Installing Clover

Fire up your Clover install package. On the 2nd page of the installer make sure to select your USB as the destination. We also want to Customize the installation - as the defaults are pretty lackluster.

The usual options you want to check in the Customize menu are as follows:

• Install Clover for UEFI booting only

• Install Clover to the ESP

• Under Drivers64UEFI:

• AptioMemoryFix (the new hotness that includes NVRAM fixes, as well as better memory management)

• VBoxHfs-64.efi (or HFSPlus.efi if available) - one of these is required for Clover to see and boot HFS+ volumes. If you see the option to enable it in the installer, make sure it's selected - if you don't see it in the installer, verify that one of them exists in the EFI -> CLOVER -> drivers64UEFI folder

• ApfsDriverLoader - (Available in Dids' Clover builds - or here) this allows Clover to see and boot from APFS volumes by loading apfs.efi from ApfsContainer located on block device (if using AptioMemoryFix as well, requires R21 or newer)

NOTE: For FileVault to work, the following additional entries must be selected under Drivers64UEFI per this thread - information may be outdated, will revise:

• FirmwareVolume.efi — or you will get a cursor creation error

• AppleImageCodec-64.efi — or you will get image decoding failures

• AppleEvent.efi — or you will get AppleEvent installation failures (r3877+ Clover built-in)

These are also recommended for FileVault:

• AppleUITheme-64.efi — fixes grey login screen background on 10.10+

• HashServiceFix-64.efi — will fix HDPI cursor in newer OS

• SMCHelper.efi — silences most of the SMC errors

• AppleGraphicsConfig-64.efi and OSInfo-64.efi — respond to a few requested protocols (r3877+ Clover built-in)

• AptioInputFix — this is for FV input - but can cause some delay in the Clover GUI

Run the installation - and after it completes, Clover will have automatically mounted the USB's EFI partition for you. Now we're ready to set Clover up!