<< Solved >> Setting default boot volume seems to be ignored....

[steveharman]

I have the config.plist DefaultVoume set to Macintosh SSD (the name of my internal drive). Yet whenever I restart, Clover defaults to trying to boot from an "Macintosh Install" volume. The strange thing is that this has only recently started happening, after about a year of trouble-free operation and I've not performed an OS update recently.

It's not the end of the world, I just have to remember to navigate over to the correct boot volume and all's well. But I'd have imagined the value in Root > Boot > DefaultVolume would have told Clover which drive to boot from?

On a related point - where is this "Macintosh Install" pseudo-volume anyway and can I remove it?

Thanks,

 

[jpz4085]

Yet whenever I restart, Clover defaults to trying to boot from an "Macintosh Install" volume.

On a related point - where is this "Macintosh Install" pseudo-volume anyway and can I remove it?

Are you sure it doesn't say "macOS Install" and not "Macintosh Install" in the description? It could be on the Preboot volume which you can hide but not delete. Or it could be in a folder on your root volume called "macOS Install Data" if updates downloaded automatically. But that should have been removed if that finished successfully.

 

[steveharman]

Hi @jpz4085 Currently I show five volumes available in Clover's boot screen.

From left to right they're labeled:

• FileVault Prebooter from Preboot
• Install Prebooter from Preboot
• macOS Install from Macintosh SSD
• macOS from Macintosh SSD
• Recovery from Recovery

As shown in my original post config.plist is set to use"Macintosh SSD" as its default, but Clover actually defaults to
"macOS Install from Macintosh SSD". Attached shows me manually selecting the correct volume (Macintosh SSD)

Steve

 

[BreBo]

On a related point - where is this "Macintosh Install" pseudo-volume anyway and can I remove it?

[Guide] How to remove 'Boot OS X install from partition' from Clover bootloader

 

[steveharman]

Perfect, that did the trick for me on Mojave. Thanks @BreBo