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- Motherboard
- Asus UX302LA
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- i5-4200U
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics 4400
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ASUS ZENBOOK UX302LA boots and runs OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite using Clover UEFI
After hours of reading these forums, I’ve figured out how to get most things working on my UX302LA. Once, a coworker even peered over my shoulder and muttered “Rehabman” - scared me half to death. Then it dawned on me that he had no idea what I was looking at. I informed him that I was not reading a ski/snowboard forum, but some important technical literature...
Backup all of your data on your other partitions first.
Prerequisites: one of your hard drives must be partitioned in GPT/GUID mode. Then, you must shrink your windows NTFS partition down so that there's some space to install OSX. I recc leaving at least 40GB. You can use GParted to create a bootable USB to do the shrinking.
Bios settings: CSM enabled, Secure boot disabled, SATA AHCI mode, Graphics 512M, Bios version 210, VT-D doesn’t matter – ppl say it must be disabled but I have mine enabled and it works fine...
1. Yosemite is a free download from the Mac App Store. However, you need a working OS X already to access the app store... (Yeah, I know it doesn't make any sense). If you don't have a OS X already working, you might try either 1 or 2
2. After running the createinstallmedia command, download Clover and install that on your USB. You do have to install the boot sector during Clover install bc the USB is not formatted FAT and thus the bios can't see the EFI folder directly.
3. Now you have a decision to make.
5. Put the following files into EFI/Clover/kexts/10.10: ACPIBatteryManager.kext, ApplePS2ElanTouchpad.kext, AsusNBFnKeys.kext, FakePCIId.kext, FakePCID_HD4600_HD4400.kext, FakeSMC.kext, GenericUSBXHCI.kext, NullEthernet.kext
6. Rename the ssdt here to ssdt-1.aml and put it in EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched
7. Decide either to create an additional FAT32 partition to put clover on, or you can put it on your existing EFI partition that your windows boots from. Just don’t mess anything up.
8. That should be enough to install OS X for now. Reboot and use the USB to install OS X.
9. Remember that OS X is a 2 part install. Once the progress bar finishes and the system reboots, you have to have it boot from USB again so that the 2nd part of the install has a chance to complete. After that, you can use the USB clover to boot into your new install.
10. Once installed, copy the EFI folder from your USB to the FAT32 partition you want to boot from. No need to reinstall Clover again. As long as the EFI folder exists on a FAT32 partition, the bios will see it and automatically give you a boot option. From here on out, we’ll be modifying the files in this partition, not the USB.
11. read through this DSDT guide
12. Extract your DSDT using the Clover F4 method.
13. Disasemble your ACPI files using “iasl -da -dl *.aml” as stated in the guide. This is probably the most neglected step. Many ppl assume they don’t have to do this and then complain on the forums that their DSDT has errors. Then Rehabman smacks them.
14. Load the disassembled DSDT.dsl into maciasl and then go to Ramalama's github
15. Apply the following patches from the link above: “ADBG_Remove.txt”, “ALS Sensor (Haswell).txt”, “Batterypatch UX3xxxx.txt”, “Brightness Keys.txt”, “KeyBacklight 3LVL (Haswell).txt”
16. Compile the DSDT into an aml file and put it into EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched
17. Inject your EDID. To do that, first use EDID Viewer to see what your EDID is. Then install Clover Configurator. Use Clover Configurator to open the config.plist from your boot drive. Now paste in your EDID to replace mine.
18. Download a kext installer, such as kext wizard
19. Use kext wizard to install the ALC282_V2 kext. No need to install HDAEnabler (I have that value in the config.plist already)
20. Post any problems you have in the thread here. Only post questions about ASUS laptops, preferably the same or similar models. Thanks.
Working
: Keyboard backlight adjustment FN keys, display backlight adjustment keys, ambient light sensor, touchscreen, speakers, volume keys, QE/CI, partial sleep, USB ports, trackpad, battery/charge status.
Problems that I've discovered:
1. Sleep doesn't fully sleep laptop
2. Hitting restart in OSX shuts down the computer
3. Clicking the Fullscreen icon on Youtube crashes you back to the login screen Fixed
4. I haven’t tested the Webcam, SD card reader, headphone port, Displayport, or the HDMI video/audio
Credits: Rehabman, Ramalama, EMlyDinEsH, Mirone, Clover, leukhin, others!
After hours of reading these forums, I’ve figured out how to get most things working on my UX302LA. Once, a coworker even peered over my shoulder and muttered “Rehabman” - scared me half to death. Then it dawned on me that he had no idea what I was looking at. I informed him that I was not reading a ski/snowboard forum, but some important technical literature...
Backup all of your data on your other partitions first.
Prerequisites: one of your hard drives must be partitioned in GPT/GUID mode. Then, you must shrink your windows NTFS partition down so that there's some space to install OSX. I recc leaving at least 40GB. You can use GParted to create a bootable USB to do the shrinking.
Bios settings: CSM enabled, Secure boot disabled, SATA AHCI mode, Graphics 512M, Bios version 210, VT-D doesn’t matter – ppl say it must be disabled but I have mine enabled and it works fine...
1. Yosemite is a free download from the Mac App Store. However, you need a working OS X already to access the app store... (Yeah, I know it doesn't make any sense). If you don't have a OS X already working, you might try either 1 or 2
2. After running the createinstallmedia command, download Clover and install that on your USB. You do have to install the boot sector during Clover install bc the USB is not formatted FAT and thus the bios can't see the EFI folder directly.
3. Now you have a decision to make.
a. You can use my premade files which will save you a lot of hassle. Just delete the BOOT and CLOVER folders on the USB and replace them with the ones I have in the attached EFI.zip. Everything should just work now, you can skip the rest of the guide. 
b. Or stick with me here and in the rest of the guide, I'll show you how to create these folders from scratch. 
4. Put the attached config.plist into EFI/Clover5. Put the following files into EFI/Clover/kexts/10.10: ACPIBatteryManager.kext, ApplePS2ElanTouchpad.kext, AsusNBFnKeys.kext, FakePCIId.kext, FakePCID_HD4600_HD4400.kext, FakeSMC.kext, GenericUSBXHCI.kext, NullEthernet.kext
6. Rename the ssdt here to ssdt-1.aml and put it in EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched
7. Decide either to create an additional FAT32 partition to put clover on, or you can put it on your existing EFI partition that your windows boots from. Just don’t mess anything up.
8. That should be enough to install OS X for now. Reboot and use the USB to install OS X.
9. Remember that OS X is a 2 part install. Once the progress bar finishes and the system reboots, you have to have it boot from USB again so that the 2nd part of the install has a chance to complete. After that, you can use the USB clover to boot into your new install.
10. Once installed, copy the EFI folder from your USB to the FAT32 partition you want to boot from. No need to reinstall Clover again. As long as the EFI folder exists on a FAT32 partition, the bios will see it and automatically give you a boot option. From here on out, we’ll be modifying the files in this partition, not the USB.
11. read through this DSDT guide
12. Extract your DSDT using the Clover F4 method.
13. Disasemble your ACPI files using “iasl -da -dl *.aml” as stated in the guide. This is probably the most neglected step. Many ppl assume they don’t have to do this and then complain on the forums that their DSDT has errors. Then Rehabman smacks them.
14. Load the disassembled DSDT.dsl into maciasl and then go to Ramalama's github
15. Apply the following patches from the link above: “ADBG_Remove.txt”, “ALS Sensor (Haswell).txt”, “Batterypatch UX3xxxx.txt”, “Brightness Keys.txt”, “KeyBacklight 3LVL (Haswell).txt”
16. Compile the DSDT into an aml file and put it into EFI/Clover/ACPI/patched
17. Inject your EDID. To do that, first use EDID Viewer to see what your EDID is. Then install Clover Configurator. Use Clover Configurator to open the config.plist from your boot drive. Now paste in your EDID to replace mine.
18. Download a kext installer, such as kext wizard
19. Use kext wizard to install the ALC282_V2 kext. No need to install HDAEnabler (I have that value in the config.plist already)
20. Post any problems you have in the thread here. Only post questions about ASUS laptops, preferably the same or similar models. Thanks.
Working
: Keyboard backlight adjustment FN keys, display backlight adjustment keys, ambient light sensor, touchscreen, speakers, volume keys, QE/CI, partial sleep, USB ports, trackpad, battery/charge status. Problems that I've discovered
:1. Sleep doesn't fully sleep laptop
2. Hitting restart in OSX shuts down the computer
3. Clicking the Fullscreen icon on Youtube crashes you back to the login screen Fixed
4. I haven’t tested the Webcam, SD card reader, headphone port, Displayport, or the HDMI video/audio
Credits: Rehabman, Ramalama, EMlyDinEsH, Mirone, Clover, leukhin, others!
