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Hi, everyone. After 6 years and two upgrades (Chameleon/Yosemite and Clover/High Sierra), never having gotten fully satisfied with my hack and almost regretting to have invested on a X99 platform, I gave Opencore a shot! I really wanted to keep up with macOS and learn a little more to hopefully tweak things to my liking. I couldn't be happier. What a great work by everyone at the Acidantera team (https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/misc/credit.html), you guys rock! My build: CPU: Haswell-E Intel i7 5820K GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT RAM: Crucial Ballistix 32Gb DDR4 2400MHz (xmp off, I get a panic on boot if on, had it working with clover) Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4 (rev 1.0) SSD: Samsung Evo Plus 970 m.2 (no NVme on this board) + Sandisk 240Gb Sata Drive for Windows. Cooler: Corsair H80 + 2x Noctua NF-F12-PWM fans (handles OC easily) Audio Codec: Realtek ALC1150 Ethernet Card: Intel Wifi/BT Card: BT USB dongle, no Wifi BIOS revision: 24c Guides: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/ What's working: Opencore, Dual Boot, USB (most of it), Power Management, overclock, ethernet, audio, emulated NVRAM, iServices, DRM... pretty much everything I need. What isn't working: Continuity (no Wi-Fi), Sleep/Wake, some USB 3.0 ports. Guide: I followed the OpenCore-Desktop-Guide above to the T, coming from my High Sierra drive with Clover. First, I downloaded the latest version from gibMacos, created the usb with createinstallmedia and started gathering the files for the EFI partition. As suggested on the guide, I created both SSDT-EC and SSDT-PLUG manually, needed for Haswell-E. Take the time to read https://dortania.github.io/Getting-Started-With-ACPI/ and learn it, is very simple and it pays off. EFI partition tree on the USB install media Follow the guide closely to set up the config.plist first. In my case, CFG-Lock is unlocked on my board and I have no support for NVRAM, so I configured the quirks for it accordingly. The Sanity Checker helps, but don't rely on it. If you don't boot to the install, you might have to tinker with the config.plist it a little bit. I kept getting panics stuck on [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START]. but luckily the guide was updated with the recommendation to disable DevirtualizeMmimo in that case, and it did it for me. The General Troubleshooting section is awesome. The Post-Install is also covered there. For me, internet, audio, iServices, DRM and Power Management were up and running. I mapped the USB but my board has a row of Renesas controlled ports that a never got to work properly. I might give another go in the future. That's it! If any of you have any tips to make it even better, please let me know. If I run into any trouble in the next few days, I'll update this post. I'd be happy to help anyone with questions as well! Happy hacking! [link] [comments] |
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