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Guide To Install Mavericks with Clover Bootloader

thx for help :)
 
Hi,

I have dual boot Mavericks and Windows 7. I'd like to add Ubuntu to it. What's the best way to do it? Create partition using disk utility and then reformat it like when installing Windows? Will it rewrite clover, so I'll have to fix it again?

Thanks.
 
networ said:
Hi,

I have dual boot Mavericks and Windows 7. I'd like to add Ubuntu to it. What's the best way to do it? Create partition using disk utility and then reformat it like when installing Windows? Will it rewrite clover, so I'll have to fix it again?

Thanks.
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I have done it on my Lenovo U430. Ran into an issue... but may be Lenovo specific. In particular, the Lenovo BIOS would then boot directly to EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi instead of Clover in /EFI/boot/BOOTX64.efi. Had to move all *.efi from EFI/ubuntu into EFI/ubuntu/bin (created new 'bin' subdir). Then I used a custom entry in Clover to point to EFI/ubuntu/bin/grubx64.efi...

I'll try it eventually on my 4540s.
 
I have successfully installed Xubuntu 14.04. No need to mess up with EFI, works automatically. But when I select in clover to boot xubuntu, grub2 will show up and I need to select it again. How to get rid of it?

I've edited /etc/default/grub - uncomment the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 and set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.
Then sudo update-grub. But it didn't work.

Is config file located somewhere else in uefi installation?

Thanks again.
 
networ said:
I have successfully installed Xubuntu 14.04. No need to mess up with EFI, works automatically. But when I select in clover to boot xubuntu, grub2 will show up and I need to select it again. How to get rid of it?

I've edited /etc/default/grub - uncomment the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 and set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.
Then sudo update-grub. But it didn't work.

Is config file located somewhere else in uefi installation?

Thanks again.
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Is grub showing up instead of Clover when you boot?
 
No, Clover shows up. But when I select to boot Xubuntu, Grub will show and I need to select xubuntu in it again...
 
networ said:
No, Clover shows up. But when I select to boot Xubuntu, Grub will show and I need to select xubuntu in it again...
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That sounds normal. Grub is your bootloader for Xubuntu. If you don't want to see it you need to modify the configuration such that grub doesn't show its menu.
 
Well yes :). That's what I'm asking for. Where is the config file located? I followed instructions on your blog, but it still shows up. Is it somehow different when installed with EFI?
 
networ said:
Well yes :). That's what I'm asking for. Where is the config file located? I followed instructions on your blog, but it still shows up. Is it somehow different when installed with EFI?
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According to the instructions in these files, the mechanism is the same in 14.04LTS UEFI as in 12.04LTS legacy.

Make sure you run update-grub.

Maybe it is broken or the documentation is not up-to-date. It would not be the first time something is poorly documented or buggy in Linux.
 
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