UEFI won't see Clover partition?

[PunkHop]

ASRock Z97M-ITX Motherboard, newest version of Clover, SSD boot drive.

I formatted the EFI partition on the SSD as FAT, installed Clover, put in kexts, swapped out VBoxHfs-64.efi and added HFSPlus.efi.

Booting off Clover on a USB stick works fine - but when I go to the Boot Menu of the BIOS, it doesn't see the UEFI boot partition of the hard drive, only the USB booter.

Why can't my BIOS see the SSD's EFI partition to boot without the USB? Is there some BIOS setting I haven't switched?

 

[clipper99]

Check page 39 of the manual and make sure you've selected "Boot Device Control [UEFI and Legacy OPROM]" and not "[Legacy OPROM only]"

 

[PunkHop]

Page 39 of the manual refers to Rapid Start, but I did find the CSM Policy page. What should these settings be? They were all legacy only.

 

[Asus-Freak]

ASRock Z97 bios won't display UEFI partitions... When talking to tech support 'bout this their position is they're are a Windows only platform and don't support alternative OS's. The solution is boot to a Clover USB, navigate to "options" and choose "add boot options". Now you'll see CloverEFI in the bios boot options.

 

[PunkHop]

But isn't the USB stick a UEFI partition? It's booting off of that just fine.

 

[Asus-Freak]

What's the point? Frankly the bios will not display UEFI hard drives as boot options. I provided the only solution, it 's your choice if you want to follow it...

 

[PunkHop]

I'm just trying to make sure I understood. So there's no way to boot without USB, right?

 

[Asus-Freak]

Did read my first reply? "The solution is boot to a Clover USB, navigate to "options" and choose "add boot options". Now you'll see CloverEFI in the bios boot options."

 

[PunkHop]

Yes, I saw it, but once I add those boot options, I don't see them as available for booting unless I first start with the USB.

 

[Asus-Freak]

After you add them go into bios boot options, CloverEFI or CLover-BootX64.efi will/should be in the list...