Clover is a new and exciting open source EFI bootloader. Developed over the past 2 years by a group of developers at Project OS X led by Slice, Clover aims to solve problems inherent in existing OS X installation methods and legacy bootloaders. Clover Configurator 5.9.0.1 for Mac is available as a free download on our application library. Clover Configurator for Mac lies within System Tools, more precisely General. Our built-in antivirus scanned this Mac download and rated it as virus free.

Clover Bootloader is a great boot loader, it supports both UEFI and Legacy. This article will guide you how to install Clover Bootloader on USB from Windows and Linux.

Clover Bootloader

What is Clover Bootloader? Perhaps it is too familiar for Hackintosh users, Clover is a specially designed boot loader that allows us to boot and install macOS on a non-Mac computer. Clover also supports booting many other OS such as Windows, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.

Clover Bootloader supports booting in both UEFI and Legacy modes. Interestingly, it supports UEFI firmware emulation, this allows us to boot into UEFI mode from Legacy mode. Final fantasy x sphere grid guide tidus and yuna married. It is capable of booting .efi files even if Clover is booted in Legacy BIOS. You can also use the commands in UEFI Shell from Clover to do some things like moving, renaming files…

AIO Boot has been supporting Clover since its initial release. This is the solution you can use Clover, Grub2, Grub4dos, rEFInd and Enoch Chameleon on just one drive.

Clover has an installer and an ISO file. Its installer only supports macOS, so we just have to use the ISO file to install Clover on USB from Windows and Linux.

1. You need to use a FAT32 formatted drive to support booting in both the UEFI and the Legacy BIOS. Supports USB and HDD, MBR and GPT.
2. Download Clover Bootloader ISOhere. Its ISO file was compressed into a file named CloverISO-4428.tar.lzma. This is a 64-bit version, the 32-bit version has been discontinued.
3. Open this file and continue to open the folder until you see an ISO file. I use 7-Zip to do this.
4. Continue to open the ISO file and copy all the folders to the drive. There are 3 directories that we need to extract: EFI, Library and usr.
   

If you want to install Clover on the EFI partition on Windows, simply use the mountvol or diskpart and 7-Zip commands under Admin.

1. Run Command Prompt under Admin (right click and select Run as Administrator). Use the following command to mount the EFI partition to the Z: drive.
2. Run 7-Zip File Manager under Admin and extract Clover to drive Z:.
3. Unmount Z:.

With these simple steps, you can install the Clover Bootloader on Windows and Linux without using the installer on macOS. However, you can only boot it in UEFI mode, if you want to install Clover Legacy, use the Clover Legacy Installer. Quickbooks desktop premier 2020.

Clover Legacy Installer

Clover Legacy Installer is a program that I wrote to help us install Clover Legacy in just one click. However, currently it only supports running on Windows, for Linux you can use dd to install as instructed here. After installation, you will be able to boot Clover in Legacy BIOS mode. This makes it possible to boot and install macOS in this mode.

1. Download Clover Legacy Installer and extract the .exe files inside.
2. Copy the CloverLegacyInstaller.exe file to the drive where Clover was extracted.
3. Run CloverLegacyInstaller.exe to install Clover Legacy. Supported on Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10.

Restart the machine or boot USB in VirtualBox and VMware virtual machine for testing.

If Clover reports “boot0ss: Error“, try Active for the FAT32 drive where you installed Clover. Here I will use diskpart to do this. Run Command Prompt under Admin and use the following commands:

G: is the drive where I installed Clover.

Configuration

Clover Configurator is a well known application used to configure Clover. Unfortunately, this application does not support the Windows and Linux versions. We can configure Clover as guide from its official site, see here.

The Clover configuration file is /EFI/CLOVER/config.plist. You can edit this file to configure Clover such as change theme, SMBIOS, Arguments…

The Clover driver is located in the /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI directory (for UEFI) and /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64 (for Legacy). Unused drivers will be located in /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-Off directory. You just need to move or delete the .efi file to enable or disable the driver. Since macOS High Sierra, Apple has announced a new filesystem called APFS. Clover will not support this partition until it has APFS driver (apfs.efi). The apfs.efi file can be found in the macOS installer or in the Clover.img file of the Clover Boot Disk. To boot macOS on the Hackintosh, copy the OsxAptioFix3Drv-64.efi file from the drivers-Off to drivers64UEFI directory.

With these simple steps, we can easily install Clover Bootloader from Windows and Linux. Good luck!