Extremely slow FileVault boot on Catalina beta 11 / Final 19A583 about cloverbootloader HOT 32 CLOSED

Ok, I tried the following:

• Replacing AppleKeyAggregator.efi by AppleGenericInput.efi from OpenCore => Not booting at all (not even the Apple logo). Corresponding log:
  clover_debug_replacing_apple_keyaggregator_only.log

• Replacing AppleUITheme.efi alone by AppleUISupport.efi from OpenCore => Boots but still takes 2 minutes before the FileVault 2 password screen. Corresponding Log:
  clover_debug_replacing_apple_ui_theme_only.log

• Replacing AppleImageCodec.efi alone by AppleUISupport.efi from OpenCore => Boots to FIlevault2 screen quickly !
  Corresponding log file:
  debug.log

Conclusion: The driver causing the issue is AppleImageCodec.efi. Also note that AppleUISupport from OpenCore contains features from all following Clover's drivers AppleUITheme.efi, AppleImageCodec.efi, HashServiceFix.efi and FirmwareVolume.efi (as you can see in source code link below) so when replacing using AppleUISupport.efi instead of AppleImageCodec.efi, all these drivers can also be removed.

Btw, here is the latest source code of standalone AppleUISupport.efi from OpenCore, before it was integrated:
https://github.com/acidanthera/AppleSupportPkg/tree/2.0.9/Platform/AppleUiSupport
Image conversion code alone:
https://github.com/acidanthera/AppleSupportPkg/tree/2.0.9/Platform/AppleUiSupport/AppleImageConversion

The latest integrated code for image conversion can be found here: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Library/OcAppleImageConversionLib

Hope this helps ! I wish you a happy bug fixing ! :)

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Fixing the issue using AppleSupportPkg EFI drivers can only be a temporary solution as these drivers are made for OpenCore normally (and have even been integrated in it since).

The drivers included with Clover have to be fixed themselves.

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There is an efi driver that can help us to understand the issue. Place it in drivers and after boot you may find a log
/efi/clover/misc/eficalls.log
DumpUefiCalls.efi.zip

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Forgot to say, for Mojave boot, the pause time on the apple logo before being able to enter password went from 35 seconds to 4 seconds.

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Hi, any working on this?

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Possible solution here, looks like some EFI drivers need to be swapped out:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/filevault-2-preloader-takes-long-time.285306/#post-2021475

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Possible solution here, looks like some EFI drivers need to be swapped out:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/filevault-2-preloader-takes-long-time.285306/#post-2021475

Thank, that fixes the issue 🍡

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My test machine finished locking its drive, and now I can confirm the fix works for me too!

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Any update on this?

Is it fine to update clover using the pkg? I feel hesitant since I have a modified install now.
Or just udpate the clover.bin file?

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If it doesn’t work, you might want to turn off csrutil, Catalina verifies the disk so that is probably why
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Hi,

The driver swap works here as well (temporarily of course) - at least to get through the very long wait. But when the password screen comes up .. where I need to enter the password is just a square of "missing" graphics / text (pic below). Is there a way to address this?

Thanks!

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Same thing happens to me, I've just been typing the password in blind.

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Hmmm ... assuming it's a driver related thing. Have you tried OC, just to get to the bottom of it?

Thanks!

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@SergeySlice @asava @vectorsigma72 Any news on that issue ? For now we can workaround it by using old EFI drivers from OpenCore, but it'd be nice to have it fixed in Clover's included drivers also :)

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I am not sure, I don't use FileValut so I cannot test myself, which makes it more difficult.
Are you sure you need to replace all mentioned drivers there? Or it's just a matter of one of them (I would guess InputFix)? If you point me to something more specific, maybe I can figure out what it is.

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I see any log to speak about.
May be users install VirtualSMC but using SMCHelper which is not compatible.

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@SergeySlice I personnally use FakeSMC and SMCHelper.efi. I also tried VIrtualSMC with VirtualSMC.efi and no changes are observed.

@asava For the log, at least there are nothing printed, even with "-v" boot flag, on screen. I'll try with Clover EFI debug log activated.

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Clover debug log when using Clover's provided FileVault2 drivers:

• AppleImageCodec.efi
• AppleUITheme.efi
• AppleKeyAggregator.efi
• FirmwareVolume.efi
• HashServiceFix.efi

debug.log

From what I see nothing relevant from the log, except the huge gap in the timestamp at the end, which confirm the very slow loading.

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Maybe I didn't explain clear enough.
That thread you linked to, talks about replacing many drivers.
We need to know exactly, which driver you are replacing that fixes it.

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I was answering @SergeySlice comment, not yours

I’m working on yours but because of this bug it takes more than 2 full minutes to boot each time I try! So please be patient!

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BTW, with this driver swap - do you still get the big square block I mentioned above?

Thanks!

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BTW, with this driver swap - do you still get the big square block I mentioned above?

Thanks!

I never had this bug on my setup.

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FYI, I tried your fix (files) above - it works, thanks! But I still have the block issue above. What is your host OS? That may be part of it - I'm on Linux, not sure what you are using.

BTW, for OC, this fix works, but not sure how to set this same thing in Clover?
acidanthera/bugtracker#751 (comment)

Thanks again.

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I don’t have host OS. I’m running macOS natively, not on a VM.

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Conclusion: The driver causing the issue is AppleImageCodec.efi.

Thanks.
Kind of a shot in the dark, but I do see one possible simple problem. Please try this driver:
AppleImageCodec.zip

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Thanks I’ll try it right now.

Btw, you really should have a test computer with FileVault 2 activated to be able to reproduce FV2 issues in the future to avoid to fix with “shots in the dark”, as you said ;)

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Ok, I’ve tried your attached driver. It doesn’t fix the issue. The FV2 UI is still taking ages to appear with this driver.

Here is the log, but there doesn't seem to have more output than with the stock driver. We just see a huge time gap, but no error or warning or even info log from the driver.
debug_new_imagecodec_driver.log

Again, you should have a test machine with FV2 to reproduce issues related to FV2.

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I have a problem with Catalina/FV. it stays at white Apple on black background.
The problem comes from Preboot volume/[GUID]/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.corestorage/EFILoginLocalizations/loginui.efires.
With High sierra, it's one MB. With Catalina (testing 10.15.4) it's 56MB.

So I copy the high sierra version over, and, except that I have a blur high sierra image, it's working fine.

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So huge image == long boot?
If not load the image with OpenCore drivers then fast boot without password prompt.

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After (a lot of) further investigations and some luck, I found what was causing it for me : I just removed AppleImageCodec-64.efi from drivers folder.
I don't know what it's supposed to do, but boot Mojave (I think I also tried high sierra) fine without it.
I didn't try Catalina, who have an even bigger loginui.efires (56MB on Catalina, 26MB on Mojave).

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This issue can be solved much more easily now that clover has iplimented OC quirks and core files. literally all the filevault 2 stuff was merged into those after they deprecated the stand alone efi. Clover should clean house on all the obsolete EFI drivers at this point and this issue wold be solved

In fact every driver from https://github.com/acidanthera/applesupportpkg/releases release history has been deprecated as stand alone and part of OC Quirks, at least in OC, not sure about the fork here. But considering all driver improvements since being merged into OC are only available by using the OC versions, it's definite progression that clover do same, remove all obsolete drivers for file vault, apfs, etc and use the single unified driver that's up to date.

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