Releases and Updates
Disclaimer: I am no expert, but I have had some prior experience with this machine. If you edit your UEFI and screw up, I'm not responsible.
There's plenty of info in my previous guide here.
OpenCore has been the future for a while but honestly the previous guide took us pretty far from Mojave to Catalina. Been a while for me, so I had a bit catching up to do. I also had a great time warming up with my desktop first.
There's plenty of info in my previous guide here.
OpenCore has been the future for a while but honestly the previous guide took us pretty far from Mojave to Catalina. Been a while for me, so I had a bit catching up to do. I also had a great time warming up with my desktop first.
My hardware
Overview/Background
While I still have this laptop, I don't use this anymore, it's more a toy and something for me to tinker with. I'll try to keep up with fixes and updates but please keep that in mind.
I welcome everyone to once again help make this the best hackintosh laptop. If you have info, fixes, anything to share I will happily amend it to the guide. Thanks to all who have contributed to the hackintosh community in the past, present and hopefully future.
What Works (Tested)
Works (Tested by Others)
Not Tested
Never Going to Work
Let The Hack Begin!
Setup your USB installer with the ESP/EFI partition and copy over my EFI folder. I'm not writing a guide for this, this information is everywhere.
BIOS Configuration (1.21.0)
Plug in the USB installer before you boot and start to change these settings.
If I didn't list the section or option it is likely you can choose what you want.
UEFI switches and TB Hot Plug Background (you can skip this section)
I actually dumped our whole UEFI last year which shows a bunch of exposed switches and pasted reveleant switches if you want to get testy with TB. Here's the post on that.
mistzzt has a list on their repo but no real confirmation and as far as I know the end game to TB will end up being PCI express card with wonky hot plug or not even at all. Everyone is still using the same ACPI renames just as before, regardless of all the UEFI bit switching and addition of ioelectrity and TbtForcePower it'll be the same. Trust that I have tried all these methods over the years, with a bunch of people(thank you all) from the previous thread that tinkered and tested. BUT things change and I'm excited to see if any progress can actually be made on this.
Modding your UEFI
You must have legacy option roms enabled! Turn it back off after it's done
We need to accomplish at least one thing and that is to disable CFG Lock. I listed additional options that I also adjusted on my system but they are OPTIONAL but pretty universal to all hacks working better. Attached is the dump of BIOS v1.21.0. It's in a text file and fairly easy to understand.
Code:
disable cfg lock
setup_var 0x4ed 0x01
enable hwp
setup_var 0x4BC 0x01
enable above 4GB MMIO BIOS assignment
setup_var 0x79A 0x01
disable CSM Support
setup_var 0xFC8 0x01Inside EFI/OC/Tools/ you'll find drivers modGrubShell and VerifyMsrE2. If you followed the BIOS settings you should have enabled legacy option roms already. I've added these to OpenCore and these tools should be bootable from OpenCore's boot picker.
NOTE: If you restore BIOS to default settings, it will in fact undo these bit switches to default.
OpenCore's Boot Mechanics
OpenCore will apply patches/etc to the ACPI even if you boot Windows. While this is edited out in ACPI, it can get weird. The positive is being able to reboot directly into Windows like bootcamp. I actually hate it, not only can there be blue screen issues but also it messes with your Microsoft accounts due the device thinking it's a real Mac. So when I want into Windows I spam F12 and select it manually. Keep this in mind if you try or want to boot Windows with OpenCore.
Installing Options
Setup your own SMBIOS, DO NOT USE THE ONE GIVEN. I am still using MacBookPro14,1. It is asked all the time why I do. My reasons, no touch ID/touchbar, no dPGU, and Kaby Lake architecture. Plenty of people use 14,3 or whatever but this is what I use and those are my reasons. Feel free to change it. You can use Clover Configurator or GenSMBIOS, below are the main settings to change.
After install, copy your USB EFI over to your hard drive and setup BIOS boot sequence to point at the hard disk version.
Post Install
Fixing KNNSpeed's ComboJack Installer
CPUFriendDataProvider
VoltageShift
Testing Sleep Wake, terminal commands
Cleaning Up verbose and debugging
Cleaning up tools
Boot GUI and Boot Chime
Booting Windows with OpenCore
Note: Benchmarks are for macOS 11.0.1 and on OpenCore 0.6.3
GeekBench 5.3.1 (note my system was probably still trying to cache stuff while I ran these tests but they seem accurate)
ACPI Patches
OpenCore would prefer we didn't do any renames but we have to do some. Specifically for Power, Sleep, USB-C/TB3, etc. Comments should explain enough ask if you'd like to know more. I kept these to a minimum for a reason. We'll see what's broke
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