[GUIDE] Remove extra Clover BIOS boot entries & prevent further problems

[anak85]

Hi there !

I followed the instructions and removed 3 boot drives but when I restart nothing has changed. I still have 5 boot options. When I run bcfg dump there are only 2 listed (see screenshots below). Any idea why I still have 5 drives.

My setup is: Asus Z170I Pro Gaming, 2 SSD drives (Mac + Windows), El Capitan install

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[flymacpara]

Hi there !

I followed the instructions and removed 3 boot drives but when I restart nothing has changed. I still have 5 boot options. When I run bcfg dump there are only 2 listed (see screenshots below). Any idea why I still have 5 drives.

My setup is: Asus Z170I Pro Gaming, 2 SSD drives (Mac + Windows), El Capitan install

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My best guess is that scanning is switched on in config.plist. You might want to check https://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration/GUI#gui_scan_scan-entries, especially the section "Scan".

On the other hand, you might want this because if you turn off scanning, you are no longer able to boot Windows from Clover.

Cheers,
Erwin

 

[Rarskies]

When I boot into Clover UEFI Shell to remove the extra (26 ) boot entries I am unable to type the bcfg boot dump command. When I hit space after typing the g it just start typing over the first of it. I check and my apple keyboard is plugged into a USB 2 port.

I am running a Gigabyte GA-Z77N mb. Something weird about the apple keyboard? I would try another if I had one.

I was also having this problem typing in the clover EFI shell until I read a comment on ****** that said "EDIT2: I managed to find a walkaround to efi shell problems. It seemed, that to continue interrupted command I just needed to press arrow up key and I could continue. Still don't know, why such thing happened, but I solved it."

This helped me finally get my dual boot 10/el cap running perfectly.

 

[zipb]

I followed Erwin's advice , but after every reboot I still get a new bogus UEFI entry for my boot SSD. Ugly. I can weed them out in the Clover shell, but every restart means a new entry. I don't have a Windows disk. I have many more non-bootable disks attached to my Z170x, but these don't add to the list. It's only my Clover boot SSD that multiplies...

Any ideas?

 

[daniel789]

Got extra boot options appear every time i mount an EFI partition, any clues how to stop that from happening?
not sure if thats what causing it but it seems so.

 

[itech]

I have a Gigabyte "GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5" and I can confirmed after renaming the "BOOT" folder in the OSX EFI Partition, I renamed it "LAUNCHER" and removing the extra boot option entries adding a manual boot entry using "EasyUEFI" pointing it to "\EFI\LAUNCHER\BOOTX64.efi", I am no longer getting multiple boot option entries

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Thank you to everyone for their comments and contributions.

 

[daniel789]

I still can't understand, after reading this post a couple of times from start to finish
i still get extra boot options every startup or every time i mount an EFI partition.

Is there a permanent fix ? some body ?

 

[mhatayama]

As many people stated above, the procedure written in the below post also works well for me.

https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/tickets/226/#d1a9/0222/8cc1

No Windows OS needed. No more annoying rodent spawned. Great.

 

[dronefriend]

I accidentally deleted my original drive entry. I am stuck with 'bogus entries' now. I can still boot into OS X as normal though, at least for now...

How can I restore the entry for the real, physical drive? If I know how to do that, I can follow the other procedure in the post above and stop more entries from spawning.

Any help much appreciated.

 

[dronefriend]

No need to bother, I solved it.

(Add All Entries to restore, then remove the bad entries)