[Guide] Gigabyte BRIX-s using Clover UEFI (GB-BXi5H-4200)

[RehabMan]

Hi...

When will you do one for the Broadwell Brix i5-5200U with the intel HD 5500?

Thanks....

If I purchase one, I'll write a guide for it. I'm considering using the NUC form factor computers in a few places (I have three Windows Media Center computers in my home), but just not quite yet.

 

[magicclaw]

RehabMan, I want to reply and confirm I followed your guide 100% and successfully installed. I have the same Brix i5 4200 version. Sound is working on headphone jack and stereo. When connected HDMI TV and set sound in preference and HDMI output sound without problem. Only thing is I don't have spdif and so not sure on that. But I do see the sound pref having that as output.
Thank you for the guide and it is very useful.

 

[RehabMan]

RehabMan, I want to reply and confirm I followed your guide 100% and successfully installed. I have the same Brix i5 4200 version. Sound is working on headphone jack and stereo. When connected HDMI TV and set sound in preference and HDMI output sound without problem. Only thing is I don't have spdif and so not sure on that. But I do see the sound pref having that as output.
Thank you for the guide and it is very useful.

I never tested the S/PDIF output either...

Nice to know about the audio. Evidently the audio on this unit is just broken.

Thanks for the feedback!

 

[rlue]

Does anyone know if it's safe to upgrade to El Capitan after installing with this guide?

I checked tony's guide here, but can't complete steps 2 or 3 because my FakeSMC/other related kexts are in /S/L/E (can they just continue living there, or should I copy them to /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.11?), nor do I have an RtVariables section in my plist.config.

 

[RehabMan]

Does anyone know if it's safe to upgrade to El Capitan after installing with this guide?

I checked tony's guide here, but can't complete steps 2 or 3 because my FakeSMC/other related kexts are in /S/L/E (can they just continue living there, or should I copy them to /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.11?), nor do I have an RtVariables section in my plist.config.

It will work if you update to the latest (eg. git pull, ./download.sh, ./install_downloads.sh, etc.), update SSDT-HACK.aml (make, make install).

Upgrade to the latest Clover (I'm using v3277).

Make sure EFI/Clover/kexts/Other is where all essential kexts are, and that there are no version specific directories in EFI/Clover/kexts.

Then do the update from the Mac App Store.

After upgrading, run ./install_downloads.sh again (removes BrcmPatchRAM installs BrcmPatchRAM2).

 

[rlue]

Awesome! Pulled a fresh copy of the repo, ./download.sh'ed, ./install_downloads.sh'ed, and then make threw the following error:

iasl -ve -p build/SSDT-HACK.aml SSDT-HACK.dsl

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20141107-64 [Jan  2 2015]
Copyright (c) 2000 - 2014 Intel Corporation

Error    6092 - Could not open file "build/SSDT-HACK.i" (Preprocessor Output) - No such file or directory

make: *** [build/SSDT-HACK.aml] Error 1

v3270 is the latest release on the sourceforge, so I'm gonna test it with that unless you recommend otherwise.

Thanks again. RehabMan. You're a beast!

 

[RehabMan]

Awesome! Pulled a fresh copy of the repo, ./download.sh'ed, ./install_downloads.sh'ed, and then make threw the following error:

iasl -ve -p build/SSDT-HACK.aml SSDT-HACK.dsl

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20141107-64 [Jan  2 2015]
Copyright (c) 2000 - 2014 Intel Corporation

Error    6092 - Could not open file "build/SSDT-HACK.i" (Preprocessor Output) - No such file or directory

make: *** [build/SSDT-HACK.aml] Error 1

v3270 is the latest release on the sourceforge, so I'm gonna test it with that unless you recommend otherwise.

Thanks again. RehabMan. You're a beast!

Make sure you didn't delete the ./build directory.

To make sure you have a clean copy of the repo (no unintentional modifications):

cd ~/Projects
rm -rf brix.git
git clone https://github.com/RehabMan/Gigabyte-BRIX-s-DSDT-Patch.git brix.git
cd brix.git

 

[rlue]

Thanks again.

From what I can see, the master branch of this repo does not include a ./build directory (though the full_patch branch does), so running 'cd brix.git && mkdir ./build' before 'make' solved the problem for me.

I'll edit in a moment with the results of my upgrade to 10.11!

 

[RehabMan]

Thanks again.

From what I can see, the master branch of this repo does not include a ./build directory (though the full_patch branch does), so running 'cd brix.git && mkdir ./build' before 'make' solved the problem for me.

Thanks for letting me know. Fixed...

I started with the full_patch version as master, then later created full_patch and then cleaned master, so didn't notice the missing build directory (because it was left over..)

I'll edit in a moment with the results of my upgrade to 10.11!

Eventually, I'll do a little revamp on the repo based on work I've done on my u430, but that depends on Clover integrating a few of my bug fixes...

 

[rlue]

I'm actually not having success with the upgrade. When booting to "OS X Install,", the startup progress bar crawls forward a bit (maybe 1%-ish) and then the screen does this.

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I'm satisfied with Yosemite for now, but if you have any suggestions or pointers, I'd be glad to take them.

For the record, I've:

• upgraded to Clover v3277,
• moved the contents of EFI/Clover/kexts/10.10 (just one file – realtekALC.kext) to EFI/Clover/kexts/Other,
• removed all version-specific directories from EFI/Clover/kexts,
• run the scripts from your github repo, and
• updated SSDT-HACK.aml.