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Clover UEFI Guide

 

 

Before you start

 

Note:

For best experience you should have a NVIDIA or AMD GPU with UEFI VBIOS, almost all cards from 2012 and newer supports it. You can ask your card maker to provide you UEFI BIOS so you can flash your card.

 

 

 

 

 

Prepare the USB stick

Open Disk Utility.
Select your USB stick, click Partition.
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Partition Layout: 1 Partition
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Name: CloverBoot
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Click Options. Select GUID Partition Table. Apply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Install Clover to USB or HDD

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Continue.
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Continue.
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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.
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Select your USB stick or HDD.
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Select "Install for UEFI motherboards", select a Theme and EFI drivers needed for your system.
 
When installing to HDD, also select "Install RC scripts on target volume" and "Install Clover Preference Pane".
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Make sure that it shows "Installation Complete. If not, you have done something wrong.

A common case for failed install is if you already have Clover installed and did not clear nvram before install.

To solve:

Open terminal and type nvram -c

Install Clover again.
 
 
 

Configuring Clover

 

You need to copy your kexts to Clover EFI folder and also edit the configuration file.
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Open /Volumes/EFI or go to Computer and open the EFI partition from there.

Copy your kexts to /EFI/CLOVER/KEXTS/10.9
 
You also need to replace VBoxHfs-64.efi in the drivers64UEFI  folder with HFSPlus.efi

(Apple's HFS driver. Required to boot OSX when creating USB stick using this guide.)
 
 
Edit config.plist
 
 

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Or do it manually by editing the default config.plist file using a text editor or a plist editor like PlistEdit Pro or Xcode.
 
Make sure to read the wiki for explanation: http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration

WARNING: Using the wrong settings may cause damage to your hardware!
 
 
 

Mavericks to USB

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Open terminal and type:
 
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/CloverBoot --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --no interaction
 
It should show:
 
Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 100%...
Copying installer files to disk...
 
Copy complete. 
Making disk bootable...
 
Copying boot files...
Copy complete. 

Done.
 
 
 

UEFI Firmware Settings

 

Press Del or F2 on your keyboard to access firmware settings and go to "Advanced Mode".

 

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If you have a NVIDIA or ATI GPU with UEFI VBIOS, make sure that CMS is disabled.  Else, set it to enabled.
 
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Disable Secure Boot by changing OS Type to "Other OS".
 
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Disable iGP.
 
The above screenshots is from ASUS BIOS. Search Google if you don't know where to find these settings on your board.
 
 
 
 

Installing OSX

 
Boot Clover USB.
 
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Select "Install OS X Mavericks" on the list of bootable OS.

Press space.
 
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Select "with Injected kexts".
 
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Wait....
 
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Click Disk Utility.
 
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Partition. Note: OSX will also create hidden EFI and Recovery partitions.
 
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GPT.
 
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Quit.
 
Click "Install OS X" on the OS X Utilities screen.
 
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Continue.
 
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Agree.
 
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Select OSX HDD/Partition. Click Install.
 
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Wait few minutes, it will reboot when it finishes.

Boot Clover again. Select Install OS X Mavericks and press space. Select Inject kexts.
 
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It will now continue the Installation process. 

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Restart.
 
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Select HDD or Partition where you installed OSX. Press space.
 
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Select "without caches and with injected kexts".
 
 
 
 

Troubleshooting

 

 

 

Coming soon....

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I make USB installer by follow this command. And replace vboxhfs-xx.efi to hfsplus.efi.

I use config.plist form my HDD.

This can boot USB installer from HDD to USB installer partition.

But boot stuck when I boot from USB installer to partition On USB.

I try many time. But it away stuck.

 

Are you try on true machine(not VMware)?

 

 

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I make USB installer by follow this command. And replace vboxhfs-xx.efi to hfsplus.efi.

I use config.plist form my HDD.

This can boot USB installer from HDD to USB installer partition.

But boot stuck when I boot from USB installer to partition On USB.

I try many time. But it away stuck.

 

Are you try on true machine(not VMware)?

 

I try on true machine, and it works for me.

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INSTALL MAVERICKS ON Z87 BOARDS USING CLOVER

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Really nice and clean guide.

5+

But plz can u change this picture with one that have metal theme checked for install.

There are 99999 people here and there that dont install theme and complain about that they have ugly blue GUI without pictures.

Thx.

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Really nice and clean guide.

5+

But plz can u change this picture with one that have metal theme checked for install.

There are 99999 people here and there that dont install theme and complain about that they have ugly blue GUI without pictures.

Thx.

 

Done.

How You Capture Screen?

 

VMware.

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Got to the Install OS X Mavericks screen only by using VBoxHfs-64.efi because using HFSPlus.efi it wouldn't work.  However, neither the installer, Disk Utilities, nor terminal can see my hard drive (my hard drive shows up fine in Clover before I boot into the installer).

 

HP Envy 15-j063cl (Haswell i7).

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Got to the Install OS X Mavericks screen only by using VBoxHfs-64.efi because using HFSPlus.efi it wouldn't work.  However, neither the installer, Disk Utilities, nor terminal can see my hard drive (my hard drive shows up fine in Clover before I boot into the installer).

 

HP Envy 15-j063cl (Haswell i7).

 

I am not sure what method you used to create USB stick, because when you use createinstallmedia to copy Mavericks to USB, it will not boot with VBoxHfs, only with HFSPlus. It is already explained on the ProjectOSX Clover thread: http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2562&view=findpost&p=36492

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Thanks you very much fro the guide.

 

I have followed it through, but no luck.

 

The system hangs up at - *** [iOBlueToothHCIcontroller][ProtectectedBlutetoothHCI controller TransportShowsUp] -- connect to the tansport succesfully

 

Upon research it seems to be a graphic card issue. I am using Quadro 1800FX and I have previously used this video card without UEFI mobo G31M-ES2C successfully.

 

My current hardware specs are:

 

MOBO: GA-B85M-D3H

CPU: Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz

8 GB RAM

nVidia Quadro Fx 1700 512MB

 

Any help?

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