Excessive Clover Boot Options?

Hi,

I'm running 10.13.6 and my clover boot options are odd. There are 4:

• boot to filevault prebooter from preboot
• boot macos install prebooter from preboot
• boot macos from high sierra
• boot to recovery

Can I delete the first two entries? How do I do that? I'm not using filevault. Several 10.13 updates created the "macos install prebooter" and the update would only run if I booted to that. The first time the preboot volume disappeared after the update, but after the last update it just stays there...

Also, can clover be set to auto boot to high sierra after 10 seconds or something?

harley7991 said:

Hi,

I'm running 10.13.6 and my clover boot options are odd. There are 4:

• boot to filevault prebooter from preboot
• boot macos install prebooter from preboot
• boot macos from high sierra
• boot to recovery

Can I delete the first two entries? How do I do that? I'm not using filevault. Several 10.13 updates created the "macos install prebooter" and the update would only run if I booted to that. The first time the preboot volume disappeared after the update, but after the last update it just stays there...

Also, can clover be set to auto boot to high sierra after 10 seconds or something?

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In Clover Configurator enter "preboot" as shown, save and reboot and then all you should see is High Sierra and Recovery, you can hide the Recovery volume but I like to leave that as you never know when you might need it

harley7991 said:

Also, can clover be set to auto boot to high sierra after 10 seconds or something?

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Again, in Clover Configurator, enter the name of you default boot volume and the timer in the box below

Humanate said:

In Clover Configurator enter "preboot" as shown, save and reboot and then all you should see is High Sierra and Recovery, you can hide the Recovery volume but I like to leave that as you never know when you might need it

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As I noticed the same unexpected behaviour for the first time after the successful installation of Catalina (namely booting from filevault prebooter from preboot) my question is why does clover now insist on booting from there when it did not on the previous system after it was installed completely.
And what effects might hiding of the prebooter partition have on future update attempts? Would it be necessary to change that clover setting for every system update?

Say Heading said:

my question is why does clover now insist on booting from there when it did not on the previous system after it was installed completely.

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AFAIK it doesnt, Clover will boot from wherever you tell it to

Say Heading said:

And what effects might hiding of the prebooter partition have on future update attempts? Would it be necessary to change that clover setting for every system update?

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I hid the preboot options on my Mojave install and updated to Catalina with no issues, did not have to change those settings

Humanate said:

AFAIK it doesnt, Clover will boot from wherever you tell it to

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Well, I told clover to boot from my main drive as you mentioned it in the other post, but it does not. That is probably why the original posts question was asked. Clover should boot from there but uses the "filevault prebooter..." instead.

Humanate said:

I hid the preboot options on my Mojave install and updated to Catalina with no issues

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Good to know. Thanks for that info. So maybe it is just an "issue" with the updated version of clover I was not aware of. So not really an "issue" but a "feature" that one might consider to change via the interface if she/he wants to, but it does not really matter, as the system boots otherwise normally even with the use of the "filevault prebooter...".
Cheers!