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alexanderzjs

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 29, 2022
2
0
Hi, All,

Recently, I switch from LiveUSB based on rEFInd and grub2 to OpenCore. My LiveUSB entries under Misc section contains something like:

XML:
<dict>
    <key>Arguments</key>
    <string></string>
    <key>Auxiliary</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Comment</key>
    <string>Windows 10 Setup</string>
    <key>Enabled</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Flavour</key>
    <string>Windows</string>
    <key>Name</key>
    <string>Windows 10 Setup</string>
    <key>Path</key>
    <string>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(0x4,0x0)/HD(5,GPT,F98442A8-A369-4BF0-BE54-E5AFDEFFA702,0x4FC6000,0xC00000)/\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI</string>
    <key>TextMode</key>
    <false/>
</dict>

But the above script runs into one problem: When I test the script on my virtual machine, it works fine. However, the Pci part is different when I test it on real machine (I have a MacBook Pro 2014). After looking through the configuration documentation, there is no such thing like "Volume" in Clover so that I can just use partition's UUID without the PCI part to specify the partition contains Windows 10.

So, would you guys recommend someway to achieve this? Or explain how I can achieve the above goal in another way?
 
Last edited:

startergo

macrumors 603
Sep 20, 2018
5,022
2,283
Hi, All,

Recently, I switch from LiveUSB based on rEFInd and grub2 to OpenCore. My LiveUSB entries under Misc section contains something like:

XML:
<dict>
    <key>Arguments</key>
    <string></string>
    <key>Auxiliary</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Comment</key>
    <string>Windows 10 Setup</string>
    <key>Enabled</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Flavour</key>
    <string>Windows</string>
    <key>Name</key>
    <string>Windows 10 Setup</string>
    <key>Path</key>
    <string>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(0x4,0x0)/HD(5,GPT,F98442A8-A369-4BF0-BE54-E5AFDEFFA702,0x4FC6000,0xC00000)/\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI</string>
    <key>TextMode</key>
    <false/>
</dict>

But the above script runs into one problem: When I test the script on my virtual machine, it works fine. However, the Pci part is different when I test it on real machine (I have a MacBook Pro 2014). After looking through the configuration documentation, there is no such thing like "Volume" in Clover so that I can just use partition's UUID without the PCI part to specify the partition contains Windows 10.

So, would you guys recommend someway to achieve this? Or explain how I can achieve the above goal in another way?
If Windows is installed on the first partition of a GPT formatted drive it should be automatically recognized if scam policy is zero.
 

alexanderzjs

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 29, 2022
2
0
If Windows is installed on the first partition of a GPT formatted drive it should be automatically recognized if scam policy is zero.
That's correct, but my problem is my USB has been parted into different partitions. I have partitions for EFI, macOS Mojave installer, macOS Monterey installer, Windows 10 installer, Windows 11 installer, and one for Linux distros.
 
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