It may be convenient for those who would rather not test the USB on the physical machine until proven otherwise, especially if they were having trouble getting the USB to boot the first time. To copy the drivers to the correct location you can run the following: cp -n /Volumes/CLOVER_USB/EFI/CLOVER/drivers/UEFI/* /Volumes/CLOVER_USB/EFI/CLOVER/drivers/BIOSĪfter copying the files, you're done creating the bootloader USB. It's imperative that we have the NvmExpressDxe.efi driver so that the bootloader can detect the PCIe NVMe SSDs on Legacy BIOS systems. POST-INSTALLATION TASKS:Īssuming you haven't removed or unmount the USB, we would need to copy the drivers that are installed in the EFI/CLOVER/drivers/UEFI path to the EFI/CLOVER/drivers/BIOS path. It should take no more than a minute or so, and then you should be done with the wizard. When done selecting, click on ' Install'.

BIOS Drivers, 64 bit > File Systems drivers ☑️.

Make sure you select the following packages to have them installed: You're back at the 'Installation Type' screen. Click on ' Change Install Location.' and select the CLOVER_USB media. Proceed with the on-screen instruction until you reach the 'Installation Type' step. Open the Clover_rXXXX.pkg file that you downloaded from earlier to begin the installation wizard.

diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 CLOVER_USB /dev/disk2 The USB should be remounted on its own after it is done.

We're going to format the USB and name the volume, CLOVER_USB. The USB size can be as small as 8 GB as the actual files would only take up no more than 10 MB.īefore you can format the USB, it's important you get the correct disk identifier by running the diskutil list command.įor the sake of demonstration, the USB is at /dev/disk2. FORMATTING USB:īefore you run the package, you'd need to reformat the USB drive. As an example, Clover_r5139.pkg was the latest release at the time of this writing. DOWNLOADING CLOVER:įirst, you would need to go to the Release page and download the latest. This project is also hosted on SourceForge. Fortunately for us, the Clover project, hosted on GitHub, has a convenient package for us to create a bootloader USB. I've spent numerous hours, searching for a clear step-to-step guide on this, and apparently there isn't an easily-searchable one for macOS users at the time of this writing. You may be a homelabber like myself wanting to boot up the hypervisor (e.g. If you are a macOS user like me, and you want to create a Clover Bootloader USB on it just so that you can boot up the operating systems that are installed on PCIe NVMe SSDs on your archaic hardware using legacy BIOS? Then you've come to the right place. How to Create Clover Bootloader USB on macOS (for PCIe NVMe SSD booting on Legacy BIOS system): SUMMARY:

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