How much work could this be to make this ideapad 510a Lenovo 510-15IKB 80SV00LKGE work?

Laptop data

CPU i7-7500U kabylake (0506e3)
Motherboard: Toronto 5C1 | SDK0j40709
Chipset KabyLake Ref 02 (according to cpuz)
Southbridge: Y-PCH Rev 21
* Intel HD Graphics 620 (UMA?)
* Nvidia GeForce 940MX (discrete)

Problem see image.
I started with https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/blob/master/config_HD620.plist

Do you think it would be possible to write a linux script reading hardware writing config.plist?
linux could be run easily on a the 'new machine', so no bootstraping issue.

anfriend said:

Laptop data

CPU i7-7500U kabylake (0506e3)
Motherboard: Toronto 5C1 | SDK0j40709
Chipset KabyLake Ref 02 (according to cpuz)
Southbridge: Y-PCH Rev 21
* Intel HD Graphics 620 (UMA?)
* Nvidia GeForce 940MX (discrete)

Problem see image.
I started with https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config/blob/master/config_HD620.plist

Do you think it would be possible to write a linux script reading hardware writing config.plist?
linux could be run easily on a the 'new machine', so no bootstraping issue.

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Your Clover/kexts is wrong. So is drivers64UEFI.
See guide: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/

The guide is - great - answer many things I had to find out myself (eg how to format a disk on OSX using disktuil), but its hard to find from the menu, for instance its not referenced by top level menu installation guide. Bitucket downloads are gone, do I need to compile FakeSMC.kext, VoodooPS2Controller.kext, GenericUSBXHCI.kext or is it fine to use the release downloads on github from 2013 - because commits are much more recent (2-3 months). I also failed finding where to put my specs into the footer. I wonder why a WIKI doesn't server such case better than a forum .. because a guide can be kept up to date.

anfriend said:

Bitucket downloads are gone,

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Not gone.
Bitbucket change/bug.
Add a trailing slash to the URL.
Vote for this bug to be fixed: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/13894/repo-download-page-results-404-error-page

You're guide says "read the Readme" -> so your note adding a / should be placed in the README evetnually or you could append the / to the link? I'm very glad about your guide - also because the 'unibeast installer' got into the way by not finding the disk or don't know - I had to reboot often. Anyway diskutils mountPartitions mounts vfat as redonly (Linux is rw) - fskc_msdos doesn't help - no errors. I get as far as the last time -> Thread 2. If your samples are to be customizide, why don't you add -v flag by default? It panics after XCPM registered. I tried with -x and cpus=1 as well. Is VT option likely to include IO virt (-d)?

anfriend said:

You're guide says "read the Readme" -> so your note adding a / should be placed in the README evetnually or you could append the / to the link?

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It is a change/bug that bitbucket caused just yesterday.
I'd like them to fix it rather than me editing the multitude of README links (and links in other locations) that would require fixing.
We'll see what they do...
Did you add your vote?

I'm very glad about your guide - also because the 'unibeast installer' got into the way by not finding the disk or don't know - I had to reboot often. Anyway diskutils mountPartitions mounts vfat as redonly (Linux is rw) - fskc_msdos doesn't help - no errors. I get as far as the last time -> Thread 2. If your samples are to be customizide, why don't you add -v flag by default? It panics after XCPM registered. I tried with -x and cpus=1 as well. Is VT option likely to include IO virt (-d)?

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I do not add -v as then I'd have people asking about how to get rid of the verbose boot text...
Verbose boot is available easily from the Clover GUI, so I leave it out.
Your profile is not filled out as requested in the guide, therefore impossible to analyze your files and result.

Signature test - will vote as soon as bitbucket stops hanging. Will retry.

Vote complete. issue comments show that it got opened 20 hours ago and assigned to Anna Li-Fatou even though being recognized as "minor".

anfriend said:

Signature test - will vote as soon as bitbucket stops hanging. Will retry.

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Signature still not per FAQ. Screen resolution is missing.

sry, fixed, linux does show eDP-1 or such (xrand output).