- Joined
- Dec 16, 2013
- Messages
- 222
- Motherboard
- GA-Z87MX-D3H
- CPU
- i5-4670K
- Graphics
- HD4600
Thanks for this. I haven't made much progress as have been experimenting with the framebuffer situation (ports, type, busids, etc) for this Z390M (non-gaming). Since I don't feel comfortable with how to diagnose issues with OpenCore yet, was rather hoping that I'd be able to figure it out using the somewhat-more-clear Clover tools and info out there.
This led to quite the rabbit hole of experimentation, where I still haven't been able to get HDMI working basically at all (I mean into MacOS, works fine for the boot stage). Just now had the epiphany that I'm being a bit of an idiot, DVI + DP is perfectly fine for my uses (HDMI might be useful in future, but as of right now I have zero HDMI-only monitors). Still puzzling to me that DVI has worked from the start - with only occasional hiccoughs - but not a question that needs to be solved.
One question that is a bit out there - I have persistent on and off troubles with a boot error (post clover in boot sequence but prior to mac os boot sequence) where it hangs on "Error allocating 0x11996 pages at 0x0#### alloc type 2 Couldn't allocate runtime area."
For a while I thought this was because of an other drive - when unplugged or disabled (SATA internal), it would sometimes clear and work fine, making me think it was a drive problem; often will occur after a change to the framebuffer tables and connector links of my experimentation, but not actually be linked to the config.plist files (reverting to known working versions doesn't always fix it); sometimes completely turning off machine and power for a while would clear the problem (but not always); sometimes doing something random like plugging in a second monitor will clear the issue. Infuriatingly hard to diagnose by pattern analysis of what works when. My gut is something in motherboard memory/prefs gets confused and kicks out this error, and how to clear it is 'jumping' something inadvertently. (My gut should not be trusted, I've no idea what the underlying issue is).
Anyway right now temporarily stable and repeatable decent performance if I don't change anything - but it's not where I want it to be.
I'm considering upgrading the bios from v5 to 6(something), and also a nuke-and-redo of the clover installation (or possibly OpenCore from scratch), as clearly there's something in the clover/configs that's not quite right (and my installation and EFI may be a bit of a mess by now).
This less a beg for help than a bit of a rant about the process and my own mistakes (at times interesting, I am learning quite a bit), but if anyone has a clue on the "Error allocating 0x11996 pages", hints would be appreciated.
