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Stork's MyHero II Build: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z370 HERO X - i7-8700K - AMD RX 580 - Thunderbolt 3

Yes, all is good with Clover so far as I can tell. I typically use F12 to select my boot drive. I was simply surprised that in choosing the clone, that Clover still booted from the legacy drive.

In any case, I'm still having the issues, with the RX 580. I'm seeing the same reboot loop. I get about 3/4 of the way through the boot, and it just reboots quickly. Unlike past issues while booting verbose, there is no freeze frame, so to speak. Usually the process comes to halt and you see the potential errors on screen. This reboot happens midstream with all of the white text flying up across the screen straight into a reboot. Tried pulling my native Airport card, which I've read has been an issue for some, but saw the same issues. @Stork, if you're watching, any ideas on how to get a readout of a boot log that doesn't fully load like this?
Are we talking about your Z170 system?
 
@P1LGRIM & @luckyal,

Wow! I'll have to try it...especially since it improves performance. However, it will probably screw up iMessages. Oh, well...
Hey @Stork I'm curious if you ever tried to change your board ID per @P1LGRIM suggestion? I'm now spending some time on getting Thunderbolt to work on my machine and I wonder how much of this has to do with system definitions.
 
Hey @Stork I'm curious if you ever tried to change your board ID per @P1LGRIM suggestion? I'm now spending some time on getting Thunderbolt to work on my machine and I wonder how much of this has to do with system definitions.
Nope. Never did. I'll try to remember to do it tomorrow.
 
Nope. Never did. I'll try to remember to do it tomorrow.
Keep in mind, my board is different than yours so I'm not sure how much that plays into it. Maybe @P1LGRIM can chime in as to whether that makes much of a difference.
 
Maybe @P1LGRIM can chime in as to whether that makes much of a difference.
No idea, never tried it. I have just seen it mentioned in threads here.
 
Are we talking about your Z170 system?

No, the problem system with the RX 580 is the Z68 board. The BIOS splash screen noted previously were fixed with the UEFI upgrade but the same boot loop is occurring with the 580 installed. I was able to load up the Mojave UniBeast installer as well as for the installation process to complete but the final reboot to load the OS, booting from the USB gives me the boot loop, as does a fresh UEFI Multibeast clover install on the boot drive. Clearing an extra drive so I can see if a clean install might help. Will also pull my backup drive from the Z170 system to see if that’ll load on the Z68 system.
 
Are we talking about your Z170 system?

Well son of a...Stork? ;) Pulled my backup drive from my Z170 rig and plugged it in. Lo and behold, it boots up in the Z68 system, so we have a proof of concept that the Z68 board, High Sierra (that's what is on the drive as the Z170 board has the GTX 1070 installed), and RX 580 can indeed boot up together. The odd thing? I changed nothing in the config.plist or the Clover partition. I just left it as-is to see if it would go on it's own. This was due to the fact that when I tested the RX 580 in the Z170 system I didn't change anything on the primary drive either. In any case, on the Z170 drive I've got an iMac system ID, no WhateverGreen or Lilu, no Orinoco frame buffer and it just loads up fine, even with the nVidia drivers installed and nVidiaWeb set to Yes in Clover.

Other interesting notes, Clover sees the GPU as having an RX 480, a Baladi frame buffer, and 6 connectors but is recognized fine in OS X as an RX 580 w/ 8GB of RAM with Metal supported.

Next step is to port over the Z170 Clover partition to my Z68 Clover UEFI backup drive and see if that helps. If it doesn't, I'll be trying a clean install and hoping a migration doesn't bork things up after the fact.

On a side note, anyone know if migration has improved in terms of not having to re-apply product keys to apps? I'd really like to avoid that and it's my understanding that only cloning allows you to avoid that.
 
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Are we talking about your Z170 system?

Update: A copy of the Clover folders/files from the Z170 drive over to the Z68 drive yields no improvement. Trying a clean install of Mojave to see if that loads up on a spare drive.
 
Is anyone else having problems with the input volume? When I'm inserting a microphone (either in the front or back mic panel) the sound I can record is pretty low. I heard that there are ways to patch AppleHDA in order to boost microphone input but I'm completely lost in how to actually do this step by step.

Heres the link: https://github.com/toleda/audio_ALC_guides/blob/master/Customization.pdf
 
Update: A copy of the Clover folders/files from the Z170 drive over to the Z68 drive yields no improvement. Trying a clean install of Mojave to see if that loads up on a spare drive.

Further Update: Fresh Mojave install on a repurposed SSD reveals a fully booting system! I'm just running the stock Multibeast Clover UEFI settings with iMac 14,2. No Whatevergreen nor Lilu needed to boot and have Metal be supported. The only setting I tweaked, because it was set up on the Z170 drive that booted up fine in the Z68 system, was to inject Intel graphics. Need to get my accounts fully set up and installed on a primary drive and will then test out iTunes playback and such and whether Whatevergreen will be needed. Things are looking up for this cutting edge Z68 board :cool: :headbang::lol: and the RX 580! The UEFI u1n beta has been pretty slick so far, Stork. Faster boots and more rapid wakes from sleep than with the legacy BIOS. You might want to give it a go on your older legacy system(s). :) :thumbup:

Now, to sell the GTX 960 and 1070 and opt for a Mini-ITX sized RX 580 for the Z170 rig...? :think: So far, I'm enjoying the ease of use of the 580, which was what I loved about the old Radeon 5770 that was my go-to for so long. Hopefully it stays this way. :)
 
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