Installation Guide For Using Clover on the Intel Haswell NUC

[adrie1975]

Thanks for the config details Mariolillo.
It turns out that I had actually got mine working but I was also seeing the issue that "Legacy Boot" needs to be enabled even when booting UEFI. When it was disabled I just got a black screen, turning Legacy Boot on made Clover work again.

Your config was very useful, I think I had missed a lot of details in mine.

I now have mine triple-booting Windows 8.1, Mavericks and OpenELEC.

Thanks again,

Charlie

Hello Gambcl can you please tell me how you did this i only want osx and openelec is that possible to..

 

[minihack]

God I love Clover.

10.9.3 update went smoothly and all existing pre-programmed patches worked fine - all looking and sounding good with no need for user intervention.

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

God I love Clover.

10.9.3 update went smoothly and all existing pre-programmed patches worked fine - all looking and sounding good with no need for user intervention.

I have no wish to jump ship lol

But the urge, well, you know...

 

[odedia]

Thank you for the very detailed guide.

Unfortunately, as a noob, you lost me at the very first paragraph. What is Clover, and what do you mean "install it to the NUC SSD/USB"? Shouldn't I first create an install USB to get Mac OS X on my NUC in the first place?

Sorry for such silly questions, it's been a very long time since I did these things (I used to run PearPC on my Windows machine back in the PowerPC days, believe it or not ).

 

[tom.humphrey]

Very nice build

Big question! Does WOL work on this?!

 

[xuniman]

After successfully following WonkeyDonkey's NUC build guide I found that I can't easily dual boot to Windows which is a primary goal (the Win7 install says it can't install to the drive, I assume this is because of the Chimera modified MBR). So I decided to try a new install, to a different SSD for testing purposes, using Clover as it seems to be the most multi-boot friendly of the bootloaders.

So to set it up I have the same NUC (54250WYKH) with a 512GB OCZ Agility SSD that I want to split into 2 partitions, one for each OS. I have 8GB or Corsair RAM (2x4) that seemed to be problematic when I did the WonkyDonkey method (i needed to set maxmem=4096 in the boot options to complete the install). I'm using a DisplayPort to DVI adapter for video.

I have gone through the Clover install to a USB and tried to follow this guide but I can't seem to get the install to run. I get the Clover boot screen and it shows the "Boot OS X Install from Install OS X Mavericks" but when I select it and hit enter the screen seems to freeze (the pulsing slashed apple logo stops changing) but nothing else happens. If I hit the enter key again it goes back to pulsing in and out and I can move around the Clover menus.

Any ideas?

 

[minihack]

After successfully following WonkeyDonkey's NUC build guide I found that I can't easily dual boot to Windows which is a primary goal (the Win7 install says it can't install to the drive, I assume this is because of the Chimera modified MBR). So I decided to try a new install, to a different SSD for testing purposes, using Clover as it seems to be the most multi-boot friendly of the bootloaders.

So to set it up I have the same NUC (54250WYKH) with a 512GB OCZ Agility SSD that I want to split into 2 partitions, one for each OS. I have 8GB or Corsair RAM (2x4) that seemed to be problematic when I did the WonkyDonkey method (i needed to set maxmem=4096 in the boot options to complete the install). I'm using a DisplayPort to DVI adapter for video.

I have gone through the Clover install to a USB and tried to follow this guide but I can't seem to get the install to run. I get the Clover boot screen and it shows the "Boot OS X Install from Install OS X Mavericks" but when I select it and hit enter the screen seems to freeze (the pulsing slashed apple logo stops changing) but nothing else happens. If I hit the enter key again it goes back to pulsing in and out and I can move around the Clover menus.

Any ideas?

WHen I first installed I actually did it using Chameleon/Chimera (following the WD methods) and then installed Clover as boot loader afterwards - so that is one option.

Another option which I tried later was to follow the procedure that was outlined here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/113679-using-unibeast-create-clover-installer.html and that worked really well for me and is pretty straightforward (making sure of course you use the plist from this NUC thread in the EFI partition).

Installing Win 7 as a second partition of your SSD should work fine, for that I found this link to be very useful: http://www.md0mdi.com/uefi-multi-boot-clover/ for the Windows 7 procedure. For a while I had Win 7 within the second partition of a Fusion Drive (now removed it).

 

[xuniman]

I have made progress !

I decided to try and install Win8 instead of Win7 (my install media for Win7 was very old and I thought that might be causing problems). I got it to install and boot perfectly from the second partition on my SSD. The only issue I have now is that Clover is no longer loading from the SSD. If I use my clover USB stick I can boot into either OS just fine. If I remove the clover USB boot stick then the NUC boots Windows8 immediately without going through Clover. I'm guessing that the Win8 install re-wrote the EFI partition and removed clover.

If I install Clover back to the OSX partition will it overwrite the windows boot files? Will I screw things up? Should I have clover install itself to the Win8 boot partition?

Looking for advice.

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

I have made progress !

I decided to try and install Win8 instead of Win7 (my install media for Win7 was very old and I thought that might be causing problems). I got it to install and boot perfectly from the second partition on my SSD. The only issue I have now is that Clover is no longer loading from the SSD. If I use my clover USB stick I can boot into either OS just fine. If I remove the clover USB boot stick then the NUC boots Windows8 immediately without going through Clover. I'm guessing that the Win8 install re-wrote the EFI partition and removed clover.

If I install Clover back to the OSX partition will it overwrite the windows boot files? Will I screw things up? Should I have clover install itself to the Win8 boot partition?

Looking for advice.

Its unlikely Clover has overwritten your boot files at all. Chances are that Windows has changed the default partition to boot from, so instead of booting to clover it boots to the windows partition.

A simple reinstall of Clover should suffice to change the default back to what it waa. There is a way to change this default from the command line too, but the exact commands escape me right now.

Make sure you have a backup of your clover config files of course.

 

[xuniman]

I tried the re-install of clover to the Mavericks partition and it still boots directly to Win8 without the USB boot drive.