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Hi, I have a Hackintosh triple boot with Yosemite, Windows 7, and Ubuntu. I wanted to add Linux Mint but when I did, Clover displays only one Linux distribution. When I select that choice it takes me to the Grub boot loader where I can select either distribution. What I want is for Clover to display both Linux distributions independently and avoid the grub boot loader. Any idea how to do this?

 

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@abxnightpilot,

 

That happens because Linux Mint uses Ubuntu as its base and grubx64.efi is installed in the folder /EFI/ubuntu when Mint is installed in UEFI mode.  You can actually rename the folder /EFI/linuxmint in the EFI partition and get a linux Mint icon instead of the Ubuntu one at the Clover Main Menu :).

 

Alternatively, if you want bypass UEFI Grub altogether, you can install VBoxExt4-64.efi in /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64 or /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI.  Clover is then able to directly boot the linux kernel stub (for the newer linux kernels) eg on my desktop with Linux Mint 17.1 installed in UEFI mode:

 

Boot Ubuntu EFI boot menu from EFI ---> runs grubx64.efi to launch Mint

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Boot vmlinuz from xxxx (Ext 4 / partition name) --->  runs the linux kernel directly to launch Mint

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