Clover
Clover EFI is a boot loader developed to boot OS X (Hackintoshes), Windows and Linux in legacy or UEFI mode.
The main advantages of Clover are:
- Emulate UEFI on legacy BIOS systems
- Boot Linux kernels with EFISTUB support
- Supports native resolution GUI on wide screens people commonly use today
- Easy of use
- Easily customizable
Installation
Download Clover Bootable ISO from here.
Extract archive and find the Clover-*-X64.iso
file, mount it.
Copy everything in EFI
folder to your EFI system partition.
Configuration
Configuration is done through an xml file config.plist
under path EFI/CLOVER
from the UEFI partition.
A tool is now available to easily edit your config.plist
in any OS: Cloud Clover Editor (CCE)
For details please reference their wiki, for the Linux kernel EFISTUB boot entry and native resolution GUI, add following code to the relevant place.
/initramfs-linux.img
and vmlinuz-linux
are relative to the root of the UEFI partition.
In this example, the initramfs and kernel files have to be at the root of the EFI partition, at the same level as the EFI
directory.
<key>GUI</key> <dict> <key>Custom</key> <dict> <key>Entries</key> <array> <dict> <key>Arguments</key> <string>initrd=/initramfs-linux.img root=UUID=d4f1e3b7-b466-4c1b-991c-90fa99cafbc6 rw add_efi_memmap</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>FullTitle</key> <string>Arch Linux</string> <key>Hidden</key> <false/> <key>Ignore</key> <false/> <key>Path</key> <string>vmlinuz-linux</string> <key>Type</key> <string>Linux</string> <key>Volume</key> <string>EFI</string> <key>VolumeType</key> <string>Internal</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </dict>