Does your Clover Bootloader boot menu looks like this?
In this video I will show you how to clean it up and left there only the options you
really want or need.
Simply how to hide all unwanted volumes and boot options.
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After release of macOS High Sierra and APFS - the new Apple File System, Hackintosh users
noticed some strange named boot options like Preboot or VM.
But it’s not just about macOS High Sierra, APFS is of course in the latest macOS Mojave too.
Also if you dual boot with Windows you can see some other unwanted boot options in the
Clover boot menu.
So what about you would want to have just one icon for macOS and one for Windows?
I will show you now really very easy and fast way how to do it.
Let’s have a look now at real life example on one of my machines running macOS Mojave.
I have only one system disk with one system installed in this machine.
But Clover Bootloader shows me in total 4 options.
Some FileVault Prebooter from Preboot, Recovery etc.
So let’s boot into the system now.
Open the Clover Configurator, mount your system EFI and open your config.plist.
In the left column navigate to GUI section.
And look at the top right.
Hide Volumes.
Bingo :) But what to fill into those fields?
We need to find out the correct partition names.
Don’t worry, again it’s very easy.
Open Terminal application of your choice (I’ll use now the native Terminal App) and execute
this command: diskutil list.
Great, here you can see the exact partition names.
So if my goal would be to hide all boot options and have only one with the main macOS Mojave
boot, I would need to hide Preboot and Recovery partition.
So let’s add new field with the little plus sign and write into it Preboot.
Hit Enter and again the same for the Recovery partition.
Great.
Save your config and just reboot your Hackintosh.
As you can see in Clover boot menu I have now only one option to boot, the macOS Mojave itself.
If you want revert back and see again all
available options, just simply delete those entries you filled into the Hide field by
clicking the minus button, save your config and reboot.
Of course Clover offers lot more options for hiding and revealing partitions and boot options
like direct UUID of disks and disks paths etc., but I think for 99.9% of people this
tutorial will be enough for their needs.
If you want to cleanup some Windows partitions, you can for example disable the “legacy”
option in Clover Configurator in your config.plist.
So this way you can easily and fast hide unwanted macOS, Windows boot options in your Clover
Bootloader boot menu.
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