Switch from Chameleon to Clover and viceversa without reinstall

[PippoX0]

Hi,

I want share my experience:

I have installed Enoch on my system ( legacy and MBR ) and all works fine.

I have osx Lion , MLion, Mavericks , Yosemite , El Capitan and Windows XP.

 

Because i like to experiment , i have created a Clover USB pen to boot into Hd and after i have configured it , i have been able to boot to all OSes without iusses.

 

Then the problem was to install Clover on Hd and because i didn't want to loose my prior bootloader , i do so :

 

On my hd active partition i had

 

/Extra folder and /boot

 

Then i renamed /boot to /boot-e

And i have copied

/Efi folder and boot file from Clover USB pen. Reboot

Voilà

Clover boots fine from hd and when i want to boot Enoch , i change boot file on Hd and reboot.

 

No iusses , no reinstall bootloader anymore to switch from Clover to Enoch and viceversa.

 

Hint: it works because i have a legacy pc with MBR partitions and /Extra and /Efi folders don't interfere each other.

 

However i think it should be fine also with GPT and EFI partition.

I didn't try yet

 

P.S.

I'm writing an Osx application to do the task:

- rename /copy / switch boot file

- reboot system.

 

When i have done it , i will post here

 

See Ya

 

 

 

 

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[Slice]

Since 2012 I have this feature

boot1f32alt installed on EFI partition

boot1 is Chameleon

boot5 is Clover

At start I have 2 seconds pause to choose.

Press 1 - boot Chameleon

Press 5 - boot Clover

no press boot default. In my case it is Clover.

[PippoX0]

Hi Slice,

thanks you.

To be able to choose which bootloader to run at booting time is the best solution ...

 

I will try it

 

 

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