Clover Bootloader

[Elly Ker]

HiThanks for this detailed written guide and wonderful method!

I am new to clover and I am using this method from last 1 month, it was working absolutely well, but suddenly blue screen appeared and I can no longer boot using clover. I reinstalled windows in SSD,I made new clover stick and tried. I succeeded to boot from my nvme ssd on pcie x4 adapter again using clover, but I am getting this error in clover that (PXE-E16: NO OFFER RECEIVED). I did not get this!

Please find the attached image and help me out to resolve this problem.

@Vishwa

Hello and welcome to the forums, PXE is normally a bios setting please check that is is disabled in your computers bios.

If it is already disabled then you may have an issue within your clover configuration file. you may need to disable pxe option from the boot list within the config.plist

I hope this helps and good luck.

Unfortunately I am unable to get past "*** Scan Entries " in Clover. Tried searching the thread and a few others have had this issue - but could not find the solution.

Update: I have tried an alternative imagine of Clover however I still hang at " Scan Entries ****". I have tried disabling all SATA devices but it still hangs at this.

Continuing my post directly above -

I had difficulty with http cvad-mac.narod ru / index / bootdiskutility_exe / 0-5 but finally managed to download BDU_v2.1.2020.028b.zip!

Its instructions are not entirely clear. If I run the exe, what happens? Will it give me the opportunity to install Clover onto a USB stick?

Also - I am not going to use this or Clover to boot a Mac. I intend to use Clover to make a Dell Optiplex 3010 or 7010 boot from a NVMe M.2 SSD that is inserted into an adapter which in turn is plugged into a PCIe (x4) slot.

In such case, what should be my choices when I run BDutility.exe?

BUT MAKING PROGRESS !! Thanks.

I just succeeded in creating a Clover USB key, and in installing Windows 11, Linux Mint and Kali Linux on a non bootable NVMe SSD in a legacy system.

The NVMe SSD is installed on a 2009 legacy Gigabyte motherboard with an AMD Phenom processor through a PCIe adaptor.

I used Bootdisk Utility v.023 and Clover v.4961 to create the Clover key.

Everything works great !

@glnz The BDU from cvad is an installer it will install clover to a usb for you and attempt to configure it for the system you are installing it from, so i hope that is the same machine you wish to boot.

follow my add-on post as well as the op re what to select. I have used this to boot several non uefi bios systems from an nvme. how this works is you install clover to the usb, clover runs first every time you start up the pc and clover then passes off to the nvme for normal windows.

one of mine did this also but after waiting a bit it failed over to legacy(non uefi) and worked anyway. as of the moment i have no idea how to address this issue and i would certainly be interested if someone figures it out.

@glnz The BDU from cvad is an installer it will install clover to a usb for you and attempt to configure it for the system you are installing it from, so i hope that is the same machine you wish to boot.

follow my add-on post as well as the op re what to select. I have used this to boot several non uefi bios systems from an nvme. how this works is you installer clover to the usb clover runs first every time you start up the pc and clover then passes off to the nvme for normal windows.

This is incorrect clover is a full bootloader and was designed for osx, it can see any partition format including ext4 I have dual booted with Ubuntu via clover myself. Please ensure you add the partition guid to the config.plist file. If I recall you need to add it under the boot section.

Extract the archive Clover-*-X64.iso.7z and find the Clover-*-X64.iso file, mount it to a directory like /mnt/iso. It should be noted all file/folder names will be displayed in lower case in Linux, which is different from Windows and Mac OS.

For the meaning of each key, please reference their wiki for custom entries. The key Volume should be the PARTUUID of the EFI system partition and must be in uppercase. The minimal initramfs initramfs-linux.img in Argumentsand the Linux kernel executable vmlinuz-linux in Path are relative to the EFI system partition. Backslashes should be used in accordance with EFI standards. For other arguments in Arguments, please reference EFISTUB and Kernel parameters#Parameter list.

If you need a bootloader for BIOS systems that follows The Boot Loader Specification, then systemd-boot can be pressed into service on BIOS systems. This is the configuration file needed make Clover chainload systemd-boot.

This has been a slightly longer post, but I hope it is useful. The steps involved can take a while, but they are quite simple to follow. As always, if you need me to clarify anything, let me know in the comments.

Hey Hamish,

Thanks for the wonderful guide. I am currently stuck on the step of adding the .efi driver to the USB. Once I use Rufus to install the image of refind on my USB my windows 10 no longer recognizes the USB stick.

I think this can be resolved by either using the Windows Command Prompt, or using a Linux live disk. Are you comfortable with either of these options? If it comes to it, I could just upload an image of my USB stick that has the driver pre-installed.

Thanks for such a quick response! I have a basic understanding of Linux terminal. If you have an image of your USB stick that you can upload that would be amazing for me and it might also help other people that follow your guide in the future.

Hi- the title and contents of this post suggest that you are using rEFInd, yet the file paths you give are for the Clover bootloader, and the .img file seems to only contain Clover bootloader-related files. Am I crazy, or does this not have anything to do with rEFInd?

Thank you so much for such an informative post. I have cloned my Win 10 OS to an NVMe drive but my older computer can only see the drive as storage.

I tried to go the easy route that you included in your post and tried to download your file:

I left a reply earlier but it seems to have been deleted.

I followed your instruction for a Win 10 USB Clover boot disk, but no matter what I do I get no result.

My motherboard is an ASUS A88X Pro with an AMD A10 780K Processor. I have installed a WD Black SN750 1TB.

I downloaded your file: and followed your instruction, but not having any luck.

PS: if you were to supply this setup on a USB disk for Win 10 I would gladly pay for it. I have spent all day today trying to create the USB boot drive to be able to boot the NVMe which I have cloned my Win 10 OS onto.

When you have t waste that amount of time you have to consider it it is really worth the trouble.

I would have loved to have got this to work. Do you have any suggestions that may help.

One reason for this is that the USB method is a little fragile, meaning that if my kids leave their USB headphones or another thumb drive plugged in then it often stops the computer from booting up and I have to be there to troubleshoot.

Dear sir,

I have Linux loaded on a M2 and in adapter in PCIe slot. When clover boot screen comes up, I see see a picture of a hard drive and Boot Linux from Whole Disk Boot. The hard drive is highlighted and I push enter and the screen flashes and nothing happens.The Linux drive will work from a USB M2 holder.Appreciate any help, Dennis

Hello Hamish,

It is a Asus Z87-A. The Linux version is Manjaro Xfce 64bit with a Twister for PC loaded on top[Twister is used on Pi4]. And I have tried rEFind and did the same thing. Any further help would much appreciated, Dennis

What error or symptom do you have? Does the Windows installer tell you that no drives are detected? Please note that you will probably need to boot the Windows installer from Clover as well for it to know that the PC can boot from that drive, and offer to install on it.

Curious what firmware you have on your HP 800 G1. I have one too and I can install Linux on the M.2 drive however it is not available to boot no matter what settings I choose in the bios and use Clover or Refind. The drive never shows up.

I had difficulties installing Clover to boot on an NVMe SSD I installed on a 2008 Gigabyte MB. But I finally succeeded ! I created the Clover USB key using Boot Disk Utility v.023 and Clover v.4961. Nothing else worked for me.

Mr Hamish Mcintire-Bhatty,

Please tell me if the mainboard configuration GA B75M D3H, CPU INTEL G840 can boot from a PCIe slot with AXAGON COMPACT PCEM2-1U adapter and SSD M2 SPG256 after the changes in the article or other methods.

THANK YOU

CONSTANTIN BAZ

Would love to boot from my NVME SSD. I used AOMEI Back Upper to disk clone my sata SSD to my new NVME SSD. Last month I used AOMEI Back Upper to disk clone my windows 10 mechanical sata drive to my sata SSD. Been using the sata SSD about a month. I love the zippiness of the sata SSD & hope to get further improvement by making the new NVME SSD my bootable drive.

Though I double-checked the download, it appears to be good, it appears that the refind picture is faulty. Are there any instructions I may follow to include the NVMe driver in the refind image?

Chris

Since I have no experience whatsoever of making partitions in solid state drives, nor with the latest GPT, GUID, etc formats that I have currently been reading about. Things have changed from creating a Primary partition and an extended partition with several partitions within it and I feel confused, hesitant to format the Kioxia drive I have now installed.

Later when I am ready to to proceed to additional Linux installation, I assume that Ubuntu will take care of file format as it is installed, If I remember well Ubuntu / Linux requires a swap partition which it creates on installation and Win 7 will require an NTFS formatted partition.

I would appreciate your thoughts on this and perhaps point out any pitfalls I might encounter.

I have been reading up on all this stuff now for the last month and it seems that every time I try to research something, another link appears pointing out yet something else I need to take into consideration. ???

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