Clover General discussion

[Maniac10]

No, we don't demand anything, you can ask nicely though. Besides startup sound is the least important feature I could think of.

[Alex009988]

No, we don't demand anything, you can ask nicely though. Besides startup sound is in the least important feature I could think of.

Of couse you right, in this case demand means not require. It was need to add some colors for my phrase.

In my case, Clover did all that I wanted. And now I want Clover to work more perfectly.

 

[Maniac10]

The thing is that audio feedback adds nothing here. If it's just to emulate the Mac chime, then it's not really necessary but mere eye (ear?) candy. Perhaps someone may create a driver on his/her own but let the Clover team concentrate on important bugs and features for now.

[el_charlie]

Of couse you right, in this case demand means not require. It was need to add some colors for my phrase.

In my case, Clover did all that I wanted. And now I want Clover to work more perfectly.

 

+1.

 

In my case I want to customize the name of the partitions like in Chameleon and also tweak the RAM speed, and INMHO that's easier than develop a sound driver.

 

Cheers!

[Alex009988]

The thing is that audio feedback adds nothing here. If it's just to emulate the Mac chime, then it's not really necessary but mere eye (ear?) candy. Perhaps someone may create a driver on his/her own but let the Clover team concentrate on important bugs and features for now.

Of cause your right again. I just make an offer. Do cosmetic features. But I think clover have seriously problems for me and some people.

For instance, for me clover not quite works well.

Because, I certainly must put my hard disk to the other place. Because my laptop have two hard disk. Otherwise, I get a blue screen.

Moreover, in this case, my lagacy-boot don't work.

In my clase, clover works well when this one is installed at USB flash drive.

In other words, if I want fully use Clover, I have got to do it with USB flash drive.

And this problem with Hard disks and legacy boot are super very difficult to correct. Even for slice.

And so I'm using chamelion now. I have been herritaging between Clover and Chamelion.

Beacause I don't see obvious of advantages Clover over chamelion.

With Chamelion my computer works as well as with Clover. Exceptions is Boot camp.

[nekonoko]

In my case I want to customize the name of the partitions like in Chameleon and also tweak the RAM speed, and INMHO that's easier than develop a sound driver.

 

Agree - would love to be able to tweak RAM speed. My RAM is identified as 1066 by Clover but clocked to 1600 in BIOS.

[el_charlie]

Agree - would love to be able to tweak RAM speed. My RAM is identified as 1066 by Clover but clocked to 1600 in BIOS.

 

Mine is detected at 1333MHz and set at 1690MHz in BIOS and works at that speed in windows. In OSX I think it's working at 1333 because Geekbench says so.

 

Cheers!

[Maniac10]

That is just a cosmetic issue as I'm (almost) sure a bootloader cannot change RAM speed at will.

[el_charlie]

That is just a cosmetic issue as I'm (almost) sure a bootloader cannot change RAM speed at will.

 

I agree, but Ermac said in the instructions that Geekbench reads the real CPU frequency so I assume it also applies to RAM.

 

That's why I want to tweak that.

 

The instructions thread should be updated for the Nvidia VBios patching available in ProjectOSX. That way I added the 1920x1080 VESA mode not available in my VBIOS without patching it. Clover looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

 

Cheers!

[Maniac10]

I was also surprised to see my full resolution (1080p) working at boot. Really awesome guys!

[Nanael]

Hi,

first a big THANK for this bootloader!

 

I have just a question, how can I install Clover on My Fusion Drive Volume with UEFI?

The second thing is that I can't use my trackpad with my Toshiba P100-160.

 

See you

[n3ph]

What the main port does you use?

And How many ports you have? 5 or 6.

You shoul use Berlushes FB. For 6 ports

Don't use it. It just for you to more easier search at hex edit.

0000000 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 11 02 01 01

0000010 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 21 03 02 02

0000020 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 12 04 03 03

0000030 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 22 05 04 04

0000040 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 10 00 05 05

0000050 00 04 00 00 04 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 20 01 06 06

ConnectorType

02 00 00 00 LVDS

04 00 00 00 DVI DL(Dual Link)

00 02 00 00 DVI SL(Single Link)

10 00 00 00 VGA

80 00 00 00 S-V

00 04 00 00 DP

00 08 00 00 HDMI

Encoder, Transmitter and SenseID you do right.

But you ought to use FB adequate the number of ports.

 

My card has 5 ports.

DVI HDMI DP DP

DVI

 

Some updates, I managed to boot into OS X using Macmini6,2. I was not able to see the bootloader, I merely hit on the enter button once I boot from USB. If I enabled PatchVBios, I was able to see bootloader, but will get a white screen at OS X. As of now even though I've solved the problem with my iMessage, I'm trying to make Clover work nicely on my build.

[k3nny]

@n3ph:

I got the same port amount with the same types.

Take a look at this post, it may help you. Keep in mind that Chutoro isn't available in 10.8.2.

 

I tried several options but couldn't get Clover's connector patch to work. It's probably 7000 series related.

Nevertheless, try to do it by hand, maybe it works that way.

[dwmc]

If anyone else is interested, I'm working on a new Clover theme. I don't boot anything but OS X Mountain Lion with Clover, so I'm not personally motivated to create the icons I don't need. But if others want them, I'll make time to create them. I have no problem sharing all of the SVG files so others can play around without winding up with jaggies.

 

Here's a screenshot. The background was borrowed from the iClover theme for the moment, I'll probably change it later.

 

[dmazar]

I have just a question, how can I install Clover on My Fusion Drive Volume with UEFI?

The second thing is that I can't use my trackpad with my Toshiba P100-160.

You should have EFI partition on some GPT drive - you should install it there like for ordinary UEFI boot. Clover can then start from that EFI partition, start boot.efi from Boot helper partition, boot.efi will load kernel from that Boot helper partition and kernel will mount Fusion drive and continue with it.

 

Regarding trackpad - I do not know.

[Taruga]

With legacy Clover boot sleep/wake works also on ML and Lion.

The problem only with UEFI boot into ML.

 

Funny thing is that I injected Device Properties grabbed from Chameleon and now Clover UEFI wakes for sleep .... but it reboots/crashes one minute later

 

<key>StringInjector</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>DeviceProperties</key>

<string>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</string>

[Ritz Carltn]

It sometimes boot successfully as booting Mac OS X with Extra kexts, but, generally reboot system.

When success boot, I dumped file.

http://www.mediafire...eg3cbze5abdufxq

 

But, generally reboot as followings log.

 

http://www.mediafire...qa6dmq8cfa52a1j

 

 

Something I missed?

 

Plz, guide me.

[doteleven]

Switched over to clover using the iMessage fix, and viola! It works. I can now use iMessage again, however I noticed 2 things at least:

 

1. My clock keeps becoming off, It has gotten as far as 15 mins behind until I fixed it, I just resync the times.

2. I have to unplug my USB keyboard, to select a boot hd, and then move it again to get it to work after being booted, any ideas?

[Nanael]

Thank you dmazar!

It is what I will try but I have only this drive with osX.

Do you think it will work if I install it on my time machine hdd?

 

See you

[dmazar]

It is what I will try but I have only this drive with osX.

Do you think it will work if I install it on my time machine hdd?

Can you post result of "diskutil list" from Terminal?

 

2. I have to unplug my USB keyboard, to select a boot hd, and then move it again to get it to work after being booted, any ideas?

About 2 - is your USB keyboard connected to USB3 port? If yes, try connecting it to USB2 port.

[doteleven]

Can you post result of "diskutil list" from Terminal?

 

 

About 2 - is your USB keyboard connected to USB3 port? If yes, try connecting it to USB2 port.

 

It's actually in a USB2 port, putting it in the USB3 works.

[Slice]

Funny thing is that I injected Device Properties grabbed from Chameleon and now Clover UEFI wakes for sleep .... but it reboots/crashes one minute later

I didn't find any special in your string and I think the new behavior is just random. I also saw different time to reboot with different settings. looks like some memory is not reserved and time after wake until reboot depends on memory usage.

I hope to replace PciBus driver from UEFI by my own to see if it is a reason for the problem.

 

Zip file of my theme is attached. It's big because it contains an svg directory holding most of the SVG files I used when creating the PNG files. I use inkscape for SVG editing. I included these files so others can modify them to create their own theme if desired. Of course there's a lot of gruntwork involved in creating a theme, and I didn't spend a lot of time on it. I just wanted an orange flavored theme. Moderators feel free to copy this to a more convenient place.

OK, I will place a link into "Themes" post in "Clover instructions".

[dmazar]

It sometimes boot successfully as booting Mac OS X with Extra kexts, but, generally reboot system.

When success boot, I dumped file.

http://www.mediafire...eg3cbze5abdufxq

For the start, try with this config.plist: config.plist.zip

 

Some notes:

- test boot from your USB stick - once it works, then copy it to your Machintosh HD

- you are using /EFI/OEM/HP EliteBook 8540p/ folder - so put above config.plist there

- and delete /EFI/config.plist to avoid confusion - this one is not used when your /EFI/OEM/HP EliteBook 8540p/config.plist exists

 

Kexts:

- you have some kexts in /EFI/OEM/HP EliteBook 8540p/kexts/10.8/

- my advice is to install them in OSX to /S/L/E and to boot without "WithKexts" option in config.plist boot-args

- but, if you do not want to do that and still want to use kexts/10.8, then you'll have to try which works for you:

--- boot with "WithKexts" option like I put in your config.plist - this will not use kernelcache

--- remove "WithKexts" option from config.plist boot-args and try with that - this will patch kernelcache on the fly to be able to insert your kexts/10.8/

- both kext injection methods are not guaranteed to work with every kext - that's why I recommend to install them to /S/L/E

 

SMBIOS:

- I have copied your MacBookPro6,1 definition from Chameleon

- your previous MacBookPro5,1 definition is still there - I have just renamed that SMBIOS section to xxxSMBIOS - if you want this definition, just remove MacBookPro6,1 SMBIOS section and rename xxxSMBIOS to SMBIOS

- put there your SerialNumber

 

ACPI:

- you should put your DSDT.aml in /EFI/OEM/HP EliteBook 8540p/ACPI/patched/ - no need to specify it in config.plist if the name is "DSDT.aml"

- in Chameleon you have this: DropSSDT=No, GenerateCStates=Yes, GeneratePStates=Yes - this is a bit weird since usually when you use GenerateCStates and GeneratePStates, then you need DropSSDT=Yes to drop previous C and P states definition before inserting new ones

- as this is a bit confusing, I have "removed" the whole ACPI section (renamed to xxxACPI) - try with this

- if you want to have it like in Chameleon, then "enable" ACPI section (rename it from xxxACPI to ACPI) and set DropOemSSDT=No

 

- the proper way would be to extract your native tables (press F4 in Clover GUI - it will save them to /efi/acpi/origin/)

- and put all SSDT which are not for P and C states (SataAhci, PtidDevc, NVIDIAGF, Cpu0Tst(?), ApTst(?)) to /EFI/OEM/HP EliteBook 8540p/ACPI/patched/ as SSDT-0.aml, SSDT-1.aml, SSDT-2.aml ...

- and then use DropOemSSDT=Yes , GenerateCStates=Yes, GeneratePStates=Yes

- this will then first drop all SSDT tables, then insert some of them again from ACPI/patched/ folder and then generate additional two SSDT for C and P states

 

If you would like to try video bios patch for native resolution boot, you will have to:

- extract EDID and put it to config.plist as Graphics/CustomEDID because Clover can not read it from BIOS in your case

- add config.plist Graphics/PatchVBios=Yes

- remove "screen_resolution 1440x900" from /efi/boot/refit.conf

 

Hope this helps.

[theconnactic]

Hello, guys!

 

I've been trying to use clover from a USB Fat-formated stick (tried Mac Os Extended (journaled) before) to boot my 1201n netbook. The problem is, i cant boot at all: the boot process goes up to the Clover menu, but both my partitions (Lion and Mountain Lion) don't show up. My disk is formatted as Master Boot Record, then i want to know if is it a problem (and if it is, i'm afraid i'll give up clover: reformatting my HD is not an option) or if i'm missing something (i really hope that's the case).

 

Thank you very much!

[dmazar]

You can start Clover and then press F2 to save preboot.log to /efi/misc. if you can post it here, i may be able to tell more.