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After installing High Sierra and Win10 dualboot I was left with a very cluttered clover boot menu (see below)
I'm using clover 4297 with the minimalist theme (Available here: https://github.com/lebinma/clover-minimal)
I had the "FileVault Prebooter from Preboot" boot option, "macOS Install Prebooter from Preboot" boot option, a Recovery boot option, and the regular "Boot macOS from High Sierra HD" and Win10 options. Win10 also had 3 legacy partitions that showed up which I easily removed by following this simple guide:
I found 3-4 older guides on the forum to address hiding/customizing what appears on the boot menu. All of them were either overly complex, didn't work for me, or were very vague (I'm still a noob). The following guide is how I fixed the problem on my system. While this method does not address customizing the titles, it is a very simple and non-permanent method to hide unwanted volumes/partitions. After completing this, you can re-show the hidden items with F3 if needed.
1. Mount your EFI partition where clover is (I used the Clover Configurator app to mount the disk, note your disk may have a different name)
2. Navigate to your config.plist file on your now mounted EFI partition.
3. Open config.plist and navigate to Hide under GUI. (I used PlistEdit Pro to open the plist file and edit)
Just add the volumes you want to hide into Hide Volume's section. I used this text to hide the recovery and preboot options from the boot menu.
The result looks like this (Note I have 2 other strings to hide windows volumes):
How it looks in PlistEdit Pro:
4. Save the edited config.plist and exit PlistEditPro.
7. Quit Clover Configurator
8. Reboot
In my case I was only left with the regular High Sierra boot option as desired. See before and after:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
To unhide the options, F3 on your keyboard does in fact bring back the full list of boot partitions (contrary to what older guides I found online stated). Pressing F3 results in this:
I'm using clover 4297 with the minimalist theme (Available here: https://github.com/lebinma/clover-minimal)
I had the "FileVault Prebooter from Preboot" boot option, "macOS Install Prebooter from Preboot" boot option, a Recovery boot option, and the regular "Boot macOS from High Sierra HD" and Win10 options. Win10 also had 3 legacy partitions that showed up which I easily removed by following this simple guide:
I found 3-4 older guides on the forum to address hiding/customizing what appears on the boot menu. All of them were either overly complex, didn't work for me, or were very vague (I'm still a noob). The following guide is how I fixed the problem on my system. While this method does not address customizing the titles, it is a very simple and non-permanent method to hide unwanted volumes/partitions. After completing this, you can re-show the hidden items with F3 if needed.
1. Mount your EFI partition where clover is (I used the Clover Configurator app to mount the disk, note your disk may have a different name)
2. Navigate to your config.plist file on your now mounted EFI partition.
3. Open config.plist and navigate to Hide under GUI. (I used PlistEdit Pro to open the plist file and edit)
Just add the volumes you want to hide into Hide Volume's section. I used this text to hide the recovery and preboot options from the boot menu.
Code:
<key>GUI</key>
<dict>
<key>Hide</key>
<array>
<string>Recovery</string>
<string>Preboot</string>
</array>
<key>Scan</key>
<true/>
</dict>
The result looks like this (Note I have 2 other strings to hide windows volumes):
How it looks in PlistEdit Pro:
4. Save the edited config.plist and exit PlistEditPro.
7. Quit Clover Configurator
8. Reboot
In my case I was only left with the regular High Sierra boot option as desired. See before and after:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
To unhide the options, F3 on your keyboard does in fact bring back the full list of boot partitions (contrary to what older guides I found online stated). Pressing F3 results in this:
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