HOW TO INSTALL CLOVER BOOTLOADER FROM WINDOWS PC

HOW TO INSTALL CLOVER BOOTLOADER FROM WINDOWS PC

Fortunately, any recent desktop will use PCIe for the graphics card, and my old PC was no exception. I was really interested in the PCI Express/PCIe drives. So first I should point out that some M.2 drives actually use SATA, but I wasn’t interested in those as I could just connect a SATA SSD. You’ll see reference to rEFInd in the comments, but this is because I somehow got confused and thought I was using rEFInd instead of Clover. Similar steps can be followed for rEFInd, but that will only boot EFI/UEFI-based systems, whereas Clover can boot both BIOS and EFI/UEFI systems. This will work for booting both Windows and Linux, on systems with either BIOS or EFI/UEFI firmware. Fortunately, there is a way to get these super-fast storage devices working on older desktop PCs (unfortunately this won’t work on laptops).

The old PC (an Alienware X51 R2) didn’t have a M.2 slot to accommodate an NVME drive, which is common on systems of that age (circa late 2013). NVME SSDs were quite cheap at the time, so I got myself a second hand 500GB Samsung OEM one commonly found in laptops. Back in October when I set up my new Ryzen PC, I thought it might be good to get an NVME SSD for the older desktop as well – I’d pinched all the drives from it for the new PC, and I didn’t want to be stuck using my old, slow HDD.

How to install clover bootloader from windows