[Solved] Alienware Aurora R7: blackscreen at installer boot.

[RMJ114]

I recently purchased an Alienware Aurora R7. I added my old 512GB SSD to install High Sierra.

I dig out my old 10.13.3 unibeast installer. set BIOS as best I could from limited options.

I boot USB to clover installer, then boot my stick. all seems fine and then screen just goes black about the time it should go to the macOS installer page.

I do have a Vega64 card, but I read it is already supported for High Sierra.

Not sure what else I can do?

 

[BreBo]

Not sure what else I can do?

Boot your system in Verbose Mode and post a picture of your screen when it freezes/hangs.
At Clover Boot Screen press space bar and select Verbose (-v)

 

[RMJ114]

Boot your system in Verbose Mode and post a picture of your screen when it freezes/hangs.
At Clover Boot Screen press space bar and select Verbose (-v)

It freezes at a blank screen. It actually loses signal so it may not be loading the GPU.

Here's a video. It's hard to read, but it does better on this time.

Hopefully you can make some heads or tails on what is going on.

 

[BreBo]

It freezes at a blank screen. It actually loses signal so it may not be loading the GPU.

This is a graphics card issue.
See Note on current AMD cards (3rd & 4th Gen GCN) of Radeon Compatibility Guide - ATI/AMD Graphics Cards

 

[RMJ114]

I can't seem to get this to work. I tried adding the RadeonDeInit and the true/ lines to the graphics section of config.plist.

On retrying it on my system, I still get the black screen.

Here's another video if it helps any:

I've been reading the last couple of days on this and can't seem to find anything that works, or it's really involved and I don't understand what they want me to do.

 

[RMJ114]

I remade my flash drive installer today using Unibeast 8.2 and 10.13.4 and on first boot I found it hung on xhci. I added the USB 3.0 patch to the plist and it booted right to the installer in 4k with no major issues!

I am extremely surprised this went so smooth considering it is a Dell and all of the proprietary stuff they have.

Anyway, it found my nvme toshiba 256GB SSD, so I cloned my win10 install to the HDD it came with and Installed 10.13.4 to the nvme without issue. It show my Vega 64 and monitor. Network is working. No audio as usual. I need to figue out which audio chip this thing has and use multibeast 10.2 and install it. My mouse is a bit laggy still, so I may need better USB drivers as well.

 

[alezziuz]

I remade my flash drive installer today using Unibeast 8.2 and 10.13.4 and on first boot I found it hung on xhci. I added the USB 3.0 patch to the plist and it booted right to the installer in 4k with no major issues!

I am extremely surprised this went so smooth considering it is a Dell and all of the proprietary stuff they have.

Anyway, it found my nvme toshiba 256GB SSD, so I cloned my win10 install to the HDD it came with and Installed 10.13.4 to the nvme without issue. It show my Vega 64 and monitor. Network is working. No audio as usual. I need to figue out which audio chip this thing has and use multibeast 10.2 and install it. My mouse is a bit laggy still, so I may need better USB drivers as well.

Hi, my r7 is also working, but having problems with network, which kexts have you installed? You fixed the audio problem?

 

[RMJ114]

iirc, the USB installer put network driver in by default. no issues.

In multibeast I chose AtherosE2200Ethernet v2.2.2

also, I have a USB Audio device. Sabrent AU-MMSA that just works OOBE. I didn't even try the integrated Audio.

I zipped up my clover folder from my USB installer.

 

[DirtyHarry]

Hi Mark, thanks for the Clover file.

I wanted to ask you how stable the system has been for you in these months... I have an Aurora R7 and thinking of going through the Hackintosh route, but it is my only machine in addition to an old macbook pro, so I just wanted to know how things went so far. Thanks.