pressing F4 when booting Clover

[hendrik-zapop]

Hi there,

the thread http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook-mavericks/112383-guide-install-mavericks-clover-bootloader.html refers to pressing F4 when booting Clover.

What does F4 do? where can I find some documentation to explain it's meaning/purpose etc.?

 

[RehabMan]

Hi there,

the thread http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook-mavericks/112383-guide-install-mavericks-clover-bootloader.html refers to pressing F4 when booting Clover.

What does F4 do? where can I find some documentation to explain it's meaning/purpose etc.?

F4 at the Clover bootloader screen dumps native ACPI files to EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin. In the guide you mention, these files are used by the ProBook Installer in later stages for automatic DSDT/SSDT patching.

 

[hendrik-zapop]

F4 at the Clover bootloader screen dumps native ACPI files to EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin. In the guide you mention, these files are used by the ProBook Installer in later stages for automatic DSDT/SSDT patching.

Thank you!!

 

[zoltankr]

F4 at the Clover bootloader screen dumps native ACPI files to EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin. In the guide you mention, these files are used by the ProBook Installer in later stages for automatic DSDT/SSDT patching.

You're right. They are native ACPI files. I exported my DSDT using linux "sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > DSDT.aml" and it matches /EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin/DSDT.aml. The two files are exactly the same.

I used to export the native DSDT in Mavericks using:

$ sudo perl -e 'open(CMD, "ioreg -lw0 \| grep DSDT|") or die; while(<CMD>) { chomp; if($_ =~ /\"DSDT\.?\d?\"=<([^>]*)>/) { $buff = $1; open(PIP, "|xxd -r -p > ~/Desktop/dsdt.aml") or die; print PIP "$1"; } }'

but it doesn't work in Yosemite. I think that Probook Installer uses the /EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin/DSDT.aml as the starting point then apply patches with patchmatic.

 

[RehabMan]

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I used to export the native DSDT in Mavericks using:


but it doesn't work in Yosemite. I think that Probook Installer uses the /EFI/Clover/ACPI/origin/DSDT.aml as the starting point then apply patches with patchmatic.

Yosemite does not include the ACPI data in ioreg. Now it requires a program to access it. For example, 'patchmatic -extract', see: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-MaciASL-patchmatic

 

[chumdoggin]

Yosemite does not include the ACPI data in ioreg. Now it requires a program to access it. For example, 'patchmatic -extract', see: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-MaciASL-patchmatic

You know if clover f4 will update the directory or do you delete it manually yourself to be sure?