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quasiholomorph

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2015-12-28

Posts: 25

Dual Boot with Clover

I would like to dualboot Hackintosh/Arch Linux and use the Clover Bootloader. Currently I have an installation of Clover from my Hackintosh installation that boots macOS fine, but doesn't work for Arch. I googled around but did not find a solution that works (so far). Has anyone managed to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Dual Boot with Clover

Looks like clover should work with arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clover

I think you should also be able to chainload clover from some of the linux bootloaders.

quasiholomorph

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2015-12-28

Posts: 25

Re: Dual Boot with Clover

Yes, I also expect it to work. The question is rather how it's achieved. If anyone did manage to do this I'd be grateful for any explanations.

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: Dual Boot with Clover

The wiki clearly has instructions for configuring Clover, as well as a link to a config generator. Do neither of these work?

If not then you need to provide us with much more information. How are your drives/partitions configured, what's your current Clover config, what errors are you getting, etc, etc...

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mx_joao

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From: Brasil

Registered: 2011-12-02

Posts: 46

Re: Dual Boot with Clover

I have the exact same situation from post #1. Need help

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Dual Boot with Clover

And as has been already established, the wiki has instructions, so if you have the exact same situation, then go and read the wiki, post back if anything is unclear, preferably in a new thread.

quasiholomorph

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2015-12-28

Posts: 25

Re: Dual Boot with Clover

So I followed the wiki, adjusted the clover config.plist with the correct UUID and put initramfs-linux.img as well as vmlinuz-linux in the correct place. The Arch Linux entry now appears in Clover, but upon boot I run into a kernel panic. One complaint is

/usr/bin/switch_root" invalid option -- 'd'

and the complaint about the kernel panic is

Kernel panic - not syncing" Atempted to kill init!

Any help is still greatly appreciated.

Last edited by quasiholomorph (2017-12-17 20:26:39)

V1del

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Re: Dual Boot with Clover

Post your config and information on your partition setup

quasiholomorph

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2015-12-28

Posts: 25

Re: Dual Boot with Clover

Arch is on sda3

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI NO NAME                 524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         127.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:           Linux Filesystem                         40.8 GB    disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         49.4 GB    disk0s4
   5:           Linux Filesystem                         37.8 GB    disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +127.6 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume XYZ                     52.4 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 20.3 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                520.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk1s4

and here is the (relevant) part of my config.plist

<dict>
     <key>AddArguments</key>
     <string>root=UUID=0221b1c3-b17b-4745-ae56-1b59609d0042 rw add_efi_memmap initrd=/initramfs-linux.img</string>
      <key>Disabled</key>
      <false/>
      <key>FullTitle</key>
      <string>Arch Linux</string>
      <key>Hidden</key>
      <false/>
       <key>Ignore</key>
       <false/>
       <key>Path</key>
       <string>vmlinuz-linux</string>
       <key>Type</key>
       <string>Linux</string>
       <key>Volume</key>
       <string>EFI</string>
       <key>VolumeType</key>
       <string>Internal</string>
        </dict>