Main Features - JrCs/Clover-Wiki GitHub Wiki

  • Boot into 10.4 - 10.8 OSX, Windows EFI and Linux EFI
  • Boot into LegacyOS (WindowsXP, Linux, DOS) by their bootsectors
  • This is EFI bootloader so it provides RuntimeServices for OS that impossible for Legacy Bootloaders
  • Mostly Clover do automatic detection of hardware and set all properties by default. But user can change them by config.plist
  • With Clover you may restart into other OS from Startup Disk prefPane
  • Config autodetect by OEM product name
  • UUID written into config.plist will be the same as in OS
  • Autopatch OemDSDT for working OSX
  • SMBIOS will be corrected to standard 2.6
  • ACPI will be corrected to standard 4.0. Custom DSDT will be loaded from booted partition or from EFI folder
  • MADT table may be corrected to resolve problem with NMI on some hardware
  • ACPI tables loading (SSDT-xx, APIC, BOOT, SLIC, SLIT, SRAT, UEFI...)
  • Correctly set PowerProfile for laptops (notebooks), desktops, workstations
  • Customizable RestartFix
  • Sleep/Wake fixes
  • PCIRootUID value (0,1) for device-injection for those who can't edit DSDT
  • Graphics Properties Injector for ATI, NVidia and Intel for wide range of supported cards. Also customizable.
  • Custom EDID for non-DDC monitors
  • USB fix (LegacyOff, Ownership, Builtin, clock-id) up to USB 3.0
  • HDA injector, HDMI fix.
  • Ethernet builtin injector
  • CPU turbo
  • P- and C-states generator
  • PLimitDict and UnderVoltage for CPU Speedstep
  • Patch kernel on the fly for unsupported CPU like Atom and Ivy Bridge
  • Patch kexts inside kernelcache for unsupported hardware
  • Extra kexts loading
  • Security mode for FireWire
  • Default boot after timeout
  • Customizable GUI: themes support, own icons, fonts.
  • There is a possibility to implement national languages and fonts. F1 - multilingual help
  • Saving boot.log in OS and preboot.log from GUI by typing F2
  • Save original (OEM) ACPI tables by pressing F4
  • Test DSDT patching with F5
  • Save videoBIOS into EFI/misc by pressing F6
  • Saving screenshots from GUI typing F10
  • CD/DVD eject by F12 and refresh menu after CD insertion