. Current rating: 5.Average rating: 5/5 (2 votes)Your rating: not submittedClover EFI Bootloader is a free and lightweight application which gives you the possibility to boot Linus, Mac OS X and MS Windows on machines having BIOS of UEFI firmware.
The application is capable of booting UEFI directly, but UEFI firmware emulation can be performed as well.Clover EFI Bootloader is highly customizable and lets you personalize the user interface according to your wishes. You can customize the fonts, icons, animations, background images, mouse pointers, and more. You can also download and install various themes.Clover EFI Bootloader allows you to adjust the resolution of the interface and includes a multilingual help file that will help you get accustomed to all the program's features. The program allows you to customize the booth entries. You can also create your own boot entries.
Support for multiple operating systems can be added, as well. Pros. The application is free, lightweight and customizable.
The utility lets you add support for multiple operating systems.
Chameleon, Chimera or Clover. What are they?
Who’s better than the other? I will explain that to you so you can make the right decision. Let’s begin:is an open-source project created on May 25, 2008 based on Apple’s which aims to create a Darwin/XNU bootloader able to boot OS X on ordinary x86 and x8664 computers. Chameleon’s is organized using the SVN and maintained by the.
Since it’s an open-source project anyone can edit and view the code to make adjustments, fix bugs and add new features to it., made by and the folks of on April 27, 2011, is a open-source bootloader based on Chameleon. The reason MacMan created Chimera was the fact that there were too many different versions of Chameleon called “Branches” each with it’s own purpose and/or patches for different hardware support. So Chimera is a Chameleon version which consolidates the best features from all of the available branches to obtain maximum compatibility across platforms as a result. It can be installed only by using, so if you followed tonymacx86’s guides you’ll will have Chimera by 100%.
Chimera’s source code is available.is an open-source EFI-based bootloader created on Apr 4, 2011. It has a totally different approach from Chameleon and Chimera, in fact it can emulate the EFI portion present on real macs and boot the OS from there instead of using the regular legacy BIOS approach used by Chameleon and Chimera. For many Clover is considered the next-gen bootloader and soon it will become the only choice since BIOS in being replaced by UEFI in every new motherboard.
One big feature of Clover is that iMessage, iCloud, the Mac App Store works along with Find My Mac, Back To My Mac and FileVault since Clover can use the EFI partition.