[Guide] HP Elite 8300 & 6300 Pro (all form factors) using Clover UEFI hotpatch

[aarkayx]

Open core stopped booting after setting csr active to 0. Hangs at the Apple logo

 

[trs96]

Open core stopped booting after setting csr active to 0. Hangs at the Apple logo

Are you using all eight of the zeros ?

 

[67BGTEV]

Initial EFI is up into the new OC repository: https://github.com/Sniki/HP6300-HP8300
For the moment of speaking, it's only for HD4000 users for macOS Big Sur and changing SMBIOS to anything else than MacPro6,1 will break USBPorts.kext.

Working into the files and i will be updating the USBPorts.kext with support for:

• iMac13,1
• iMac13,2
• iMac13,3
• Macmini6,1
• Macmini6,2
• iMacPro1,1
• MacPro6,1

And also with support for the additional USB Hub that @LisaAlterEgo added (thanks !)

Link to the old Clover repo: https://github.com/Sniki/HP6300-HP8300-Clover

Hello @Sniki - I wanted to update to 0.6.6. No particular reason, but just wanted to try it out. Would you be able to help? When I boot now, it gives me OC picker and when I select the boot SSD, it shows a blank/black screen.
What I've done so far, based on your EFI:

• Changed the Config.plist and removed the BootStrap. This is working well in my 2 8300s.
• Converted sample.plist from 6.6 and applied config.plist
• Added DeviceProperties -> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x0) and PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)
• Made sure all the KV pairs are updated accordingly with what is recommended in Dortina's guide
  • Copied OpenCore.efi BOOTx64.efi, OpenCanopy.efi, OpenRuntime.efi and OpenShell.efi.
  • Copied following kexts WhateverGreen, Lilu, VirtualSMC, SMCProcessor from 6.6
• I've not updated any AMLs under ACPI and may be this could be the reason. Should I grab updated ones from 6.6?

 

[trs96]

I wanted to update to 0.6.6. No particular reason, but just wanted to try it out. Would you be able to help? When I boot now, it gives me OC picker and when I select the boot SSD, it shows a blank/black screen.
What I've done so far, based on your EFI:

You can use the same .aml files as they don't need any updating. You do need to enable them in the new config.plist though. Try using the OC snapshot feature of the ProperTree app. Makes it very easy to implement.

Do you have all these enabled in the new config.plist ?

 

[67BGTEV]

Do you have all these enabled in the new config.plist ?

Yes, all the ACPI files are enabled in Config.plist.

 

[aarkayx]

Are you using all eight of the zeros ?

Yes

 

[LisaAlterEgo]

Hello @Sniki - I wanted to update to 0.6.6. No particular reason, but just wanted to try it out. Would you be able to help? When I boot now, it gives me OC picker and when I select the boot SSD, it shows a blank/black screen.
What I've done so far, based on your EFI:

• Changed the Config.plist and removed the BootStrap. This is working well in my 2 8300s.
• Converted sample.plist from 6.6 and applied config.plist
• Added DeviceProperties -> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x0) and PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)
• Made sure all the KV pairs are updated accordingly with what is recommended in Dortina's guide
  • Copied OpenCore.efi BOOTx64.efi, OpenCanopy.efi, OpenRuntime.efi and OpenShell.efi.
  • Copied following kexts WhateverGreen, Lilu, VirtualSMC, SMCProcessor from 6.6
• I've not updated any AMLs under ACPI and may be this could be the reason. Should I grab updated ones from 6.6?

When I first updated to OC 0.6.6, I used the new drivers, but I had the same mistake
as the sample.plist, in that it listed driver HfsPlus.efi, but I had changed over to the new
OpenHfsPlus.efi instead, and it caused it to hang before the boot picker was displayed.
It doesn't sound like your problem, but maybe others will miss this simple change needed
in the config.plist too.

 

[67BGTEV]

@LisaAlterEgo - Do you mind sharing the EFI {minus SMBIOS)?

 

[Asural]

@LisaAlterEgo - Do you mind sharing the EFI {minus SMBIOS)?

@67BGTEV Isn't it easier for everyone to comment on your EFI than it is for you to understand @LisaAlterEgo's EFI?

 

[67BGTEV]

@67BGTEV Isn't it easier for everyone to comment on your EFI than it is for you to understand @LisaAlterEgo's EFI?

Here it is