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

[PeteA]

Wierd, OK when I have some time this weeekend I'll try making a new one based on your latest Page 90 EFI and let you know the result.

Hey, "Leesureone, let him use my Config. it will work

This fix the sound issue for me. However, I can't get sleep to work on my i3. Any idea?

Hey use mine it will work Just fill in bios Mani & iMac Pro If u need My EFI let me know.. Nuc8 i7

 

[egsamuels]

Hey, "Leesureone, let him use my Config. it will work


Hey use mine it will work Just fill in bios Mani & iMac Pro

Alright. Thanks. I will try it with OC8.2

 

[egsamuels]

Smh. It was the lab port that was constantly waking the PC. Disabled lan wake feature in Bios.


All good now! Now to find a used i7 board.

Thanks

 

[faithie999]

Can anyone suggest the best way to dual boot Windows on these NUC systems running Catalina? The Vanilla Guide for OpenCore just mentions partitioning, but Catalina sort of uses a partition group where there is a "Macintosh HD" and "Macintosh HD - Data" and I'm not sure if I'll break anything by partitioning one or the other.

Does Bootcamp assistant work? If anyone has any experience I'd appreciate some help. I'm assuming it is fairly straight forward but I don't have a cloned drive in this machine right now so I'm hesitant to change something.

before you do anything, make a bootable clone. at some time in the future you'll be glad you did.

second--make sure you have a working USB boot stick. if you are successful installing windows, it will mess with the /Clover/Boot folder in the EFI partition on your HD/SSD. you will need to boot Mac OS using the USB stick so you can get into the /Clover/Boot/Microsoft folder and make one change. if you get that far I'll tell you what to do.

then:

before trying to set up dual boot, I would give Bootcamp a try.
since forever, up until the last couple of versions of windows 10, it had been fairly easy to dual boot on the same hard drive.

what I did many times:
formatted a HD using Disk Utility, creating a partition for Mac and a partition, formatted MS-DOS, for windows.
install Mac OS and get it running to your liking. make a working backup.

then use the windows installer (created on a USB with Rufus, or nowadays, with MS's installer creation tool).
in the windows installer when you get to the "where to install" screen, the installer will say you can't install windows on the partition you created for windows because it is MS-DOS. (old versions of disk utility let you create a partition as free space and windows was quite happy installing there.). delete the partition, which will change the partition to "unallocated space", highlight the Unformatted Space partition, and then click Format at the bottom of the window and you're good to go.

the problem I've had for the last couple of windows 10 versions is that the windows 10 installer won't proceed because it says the disk was created in MBR style rather than GPT. of course that isn't the case, but windows won't proceed.

I needed to make this work on my hacked laptop which only has one HD. it took me a couple of days, using GPartEd, windows disk management window, and more patience than I normally have, to figure out how to get it done. I didn't document the process, and there is no way I can recreate it for you.

so give it a try if bootcamp doesn't meet your needs, but be prepared for a battle with the windows installer.

 

[Leesureone]

WOW, for the first time ever, my NUC8i5BEH goes to sleep and wakes using USB-C to DP cable!
I didn't check the audio yet or other things - but sleep works!!!
THANK YOU!!!

Was it all caused because the USB SSDT?

About 95% of the time, yes

 

[mitoda]

@jimborae and @PeteA I found a mistake in my EFI folder. I added the USBPort.kext but also left the SSDT-UIAC.aml in EFI\OC\ACPI and have it called out in the config.plist. That can cause a conflict being you only need one or the other. My suggestion for i7 users is to delete the SSDT and change it to NO or False in the config.plist. Apologies, I'll spend more time double checking before I post new EFIs next time.

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Should we divide page 90 with i5 and i7?
I used your EFI on my NUC8i7BEH, no problems. I'll try deleting SSDT-UIAC.

Also, whatevergreen, Lilu and ALC kexts have been updated almost at the same time Open Core was updated to 5.8. I think the kexts in page 90 are still using older versions.
Not sure if this will be noticed on most users.

 

[Leesureone]

Should we divide page 90 with i5 and i7?
I used your EFI on my NUC8i7BEH, no problems. I'll try deleting SSDT-UIAC.

Also, whatevergreen, Lilu and ALC kexts have been updated almost at the same time Open Core was updated to 5.8. I think the kexts in page 90 are still using older versions.
Not sure if this will be noticed on most users.

I've thought about it already, two sets of EFI folders for each update. I haven't updated Clover for quite awhile and Kexts usually only when an OS update requires them like Catalina 15.4. (Kexts are relatively easy to update, I use Hackintool to check and then download. Then mount your EFI folder, delete and then add back in. Then Empty the trash.)

Right now I'm kind of still waiting on feedback, it seems like the usb configuration you need for an i7 works on an i5 but not vice versa.

 

[mitoda]

I've thought about it already, two sets of EFI folders for each update. I haven't updated Clover for quite awhile and Kexts usually only when an OS update requires them like Catalina 15.4. (Kexts are relatively easy to update, I use Hackintool to check and then download. Then mount your EFI folder, delete and then add back in. Then Empty the trash.)

Right now I'm kind of still waiting on feedback

So far then, for i5, just use the EFI OC 5.8 Catalina on page 90 and for i7, set SSDT UAIC to false, is there something else? Gonna try it on my i5 tonight.

I know for sure, audio works just fine on my i7, it goes to sleep, but when it wakes up, USB-C to USB 3 hub, connected to my monitor which connects to the NUC8 via thunderbolt, does not work, rest of the regular USB ports all work.

Changing brightness via keyboard stops working as well, my monitor is a LG Ultrafine 4k Display, uses Thunderbolt exclusively.

Also, the intel BT stops working after waking up, anybody experienced same issues? I haven't noticed any lag like a user jimborae experienced.

 

[egsamuels]

I've thought about it already, two sets of EFI folders for each update. I haven't updated Clover for quite awhile and Kexts usually only when an OS update requires them like Catalina 15.4. (Kexts are relatively easy to update, I use Hackintool to check and then download. Then mount your EFI folder, delete and then add back in. Then Empty the trash.)

Right now I'm kind of still waiting on feedback

I also use the Hackintool to update the kexts too. Pretty straight forward.

 

[mitoda]

I also use the Hackintool to update the kexts too. Pretty straight forward.

Nice, I learn something today, was doing it manually, kinda painful!