[Updated] wildwillow's Haswell Build: GA-Z87X-OC - i7-4770K - HD4600+GT 640

[zzz1991]

Thank you for the info and the advise on the card. That is good news.

How did you patch the BIOS exactly?
Where can you get the file to do so?
Is it a hack, or something one can get from Gigabyte?

I used guid like this http://www.overclock.net/t/1571271/...rt-on-any-ami-uefi-bios-with-an-intel-chipset
if in brief you take a driver from the BIOS that supports NVMe and insert it into your own. But the difficulty is that capacity is limited! You have to remove something from your BIOS before it is copied into it. I had to remove RAID.
Special for you made new version flashed BIOS for our mobo with removed network-related drivers dhcp6dxe and udp6dxe (can't use UEFI network boot). Tested today NVMe and other work like a charm.
I tried to run ozmosis. Could run everything without sound (ALC892 not working). Some advantages of ozmosis have not yet been discovered by me. Maybe something I do not set up? Did anyone have experience?

 

[ColdCross]

Thank you for sharing a tested and patched BIOS, zzz1991. That is very generous and will make the installation so much easier.
I now have one less excuse not to do the update...

I only just read about ozmosis. Surely a great idea. It seems however, that new generations of the chip will not be supported. I wonder if it is worth the trouble, since one still has to install kexts (e.g. via multibeast) after the installation. One might as well stick to Clover - even when it is not so elegant.

Could you maybe elaborate more about your experience?

 

[zzz1991]

Thank you for sharing a tested and patched BIOS, zzz1991. That is very generous and will make the installation so much easier.
I now have one less excuse not to do the update...

I only just read about ozmosis. Surely a great idea. It seems however, that new generations of the chip will not be supported. I wonder if it is worth the trouble, since one still has to install kexts (e.g. via multibeast) after the installation. One might as well stick to Clover - even when it is not so elegant.

Could you maybe elaborate more about your experience?

There is no experience in ozmosis. I just performed a successful boot. Kext FakeSMC and everything else necessary for work is put into the bios. The configuration file (like config.plist) is also putted into the BIOS. If necessary, to change something you need to once again touch the BIOS, which is not convenient. Maybe there are more useful methods, but I do not know about them yet. The necessary kexts are puts into the s/l/e as in clover

 

[asheenlevrai]

Hello,

Sorry I didn't read the whole thread, yet...

I noticed that it was possible to go above 1080p resolution by editing the plist file in chimera/chameleon. However, how should I do this on a clover-based setup (same hardware except iGPU = HD4600 only, no discrete GPU)?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Best,
-a-

 

[asheenlevrai]

Thank you for sharing a tested and patched BIOS, zzz1991. That is very generous and will make the installation so much easier.
I now have one less excuse not to do the update...

I only just read about ozmosis. Surely a great idea. It seems however, that new generations of the chip will not be supported. I wonder if it is worth the trouble, since one still has to install kexts (e.g. via multibeast) after the installation. One might as well stick to Clover - even when it is not so elegant.

Could you maybe elaborate more about your experience?

This option based on booting a small USB dongle to provide support for NVMe looks also very interesting and does not require modding your BIOS:
https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f46-G...r-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html

Best,
-a-

 

[zzz1991]

This option based on booting a small USB dongle to provide support for NVMe looks also very interesting and does not require modding your BIOS:
https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f46-G...r-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html

Best,
-a-

Thank you! I have never heard of this method, but it is also not trivial
If you use the fix for 1060 (freeze after sleep), or do not send to sleep?

 

[ColdCross]

@asheenlevrai

I uploaded my EFI folder some pages back. Also have just internal GPU.
Running 2560x1440.

The only graphic issue is that at boot (past Clover) the Apple logo is distorted from 1080p resolution before some drivers kick in, and it resizes to 2560x1440, finishes the load bar and fades into HS.
Did not figure out how to fix this yet.

 

[zzz1991]

@asheenlevrai

I uploaded my EFI folder some pages back. Also have just internal GPU.
Running 2560x1440.

The only graphic issue is that at boot (past Clover) the Apple logo is distorted from 1080p resolution before some drivers kick in, and it resizes to 2560x1440, finishes the load bar and fades into HS.
Did not figure out how to fix this yet.

Put CsmVideoDxe-64.efi in efi/clover/drivers64uefi

Make changes if you need a white apple on a black background (like in the screenshot)

 

[asheenlevrai]

Hello,

Sorry I didn't read the whole thread, yet...

I noticed that it was possible to go above 1080p resolution by editing the plist file in chimera/chameleon. However, how should I do this on a clover-based setup (same hardware except iGPU = HD4600 only, no discrete GPU)?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Best,
-a-

anyone?

 

[zzz1991]

anyone?

ColdCross answered on your question. He laid out his efi folder with the settings of the clover. If QE/CI
of intel HD 4600 is enabled, you can without any problems set any resolution up to 4k