Hackintosh Safe Mode Clover

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Boot into Safe Mode© 2013-2020 Stephan Pringle. All rights reserved.Channels:#Gixx. Clover also supports booting many other OS such as Windows, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Clover Bootloader supports booting in both UEFI and Legacy modes. Interestingly, it supports UEFI firmware emulation, this allows us to boot into UEFI mode from Legacy mode. It is capable of booting.efi files even if Clover is booted in Legacy BIOS. Clover Configurator is an application to edit and generate Config.plist files of Clover Bootloader. Create your own Clover EFI config files via a streamlined and well organized graphical user interface. Thanks to its easy design, finding your way around the Clover Configurator application is very easy. At Clover boot screen, choose Boot Install macOS Catalina from myVolume. (If you have issues reaching the installer, you can use the spacebar on the boot screen to enter alternate boot modes such as verbose and safe mode.) For a new installation of macOS.

Hackintosh

Clover is a boot manager that allows you to select the OS you want to boot with. It is used mostly by Hackintosh users, that is, people that install MacOSX (along with other OSs, like Linux and Windows) on a non-Apple machine.

The Clover configuration can be quite tricky, and if you’re not lucky you can easily mess it up. That’s why it’s more than advisable to keep a backup of the /EFI/CLOVER/config.plist configuration file.

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If you happen to break down your MacOSX boot, but you still have a working Windows boot on the same machine, you can follow these steps in order to restore a backup of config.plist:

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  • Open an administrator console (run cmd.exe as Administrator) and type the following:
  • diskpart (open diskpart)
  • list disk (list your hard drives with)
  • select disk 1 (select the disk where your Clover EFI boot has been installed. 1 is just an example)
  • list partition (list the partitions available on the selected disk)
  • select partition 1 (select the boot EFI partition)
  • assign letter=s (assign a letter. S in this case)
  • exit (exit diskpart)
  • s: (go to the just mounted boot partition)
  • cd EFICLOVER
  • copy c:backupsconfig.plist . (c:backups is just an example. Replace this path by the path where you have your config.plist backup)

If everything worked fine, you can now restart and use your MacOSX boot again.

Hackintosh Safe Mode Clover

In addition to that, some Clover prefixes that can help you find out what went wrong are:

  • -x start using the safe mode
  • -v verbose mode

You can find more information about Hackintosh and Clover on tonymac86.