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Thank you for a well written, detailed guide. I am up and running perfectly. I had installed El Capitan according to the Installation Guide and the only problem I had was that upon reboot, it would not fully boot and start a reboot again. Sometimes it took three or four cycles before it fully booted. Using your guide, it now reboots the first time every time.
Questions: It seems there were 3 main post installation differences between your guide and the Installation Guide UniBeast: Install OS X El Capitan on Any Supported Intel-based PC:
1. Replacing the EFI folder: What was in - or not in - your folder vs the one created by Clover?
Clover gives you a ton of stuff you don't need, and then relies on you to add the stuff you do need. Silly huh? For example Clover installs a 32 bit bootloader, 32 and 64 bit BIOS booting drivers (see screenshots), a OEM folder that contains 2 other config.plists that only add to confusion and wont be used by 99.9% and some other random things you do not need.
2. Your guide did not call for the Customac Essentials that were part of the Installation guide. Why are they not needed?
CustoMac Essentials.pkg will install the following kexts to /Library/Extensions:
FakeSMC.kext
AppleIntelE1000e.kext
AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext
RealtekRTL8111.kext
They are not needed as they are already in the EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other folder (see screenshots)
3. The Installation Guide did not prescribe a custom Clover installation so I did a standard. What is the difference between what you prescribed for a custom installation vs the standard installation?
I directed a custom install because you need OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi, which does not get included with the standard install. If you used my EFI folder, you have this now, so not to worry. I included this step so it was clear that OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi was needed if someone chose not to use my EFI folder.
The following are screenshots of what the standard Clover installation gives you (top), and the contents of the EFI folder I provide (bottom).
Clover documentation is really nil. There is a Wiki if you don't think you are already confused enough. I have done a fair amount of research and read hours of old&new Clover threads and have tried to learn a lot about Clover, but there are things some Clover Dev's cant even explain - Im sure Slice would be the exception.Any thoughts appreciated as I am eager to learn!
Hope this helps If this isn't clear enough or you would like more detail, just ask.