The 4K Dell OptiMac - 9020 MT - Core i7-4790 - Radeon RX 570 - LG 4K IPS Monitor

[trs96]

or a problem waking up
Has the RX 580 been solved yet?

Not yet. The next step is to see what happens with Catalina and the new OpenCore bootloader. OC is not fully mature (out of beta) and Catalina isn't bug free yet. I've not adopted either one on my 9020. If you have to have wake from sleep working now get a Kepler based Nvidia card to use short term. Hold on to your 580 and it will eventually wake the monitor from sleep. Just not with the current state of things using Mojave and Clover.

 

[rhhousehold]

I had quite a few similar sounding issues with my machine picking up the NVME, I believe my issue came down to the fact I was using the latest version of Clover, but trying to add the files from this post. Anyway after I got everything matching it just worked.

I had no issues getting NVMe to work. It was on my Dell Optiplex 7010 MT, which originally was installed to a vanilla SATA drive. I installed the adapter, an NVME drive and droppped in the NvmExpressDxe-64 efi file and the drive just showed up. See post here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/vantec-m-2-nvme-m-2-sata-ssd-pcie-x4-adapter.287126/

 

[tofeeq]

Yes, follow the guide as is.

You only want the bootloader on the mechanical or SSD Sata drive not on the NVME. You can only have it in one place or you will run into problems. Easiest way is to just clone the sata drive to the NVME, it won't copy the EFI partition if you use CCC.

Dear trs96

Thanks again for the guide. I am so happy to have my hackintosh running.

I follower the steps till step 5 completely and also installed the driver NvmExpressDxe-64 to the clover EPI. I have a normal SATA SSD (Mojave SSD) and the NVMe drive from Adata (see attached screenshots).
It doesn't seem like CCC wants to format NVMe for me. I can't ge tselected. Any advice?
If to format it manually, should I also use GUID and APFS for the NVMe?

After cloning, I can format the SATA SSD (not it's EPI) and use it for data storage, right? what format type should I choose?

 

[rhhousehold]

Dear trs96

Thanks again for the guide. I am so happy to have my hackintosh running.

I follower the steps till step 5 completely and also installed the driver NvmExpressDxe-64 to the clover EPI. I have a normal SATA SSD (Mojave SSD) and the NVMe drive from Adata (see attached screenshots).
It doesn't seem like CCC wants to format NVMe for me. I can't ge tselected. Any advice?
If to format it manually, should I also use GUID and APFS for the NVMe?

After cloning, I can format the SATA SSD (not it's EPI) and use it for data storage, right? what format type should I choose?

CCC won’t format the drive for you. You must format it yourself using Disk Utility - APFS and GUID partition scheme.

After that you can select it as a target in CCC.

 

[tofeeq]

CCC won’t format the drive for you. You must format it yourself using Disk Utility - APFS and GUID partition scheme.

After that you can select it as a target in CCC.

Thank you. What about sath SATA SSD? How should I format it after being cloned?

 

[tofeeq]

CCC won’t format the drive for you. You must format it yourself using Disk Utility - APFS and GUID partition scheme.

After that you can select it as a target in CCC.

Now I have 2 EFI partitions. When booting, clover give only the option to boot from Sata ssd drive and recovery (as before). NVMe doesn't show up

 

[trs96]

should I also use GUID and APFS for the NVMe?

Yes, use those.

After cloning, I can format the SATA SSD (not it's EPI) and use it for data storage, right?

Remember you must leave the EFI partition with Clover Bootloader on the SATA SSD drive for this to work. It won't boot without that. You can use the rest of the drive for storage if you'd like to. There shouldn't be anything on the EFI partition of the NVMe drive. Mount that and check what is there.

 

[tofeeq]

Yes, use those.
I used those.

Remember you must leave the EFI partition with Clover Bootloader on the SATA SSD drive for this to work. It won't boot without that. You can use the rest of the drive for storage if you'd like to. There shouldn't be anything on the EFI partition of the NVMe drive. Mount that and check what is there.

NvmExpressDxe-64.efi is in the SATA EFI in the drivers64UEFI.
NVMe EFI is empty.
Still Clover doesn't see NVMe as a boot option... I tried to look for new versions of the drivers but had no luck.
I have Clover 2.4k

Another question: after this hopefully works, how to format the SATA while keeping the EFI partition intact?
Can I install Windows on the old Dell HDD (currently disconnected from PC) and let Clover show it ass a boot option?

 

[trs96]

Still Clover doesn't see NVMe as a boot option.

What software/method did you use to clone from the SSD to the NVMe drive ?

 

[tofeeq]

What software/method did you use to clone from the SSD to the NVMe drive ?

I formatted NVMe as GUID + APFS in Disk Utility.
Then used CCC. Just dragged SATA as source and NVMe as destination without any other change to default settings (copy all files was selected on CCC).