Clover General discussion

[Allan]

5 hours ago, Hackmac101 said:

If Clover is going to GitHub, having a GitHub wiki would be easier for people to update, and translate.

Hmmm that's a better way! 

[LockDown]

In KextsToPatch:

<string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string>

and

<string>AppleUSBXHCI</string>

Same?

[apianti]

On 4/14/2018 at 8:56 PM, Allan said:

Would be a great idea to update it. If anyone have the complete knowledge about Clover, we can create a "second" Wiki here in IM.

What do you think?

Yeah, I don't care, I rarely maintain it, lol. And it's impossible with the current wiki at the moment...

On 4/15/2018 at 3:21 AM, Hackmac101 said:

If Clover is going to GitHub, having a GitHub wiki would be easier for people to update, and translate.

No one said this was for sure happening. I just made a comment that it could be a possibility to mirror the repo there. But SF has a wiki as well, it just sucked, maybe it has been updated with the site, haven't checked.

40 minutes ago, ellaosx said:

In KextsToPatch:

<string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string>

and

<string>AppleUSBXHCI</string>

Same?

Ummmm.... Last time I checked, no. The strings will be partially matched, so the first will only match that driver, but the second may match more. I could be wrong though as I know there was some discussion about changing the matching because of multiple patching wrong drivers. Although, the solution may have just been to put the full identity for problematic identities.

Edited April 16, 2018 by apianti

[FredWst]

12 hours ago, ellaosx said:

In KextsToPatch:

<string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string>

and

<string>AppleUSBXHCI</string>

Same?

Using first syntax is the best way, already discussed many posts ago.

If u use second one, clover will try to patch everything matching that name ... no good, because if patch can be applied (if no luck)  probably system will not be able to reach desktop. 

Fred

 

Edited April 16, 2018 by FredWst

[vector sigma]

25 minutes ago, FredWst said:

Using first syntax is the best way, already discussed many posts ago.

If u use second one, clover will try to patch everything matching that name ... no good, because if patch can be applied (if no luck)  probably system will not be able to reach desktop. 

Fred

 

Just out of curiosity and for my ignorance, if "AppleUSBXHCI" is the "<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>" inside your prelinked kernel or memory map, how can Clover fails on this? I mean, is there any chance that an executable is there twice?

Thanks

Edited April 16, 2018 by vector sigma

[FredWst]

31 minutes ago, vector sigma said:

Just out of curiosity and for my ignorance, if "AppleUSBXHCI" is the "<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>" inside your prelinked kernel or memory map, how can Clover fails on this? I mean, is there any chance that an executable is there twice?

Thanks

As far as I can remember, I was having trouble with some patch for bluetooth and Wifi.

It was the reason why I investigated in this direction. ( in debug mode I saw many line of log where clover tried to patch kext not related to what it was supposed to do) 

Take a look link I put in previous post above.

Fred

[vector sigma]

Thanks @FredWst

[telepati]

Guys I am starting to get this; What is it;

[el_charlie]

58 minutes ago, telepati said:

Guys I am starting to get this; What is it;

That app is a 32bit app and Apple, starting yesterday in 10.13.4, began showing that message when you run 32bit apps. They will end support for 32bit soon. IDK when. Maybe on 10.14.

Edited April 16, 2018 by el_charlie

[RobertX]

...well, I'm using clover , letting it configure smbios values automatically...can I inject only a serial number without creating an entire smbios.plist file?...without changing anything else hopefully  ...thx in advance...

 

Edit: please forgive my sleep-deprived brain....this can be safely removed by moderators....

Edited April 17, 2018 by RobertX
realized I already had the solution at hand(clover)

[LockDown]

3 hours ago, telepati said:

Guys I am starting to get this; What is it;

I use this workaround https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/32-bit-application-alert-message-in-macos-10-13-4/

[Slice]

7 hours ago, el_charlie said:

That app is a 32bit app and Apple, starting yesterday in 10.13.4, began showing that message when you run 32bit apps. They will end support for 32bit soon. IDK when. Maybe on 10.14.

Since now the CloverUpdater will be 64 bits application.

Will check others utilities.

[apianti]

I have set up the SF wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/wiki, if you are a member of the project you can already edit. If you would like to edit it please ask and I will give you permission to edit. Is there any one willing to port and update the wiki from here (https://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Home) ?

[SavageAUS]

16 hours ago, telepati said:

Guys I am starting to get this; What is it;

Working ok here 10.13.5 B1

[telepati]

12 minutes ago, SavageAUS said:

Working ok here 10.13.5 B1

I made clean install last night after that I am starting to get this warning and not just for clover some Adobe Apps also show this warning. But, it's working. It just shows in the first opening. It does not show again.

[LockDown]

Hi

Is there a way in bdmesg to tell if clover has been booted in UEFI mode? Of course i can tell it myself, but im just curious in bdmesg. What string should i look for in bdmesg output?

[apianti]

1 hour ago, ellaosx said:

Hi

Is there a way in bdmesg to tell if clover has been booted in UEFI mode? Of course i can tell it myself, but im just curious in bdmesg. What string should i look for in bdmesg output?

Yes, near the start the log tells you the firmware vendor, CLOVEREFI is legacy booting, anything else is UEFI.

[Sherlocks]

On 2018. 4. 5. at 7:40 PM, Cyberdevs said:

Update:

macOS is detected as macOS and OS X is detected as OS X all is working as they supposed to. I tested Yosemite, El Capitan, macOS Sierra and High Sierra

Thanks again

@Cyberdevs

name issue is fixed on r4443

enjoy:)

[Cyberdevs]

9 hours ago, Sherlocks said:

@Cyberdevs

name issue is fixed on r4443

enjoy:)

Thanks a lot man

I have a question regarding the themes, whenever I update my clover the embedded theme will be installed automatically even thought I don't select the themes to be installed, I know that embedded theme is the default theme, so after each update I have to delete them manually, the question is: Is that possible to add a feature to the installer to disable the installation of the embedded theme specially when other themes are present in the "Themes" folder.

Let's say like: if the theme folder is not empty so the embedded theme shouldn't be installed otherwise it can and will be installed?

Edited April 19, 2018 by Cyberdevs

[Slice]

The "embedded" word means that the theme is present inside binaries of CloverX64.efi. You can't delete it.

[Cyberdevs]

44 minutes ago, Slice said:

The "embedded" word means that the theme is present inside binaries of CloverX64.efi. You can't delete it.

so if understand correctly the CloverX64.efi will check the themes folder and if the config.plist points out to a specific theme it will be loaded otherwise the "embedded" theme will be loaded automatically.

[Slice]

1 hour ago, Cyberdevs said:

so if understand correctly the CloverX64.efi will check the themes folder and if the config.plist points out to a specific theme it will be loaded otherwise the "embedded" theme will be loaded automatically.

embedded theme will be used automatically. There is no need to load it, it is already here.

[Cyberdevs]

58 minutes ago, Slice said:

embedded theme will be used automatically. There is no need to load it, it is already here.

What I'm saying is that the clover installer installs it anyway, regardless of wether it's being selected or not and you're saying that it's embedded in the CloverX64.efi so if the themes folder is empty it will be loaded from the CloverX64.efi. Right? 

 

These are some before/after screenshots just to illustrate more clear. 

Edited April 19, 2018 by Cyberdevs

[Slice]

The empty folder is needed to show the embedded theme in Clover prefPanel.

The embedded theme is never loaded. It is always here.

[Cyberdevs]

2 minutes ago, Slice said:

The empty folder is needed to show the embedded theme in Clover prefPanel.

The embedded theme is never loaded. It is always here.

Ok, I see. Thanks for the explanations.