Post installation

Install Clover Boot Loader on your HDD

At this point, you are ready for "Post Installation", you first step should be to install the Clover Boot Loader to your HDD.

Since the installation is very similar to the install you can go to the Prepare Usb Drive and follow the Installing Clover Boot Loader to USB drive section skipping the first step of choosing a different install location.

After installing the Boot Loader, you should take an inventory of things working and not working.

Patching issues and devices

Since there are still many issues and devices that won't work correctly. For that, we need to patch DSDT, provide a proper config.plist, and install the kexts that are required.

Since you have RealtekRTL8111.kext already injected by Clover, you should have internet access simply by using an Ethernet cable to your router. Plug it in and make sure you have internet access before continuing.

To start, the developer tools must be installed. Run Terminal, and type:

git

You will be prompted to install the developer tools. Since you have internet working, you can choose to have it download and install them automatically. Do that before continuing. After the developer tools are installed, we need a copy of the repo:

mkdir ~/Projects
cd ~/Projects
# since we are an HP Envy J Series there is this repo ready for us 
git clone https://github.com/RehabMan/HP-Envy-DSDT-Patch envy.git
cd envy.git
./download.sh
./install.sh

If you are using a different Hardware, go here.

The download.sh script will automatically gather the latest version of all tools (patchmatic, iasl, MaciASL) and all the kexts (FakeSMC.kext, IntelBacklight.kext, ACPIBatteryManager.kext, etc) from bitbucket. The install_downloads.sh will automatically install them to the proper locations.

With the current project, no patched DSDT/SSDTs are used. Instead are used Clover hot-patches and a small SSDT called SSDT-HACK, SSDT-HACK-K1 or SSDT-HACK-K2, depending on your laptop.

cd ~/Projects/envy.git
make
make install

The make causes the SSDT-HACK.aml files to be compiled (with iasl), the results placed in ./build. Finally, make install mounts the EFI partition, and copies the built files where they can be loaded by Clover (to EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched).

Up to now, you've been using the same config.plist we were using for installation. You're ready to use the final config.plist from the Envy repo

cd ~/Projects/envy.git
./mount_efi.sh
cp config.plist /Volumes/EFI/EFI/Clover/config.plist

Configure SMBIOS

After copying the config.plist from the repo to EFI/Clover/config.plist, you should customise the SMBIOS so you have a unique serial. You can use Clover Configurator to do this (use google to find/download it). DO NOT use Clover Configurator to edit your actual config.plist. Instead edit a dummy config.plist to create the SMBIOS data and then use copy/paste with a plist editor (I use Xcode) to copy the SMBIOS section into my active config.plist. Clover Configurator is too buggy and cannot be trusted with edits to your real config.plist. This guide uses MacBookPro11,1. Do not use any other model identifier.

The detailed guide to correctly configure SMBIOS is here.