So I have converted to UEFI, which works fine using the USB stick method. I couldn’t get this to work on Sierra and High Sierra because the installer automagically creates a recovery partition which doesn’t get transferred. Use the BIOS/UEFI to change the boot devices order and move the USB flash drive to the. I have since found you need to run the Clover EFI shell while doing a UEFI boot to get access to the bios boot menu items. EFI files are residing on a second partition of disk 0 (the ESP. It may be possible to get around this by installing on a USB drive. Type diskpart in the Run box and click on the OK button to open the Command Prompt window. Press Win + R keys to open the Run dialog box. I’ve got two flavours of linux and efibootmgr refuses to work on both of them. Here are detailed steps to delete EFI system partition with Diskpart. The problem with creating a GPT partitioned disk and installing on it is that you end up with a bios boot menu item ‘Mac OSX’ which you can’t delete, even using the Clover EFI shell or the linux utility efibootmgr. Finally i removed the 'boot' file from the OS X drive. Click 'OK' to continue if you do not have important data on the destination disk. I made my EFI partition FAT32 and simply reinstalled Clover with the added option of 'install Clover to ESP' After that I moved the clover folder from my OS X drive to the EFI drive, replacing the newly installed one - i did this to retain my themes, kexts, configurations, dsdt, and ssdt. A warning message tells you that the data on the SSD will be erased. Step 2: Select the SSD as your destination. Step 1: In 'Disk Mode', select the HDD that you want to clone. If it worked on your GPT disk then it should be OK on MBR with the same drivers. Then, follow these steps to clone the UEFI disk to SSD. Disconnect the spare disk and reboot to check the El Capitan installation boots OK and works OK. I needed FakeSMC.kext, NullCPUPowerManagement.kext and a ethernet driver AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext. Install Clover on your new El Capitan partition using the MBR options.Ĭopy the kexts you used to build the USB stick to the new El Capitan partition in EFI>CLOVER>kexts>10.11. Use the Disk Utility to either copy the El Capitan partition to your MBR partition, or create a disk image and restore it to your MBR partition. Preparing the USB drive: Delete all files in the following folders on your USB drive. If the installer ask for your recovery path paste it here (pkg of step 6) This can take up to 15 minutes. Select your USB drive with the corresponding number. Use the method described here to build the El Capitan install USB stick and install OSX using the GPT partition scheme on your spare disk drive. Open GibMacOS (makeinstall.bat) as administrator. The Install OSX El Capitan.app from the App StoreĬonnect your spare drive to your PC.Configure Clover to recognise Linux partitions. A spare disk drive – at least 8Gb, preferably USB Inside Clover, you wont see any Linux partitions, so boot into MacOS to fix that.
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