How do I permanently delete all of my Clover Boot/UEFI options for truly clean install

[nolanjames]

think this is my main issue. I need to permanently get rid of these clover boot flags that keep popping up despite me trying to erase them.

 

I have a dual boot system. I have Win 10 on one drive and my attempt at an OSX on a 500 GB drive

 

I have an MSI motherboard

 

How do I delete all of the entries so I can get fresh install? Do I need to reinstall my main bios on motherboard from Windows? Would formatting/erasing my Mac hard drive in Windows get rid of entries ?

 

This has been so frustrating since the entries even appeared after what I thought was fresh install

[Cyberdevs]

think this is my main issue. I need to permanently get rid of these clover boot flags that keep popping up despite me trying to erase them.

 

I have a dual boot system. I have Win 10 on one drive and my attempt at an OSX on a 500 GB drive

 

I have an MSI motherboard

 

How do I delete all of the entries so I can get fresh install? Do I need to reinstall my main bios on motherboard from Windows? Would formatting/erasing my Mac hard drive in Windows get rid of entries ?

 

This has been so frustrating since the entries even appeared after what I thought was fresh install

 

If you are talking about the BIOS boot entries you can use clover's shell to remove the boot entries. select the shell from clover's boot screen and then you can use:

shell> bcfg boot rm xx   

xx is the number of the boot entry. if you use: bcfg boot rm 00 and repeat that command it will remove the boot entries from the first one to the last one 

 

you can see this post

[spakk]

... I hope that I've understood you correctly

Search for this: EFI/Clover/Config.plist, open the Config.plist file with an editor (for example TextEdit.app), then change the bootargs
If you can not should see the EFI folder, then the partition is hidden - but no problem

• Install the EFI Mounter.app ( look above in the download area)
• open the terminal and enter this code: “diskutil list“ (without this symbols “ “ )  a diskutil list of all your HDD's including all partitions and EFI folder is displayed.
• now you can start the EFI-Mounter.app, and search for the correct EFI partition, see example list.  

then change the Config.plist or if you not needed the EFI folder, then delete the folder

for example:  

Last login: Mon Aug 21 20:23:52 on ttys002
Mac-Mac-Pro:~ Mac$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1   <—— for example
   2:                  Apple_HFS EL_CAPITAN              160.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS El_Capitan_Test         158.4 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

[nolanjames]

Thank you.

 

One question that baffled me is where were these ghost entries stored? Were they on my pc hardware/native bios, the USB installed or on

the drive I was attempting to install Sierra on

 

This is why I was confused

I went to do a fresh install of Sierra with a program I found... That required reformatting/erasing the drive using diskwhich I thought totally cleared any prior clover entries. I would then reboot after install and the nv_drv=1 and nv_disable=1 were still there..On the same line. thereby causing a failed boot and no matter how many times I tried to delete one or other of those arguments I would go back in and there they were.

[spakk]

You mean BootDiskUtility.exe: http://cvad-mac.narod.ru/
There is also a Clover Configurator if you want to customize the existing Config.plist, look here:http://mackie100projects.altervista.org/download-clover-configurator/

 

[nolanjames]

I will try that when I get home.

 

I have probably spent 20 hours or so in the past week waiting for the Apple Logo Status bar to finish up not realizing that the boot is ultimately going to fail since both nv_disable and nv_drv are on same line despite me deleting one or the other

 

I thought I was losing my mind literally. Never had this issue when I had my Yosemite build.

 

Just to be safe I deleted the Mac Hard drive under windows and wiped it clean to make sure nothing else on there lo

 

 

Edit.. promise this is last question. This may seem crazy but could there have been anything saved on my Windows OS drive if that was also connected at the same time as my Mac install

 

I didn’t realize this until now but when I had my Windows 10 drive not hooked up at same time this weekend my graphics booted up.. it seems like it got broken again and I started having ghost entries when I connected it up

[spakk]

At the beginning this is almost normal, such mistakes will not occur in the future.

[nolanjames]

You will never believe this. I may need to flash my bios.. I will just reflash it with my current one so I might get a reset . I totally erased all partitions in the target drive and the usb stick.. prior to that I used a clover command line to delete things as well. All UEFI areas deleted

 

I went to install a clean install and all of those same ghost boot flags are there

[SavageAUS]

If your using the same usb and same config if course your boot flags will be there.

 

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