Incredibly long Clover r29XX boot times, trying to upgrade from r2795

[jmjak]

First, thanks to everyone that has contributed to Clover development! I really appreciate having a system that behaves more like a real mac. My problem is a minor, but aggravating one. I am using an older, but powerful Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 r 1.3 board. I am still using the R12 AWARD BIOS and haven’t yet upgraded to the more recent UEFI BIOS. I have a stable 10.9.5 system with sleep, sound, iMessage, etc. using the r2795 version of Clover, booting in ~ 13 seconds off a Crucial M4 SSD. Couldn’t be happier with it. I have even installed 10.10 on a separate test SSD and it boots and runs fine with r2795. 

 

The problem is that I am trying to upgrade to Clover r29XX (have tried from r2953 up to the most recent r2988) and am running into incredibly long boot times, over 10 minutes. I’m booting with a Clover setup on a test USB stick (GUID partition, FAT32 formatted using newfs_msdos -v EFI -F 32 /dev/rdisk4s1) and I can get it booting eventually into 10.9.5. I’m using the same HFSPlus-64.efi, DSDT, SSDT, FakeSMC, config.plist, etc. files as the r2795 version on my SSD boot drive. I created the r29XX with a fresh, erased drive. I can tell from the bootlog files from both r2795 and r29XX that there has been some major changes to the way Clover is initialized, which is where I think my problems lie. The most important parts of the respective bootlogs are included below. There are two separate steps in the loading of r29XX Clover before I get to the GUI screen that are taking an incredible amount of time (highlighted in purple). The times are the about the same for both r2953 and r2988. I’ve searched at length on this site to figure out what is going on and how to fix it. I’ve made sure in config.plist that I set Clover not to log on boot and have even tried setting the default boot volume to the USB in the Boot settings in config plist. Because the first long delay occurs before Clover even loads, I doubt the problem lies in config.plist settings.

 

For anyone that is familiar with the changes between r2795 and 29XX, are these long boot times a result of using a USB test drive and/or not using a UEFI BIOS (or both)? I’d really like to be using the most current version of Clover, but it’s frustrating that I might have to wait over 10 minutes for my system to boot up each day. I’m hesitant to install r29XX on my stable SSD boot drive to test if the boot times decrease.

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

 

Bootlog for r2988:

0:100  0:100  MemLog inited, TSC freq: 3309724136

0:100  0:000  LegacyRegion2: Chipset/proc: 0x01008086

0:100  0:000   Next Generation Core processors (PAM 0x80-0x86)

0:100  0:000   Test PAM1=(0x41=90, 0x5a=00, 0x81=11, 0x91=00) at chipset 01008086

0:100  0:000  , Install = Success

1:644  1:544  BiosVideoDriverBindingStart!

1:644  0:000  BiosVideoCheckForVbe

1:644  0:000  EdidOverride not found

1:676  0:032   Edid1+

1:676  0:000   found Detail Timing 1920x1080

1:708  0:032   Edid0+

1:708  0:000   found Detail Timing 1920x1080

1:708  0:000  ... already present

1:721  0:012     0 1152x864 attr=BB - ok, edid+, working, highest, pref=0

1:722  0:001     1 1280x960 attr=BB - ok, edid-

1:723  0:000     2 640x480 attr=BB - ok, edid+, 640x480, working

1:723  0:000     3 800x600 attr=BB - ok, edid+, 800x600, working

1:724  0:000     4 1024x768 attr=BB - ok, edid+, 1024x768, working

1:724  0:000     5 1280x1024 attr=BB - ok, edid+, working, highest, pref=5

1:726  0:002     6 1400x1050 attr=BB - ok, edid-

1:736  0:009  BV new mode: 5 1280x1024

1:918  0:182   SetMode pref 5 (5) = Success

314:293  312:374  

314:293  0:000  Now is 1.11.2014,  12:34:5 (GMT+2047)

314:293  0:000  Starting Clover rev 2988 on CLOVER EFI

314:293  0:000  SelfDevicePath=PcieRoot(0x0)\Pci(0x1A,0x0)\USB(0x0,0x0)\USB(0x4,0x0)\USB(0x0,0x0)\HD(1,MBR,0x00000000,0x2,0x1DC2B8) @DDD89B18

314:293  0:000  SelfDirPath = \EFI\CLOVER

314:293  0:000  Total Memory Slots Count = 4

314:293  0:000  Type 17 Index = 0

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

314:293  0:000  Type 17 Index = 1

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

314:293  0:000  Type 17 Index = 2

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

314:293  0:000  Type 17 Index = 3

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

314:293  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

314:293  0:000  Boot status=0

314:293  0:000  Clover revision: 2988  running on Z68X-UD3H-B3

314:293  0:000  ... with board Z68X-UD3H-B3

314:293  0:000  Clover load options size = 0 bytes

314:328  0:035  Using OEM config.plist at path: EFI\CLOVER\config.plist

314:328  0:000  EFI\CLOVER\config.plist loaded: Success

314:341  0:012  Found theme bootcamp

314:368  0:026  Loading early settings

314:368  0:000  timeout set to 1

314:368  0:000  Custom boot CUSTOM_BOOT_APPLE (0x0)

314:368  0:000  KextsToPatch: 1 requested

314:368  0:000  KextToPatch 0: AppleAHCIPort (External icons patch) Kext bin patch, data len: 8

314:368  0:000  Default theme: bootcamp

314:368  0:000  LoadDrivers() start

314:386  0:017  Loading FSInject-64.efi

314:399  0:012  load image status=Success

314:399  0:000  Loading HFSPlus-64.efi

314:429  0:030  load image status=Success

314:429  0:000   - driver needs connecting

314:429  0:000  1 drivers needs connecting ...

314:429  0:000  PlatformDriverOverrideProtocol not found. Installing ... Success

627:227  312:797  LoadDrivers() end

627:227  0:000  SetScreenResolution: 1280x1024 - already set

 

bootlog for r2795

0:100  0:100  MemLog inited, TSC freq: 3309713163

0:100  0:000  

0:100  0:000  Now is 1.11.2014,  0:50:21 (GMT+2047)

0:100  0:000  Starting Clover rev 2795 on TianoCore.org EFI

0:100  0:000  SelfDevicePath=PcieRoot(0x0)\Pci(0x1F,0x2)\Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)\HD(1,GPT,51A4FFB2-A66B-404A-A85B-F2E30F9507A0,0x28,0x64000) @DDEA1998

0:100  0:000  SelfDirPath = \EFI\BOOT

0:100  0:000  UnicodeCollation Status=Success

0:100  0:000  Total Memory Slots Count = 4

0:100  0:000  Type 17 Index = 0

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

0:100  0:000  Type 17 Index = 1

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

0:100  0:000  Type 17 Index = 2

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

0:100  0:000  Type 17 Index = 3

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Speed = 1600

0:100  0:000  SmbiosTable.Type17->Size = 4096

0:100  0:000  Boot status=0

0:100  0:000  Clover revision: 2795  running on Z68X-UD3H-B3

0:100  0:000  ... with board Z68X-UD3H-B3

0:100  0:000  Clover load options size = 0 bytes

0:101  0:001  Using OEM config.plist at path: EFI\CLOVER\config.plist

0:102  0:000  EFI\CLOVER\config.plist loaded: Success

0:102  0:000  Found theme bootcamp

0:103  0:000  Loading early settings

0:103  0:000  timeout set to 5

0:103  0:000  Custom boot CUSTOM_BOOT_APPLE (0x0)

0:103  0:000  Default theme: bootcamp

0:103  0:000  LoadDrivers() start

0:103  0:000  Loading FSInject-64.efi

0:103  0:000  Loading OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi

0:104  0:000  Loading HFSPlus-64.efi

0:104  0:000   - driver needs connecting

0:104  0:000  Loading EmuVariableUefi-64.efi

0:104  0:000  EmuVariableUefi Initialize: VariableCommonInitialize = Success, orig services stored, install gEmuVariableControlProtocolGuid = Success

0:105  0:001  1 drivers needs connecting ...

0:105  0:000  PlatformDriverOverrideProtocol->GetDriver overriden

0:105  0:000  Searching for invalid DiskIo BY_DRIVER connects: not found, all ok

 

5:167  5:061  LoadDrivers() end

[K2`]

Just wanted to chime into this one. I had a similar problem with it stalling at the same spot for about 4 mins before booting into clover menu. I changed my EFI over to BiosBlockIO and it fixed my booting issues. (r3033)

[jmjak]

Thanks K2'; this worked perfectly!