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- Jan 4, 2015
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Designare Z390
- CPU
- i7-9700K
- Graphics
- RX 560
- Mac
Finally got one of these, XPS 8930 with an i7 8700. I’ve tried to update the 0.6.9 EFI to 0.8.3 using OCConfigCompare but ended with an USB stick unable to find my Mojave OS (simply cloned from an older machine).
Amazingly, using - as is - the OpenCore USB key I’ve made for my Optiplex 9020 (iMac14,1 SMBIOS) worked fine to boot my cloned Mojave.
A few mods later in the Config.plist, mainly SMBIOS related but also a couple of other things (ACPI, patches…) and it works fine.
A weird thing: modding the Booter and Kernel quirks following the Dortania Coffee Lake guide to the letter made the system unbootable! I’ve reverted the EFI to the Optiplex 9020 quirks…
My intent is to migrate all my Optiplex 9020 machine - all disks, etc… - to the XPS 8930, being sure that it runs Mojave fine. Then, I’ll update to Big Sur, the goal being staying not too far from the latest OS.
BTW, no CFG Lock variable found in this BIOS, verified with UEFITool after ROM extraction.
**Using a Radeon Pro WX5100 for this build.
Amazingly, using - as is - the OpenCore USB key I’ve made for my Optiplex 9020 (iMac14,1 SMBIOS) worked fine to boot my cloned Mojave.
A few mods later in the Config.plist, mainly SMBIOS related but also a couple of other things (ACPI, patches…) and it works fine.
A weird thing: modding the Booter and Kernel quirks following the Dortania Coffee Lake guide to the letter made the system unbootable! I’ve reverted the EFI to the Optiplex 9020 quirks…
My intent is to migrate all my Optiplex 9020 machine - all disks, etc… - to the XPS 8930, being sure that it runs Mojave fine. Then, I’ll update to Big Sur, the goal being staying not too far from the latest OS.
BTW, no CFG Lock variable found in this BIOS, verified with UEFITool after ROM extraction.
**Using a Radeon Pro WX5100 for this build.
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