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JustGeeGz

JustGeeGz

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Motherboard
Intel Nuc D54250WYKH1
CPU
i5-4250U
Graphics
HD 5000
Mac
  1. iMac
Mobile Phone
  1. iOS
Hi Everyone,

I have an old nuc that wasnt being used for anything. I installed High Sierra on it and then direct upgrade to Catalina. When I open up the app store, the machine freezes. It boots quickly has sound and network working (wired, I dont have a wireless card installed yet). I was curious of any thought on why that would happen?

The specs are:

i5-4250U
8gb of ram (playing on upgrading to 16)
Intel HD-5000 graphics
Crucial 240gb SSD
 
JustGeeGz said:
Hi Everyone,

I have an old nuc that wasnt being used for anything. I installed High Sierra on it and then direct upgrade to Catalina. When I open up the app store, the machine freezes. It boots quickly has sound and network working (wired, I dont have a wireless card installed yet). I was curious of any thought on why that would happen?

The specs are:

i5-4250U
8gb of ram (playing on upgrading to 16)
Intel HD-5000 graphics
Crucial 240gb SSD
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Hi,
What is the latest situation?
I got the same device.
Can you send the EFI Folder for Catalina installation?
 
Hello all,

Just adding my 2 cents in here as I've managed to successfully install latest Catalina (15.5) onto my NUC.

I've followed the 'official installation guide' from this forum.
In addition I've copied 2 kexts to enable networking and Wifi (BCM94352HMB) during setup:
  • IntelMausiEthernet.kext
  • AirportBrcmFixup.kext
to EFI USB partition '/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other'

As this was my inaugural Hackintosh it took me a while to figure out how and which kexts do I need to use to make everything work.

As per instructions I've used Multibeast to make OS bootable.

After a successful reboot I've used Clover Configurator to add/update kexts.
Below is the list of custom kexts:
  • AirportBrcmFixup.kext (WiFi)
  • AppleALC.kext (Sound)
  • BrcmBluetoothInjector.kext (BT)
  • BrcmPatchRAM3.kext (required for BT)
  • IntelMausiEthernet.kext (Intel 1218V ethernet)
  • Lilu.kext (required)
  • SMCProcessor.kext (SMC related)
  • SMCProcessor.kext
  • VirtualSMC.kext
  • WhateverGreen.kext (Intel HD Graphics)

Additional Bluetooth kexts were taken off GitHub.


I hope this will save some time for someone with similar configuration.

Feel free to correct me if I got something wrong in my post or if there is a better way of doing the same things. :)

It appears that my NUC has been successfully converted to a 'mac mini' as all the functions tested so far work no problem!
 
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Hi drnovsek,
could you shared the EFI files?
 
JoRu said:
Hi drnovsek,
could you shared the EFI files?
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Hi, apologies for the delayed response, haven't seen your post! :|

BiosVersion and SerialNumber and UUID - have been sanitized, I'd recommend creating your own or replacing with the ones you already have.
Have a look at GenSMBIOS tool.

ProductName - Macmini7,1 - Figured out that Nuc somewhat resembles that model with the same generation Haswell CPU.
Also note that setting to iMac will not allow you to use multiple displays!

Removed 'debug.log' from 'misc' folder and 'Clover_Install_Log.txt' from EFI folder.

Been running with Clover with all features working and kext at latest version.

Quickly tried booting with OpenCore and appears to be working fine too, but I haven't checked in-depth though.
OpenCore has a custom ACPI files and will likely work with D54250WYK only!

Both ZIP files attached.

Hope that helps!
 
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