Racemus Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Hello. I need help with some strange issue. I used my home hackintosh for a long time without DVD drive. Disabled it at one moment to free sata connector. Now I need it and when I plug it in, clover won't start. Just underscore cursor stay on screen. What it can be? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NX9420MAX Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Same thing is happening to me. I have to unplug my dvd drive to boot to installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2203321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NX9420MAX Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Racemus Have you figure it out yet? I can hot connect the dvd drive and works but clover won't boot with it. First time running into this. Let me know if you have figure out why. Thanks a bunch Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2209058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racemus Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 No, I haven't. Hope somebody here can help. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2209310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperion123 Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Sorry to revive this old thread, but did anyone ever figure this out? I'm having exactly the same problem. This same hardware configuration (with optical drive plugged in) worked fine on Mountain Lion / 10.8... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2268602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racemus Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 I didn't find any solution Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2269358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperion123 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 I actually got this working by disabling the optical drive as a bootable device in the motherboard's BIOS. (I have an Asus P5K Deluxe). So now, the boot priority order is just "hard drives", then "removable (USB) device." In the "hard drives" category, my SSD with Clover on its EFI partition comes first. Now Clover starts as expected. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2269409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racemus Posted September 6, 2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2016 I have such settings by default and it doesn't help. I'm also have ASUS (P7P55D-E EVO). I tried to connect DVD-drive to additional Marvell SATA controller that is onboard and it passes Clover, but work very strange in OS X - I don't see it in devices in finder, eject buttons (on drive and on keyboard) won't work. Only see it in "About This Mac" -> "Storage" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2274409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racemus Posted September 6, 2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2016 I found source of the problem. It's a "CloverEFI 64-bits using Bios Block I/O to access drives" option I choose to connect my main SSD drive to high speed Marvell SATA controller. If I install Clover with "CloverEFI 64-bits using SATA to access drives" it won't work with Marvell SATA controller, and I need to connect my SSD to SATA2, but my DVD works. If I install Clover with "CloverEFI 64-bits using Bios Block I/O to access drives" it works with Marvell, but i lose my DVD drive. This is dilemma Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/309586-clover-wont-start-with-dvd-drive/#findComment-2274436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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