golip Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 hi guys Newbie here so bear with me so i picked up a dell 6230 a few days ago and after some research decided to install el capitan on it the laptop already had windows 7 and a recovery partition on it and a system partition of 300mb i shrank the win 7 partition and made a ntfs to install osx on i then converted my disk from non gpt to gpt using aomei partition software i then prepared a usb installer using chris111's app v7 (took ages) i then ensured UEFI was selected in my bios and booted from clover usb installed el capitan on the now HFS reformatted spare ntfs partition from earlier installed clover with options selected , ie rc scripts etc i didnt choose boot0af or boot0ss for bootloader option PROBLEM: i cannot boot my installed el capitan partition without plugging in the clover usb and selecting my el capitan partition Tried adding boot arguments in bios and using easy UEFI still no go can anyone point me in the right direction ?? when i was adding boot arguments all i see if EFI/EFI64 etc nothing else , on other guides i have seen other folders which i am missing but i cant be sure i would love someone to solve this as i feel i have done well to get this far without breaking my win 7 install (Which always boot by default unless i use clover USB) I want to keep my win 7 working but just solve the annoyance of having to use the USB to boot in to clover bootloader and my osx install. ps any help to get the wifi and sound to work would also be appreciated sorry about long post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/313923-cant-get-clover-bootloader-to-start-without-usb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Do you have FakeSMC.kext ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/313923-cant-get-clover-bootloader-to-start-without-usb/#findComment-2262088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golip Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 Yeah I have fake smc.kext is there any way to check to be sure ? Also after hours I got sound to work by saying its layout is was 3 in clover config and updating config file but now my Ethernet which was working has stopped assume a kext has gone missing Any ideas of booting to clover bootloader without the USB attached ? Should I install to UEFI in clover instead of esp ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/313923-cant-get-clover-bootloader-to-start-without-usb/#findComment-2262115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Are you sure boot from USB and from HDD both UEFI? Or may be legacy? Check boot.log. Are you sure EFI folder on USB is the same as on HDD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/313923-cant-get-clover-bootloader-to-start-without-usb/#findComment-2262148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
golip Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 Hi I'll check the boot folder but if I replace the boot folder on the efi partition of HD with one from the USB won't that mess up my installed kext and config file I already have on my efi ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/313923-cant-get-clover-bootloader-to-start-without-usb/#findComment-2262255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 won't Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/313923-cant-get-clover-bootloader-to-start-without-usb/#findComment-2265919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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