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- Jan 20, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z270X
- CPU
- i7-7700K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Well, as ever, not a popular board so not much literature out there. Hope this is useful for someone.
My battery was dead on my board, so as a by the by, I wrote down my settings when I replaced.
BIOS [hold down DEL key]
- Load optimised defaults
- Advanced BIOS Tab
. - Init Display 1st - PCIEx16
. - Onboard VGA - Enable if no ext PEG
- Integrated Per Tab
. - SATA AHCI mode - AHCE
- Power Management Setup
. - ACPI Suspend Type - S3(STR)
. - HPET Support - Enabled
. - HPET Mode - 64 Bit
Save and Exit
When I tried the clover usb, I got kernel panics mentioning HPET incorrect - however poking around clover configurator after installing via unibeast there is an HPET fix ticked, so I guess that fixes that anyway.
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EDIT - THIS USES THE ALTERNATE POST INSTALL METHOD FROM TONY
Swapped out a drive and attempted to use multibeast, did not work. I now understand that I need clover installed to the root of the drive.
///
So the steps I took to install:
- FOLLOW THE GUIDE! Set up unibeast stick as described.
- Download all the stuff mentioned in the guide - Ethernet didn't work out of the gate so make sure you've got it all on a spare USB stick.
- Boot from unibeast stick [F12 at boot, then choose USB-HDD]
- Disk Utility, wipe the drive
- Install OSX on the new clean drive
- Reboot, tap F12, boot from newly installed partition
- Continue El Cap setup (you won't be asked about icloud, as ethernet doesn't work. yet.)
- At desktop, run post installation tools from Tony: Legacy mode, Customac essentials.
- Open Clover Configurator
- load config.plist from Root-of-your-drive/EFI/CLOVER
- SMBIOS Tab, magic wand, iMac, 1155 [figured it's the closest to the truth, why not.]
- Graphics Tab, inject NVIDIA [obviously, depends on your card].
- File, save, saved to desktop, manually replaced the file in Root-of-your-drive/EFI/CLOVER
- All great, reboots reliably BUT - no audio, no ethernet.
- I tried the ALC110 method for audio from the guide, but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. It's an 889 board, but errors were thrown up within terminal when I tried it. Gave up, come back to it.
- Ethernet - AtherosL1C is the kext you need. I put it in EFI/CLOVER/KEXTS/10.11/ and then in Clover Config, open config.plist, System Parameters Tab, Kext Injection needs to be set to YES. Then obviously save, replace the file.
- Audio take 2. As multibeast 8 isn't ready yet, I bought a £2 USB plug and play audio adaptor. It's dumb, but it's simple and it works. The one I got has a bit of a buzz on it, I've got a logitech one that's a couple quid more on its way from China that hopefully will be a bit less noisy. I know it's a cop out, but my computer rack favours function over form. Sound has always been a pain to sort on that board, so if I can plug in and fix it, I'm happy!
Anyways, hope that's useful to someone.
EDIT - Point to note - no USB3 currently. It acts as a home server, so it's not an issue for me at the moment. I'm sure MB8 will have a solution to all the problems.
My battery was dead on my board, so as a by the by, I wrote down my settings when I replaced.
BIOS [hold down DEL key]
- Load optimised defaults
- Advanced BIOS Tab
. - Init Display 1st - PCIEx16
. - Onboard VGA - Enable if no ext PEG
- Integrated Per Tab
. - SATA AHCI mode - AHCE
- Power Management Setup
. - ACPI Suspend Type - S3(STR)
. - HPET Support - Enabled
. - HPET Mode - 64 Bit
Save and Exit
When I tried the clover usb, I got kernel panics mentioning HPET incorrect - however poking around clover configurator after installing via unibeast there is an HPET fix ticked, so I guess that fixes that anyway.
////
EDIT - THIS USES THE ALTERNATE POST INSTALL METHOD FROM TONY
Swapped out a drive and attempted to use multibeast, did not work. I now understand that I need clover installed to the root of the drive.
///
So the steps I took to install:
- FOLLOW THE GUIDE! Set up unibeast stick as described.
- Download all the stuff mentioned in the guide - Ethernet didn't work out of the gate so make sure you've got it all on a spare USB stick.
- Boot from unibeast stick [F12 at boot, then choose USB-HDD]
- Disk Utility, wipe the drive
- Install OSX on the new clean drive
- Reboot, tap F12, boot from newly installed partition
- Continue El Cap setup (you won't be asked about icloud, as ethernet doesn't work. yet.)
- At desktop, run post installation tools from Tony: Legacy mode, Customac essentials.
- Open Clover Configurator
- load config.plist from Root-of-your-drive/EFI/CLOVER
- SMBIOS Tab, magic wand, iMac, 1155 [figured it's the closest to the truth, why not.]
- Graphics Tab, inject NVIDIA [obviously, depends on your card].
- File, save, saved to desktop, manually replaced the file in Root-of-your-drive/EFI/CLOVER
- All great, reboots reliably BUT - no audio, no ethernet.
- I tried the ALC110 method for audio from the guide, but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. It's an 889 board, but errors were thrown up within terminal when I tried it. Gave up, come back to it.
- Ethernet - AtherosL1C is the kext you need. I put it in EFI/CLOVER/KEXTS/10.11/ and then in Clover Config, open config.plist, System Parameters Tab, Kext Injection needs to be set to YES. Then obviously save, replace the file.
- Audio take 2. As multibeast 8 isn't ready yet, I bought a £2 USB plug and play audio adaptor. It's dumb, but it's simple and it works. The one I got has a bit of a buzz on it, I've got a logitech one that's a couple quid more on its way from China that hopefully will be a bit less noisy. I know it's a cop out, but my computer rack favours function over form. Sound has always been a pain to sort on that board, so if I can plug in and fix it, I'm happy!
Anyways, hope that's useful to someone.
EDIT - Point to note - no USB3 currently. It acts as a home server, so it's not an issue for me at the moment. I'm sure MB8 will have a solution to all the problems.
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