Guys developing Clover made a change to Clover’s directory structure and somehow forgot to inform people. In my opinion, mentioning it in a forum post is not enough.
UPDATE: It seems like they finally implemented some sort of automatic migration in latest version (rev. 5097) of Clover installer although they specifically said no migration will be done in the forum post.
The structure for bootloader drivers changed in v2.5k from
EFI
CLOVER
drivers64
drivers64UEFI
to
EFI
CLOVER
drivers
BIOS
off
UEFI
Also, driver names no longer contains -64 in them (e.g: ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi becomes ApfsDriverLoader.efi).
Updating Clover bootloader
CAUTION: Always have bootable USB drive (RECOVERY) with working CLOVER installation ready in case something fails!
It’s a good practice to have separate USB drive to test Clover updates on. First make it work on the testing USB drive and then move to the main drive. If everything is working after few weeks, update the RECOVERY USB drive as well.
Downloading Clover bootloader installer
Download latest version of Clover bootloader installer from official Github.
Run Clover bootloader installer
Run the installer and follow instructions from your installation guide (select mandatory drivers for your setup).
Fixing the installation from command line
Now your Clover bootloader rev. 5000+ is broken and you will not be able to boot from it. You have to manually fix it.
Mount your EFI partition
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *240.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 239.8 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +239.8 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume OSX 10.9 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume VM 1.1 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume OSX – data 128.6 GB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume Preboot 83.7 MB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Recovery 528.5 MB disk1s5
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Time Machine 349.9 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data Stash 149.7 GB disk2s4
/dev/disk3 (external, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Time Machine +349.5 GB disk3
Logical Volume on disk2s2
3DEBA78B-97CF-4C5A-AB4E-5393FC91D142
Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *7.8 GB disk4
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS CloverBootloader 7.4 GB disk4s2
Find Disk identifier of EFI partition you have just upgraded. In my case, it’s disk4s1. To mount this partition, run:
sudo diskutil mount disk4s1
It will mount the EFI partition to /Volumes/EFI.
Update: I released an article dedicated to mounting volumes using command line.
Moving & renaming drivers
Commands below will move drivers to appropriate location and rename them. It will move only those drivers not updated with Clover installer.
cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER
mkdir -p drivers/{off,BIOS,UEFI}
for driver in $(find drivers64 -name "*.efi" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 basename); do
if [[ ! -e "drivers/BIOS/${driver/-64/}" ]]; then
cp "drivers64/${driver}" "drivers/BIOS/${driver/-64/}"
fi
done
for driver in $(find drivers64UEFI -name "*.efi" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 basename); do
if [[ ! -e "drivers/UEFI/${driver/-64/}" ]]; then
cp "drivers64UEFI/${driver}" "drivers/UEFI/${driver/-64/}"
fi
done
Now you should have working Clover installation v2.5k rev. 5000+.
After few weeks if everything is ok, you can remove drivers64 and drivers64UEFI folders.
