[solved] Asus UX310UA - installer disk util can't find the HDD

[Dimitree]

ok I will dig into that..

now I have noticed the following:

1) in Finder, under "Devices", the computer is seen as "Dimitri's MacBook Air", but About this Mac sees it as "MacBook Pro".
how can I fix that?

2) can I simply rename my boot/system partition, in Finder, or should I also reinstall Clover or change some strings in the config.plist?

3) how can I swap the keys '\' and '<'? my laptop have '\' near number 1, while < is near MAIUSC and Z

4) booting in verbose mode, I got the following:

30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] *****************************************************************************
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Failed to initialize graphics firmware. Falling back to host-side scheduling
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Scheduler interface revision = 1: Default EL Scheduler
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] *****************************************************************************
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Graphics accelerator is using scheduler interface revision 1: Default EL Scheduler
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Scheduler: Multiple channel indexes per command streamer
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Scheduler: Process CSB using HWS.
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Scheduler: PM notify enabled
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Graphics Address: PPGTT, Separate Address Space
30/01/17 14:33:43,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] MultiForceWake Enabled: Using 3D Driver
30/01/17 14:33:44,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] CoarsePowerGating Disabled
30/01/17 14:33:44,000 kernel[0]: [IGPU] Scheduler Throttle Cap = 100ms.

but other than this message, the system seems fine and my HD520 is correctly recognised ("Intel HD Graphics 520 1536 MB")

5) why in About this Mac -> Displays, the display appear as the display from a iMac. Is that normal and purely cosmetic?

I'm attaching Clover folder (without Themes) and IOreg

 

[RehabMan]

ok I will dig into that..

now I have noticed the following:

1) in Finder, under "Devices", the computer is seen as "Dimitri's MacBook Air", but About this Mac sees it as "MacBook Pro".
how can I fix that?

2) can I simply rename my boot/system partition, in Finder, or should I also reinstall Clover or change some strings in the config.plist?

3) how can I swap the keys '\' and '<'? my laptop have '\' near number 1, while < is near MAIUSC and Z

4) booting in verbose mode, I got the following:

but other than this message, the system seems fine and my HD520 is correctly recognised ("Intel HD Graphics 520 1536 MB")

5) why in About this Mac -> Displays, the display appear as the display from a iMac. Is that normal and purely cosmetic?

I'm attaching Clover folder (without Themes) and IOreg

1. SysPrefs->Sharing
2. Renaming should work, since it is unlikely your config.plist has an dependency on the name.
3. Ukelele
4. Can probably be ignored then...
5. Probably has to do with your board-id in SMBIOS

 

[Dimitree]

3. Ukelele

can't do that in Ukulele, the key near MAIUSC can't be modified, I can only modify '<'.
Can I do that in VoodooPS2 kext?

 

[RehabMan]

can't do that in Ukulele, the key near MAIUSC can't be modified, I can only modify '<'.
Can I do that in VoodooPS2 kext?

Raw keys can also be remapped with "Custom PS2 Map" and "Custom ADB Map" from PS2.
Read the VoodooPS2Controller keyboard remap wiki. And refer to the u430 repo for examples (SSDT-HACK.dsl).
Advanced stuff, so be prepared to learn.

 

[Dimitree]

so, I did a clean USB install of 10.12 following the guide.
Everything is working fine like it was on 10.11,
but, I'm not sure about CPU power management and GPU power management.
I simply copied on Clover the SSDT.aml that I generated when I installed 10.11

can anyone please check if the following are working:
1) CPU power management
2) GPU power management
3) correct implementation of USB ports (there are 4 ports = 1x 3.1, 1x 3.0, 2x 2.0)
4) QE/CI enabled
5) other important things I'm missing?

I attached IOReg report, Clover folder (without themes), kextstat and kextcache terminal output

many thanks

 

[RehabMan]

so, I did a clean USB install of 10.12 following the guide.
Everything is working fine like it was on 10.11,
but, I'm not sure about CPU power management and GPU power management.
I simply copied on Clover the SSDT.aml that I generated when I installed 10.11

can anyone please check if the following are working:
1) CPU power management
2) GPU power management
3) correct implementation of USB ports (there are 4 ports = 1x 3.1, 1x 3.0, 2x 2.0)
4) QE/CI enabled
5) other important things I'm missing?

I attached IOReg report, Clover folder (without themes), kextstat and kextcache terminal output

many thanks

IGPU PM not implemented (need to rename GFX0->IGPU).
Your USB configuration does not look correct. Typically the high speed component of a USB3 port is named HSxx, not SSxx.

 

[Dimitree]

so, I'm trying to rename GFX0 -> IGPU to get IGPU PM.
in order to do so, I need to include my SSDT-0 to SSDT-4 since some of them contains GFX0 references.
I extracted them as the guide suggests (and using refs.txt) and they compile just fine (after removing _DSN methods).
Before that I was only using DSDT.aml and ssdt.aml (generated for PM) as you can see in my Clover folder.

so, before renaming GFX0 in all files, I first tried including the compiled (and unpatched) SSDTs to see if they would create some problem.
The system booted just fine.
Then I applyed the patch "rename GFX0 -> IGPU" in all SSDT and in DSDT, but I got KP booting with them (attached).
I also tried to use all the SSDT with "IGPU" but DSDT with "GFX0", and it boots fine.
So seems that the problems is when I rename inside the DSDT.

I'm attaching those files too.

what could I have done wrong?

 

[RehabMan]

so, I'm trying to rename GFX0 -> IGPU to get IGPU PM.
in order to do so, I need to include my SSDT-0 to SSDT-4 since some of them contains GFX0 references.
I extracted them as the guide suggests (and using refs.txt) and they compile just fine (after removing _DSN methods).
Before that I was only using DSDT.aml and ssdt.aml (generated for PM) as you can see in my Clover folder.

so, before renaming GFX0 in all files, I first tried including the compiled (and unpatched) SSDTs to see if they would create some problem.
The system booted just fine.
Then I applyed the patch "rename GFX0 -> IGPU" in all SSDT and in DSDT, but I got KP booting with them (attached).
I also tried to use all the SSDT with "IGPU" but DSDT with "GFX0", and it boots fine.
So seems that the problems is when I rename inside the DSDT.

I'm attaching those files too.

what could I have done wrong?

Read FAQ, "Problem Reporting"
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/faq-read-first-laptop-frequent-questions.164990/

 

[AM0207xx]

so, I'm trying to rename GFX0 -> IGPU to get IGPU PM.
in order to do so, I need to include my SSDT-0 to SSDT-4 since some of them contains GFX0 references.
I extracted them as the guide suggests (and using refs.txt) and they compile just fine (after removing _DSN methods).
Before that I was only using DSDT.aml and ssdt.aml (generated for PM) as you can see in my Clover folder.

so, before renaming GFX0 in all files, I first tried including the compiled (and unpatched) SSDTs to see if they would create some problem.
The system booted just fine.
Then I applyed the patch "rename GFX0 -> IGPU" in all SSDT and in DSDT, but I got KP booting with them (attached).
I also tried to use all the SSDT with "IGPU" but DSDT with "GFX0", and it boots fine.
So seems that the problems is when I rename inside the DSDT.

I'm attaching those files too.

what could I have done wrong?

Renames must be "balanced". When you renamed one ACPI file, you must also rename the ACPI files where the code is present. In your case you can find out with this command 'grep -l GFX0 *.dsl' which ACPI files the rename GFX0 to IGPU need.

 

[Dimitree]

Renames must be "balanced". When you renamed one ACPI file, you must also rename the ACPI files where the code is present. In your case you can find out with this command 'grep -l GFX0 *.dsl' which ACPI files the rename GFX0 to IGPU need.

that's exactly what I've done.
only SSDT-2.aml and SSDT-3.aml have GFX0 references, along with DSDT.aml (used the command "grep -l GFX0 *.aml" on the "original" folder containing all the *.aml collected by Clover using F4)
so I applied the rename patch to DSDT and SSDT-2 and SSDT-3

so to recap:
- using my DSDT with "GFX0" and any SSDT inside "patched" folder -> boot ok
- using my DSDT with "IGPU" and any SSDT inside "patched" folder -> kernel panic (of course, renames must be balanced)
- using my DSDT with "GFX0" and SSDT-x.aml with "IGPU" inside "patched" folder -> boot ok
- using my DSDT with "IGPU" and SSDT-x.aml with "IGPU" inside "patched" folder -> kernel panic (attached screenshot)

seems like Clover isn't taking the SSDT-x.aml that I put inside the patched folder, but only the DSDT.aml, so when I use "IGPU" on the DSDT, it can't find the "IGPU" on the SSDTs.
or something else that I'm missing.

I'm attaching all the required by "Problem reporting".
Patched folder contains all the SSDT and DSDT that I'm using with renamed "IGPU" and that creates the kp