Administrators Hervé Posted November 6, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted November 6, 2019 Updated BIOS to version A20 and all is well in Mojave and Catalina with existing Clover setup + A19's patched DSDT. I've not even seen a single graphics corruption on shutdown or restart either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted May 23, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted May 23, 2020 As stated in our March 2020 news article, 10.15.4 breaks XCPM capability. If you used that, revert to good old CPU-specific power management SSDT generated by Pike R Alpha''s well-known generator script. Revised Catalina pack #2 provided to that effect. But, as suggested by @Bronxteck, XCPM should be back with Clover r5117 or above. I certainly verified this with r5118. Clover_r5118.pkg.zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted November 15, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted November 15, 2020 Target macOS release: Big Sur 11.0.x This is an OpenCore-based installation using the standard vanilla method detailed below: Working: full graphics acceleration on Intel HD4000 graphics (with Lilu v1.4.9 + WEG v1.4.4) multi-display with HDMI OOB audio, including jack microphone input and headset output (with AppleALC v1.5.4 & layout 12 + CodecCommander v2.7.1) HDMI audio (with Capri Framebuffer properties injection) built-in GigEthernet LAN connection (with AppleIntelE1000e v3.1.0 or latest IntelMausiEthernet kext) wireless and bluetooth with any compatible card integrated webcam (OOB) full CPU power management, including Turbo boost (with CPU-specific generated ssdt) sleep (Lid, Energy Saver settings, Apple menu, Fn-F1, PWR button) & wake (Lid, PWR button) battery management (with ACPIBatteryManager v1.90.1) SD card reader (with DSDT patch or property injection ,for compatibility with Apple's default reader) keyboard (with Dr Hurt's VoodooPS2Controller R6 + DSDT patch for brightness control) touchpad including tap-to-click (with Dr Hurt's VoodooPS2Controller R6) left combo eSATA/USB2.0 + right USB3.0 ports (with Hackintool's generated USBPorts; optional FakePCIID kexts for multiplexing) ExpressCard slot OOB Not working: VGA output unsupported Not tested: SmartCard reader fingerprint scanner GeekBench v4.4.x (64bit) results: 1) 11.0 USB installer creation Using a USB key of 16GB minimum, create a Big Sur USB installer through the following Terminal command: sudo <path>/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/<USB key> where: <path> = location of Big Sur installation package (eg: /Applications if freshly downloaded) <USB key> = name of formatted USB volume (eg: USB_16GB) The process will take several minutes. Once completed: Setup your BIOS for UEFI mode if not already done so mount the EFI partition of your USB installer and, if applicable, erase the partition through Disk Utility or delete all of its existing contents. Tools such as Mount EFI or apps such as Clover Configurator or EFI Mounter may be used to that effect. Failing that, the simple diskutil mount command does the trick once you've identified your EFI partition with diskutil list command: sudo diskutil list (shows list of disks and partitions) sudo diskutil mount /dev/<identified disk> (eg: sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1) uncompress the following E6230 Big Sur OpenCore pack and copy the EFI folder to the mounted EFI partition: OC_0.6.3_EFI_E6230_BigSur.zip OC_0.6.3_EFI_E6230_BigSur_#2.zip OC_0.6.3_EFI_E6230_BigSur_#3.zip If your E6230 is fitted with a different CPU than the i7-3540M, please replace the Power Management SSDT of the pack by one applicable to your model (whether an existing SSDT or your own generated one). Please note that, to modify your OpenCore config, you should use the following ProperTree app (see Dortania's documentation for details on this): ProperTree.zip 2) 11.0 installation boot the Big Sur USB installer at the OpenCore main menu, select the "Install macOS Big Sur" partition and press [ENTER] at Big Sur main installation screen, select Disk Utility to create & format APFS the target Big Sur partition/disk. Note that installation won't work if target partition/disk is formatted HFS+ exit DU and return to Big Sur main installation screen, then proceed with installation the installation process will twice reboot a temporary macOS installer partition to complete the installation. This overall installation process takes much longer (~1hr) than what was experienced with previous macOS versions so be patient. Don't be frightened by the 2nd reboot which show things never seen with previous macOs versions a 3rd reboot will boot your target named Big Sur partition/disk and will be quickly followed by a 4th and final reboot of that same target Big Sur partition/disk each time, reboot via your USB installer. Please note that your USB installer will probably register as an OpenCcore entry in the E6230 UEFI list displayed after pressing [F12] 3) Post-installation tuning Once the finalised Big Sur installation has booted, complete the 1st boot configuration tuning Once at the desktop, mount the EFI partition of your Big Sur disk Copy the EFI folder of the E6230 Big Sur OpenCore pack to the mounted EFI partition You may then reboot and verify that Big Sur boots off your disk through OpenCore You may then disable verbose mode by removing -v flag from NVRAM->7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82->boot-args in the OpenCore config file. You may then modify your SMBIOS info under PlatformInfo->Generic section and ensure you have unique numbers or unique combination of numbers. Use GenSMBIOS tool (available here) to generate new MLB, ROM, SystemSerialNumber and SystemUUID. Refer to Dortania's documentation for further info and guidance NB: Nov 15th, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The OpenCore pack provided here was built by rigorously following Dortania's published guidance for Ivy Bridge laptops. It was 1st tuned for the E6230 laptop adding same patched DSDT, patched SSDT and same (but updated) kexts used for previous macOS versions. Property injection was used where on-the-fly patches were previously used with Clover. The OpenCore configuration of the pack was subsequently tuned to support things such as OpenCore GUI and startup Chime. These are disabled in the config of the pack but can be enabled by changing: Misc->Boot->PickerMode from Builtin to External UEFI->Audio->PlayChime from False to True It should also be noted that this OpenCore pack would gain from further tuning/optimisation on matters such as DSDT, SSDTs, ACPI settings or Property injection in the config. A revised and optimised pack can therefore be expected in a not too distant future. Please note that, after any significant change to your Big Sur setup requiring to modify your OpenCore configuration, it's usually required to execute a Reset NVRAM from OpenCore main menu (aka Picker) in order for the change(s) to be taken into account. Edit: Nov 26th, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New optimised pack #3: Revised OC config to fix incorrect CPU power management-related Kernel Quirks that were root cause of freeze on wake. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted November 26, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted November 26, 2020 Revised OpenCore pack #3 for Big Sur. Had gotten it wrong with pack #2 re: freeze on wake. There was no relation to HDMI audio property injection, that was a red herring. I had missed a key CPU power management Kernel Quirk in the config! My apologies. Absolutely everything now working properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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