[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

[Leesureone]

Hi,
thank you!


Secure boot is turned off.
With this EFI the system booted up. Still no hw HEVC support.

Which is your version of NUC bios? mine is latest.

Mine too, its not about the bios version though. Just an FYI when it comes to stuff like this searching outside the main hardware page (if there is one) will get you better results. A quick search turned this up, lots of info. Out of curiosity what do you need HVEC support for?

Catalina 10.15.2 Update Lost HEVC/h265 Acceleration

With latest WEG/Lilu and a RX580 it seemed to upgrade fine, but I actually lost HEVC/h265 acceleration (h264 still works fine). Can people who run an RX570 or RX580 who presume things went fine with their 10.15.2 upgrade please check if h265 acceleration is still working for them?

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[Leesureone]

Scrolling is choppy, making something full screen is sluggish like netflix, youtube etc.

Tried changing to Imac18,3 and Imac18,2 but then the color got inverted and no acceleration.

I see you used Hackintool to add PCI devices, I've gone to that degree but didn't see any performance improvement and apart for stuff showing in the system report there was no other benefit I could discern. I'm playing a 4K video on Youtube right now and its smooth, scrolling on web pages acts exactly like and other device I have so I can't really ask for more. I don't know why its different for your device unless we have different models.

This is what I followed to get the display working correctly https://1revenger1.gitbook.io/laptop-guide/prepare-install-macos/display-configuration

 

[macdude007]

We have almost identical EFIs except your config.plist SYMbios is set up differently. There maybe more too it than that so my recommendation is to compare my config.plist to yours setting by setting and where it differs change it to match. Page 90

I'm not but that is great, totally why I post!

You are a legend sir! I got *everything* working in less than 30 minutes because of your post & EFI on my Intel NUC8i7BEH. Amazing work and post

I am in desperate need of a list of steps to follow which explain in detail how to use Unibeast to make a USB installation drive and it actually work. I have worked for hours on this and it is worse than using Ultrazone's Z77X-UD5H Hackitosh. I actually made that work as you can see. I have to do a tweak once a year or two... I tried to do the Unibeast with the files not on the thumb drive (probably not a means of success), on the thumb drive, Master Boot Record with a 1GB fat 32 for the Unibeast to use for the EFI folder, No fat32 folder for EFI, One Partition-Two Partition, and on and on... The files that I finally copied to the thumb drive were the Unibeast 10.1.0 - EFI (from NUC8i7CAT15.4 or NUC8CatEFI or maybe both on different attempts. I did manage to get Unibeast to copy Catalina to the thumb drive then it hung up. It is supposed to be easy, but I think I need a step by step detail Guide which I haven't found yet. Ultrazone' Guide was LLLLONNNNG, but I got thru it after a while. This one looks like it should be short, but so far the effort is tough. I find Clover installs tougher than the older methods. This unit has been hummin along for many years now, but is showing it's age. My mini is OK, but I want to Hac Mini for some tasks. Can you guys help some on this? It would be greatly appreciated (30 minutes sounds better than 30 hours or days).

 

[Leesureone]

I am in desperate need of a list of steps to follow which explain in detail how to use Unibeast to make a USB installation drive and it actually work. I have worked for hours on this and it is worse than using Ultrazone's Z77X-UD5H Hackitosh. I actually made that work as you can see. I have to do a tweak once a year or two... I tried to do the Unibeast with the files not on the thumb drive (probably not a means of success), on the thumb drive, Master Boot Record with a 1GB fat 32 for the Unibeast to use for the EFI folder, No fat32 folder for EFI, One Partition-Two Partition, and on and on... The files that I finally copied to the thumb drive were the Unibeast 10.1.0 - EFI (from NUC8i7CAT15.4 or NUC8CatEFI or maybe both on different attempts. I did manage to get Unibeast to copy Catalina to the thumb drive then it hung up. It is supposed to be easy, but I think I need a step by step detail Guide which I haven't found yet. Ultrazone' Guide was LLLLONNNNG, but I got thru it after a while. This one looks like it should be short, but so far the effort is tough. I find Clover installs tougher than the older methods. This unit has been hummin along for many years now, but is showing it's age. My mini is OK, but I want to Hac Mini for some tasks. Can you guys help some on this? It would be greatly appreciated (30 minutes sounds better than 30 hours or days).

Try a different USB drive and make sure its formatted correctly as explained in the Unibeast guide. Don't F around with anything except creating a 16GB partition to install OSX to, if the drive is bigger than that just ignore the other partition for now. Make sure the computer doesn't sleep and don't use a computer that boots with OpenCore, I've had a few issues trying to go that way. Boot Clover or user a real Mac with Unibeast. If that fails there are other ways to create the install media like here: https://support.apple.com/sl-si/HT201372

 

[fcarlo70]

Mine too, its not about the bios version though. Just an FYI when it comes to stuff like this searching outside the main hardware page (if there is one) will get you better results. A quick search turned this up, lots of info. Out of curiosity what do you need HVEC support for?

Catalina 10.15.2 Update Lost HEVC/h265 Acceleration

With latest WEG/Lilu and a RX580 it seemed to upgrade fine, but I actually lost HEVC/h265 acceleration (h264 still works fine). Can people who run an RX570 or RX580 who presume things went fine with their 10.15.2 upgrade please check if h265 acceleration is still working for them?

www.tonymacx86.com

Hi, made some changes to OC config and now it works fine.
Tomorrow I'll post my working EFI folder.

Thank you.

 

[Leesureone]

Hi, made some changes to OC config and now it works fine.
Tomorrow I'll post my working EFI folder.

Thank you.

View attachment 465677

I know I'll be able to see the difference but what did you change and what model do you have again?

 

[macdude007]

Thanks Leesureone you got me moving in the right direction and new thoughts on the problem... I did the Create Media Command from Apple and got a USB which will boot on a MacBook, but not on the NUC8i7BEH. The USB was ready to install or repair the MacBook, but I cancelled out of the install and tried the USB on my NUC. It will not show up on the NUC at all even though I made USB the first boot drive. The NUC does not show the USB drive at all. It appears to me that the EFI partition and folder was not made by Unibeast. I have been trying to make an EFI partition bootloader using Multibeast 12.1.0 Catalina Edition but it errors out as follows:

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** +[NSString stringWithUTF8String:]: NULL cString'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

I think that the above C&P is the entire info on the error. I have never had Multibeast crash before on my UD5H or MacBook Air. Worked most of the day on the problem. I do have an installer, but it will only (potentially) install on a Mac. The NUC install is not happening yet. I tied to use Clover Configurator to install Clover or the EFI folder and that did not work. I kept my UD5H old school for the longest time to avoid Clover and EFI. I finally installed them a few years ago, but forgot the details on how they work and install.The idea of swapping the Leesureone EFI folder got me thinking that the missing partition and EFI information and Clover installation files is wrecking my USB install, but with the Multibeast crashing, I am hard pressed to figure out another approach. Any ideas?

 

[Leesureone]

Thanks Leesureone you got me moving in the right direction and new thoughts on the problem... I did the Create Media Command from Apple and got a USB which will boot on a MacBook, but not on the NUC8i7BEH. The USB was ready to install or repair the MacBook, but I cancelled out of the install and tried the USB on my NUC. It will not show up on the NUC at all even though I made USB the first boot drive. The NUC does not show the USB drive at all. It appears to me that the EFI partition and folder was not made by Unibeast. I have been trying to make an EFI partition bootloader using Multibeast 12.1.0 Catalina Edition but it errors out as follows:

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** +[NSString stringWithUTF8String:]: NULL cString'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

I think that the above C&P is the entire info on the error. I have never had Multibeast crash before on my UD5H or MacBook Air. Worked most of the day on the problem. I do have an installer, but it will only (potentially) install on a Mac. The NUC install is not happening yet. I tied to use Clover Configurator to install Clover or the EFI folder and that did not work. I kept my UD5H old school for the longest time to avoid Clover and EFI. I finally installed them a few years ago, but forgot the details on how they work and install.The idea of swapping the Leesureone EFI folder got me thinking that the missing partition and EFI information and Clover installation files is wrecking my USB install, but with the Multibeast crashing, I am hard pressed to figure out another approach. Any ideas?

I'm having a hard time inderstanding your explanation of what you are trying to do. I think you maybe are confused as to the next step after the create media commands complete. Once that's done use clover configurator to mount the EFI partition on the flash drive. Erase the EFI folder there, empty the trash, then copy my EFI folder onto it and you should be good.

 

[Aza]

I was hoping someone might be able to shed some light on an issue I'm having. I previously used this guide to build a Mojave NUC8i7BEH. Worked fine. I tried to make a clean install to Catalina and I got it to work, but only booting from the USB and in safe mode. Not good.
So I tried the open core method. But I'm super confused because I reformatted the USB and made it again using the OPEN core method. Then I dumped Leesureone's OpenCore efi from page 90.
When I go to install I'm still seeing the clover menu (I did copy a clover EFI to the internal HD's EFI partition). Is this right? Do I need to change my PCs boot priorities to USB first?

In any case after I run it in verbose I get this line and it hangs:

PCI configuration end, bridges 7, devices 14 ]



If anyone knows what I might be doing wrong I would appreciate it. Is there more patching that I have to do? Previously I just drag and dropped the EFI folder with Mojave and it worked, but maybe I'm missing a step with patches or something?

EDIT: Sorry I was just an idiot. I was still booting from the HD which of course had Clover EFI on there that wasn't working. I changed boot prio to the USB with Open Core and it went fine from then. Currently using migration assistant to get back to my normal back up. I guess we'll see how it goes.

 

[fcarlo70]

I know I'll be able to see the difference but what did you change and what model do you have again?

Hello, changed model to MacBookPro15,2 and disabled csr. Also upgraded Realtek pci card reader driver due to random crashes when memory card is plugged in.

But I think it could be a problem with VideoProc hw codec detection.
I'll try to revert back to macmini8,1 profile, because there are no obvious reasons why it should not work fine.

Thanks