Zitat von ndruiz im Beitrag #405

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So i put the NVMEexpressdxe.efi file into the UEFI directory. Everything worked. I saw my SSD too. But when I boot up my SSD there is just a blank screen. Is this because I have already cloned my main drive and there is already an OS and files on my nvme SSD? How do I fix this.

Thanks for everything and for the quick replies.

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Hi,

I have mounted Clover on an SD card, and I have installed Windows 10 (on my M.2 SSD disk) and everything works correctly. Reading in the forum I have seen that there are users who have then installed Clover to an internal hard drive (SATA), but I can't get it to work this way.
I have tried to create a small partition of 200 or 100 MB (in FAT32) in my internal HDD, and copying here the files that I have on my SD card (Clover installation), and I have also tried to create the partition with the BD utility, but to restart (having selected the internal disk as boot into the BIOS) does not load the Clover menu, and it gives me the message that "operating system not found", but with the SD card it works correctly.

Do I need to modify something of the config.plist? I have seen some user who claims to have modified it (but it is not specific what lines), and others who only copy the contents of their USB stick in the internal hard drive.

I hope you can help me with this.
Regards.

Sorry, I didn't fully understand everything you said. I am a newbie. Lets go through this one step at a time. How would one make sure clover is seeing the right partition. All i see is "NVME" windows which is what i named my drive. Thank you :)

Zitat von oskarssj5 im Beitrag #407

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Hi,

I have mounted Clover on an SD card, and I have installed Windows 10 (on my M.2 SSD disk) and everything works correctly. Reading in the forum I have seen that there are users who have then installed Clover to an internal hard drive (SATA), but I can't get it to work this way.
I have tried to create a small partition of 200 or 100 MB (in FAT32) in my internal HDD, and copying here the files that I have on my SD card (Clover installation), and I have also tried to create the partition with the BD utility, but to restart (having selected the internal disk as boot into the BIOS) does not load the Clover menu, and it gives me the message that "operating system not found", but with the SD card it works correctly.

Do I need to modify something of the config.plist? I have seen some user who claims to have modified it (but it is not specific what lines), and others who only copy the contents of their USB stick in the internal hard drive.

I hope you can help me with this.
Regards.

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Zitat von ndruiz im Beitrag #408

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Sorry, I didn't fully understand everything you said. I am a newbie. Lets go through this one step at a time. How would one make sure clover is seeing the right partition. All i see is "NVME" windows which is what i named my drive. Thank you :)

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@sibliss
Thank you for your advice, but I already tried with the BDU utility and copied the config.plist of my SD card (with which it works), I also even tried to copy all the contents of the SD card to the internal disk ..
However, I can only boot from the SD card :_( , but I would like to be able to free the card and take advantage of the internal disk.
When I want to manually select the boot device in the boot menu, only the SD card appears to be able to select a device (if I have it on). It is as if it did not detect the boot partition of the internal disk (it is formatted with the BDU utility and marked as active).
Does anyone think of what can happen?
Thanks in advance.

@oskarssj5 Did you checked option of using Hard Drives as target drive for installation on BDU ?
If you combine BDU with pre-downloaded Clover, and launch that on XP/7/10 mini, you should be able to format and install Clover on what ever you need.
Keep in mind, Clover installation formats target drive (and all of it's partitions), so better copy data you want saved somewhere. Also, I recommend avoiding using Clover on the same drive as OS.

Hi @agentx007

Yes, I installed clover on an internal SATA hard drive (formatted / installed with the BDU utility and the option "Enable fixed disks" checked). I have the operating system installed on the NVMe M.2 disk.

Is it formatted in GPT with "EFI" hidden partion ?

Quick question

I want to boot off NNVMe drive off a Supermicro LP Server running Windows 2019.

First, has anyone attempted this?
Second, is it my understanding that the boot order goes UEFI (which the MB has) then you must always have a USB drive in the system for clover, and then it passes loading over to the NVMe drive?


Anyone see any issues with attempting this? Just do not want to waste a lot of time or money if this type of setup is not workable. I do not want to mess up the server with the BIOS edit :)

Thanks

Tim

I am using a Supermicro XDTL-3F server board for my Hackintosh which I also use for booting into Windows. UEFI or Legacy BIOS is of no relevance. Yes, the Clover option to boot from NVMe will work without any firmware modifications on your system.

You don't have to use a USB stick, I am using a small SATA SSD for my Clover install - you can use any bootable media, USB, SSD, Hard Drive even a CD/DVD. Using the SSD is a lot faster than USB 2, which you are likely to have given the lack of NVMe boot support in your BIOS. You just have to make sure that your BIOS see's the Clover device as the primary boot option so Clover boots first. The Clover device then stays in place as it needs to be called each time you boot so the boot process can continue with your NVMe drive. You can modify Clovers config.plist to always boot the same device and with no/little delay so its just boots, albeit with a slight delay given you are running Clover during the boot.

Just to re-cap the theory of whats happening. Windows and macOS have their own NVMe drivers that see the drive. But older BIOS (Legacy and UEFI) dont know about SSD's living on the PCIe bus - they thinks thats just for Graphics Cards and the like - hence you can't boot from an NVMe drive.

What you are doing is getting your BIOS to boot from a drive it can see, typically via USB or SATA. This boots into Clover which is rather like a small operating system. Clover has its own driver that sees the NVMe drive and then lists it, along with anything else bootable it can find on USB, DVD, SATA, SAS etc you then choose to boot from one of those devices. and Clover loads and starts your operating system just like a BIOS would.

One tip, make sure you stick the NVMe PCIe card into the right slot. I have two free slots, both look the same (PCIe x8 connectors) but one is PCIe 2.0 x4 and the other is PCIe 1.0 x4 ... one is virtually three times as fast as the other (500 MB/s PCIe 1.0 compared with 1500 MB/s PCIe 2.0 - for my SSD).

So i recloned my drive using macrium reflect. Windows 10 sees it as a bootable local disk. But clover still only sees my NVME once. Is this a problem with macrium reflect or is there something I need to do to the drive after cloning it. Thanks

Hi all,
I have an Optiplex 7010 with a 1tb NVME drive in an adapter. I have tried many different configs of clover, including the updated one in this forum. The issue is that clover refuses to recognize the NVME ssd. I'm running version A29, I7-3770, 8GB RAM.
Any help is extremely appreciated!!!

Zitat von Jah-On im Beitrag #418

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Hi all,
I have an Optiplex 7010 with a 1tb NVME drive in an adapter. I have tried many different configs of clover, including the updated one in this forum. The issue is that clover refuses to recognize the NVME ssd. I'm running version A29, I7-3770, 8GB RAM.
Any help is extremely appreciated!!!

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I saw in Clover option: load option roms. Can there add any bios roms like raid or ahci ?