Question on clover dual booting.
I have both Acer OEM win8.1 and OSX installed on GPT in UEFI mode. I used OSX to partition the drive into two with the Win partition as the first partition created as a “free space” partition and OSX as the second created as HFS+J. This allows windows to create EFI, MSR, Windows partition and a recovery one as well without issues. Installed OSX using a “createmedia” usb which also created RecoveryHD partition and boots ok.
Next used a WIN8 UEFI USB (non-Acer version) and installed to the free space a Win8 copy. Booted into win8 to the desktop. Next step was booted up the OEM Recovery USB and selected the Win8 partition and re-set my PC to it while selecting to keep existing partitions, this prevents windows from wiping the entire drive and creating the factory setting HDD and leaves OSX intact. Later deleted the win8 recovery partition. There was no other way I could figure to get the OEM version into the Win8 partition (possible to use a cloned image but this works out better I think).
This was necessary as I prefer win7 but win7 doesn’t play nice with the Wifi and LAN which become very very slow and stop working while online, also USB3 port does not work in win7, the track pad doesn’t work in win7, or works intermittently and finally there is one other hardware item that also doesn’t work and I was unable to determine what it was. All these are inspite of using drivers from the Acer website and getting windows to search for drivers. This is a big issue and makes the laptop experience very poor. In Non-Acer Win8 under UEFI, these issues persist, however trackpad is ok with synatics driver but an additional issue of DEVICE_ERROR XXXX and a BSOD arises…. As a result the only way was to use the OEM Win8 version and de-bloat it manually.
Anyway now I have win8 and OSX both installed and both working, however I’m having issues getting Clover to work well. Installed Clover to the EFI as per the guide including RC scripts to all drives. Went into EFI/Microsoft/boot and renamed bootmgfw.efi to bootmgfw_orig.efi and copied CLOVERX64.efi into the EFI/Microsoft/boot folder and named it bootmgfw.efi. Now the clover screen comes up and I can boot into OSX ok, but Win8 will not boot and only shows a HDD picture on screen. When I revert and restore the original bootmgfw.efi, pc boots directly into Win8 without showing clover. Also unlike some other Bios I have read about, the Clover EFi doesn’t show up in my boot order items in the bios.
Would appreciate some pointers here or link to how I can get this fixed, I’ve searched but come up with the same above procedure for renaming the bootmgfw file.... Perhaps a different set of eyes will see it different from me and can see the solution.
Thanks!