After several weeks of research, I finally managed to successfully install Clover on a 2009 (!) legacy BIOS (non UEFI) system.
My system :
MB : Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (2009)
CPU : AMD Phenom II X4 955 (2009)
SSD : TRANSCEND TS1MTE220S 1TB NVMe (2019)
NVMe to PCIe adaptor
I successfully installed the following OSs on the – non bootable - NVMe SSD, and I am able to boot any one of them through Clover :
Windows 10
Windows 11
Linux Mint LMDE 4
Kali Linux
Ubuntu Server [Edit : 26/06/2022]
Emmabuntüs [Edit : 01/09/2022]
I created the Clover USB key using Boot Disk Utility v.023 and Clover v.4961.
For reference, from the Clover key, it takes 13 s (thirteen seconds) to start Windows 11 and 15 s for Kali Linux. Not bad for a 13 year old rig !
Clover is a wonderful tool and I can only encourage others who have a legacy platform to use it !
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