Recent content by bobm

Ooops, my mistake. I had first attempted this install using an EFI shared in these forums by someone with hardware almost identical to mine. When that didn't work I made my own config and replaced other files on the USB EFI with OC 7.9-related files. Apparently I missed a couple. After...

Attempting to install Catalina with OC 7.9 (debug) on a newly formatted (APFS) SSD on an older, recently resurrected GA-Z77X-UD3H / i7. I can boot OC to picker menu OK. Selection of "Install macOS Catalina (external)" booted into macOS Recovery no problem. In Recovery I used Disk Utility to...

Good plan, thanks, I will go this route. But first still struggling to get past Step 1, Install Catalina. Spent many tedious hours today moving my install USB back and forth from MacBook where I configure OC and createinstallmedia, to the Z97X machine I am trying to Hack up. I don't want to...

Thanks for the clarification. I have been distracted for several days, having moved RAM and BCM card from this Z77X board to a different machine, but frustrated by multiple problems getting that install to work, have decided to go back to the Z77X and resolve the USB issues. Fact is, if I get...

My USB has major problems and I can't get the mapping process to work. About half of my USB ports don't respond at all when 3.0 and 2.0 devices inserted. This is a recently resurrected older Z77X machine. I got an install of Big Sur 11.6.5 working, sort of, using OpenCore (7.6) and SMBIOS...

Anybody?

Since upgrading to Big Sur my wifi menu-bar shows only two bars where there were three under Catalina. I also see occasional broken streams and slow-ish performance compared with before. Machine is sitting in same location and is connected to same wifi/router, so no change there...

I am still rather uncertain about how SMBIOS and related settings relate to Apple account logins. I am currently running Catalina on a GA-h97-D3h/Haswell build, booting with OC (currently 6.1, will upgrade to 6.4) using SystemProductName 14,2. I want to try Big Sur, and, so, apparently, I will...

thanks Pilgrim, very clear guide. Followed with ease, tho have not reconnected internet and tested yet - thought I'd sleep on it, double check everything tmrw. Meanwhile, two questions, general, not help per se: In several comments in this thread, I see references to SimpleMBL, but don't see...

Thanks Brebo That is certainly what I thought. But for some reason this kext won't load, regardless of where I put it between EFI/CLOVER/kext/Other, SLE, LE. Pretty sure the one I am trying, AtherosL1cEthernet.kext, is the right kext. The same kext worked under ElCap. Also, as double...

Tks 699. I tried putting the L1C kext in both S/L/E and L/E, both no good. (Though I did the repair permissions and rebuild cash by hand, using chown, chmod and touch) Result is still no ethernet. By the way, your link is to kext 2200, which is what I had, rather than L1C. (The 2200 kext was...

This Sierra/clover install on a GA-Z77x-UD3H was working OK, but ethernet was incredibly slow. Checking I discovered that AtherosE2200Ethernet somehow ended up in S/L/E during installation. My board LAN chip is Atheros AR8151, so I believe AtherosL1cEthernet.kext is the correct kext (correct...

Thanks a lot! but where can I find the config? Maybe upload didn't work. I don't see it in OP or in your last post. Also, 2 other questions: What did you use for system profile? I had been using 13,2 on this board with a working clover/ElCap install, but my attempt to upgrade to 10.12 direct...

Same board, almost same setup here (except I've got only intel Graphics) Can you share your config.plist and full listing of kexts/versions used?

My clover-created El Cap recovery partition wouldn't boot. I tried copying in the prelinkedkernel from main OS partition, as suggested elsewhere, but that didn't fix it. This script did. But, before I ran this script, in El Cap's emasculated update of Disk Utility I could not delete my...