MacNB Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 (edited) Recently transition from ###### to Clover. All work great on my raging Dell530 (with Quad-core Xeon E5450). I can triple boot Snow-Leopard, Mavericks or Yosemite. Really love the way clover does dynamic patching. Decided to add a second drive that had the original Dell-installed Windows Vista. Question for the community: Is it even possible to boot legacy Vista on the second drive using Clover ? I ask because I cannot. I have searched and all topics discuss UEFI boot which is OK for Win7 and up. Vista does not support UEFI boot. And this good old Dell only has BIOS. Clover GUI lists two new partitions after the Recovery HD partition. The last one is called "Boot Windows from OS" (screenshot0): When I hit enter, the screen clears to black and Clover windows badge is displayed but does not boot. If I hit enter again, I see the Clover GUI again. It just will not boot Vista. Disk details are as shown: OSX-YS-Pro:~ MacNB$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS OSX-SL 803.3 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_HFS OSX-MV 153.3 GB disk0s3 4: Apple_HFS OSX-YS 42.4 GB disk0s4 5: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s5 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk1 1: DOS_FAT_16 DellUtility 74.0 MB disk1s1 2: Windows_NTFS RECOVERY 10.7 GB disk1s2 3: Windows_NTFS OS 739.3 GB disk1s3 OSX-YS-Pro:~ MacNB$ OSX-YS-Pro:~ MacNB$ sudo fdisk440 /dev/disk1 Password: Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors] Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1: 06 0 1 1 - 8 254 63 [ 63 - 144522] DOS > 32MB 2: 07 9 13 5 - 1023 254 63 [ 145408 - 20971520] NTFS *3: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 21116928 - 1444028416] NTFS 4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused OSX-YS-Pro:~ MacNB$ FDISK shows that the 3rd partition is ACTIVE on the Vista drive (disk1). Clover is installed on EFI partition on the OS X drive (disk0). Config.plist attached. debug.log attached. If I boot from a Chameleon USB-stick, I can select the OS partition and it boots, but Clover does not. Edit: I can boot Vista via the BIOS by hitting F12 and selecting the vista hdd. screenshot0.bmp MacNB-debug.log.zip MacNB-config.plist.zip MacNB-530-Generic.zip Edited April 6, 2018 by MacNB Updated Config.plist & DSDT.aml Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/305717-clover-cannot-boot-vista-installed-on-second-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNB Posted April 17, 2015 Author Share Posted April 17, 2015 UPDATE: I solved the problem. The answer to my own question is: YES you can boot legacy windows (non-UEFI) via Clover. The problem was this : <key>Legacy</key> <string>LegacyBiosDefault</string> <key>LegacyBiosDefaultEntry</key> <integer>2</integer> That config is for UEFI bios booting in legacy. For BIOS-only boot (like my old system), I changed it to : <key>Legacy</key> <string>PBR</string> That makes Vista boot. The only, small problem is that I cannot boot the small Windows Recovery partition. When selected, there's an error "Missing BOOTMGR". Press Alt-Ctl-Del to restart. Normally this recovery partition is entered via F8 during POST but that does not work (presumably because the windows drive is not drive 0). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/305717-clover-cannot-boot-vista-installed-on-second-drive/#findComment-2128922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
intruder16 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 I'm curious. Why would you use Vista for? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/305717-clover-cannot-boot-vista-installed-on-second-drive/#findComment-2129036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNB Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 I'm curious. Why would you use Vista for? Good question. Vista really is {censored}...takes couple of minutes to boot and 15 minutes after booting to get to a state of being able to do anything. During this time, the gui is totally unresponsive. The HDD is ALWAYS thrashing away....then there are constant updates...blah...blah. On the same kit, Yosemite boots within a minute and is literally ready for work. e.g. I can start Numbers App with a large spreadsheet and it loads almost instantaneously. BUT it's the original windows OS that came with the system installed. It's the only one windows OS I "own"...everything else is OS X. It's there in case I need to run certain Windows apps. I bought FOUR copies of Snow Leopard for £80 and upgraded some to Mavericks and Yosemite for free. I am loathed to buy ONE copy of windows upgrade for £80 to upgrade to Win 8. Especially when I do not expect Win 8 to be any better as the architecture is fundamentally the same...awful. I might upgrade to Win 10 if it's free. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/305717-clover-cannot-boot-vista-installed-on-second-drive/#findComment-2129195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
intruder16 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 ....I might upgrade to Win 10 if it's free. Only for Windows 7 and 8.1 users if you upgrade within a year of launch (then free for lifetime). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/305717-clover-cannot-boot-vista-installed-on-second-drive/#findComment-2129386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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