BoomR
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In post 170 of the Haswell-E + X99 Motherboard Temporary Guide - OS X 10.10.0, user bomerr reports making a successful build with X99/Haswell-E, (including working iMessage) using a "blended" solution of UniBeast/MultiBeast (the OP), followed by installation of Clover & various file copying & configuration tasks. (congrats!)
However, IMHO, I'm finding the instructions a bit incomplete, and would ask that bomerr or anyone else who has success with this method please provide a bit more detail & fill in some gaps. Here's a log of my experience in the past hour while following the instructions found in post 170 linked above:
Basically, I believe bomerr is saying that he followed the 10.10.0 / X99 Temporary Guide here and used UniBeast/MultiBeast installation to get system working (with exception of iMessage), as detailed in his steps 1-14. Then starting on step 15, you must now install Clover on the working system... making sure to click "Customize" and select options listed in step 15. FWIW, I think the last option bomerr calls "Panel" is really "Install Clover Preferences Pane" in Clover installer.
Now in step 16 his instructions are to copy over the various kexts from the working UniBeast/MultiBeast build over to Clover. What seems to be missing is WHERE you need to copy them. After reading Tonymac's Yosemite + Clover installer guide, it looks like you need to navigate to the new EFI partition that is created by Clover installer (now should be visible on your desktop).
Navigate to EFI partition > EFI folder > Clover folder > kexts. Create a new folder called 10.10. Is this where the kexts need to go?? . I did not have all the kexts that bomerr listed installed on my computer - he may not be using ASUS X99 board. So in my 10.10 folder, I have: AHCIPortinjector, AppleIntelE1000e, FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement, and VoodooTSCSync kexts.
Now in step 17 he says to use Clover Configurator to set boot arguments. When I open the CC app, CC seems to find 3 config.plist files on my machine. bomerr's instructions don't specify which config.plist you need to modify. Based on my interpretation of Tonymac's Yosemite + Clover installer guide, I assumed it is the one that is located in EFI partition > EFI folder > CLOVER. Is this correct? Or a different one? Or does one need to modify all 3 config.plist files?? Please advise...
Double-clicking the one I mention above opens it & now I am ready to make edits. Use the navigation bar along the left side of the app, I click Boot. I locate and select/"check" the options for npci=0x2000, nvda_drv=1, and kext-dev-mode=1.
Now I click SMBIOS in the navigation bar and type in the correct Mac model I want to use (I'm trying iMac14,2). In step 18, bomerr says to play around with a few other settings on this page in order to get iMessage working. I did not try this at this time.
Here's where I get hung up: bomerr's instructions never provide details on how to complete the process: do you simply "save" the changes you've made to the config.plist file you opened? or do you use the Generate Config option in the navigation bar on the left? And another thing that is not clear: Does this mean that, at the completion of the CC process, now you are booting using Clover boot loader vs. Chameleon boot loader? Or is there another missing step? How do you now set your system to boot with the new Clover configuration vs. Chameleon??
I simply saved the config.plist changes, then exited Clover Configurator. I then rebooted. Upon reboot, my machine still boots from Chameleon boot loader.
Please do not construe any of this as me trying to throw bomerr under the bus - I'm just trying to identify some gaps in the steps to success in order for others of us to be able to try & get this alternate solution working (thinking samtimbaud for starters).
Thanks in advance for any additional info!
--B
However, IMHO, I'm finding the instructions a bit incomplete, and would ask that bomerr or anyone else who has success with this method please provide a bit more detail & fill in some gaps. Here's a log of my experience in the past hour while following the instructions found in post 170 linked above:
Basically, I believe bomerr is saying that he followed the 10.10.0 / X99 Temporary Guide here and used UniBeast/MultiBeast installation to get system working (with exception of iMessage), as detailed in his steps 1-14. Then starting on step 15, you must now install Clover on the working system... making sure to click "Customize" and select options listed in step 15. FWIW, I think the last option bomerr calls "Panel" is really "Install Clover Preferences Pane" in Clover installer.
Now in step 16 his instructions are to copy over the various kexts from the working UniBeast/MultiBeast build over to Clover. What seems to be missing is WHERE you need to copy them. After reading Tonymac's Yosemite + Clover installer guide, it looks like you need to navigate to the new EFI partition that is created by Clover installer (now should be visible on your desktop).
Navigate to EFI partition > EFI folder > Clover folder > kexts. Create a new folder called 10.10. Is this where the kexts need to go?? . I did not have all the kexts that bomerr listed installed on my computer - he may not be using ASUS X99 board. So in my 10.10 folder, I have: AHCIPortinjector, AppleIntelE1000e, FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement, and VoodooTSCSync kexts.
Now in step 17 he says to use Clover Configurator to set boot arguments. When I open the CC app, CC seems to find 3 config.plist files on my machine. bomerr's instructions don't specify which config.plist you need to modify. Based on my interpretation of Tonymac's Yosemite + Clover installer guide, I assumed it is the one that is located in EFI partition > EFI folder > CLOVER. Is this correct? Or a different one? Or does one need to modify all 3 config.plist files?? Please advise...
Double-clicking the one I mention above opens it & now I am ready to make edits. Use the navigation bar along the left side of the app, I click Boot. I locate and select/"check" the options for npci=0x2000, nvda_drv=1, and kext-dev-mode=1.
Now I click SMBIOS in the navigation bar and type in the correct Mac model I want to use (I'm trying iMac14,2). In step 18, bomerr says to play around with a few other settings on this page in order to get iMessage working. I did not try this at this time.
Here's where I get hung up: bomerr's instructions never provide details on how to complete the process: do you simply "save" the changes you've made to the config.plist file you opened? or do you use the Generate Config option in the navigation bar on the left? And another thing that is not clear: Does this mean that, at the completion of the CC process, now you are booting using Clover boot loader vs. Chameleon boot loader? Or is there another missing step? How do you now set your system to boot with the new Clover configuration vs. Chameleon??
I simply saved the config.plist changes, then exited Clover Configurator. I then rebooted. Upon reboot, my machine still boots from Chameleon boot loader.
Please do not construe any of this as me trying to throw bomerr under the bus - I'm just trying to identify some gaps in the steps to success in order for others of us to be able to try & get this alternate solution working (thinking samtimbaud for starters).
Thanks in advance for any additional info!
--B