Help! How to uninstall Clover_r5159.pkg?

[andy2301]

Friends, I accidentally installed this package Clover_r5159.pkg to my Macbook Air (while tinkering to install clover to a usb drive), and I cannot find a way to uninstall it. Please help. Thank you.

Tried all the EFI-mounting approaches mentioned here, here, and #68, but could not find EFI partition on my Macbook (MacOS Monterey 12.5).

andy@MacAir / % sudo diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal):

: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0 1: Apple_APFS_ISC 524.3 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 494.4 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_APFS_Recovery 5.4 GB disk0s3

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):

: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +494.4 GB disk3 Physical Store disk0s2 1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 23.4 GB disk3s1 2: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 23.4 GB disk3s1s1 3: APFS Volume Preboot 777.9 MB disk3s2 4: APFS Volume Recovery 1.6 GB disk3s3 5: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 356.8 GB disk3s5 6: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk3s6

A quick system-wide search showed these files were added around the same time when I installed the Clover_r5159.pkg.

andy@MacAir / % sudo find / -iname '*clover*'

/private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64.mandatory.englishdxe.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64.mandatory.englishdxe.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.post.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.purple.swirl.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.post.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.pre.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.utils.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.cloverefi.64.sata.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.efifolder.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.cesium.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.purple.swirl.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.clovy.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.apfsdriverloader.uefi.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.bgm.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64.mandatory.xhcidxe.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.clovy.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64.mandatory.xhcidxe.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.cesium.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.mandatory.englishdxe.uefi.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64.apfsdriverloader.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.efifolder.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.biosboot.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.fat.uefi.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.biosboot.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.mandatory.englishdxe.uefi.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.apfsdriverloader.uefi.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.utils.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.bootloader.bootno.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.bootloader.bootno.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.cloverefi.64.sata.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.themes.bgm.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.openruntime.uefi.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.pre.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.fat.uefi.plist /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64.apfsdriverloader.bom /private/var/db/receipts/org.clover.drivers64uefi.openruntime.uefi.bom

[maxpicelli]

Maybe you need try this program

https://github.com/chris1111/Drop-EFI/releases/tag/V3

Its made by @chris1111 that he is a developer team from Clover

[andy2301]

Thanks, @maxpicelli. I tried Chris's latest release: installed it, opened it, dragged the "Macintosh HD" into it, and it said "Error: cannot locate EFI partition".

BTW, I also checked the disk partitions from "diskutil list" and the files inside. To my eyes, none of the partitions appears to be an EFI partition.

Is there anything else I can check to uninstall the Clover_r5159.pkg?

[maxpicelli]

I've never come across such a situation, but if I were you, I would try either the recovery tool, or if you can switch to the mode where you can boot from a pendrive, disabling some things on the Mac, I would use GParted from Linux instead. pendrive and delete everything. Very simple to use and very easy to format whatever you need. Then create a GUID Partition with GParted using the disk just for that purpose. After deleting it, if I were you I would restore it to the factory, but if you can, restore it from an ISO compatible with your use.

https://gparted.org/download.php

Good Lucky my friend

[maxpicelli]

BTW, today @chris1111 made a new release from Drop-EFI 3 hours ago. Try it too.

https://github.com/chris1111/Drop-EFI/releases/