Recent content by jpz4085

Looks like you could use Etcher with a flash drive as reported in the post below. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/updating-ssd-firmware.283788/

Post your current EFI for reference. Perhaps the compression is preventing OpenCore from finding the kernel but I'm not sure. If Garuda only works through GRUB you could chainload OpenCore through GRUB and just use OC to load macOS. That's another option.

Is Garuda completely missing from the OC menu or won't it load when selected? Then you should replace the Ext4Dxe.efi with btrfs_x64.efi from the OcBinaryData or rEFInd drivers. Your EFI looks fine just change the drivers mentioned above and try again.

You're welcome! It's 12 or 0xC in hex.

Have a look at the Linux section of the Dortania OpenCore Multibooting Guide linked below. OpenLinuxBoot should be the easiest option. https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Multiboot/oc/linux.html

Hi @lookattosh22 I have the same model laptop with the same specs so I have some suggestions. USB port injection with USBInjectAll.kext or USBPorts.kext requires the EH01 and EH02 renames. The _OSI to XOSI rename must be used with SSDT-XOSI.aml to simulate a specific Windows version...

You might want to format it as MBR with one partition. The EFI partition might be confusing the Windows installer.

Which is to be expected since Windows will add itself to it's own boot manager when another version is already installed. You'd have to install both versions on separate disks with all other drives disconnected so that no existing EFI partition with the Windows Boot Manager or anything else is...

OK, sounds good. Two things I can suggest right now. It appears you have discrete and integrated graphics enabled on your system. I recall that Windows may hang - at least when booting through OC - in this configuration. You might want to disable the integrated video, if that's not your primary...

Sounds good. You should be able to use Clover Configurator - the version matching your Clover install - to edit the config.plist with those settings.

Understood, but that's not my question. Did Windows still boot through OC after you updated it but before the upgrade to Monterey? I want to determine whether the OC update or the Monterey upgrade is responsible for the Windows issue.

Have you tried copying the Clover configuration from your install USB to the SSD? Mount both EFI partitions and copy over the folders then try again.

Default or a specific model will provide a measure of security but it's up to you. You should be fine and that's what I use on my Haswell machine to run Monterey. Power and CPU related issues should be avoidable as long as you don't do something like use a desktop SMBIOS on a laptop. To...

I believe you should get updates with it disabled as SIP is more relevant. You could set SecureBootModel to Default or one of the model and version specific values listed in the Dortania guide below. That enables OpenCore to verify boot.efi when loading it...

The ACPI files and config.plist look fine which isn't surprising since Windows was working previously. It appears you updated OC earlier today. If that was before the Monterey upgrade, did Windows still work after doing that? Did you clear the NVRAM? Any hardware changes at all?