[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

SardusX said:

Hi @CaseySJ,
Hi All,
I recently installed macOS Monterey on a new nvme M.2 drive to replace an existing drive (Samsung 970 EVO - now moved to a PCIe x4 expansion card) using Opencore 0.8.3 (using the EFI folder You Provide in the Opencore 0.8.3 Mini-Guide-thanks ) as boot manager in a multiboot system with different operating systems each on its own drive (nvme M.2, SATA SSD, SATA mechanical hard disks).
At startup, however, an "EFI" entry appears in the Opencore boot menu that doesn't seem to refer to any OS and that I can't delete.
I tried to identify which Drive or OS this menu entry refers to also using the ScanPolicy variable to exclude all SATA drives at startup but the "EFI" entry remains in the boot picker.
I learned in another thread that starting from Opencore 0.8.8 it is possible to add a .contentVisibility file in the /EFI/boot directory to hide/disable unwanted Opencore menu entries.
I noticed that in a previous post of this thread

[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

Technically, the OpenCore EFI folder can be installed in any EFI partition. We just need to boot the OpenCore EFI so that the OpenCore Boot Picker appears. So it's not strictly necessary to copy that folder to EFI partition of USB flash disk, but I typically do that because it allows me to...

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You updated the EFI folder to version 0.8.8: can this be used for the Gigabyte Z390 Divisare motherboard or was it a custom solution for a specific User?
Any other suggestions are welcome
Thanks in advance for Your help

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mustang.dvs said:

I have a head-scratcher that I've not been able to figure out: my optical drive does not mount any media.

I've tried commercially produced DVDs, audio CDs, data discs, or blank media. Nothing. However, It shows correctly in System Profiler and responds to the eject key (so I don't think it's the SATA headers), but no media ever mounts.

I'm attaching my anonymized EFI.

I have a stable iMac19,1 i9 9900K build running OS X 12.6.2, using OC 0.8.8, a Radeon VII (recently upgraded from an RX480). Current z390 firmware is F9g. The burner is a Hitachi GSA-H31N that worked in my previous Mac Pro 5,1. I don't have Windows (or Linux) installed to test if it loads in other OSes.

I've made half-hearted attempts to resolve it in the past, but now I have a client who wants me to burn him a DVD (and I really don't want to spend money on an external drive, when I have a perfectly good one sitting in my Hackintosh).

Thanks!

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mustang.dvs said:

I had a friend pull a Philips DVD8881 from a chassis I'd given him a long time ago and it, oddly, works perfectly fine in my Hackintosh with no changes to the config. The Hitachi drive may just be bad. (He's going to pop it into his Linux box and see if it mounts.)

ETA: I'm going to look into purchasing a USB 3.0 / USB-C Blu-Ray burner, I'm just trying to be frugal until my business is in better shape -- no one has asked for physical media in ages; it's all been digital delivery for the past 5 years.

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CaseySJ said:

Good idea to try .contentVisibility.

We can upgrade to latest OpenCore by using HackinDROM App as described in the spoiler at the top of Post 1 labeled Quick Reference to Mini-Guides and Micro-Guides:

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[HOW TO] OpenCore 0.8.7 > 0.8.8 differences

OpenCore 0.8.8 is out now, you can get it from Acidanthera. Although there are no news in the config.plist file, there are many changes to other OpenCore components. Just take note that almost 40 compilations have been released. They are important changes in code files even if they do not...

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CaseySJ said:

Got it.

Is the Thunderbolt section in BIOS configured properly?

Let’s also take a look at IOReg (IORegistryExplorer -> File -> Save As…).

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CaseySJ said:

Good idea to try .contentVisibility.

We can upgrade to latest OpenCore by using HackinDROM App as described in the spoiler at the top of Post 1 labeled Quick Reference to Mini-Guides and Micro-Guides:

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KevSea said:

Double checked the BIOS. All looks as it should be. IOreg attached

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CaseySJ said:

I have a USB CD reader/writer, which works properly.

Regarding your Hitachi SATA drive, in Kernel section of config.plist, is ThirdPartyDrives checked on? If so, try checking it off and rebooting. Not sure this will help, but worth a try.

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mustang.dvs said:

I had a friend pull a Philips DVD8881 from a chassis I'd given him a long time ago and it, oddly, works perfectly fine in my Hackintosh with no changes to the config. The Hitachi drive may just be bad. (He's going to pop it into his Linux box and see if it mounts.)

ETA: I'm going to look into purchasing a USB 3.0 / USB-C Blu-Ray burner, I'm just trying to be frugal until my business is in better shape -- no one has asked for physical media in ages; it's all been digital delivery for the past 5 years.

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Mochimino said:

hello @CaseySJ
I've been using the updated Hackintosh for a couple of weeks now and it's working wonderfully! I plan to copy the system on my NVMe but 2 questions:
1. on your Asus hackintosh guide, you said it's better to avoid Samsung NVMe. I got a Samsung 970 Evo since the beginning of this Hackintosh. Should I buy another brand?
2. in order to update to Windows 11, I need to enable TPM 2.0. Is this a problem for our Hackintosh? It's not urgent at all to update Windows, I just wanted to know. Windows is installed on a NVMe, plugged into Thunderbolt.

Thanks again for all you support

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