- Joined
- Jul 23, 2010
- Messages
- 22
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte z370 Auros Gaming 7
- CPU
- i5-8600K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi folks,
Days of beating my head against a wall...
I had a working hack running High Sierra, but felt it was time to update. So I grabbed the Big Sur installer, worked carefully through the Dortania guide and... am getting nowhere. I've tried using the EFI files working for others on my motherboard with no success. But my machine is a bit different than theirs.
I see two likely areas of trouble:
1) I'm running a Crucial CT525 MX300 NVMe instead of the Samsung. The BIOS sees this as a SATA drive even though it operates at NVMe speeds
2) No matter what I try, I cannot disable CSM in the BIOS. Doing so results in a series of beep codes ending in the LCD showing d6. As suggested elsewhere, I have set Win 10 WHQL and UEFI for all of the boot options.
I have stripped everything out of my machine except the NVMe drive and one Sapphire Pulse RX580. No Wifi. No Bluetooth. No USB devices except the keyboard, mouse and installer drive.
If I disable SMCProcessor.kext and AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext my system either freezes or reboots at the PCI initialization. If I enable either or both kexts, I get a kernel panic. I've included screenshots of both.
All of my SSDTs are being created with SSDTTime from a Fedora live boot USB.
I'm confident I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what it is. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Full Hardware specs:
MB: GA-Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 BIOS: F15a w/ CFG-LOCK removed
CPU: Intel i5 8600K
RAM: 32GB 2x16gb G.Skill Flare X 2400
NVMe: Crucial CT525 MX300
Days of beating my head against a wall...
I had a working hack running High Sierra, but felt it was time to update. So I grabbed the Big Sur installer, worked carefully through the Dortania guide and... am getting nowhere. I've tried using the EFI files working for others on my motherboard with no success. But my machine is a bit different than theirs.
I see two likely areas of trouble:
1) I'm running a Crucial CT525 MX300 NVMe instead of the Samsung. The BIOS sees this as a SATA drive even though it operates at NVMe speeds
2) No matter what I try, I cannot disable CSM in the BIOS. Doing so results in a series of beep codes ending in the LCD showing d6. As suggested elsewhere, I have set Win 10 WHQL and UEFI for all of the boot options.
I have stripped everything out of my machine except the NVMe drive and one Sapphire Pulse RX580. No Wifi. No Bluetooth. No USB devices except the keyboard, mouse and installer drive.
If I disable SMCProcessor.kext and AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext my system either freezes or reboots at the PCI initialization. If I enable either or both kexts, I get a kernel panic. I've included screenshots of both.
All of my SSDTs are being created with SSDTTime from a Fedora live boot USB.
I'm confident I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what it is. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Full Hardware specs:
MB: GA-Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 BIOS: F15a w/ CFG-LOCK removed
CPU: Intel i5 8600K
RAM: 32GB 2x16gb G.Skill Flare X 2400
NVMe: Crucial CT525 MX300