High Sierra, Apple has announced a new filesystem called APFS. Clover will not support this partition until it has APFS driver (apfs.efi). The apfs.efi file can be found in the macOS installer or in the Clover.img file of the Clover Boot Disk. To boot macOS on the Hackintosh, copy the OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi file from the drivers-Off to drivers64UEFI directory.
With these simple steps, we can easily install Clover Bootloader from Windows and Linux. Good luck!
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