[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[faithie999]

anyone know what the deal is with clover installer 5107 skipping destination select in mojave 10.14.6?

do you have just one disk in your system with an EFI partition? maybe the latest clover skips the Change Install Location option if there is only one EFI partition available. just guessing.

 

[mobi]

This is very puzzling. Maybe we should wait for next version since a hot fix was added 4 days ago. Probably best to revert to 0.7.3 until 0.7.6 comes out...

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The other day I've tried upgrade to 0.75, my USB devices went south, so immediately back to 0.73

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ I've gone through the start post and (a lot!) of posts following. Thank you very much for all the write-ups you do, I've already learned a lot.

I have a current build (which differs from yours) on MacOS 10.15.4 which is working perfectly fine (stable-wise). I want to replace it with new hardware. I want to basically buy the same build you have (some components I already own, such as the Fenvi, RX 570, SSD's).

So my question; can I use my current (pre-installed) SSD, using your EFI, and replace mine? If so, which files should I use from your start post? What do you recommend in my situation?

Hopefully, you can help me out a little bit.

This should be possible:

1. Backup your existing system (including EFI partition).
2. Download Zip file from Catalina 10.15.4 mini-guide.
3. Replace all files in your Clover “drivers/UEFI” folder with corresponding files in Zip.
4. Replace all files in your Clover “kexts/Other” folder with corresponding files in Zip.
5. Replace all files in your Clover “ACPI/patched” folder with corresponding files in Zip.
6. Copy your SMBIOS and RtVariables sections into config-AMD-GPU.plist in the Zip file. Then rename that file to config.plist and replace your existing config.plist with the new one. See the bottom of this post to see how this can be done easily.
7. Reboot and see if it works...

 

[zgonda]

Hello @zgonda
If you haven't done that (unlocking the MSR 0xE2 register) then you do NOT have Native NVRAM. It's more likely that you have emulated NVRAM via Clover RC scripts on your current system, but that is not the same as Native NVRAM.

Thank you for your attention, but I had Native NVRAM by following the "perfect guide" before this new "Mini-Guide for Direct Installation of Catalina 10.15.4 and Newer". Is it necessary, in case of Direct Installation of Catalina 10.15.4, to follow the "Micro-Guide: Unlocking MSR 0xE2 on Gigabyte Designare Z390" when we have Native NVRAM by following the "perfect guide" ?
With terminal, I have : TestVar Hello

 

[iRamon]

Thank you for your attention, but I had Native NVRAM by following the "perfect guide" before this new "Mini-Guide for Direct Installation of Catalina 10.15.4 and Newer". Is it necessary, in case of Direct Installation of Catalina 10.15.4, to follow the "Micro-Guide: Unlocking MSR 0xE2 on Gigabyte Designare Z390" when we have Native NVRAM by following the "perfect guide" ?

Oh I see, so you unlocked the MSR register to enable Native NVRAM on your motherboard for an earlier installation?
In that case, you don't need to unlock it again.

 

[zgonda]

Thank You !!
To put it another way: does the procedure "Unlocking MSR 0xE2" for replacing the previous one activate the NVRAM Native, is it better ?? (for new users)
May be it's not the same thing, even if Native NVRAM unlock MSR 0xE2, Unlocking MSR 0xE2 doesn't enable Native NVRAM ?
In this case why not favor the Native NVRAM procedure ?

 

[z4k]

Curious issue. After 2 months of using my Hackintosh exclusively with no problems, yesterday this grey area started appearing in the left side of my login screen out of the blue. It seems to be there every time I restart, or on cold boots. Any ideas about the cause of this?

(10.14.6 // OC 0.5.5)

 

[tsamy]

hi I update to 10.15.4 every thing working fine expect when I shut down it is freezing,
I tried fix shutdown in clover configuration but didn't work,
any suggestions

 

[CaseySJ]

Thank You !!
To put it another way: does the procedure "Unlocking MSR 0xE2" for replacing the previous one activate the NVRAM Native, is it better ?? (for new users)
May be it's not the same thing, even if Native NVRAM unlock MSR 0xE2, Unlocking MSR 0xE2 doesn't enable Native NVRAM ?
In this case why not favor the Native NVRAM procedure ?

There’s no difference. The old procedure and the new procedure for unlocking MSR 0xE2 are the same, but the new one has been simplified.

 

[zakoi]

Hey everyone, Sorry for disturbing you.
I use a 970 Pro 512 Samsung about internal hard drive.

And i would like to know if 1To 2.5 disk can be taken for the Back up (for instance the half for partition and the half for the back up)

or if 500 Go 2.5 disk for the back up could be enough.

Thank you very much, have a good day