makk Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Genius! great scotceasars ghost! Exactly what I had in mind. Let's see if I can get it to work on USB first. Thanks a million! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 5T33Z0 Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Hi. I tried BootloaderChooser to pick either Clover or OpenCore to boot from a USB stick. The first I time I booted from the stick, the menu appeared and I could choose OC (074) or Clover (r5139). This worked fine - for one time. On the next reboot, there was no menu and it automatically started the last used bootloader. I then saw that there is a file called "BLC.plist" which has a timeout of "0" by default. After I changed it to "10" the Chooser menu was back. So maybe having a default timeout greater than 0 seconds makes more sense, since this is about choosing the bootpicker. Besides that it works really well so far. Great for testing things. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anto65 Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Even without setting the timeout just hold down any key at startup and the selection menu reappears 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Might there be any way to increase the font size of your boot menu? Because of my displays high resolution, the menu is very difficult for me to see without holding my laptop close to my face. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anto65 Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 how did you get here? UEFI > Output > Resolution = Max or try NVRAM > Add > 4D1EDE05-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B38C14 > UIScale = 02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted September 16, 2021 Author Share Posted September 16, 2021 There is no current way to select screen resolution... I'm afraid. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocXavier Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Thank you so much Jief for this great piece of work¡¡¡ Do you have plans to update? It seems that going to the latest regular bootx64.efi allows Monterey B7 install without issues ... But I would prefer yours to easily select the boot loader for my hack Thank again¡¡ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 2 hours ago, DocXavier said: Thank you so much Jief for this great piece of work¡¡¡ Do you have plans to update? It seems that going to the latest regular bootx64.efi allows Monterey B7 install without issues ... But I would prefer yours to easily select the boot loader for my hack Thank again¡¡ I don't understand. BLC doesn't boot anything. It's just start Clover or OC. If you want to boot Monterey, you need a working Clover or OC, with or without BLC, doesn't matter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocXavier Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Excuse me please Jief, I was completely wrong. Thank you very much for the clarification. I will continue using your application, for me it is very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted September 30, 2021 Author Share Posted September 30, 2021 16 hours ago, DocXavier said: I will continue using your application, for me it is very useful. Thanks. And yes, since now we can name CLOVER and OC as we want, it's very handy to have, for example, a failsafe Clover. That way, if something goes wrong with your main Clover, you don't need an USB stick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacKonsti Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 45 minutes ago, Jief_Machak said: [...] since now we can name CLOVER and OC as we want [...] Salut Jief so wait-- not sure what you mean on this (I must have missed some latest Clover developments) You mean that your BootloaderChooser will just detect any EFI binary? So if I add Clover r5140 and name it to JIEF.EFI, your loader will detect it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted October 3, 2021 Author Share Posted October 3, 2021 On 9/30/2021 at 3:28 PM, MacKonsti said: So if I add Clover r5140 and name it to JIEF.EFI, your loader will detect it? Yes ! And please do name it JIEF.EFI, it'll work even better Rule is : any EFI file in a subdir of the EFI folder. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STLVNUB Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Any chance of getting the source code, I have idea and it will help me to achieve it OR I tell you idea and you can do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kushwavez Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Hi @Jief_Machak I am using BootloaderChooser since the beginning and it is indeed very useful and nice tool for changing between OC and Clover. Just an idea: What about detecting bootmgfw.efi too for Windows? That would be very useful for OC users, who just can't boot Windows because OC is injecting SSDTs to Windows too and will give ACPI/Blue Screen/Other errors, and they have to use two bootloaders to boot into Win. And if they just select /EFI/Microsoft/bootmgfw.efi from BootloaderChooser it'll start booting Win right away. I don't think that Windows allows it's boot path to be modified without manually editing bcdedit {bootmgr}, so I think hard-coding the path would be enough (and easier too). What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 5T33Z0 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 @kushwavez I'd like to see this feature too, but I think this only works if Windows is installed on the same disk as macOS. Otherwise you need some sort of config to manually add the GUID path to the Windows Bootmanager present on another disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 12:39 PM, kushwavez said: I don't think that Windows allows it's boot path to be modified without manually editing bcdedit {bootmgr}, so I think hard-coding the path would be enough (and easier too). Clover is able to boot Windows by chainloading /EFI/Microsoft/bootmgfw.efi without any BCD modification. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btwise Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 (edited) @Jief_Machak Is it possible to add a config file selection menu in the OC boot picker to reload different config.plist files? Edited March 11, 2022 by btwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matgen84 Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 2 hours ago, btwise said: @Jief_Machak Is it possible to add a config file selection menu in the OC boot picker to reload different config.plist files? Hi @btwise BLC is only, from my point of view, a BootLoader Chooser that allows to start different versions of CLOVERX64. It is once on Clover GUI that you can choose a different config.plist. Personally, I rename CLOVERX64 to test the commits (for example CLOVERX64-5145-c64e643.efi.) While keeping a working version. Nevertheless, nothing prevents to have several CLOVER folders with a config.plist for each. For example, /CLOVER_macPro, /Clover_Macmini, beside to /CLOVER This is just my opinion. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STLVNUB Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 On 10/30/2021 at 7:57 AM, STLVNUB said: Any chance of getting the source code, I have idea and it will help me to achieve it OR I tell you idea and you can do it I Say Again, Even Your First Version Or A WalkThru In What You Did, I Have Some Ideas To Enhance Your Great Loader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jief_Machak Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 On 6/7/2022 at 11:00 PM, STLVNUB said: I Say Again, Even Your First Version Or A WalkThru In What You Did, I Have Some Ideas To Enhance Your Great Loader Sorry, didn't see your previous message. Yes, I'll publish. I'll need a week or 2 as I'm not home... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacKonsti Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Hello @Jief_Machak! Welcome back! Please don't forget some form of versioning, even a date inside the binary is good! Many thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STLVNUB Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 On 6/10/2022 at 6:55 AM, Jief_Machak said: Sorry, didn't see your previous message. Yes, I'll publish. I'll need a week or 2 as I'm not home... Any Updates On This?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldman20 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Can u make option for disable which efi files invisible in BootloaderChooser? I have too much efi files in USB Installer include macOS installers and WinPE - which including efi files not use! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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