- Joined
- Nov 2, 2018
- Messages
- 276
- Motherboard
- HP 8300, MacMini6,1
- CPU
- i5-3570K, i5-3470, i5-3210, G5
- Graphics
- RX570, RX560, GT730K, HD4000
- Mac
- Classic Mac
Sniki,
Thanks again for all your good work here.
I wanted to report that I bought another 8300 with an i5-3570, and mostly followed
your guide for installing Mojave rather than upgrading from High Sierra. I did not use
your config.plist or Rehabman's build of Clover but used Clover 4813, AppleALC 1.3.4,
Lilu 1.3.1, and WhateverGreen 1.2.6. I'm using another MSI low-profile RX 560 for graphics,
and upgraded the BIOS to 3.07.
Before I installed Mojave, I installed Windows 7 64-bit from HP Support, which they provided
on a 32 MB USB stick. I installed all 153 Windows updates, removed all of the HP Protect software,
and created a Windows 10 USB installer using the Media Creation Tool. I then disabled Legacy
ROMS, detached the Windows 7 HD, and installed Windows 10 on a 256 MB HP SSD. Windows
10 activated using the Windows 7 Product Key that came on the 8300's COA. I then detached
the HP SSD and installed Mojave on a Mushkin 240 GB SSD.
The first installer I prepared would cause a kernel panic on booting, but booted slowly in verbose mode.
I was able to complete the installation by rebooting the installer each time in verbose mode.
After everything was working, I modified the installer USB by removing all the kexts in EFI/Clover/other
except for Fake_SMC.kext. Booting from the installer no longer panics and works it OK in graphics mode.
In my installed Clover and Mojave, I followed the same strategy of only installing Fake_SMC in
Clover/kexts/other and installed all kexts in /L/E/.
With regard to the config.plist, your config.plist has device/properties for AAPL,ig-platform-id that don't
seem right for my disabled HD 2500 graphics, so I deleted that section, and for the ALC 221, you
have codec-id <2102ec10> which I think is right, but you have device-id <20e10000> which I think
should be <201e0000>. Originally, I was able to get full ALC functionality with your ssdt.aml, codec
commander, and merely injecting 11 in Clover. I've now removed the Clover injecton setting, and
switched over to Devices/Properties for the codec, using your codec-id, the modified device-id, and
layout-id <0b000000>. Internal and HDMI audio are working fine.
I've read about others here having trouble getting to the installer and having slow-boots, and I'm wondering
if your device properties are universal and/or correct for the device-id of the codec.
In any case, it is working well now and many thanks. I've run benchmarks and can see a small improvement
in the Geekbench scores corresponding to the faster i5-3570. Your installation also purports to provide
a working recovery volume but I haven't tested it yet. Do I need to install extra kexts for the recovery to work
properly?
Lisa
Thanks again for all your good work here.
I wanted to report that I bought another 8300 with an i5-3570, and mostly followed
your guide for installing Mojave rather than upgrading from High Sierra. I did not use
your config.plist or Rehabman's build of Clover but used Clover 4813, AppleALC 1.3.4,
Lilu 1.3.1, and WhateverGreen 1.2.6. I'm using another MSI low-profile RX 560 for graphics,
and upgraded the BIOS to 3.07.
Before I installed Mojave, I installed Windows 7 64-bit from HP Support, which they provided
on a 32 MB USB stick. I installed all 153 Windows updates, removed all of the HP Protect software,
and created a Windows 10 USB installer using the Media Creation Tool. I then disabled Legacy
ROMS, detached the Windows 7 HD, and installed Windows 10 on a 256 MB HP SSD. Windows
10 activated using the Windows 7 Product Key that came on the 8300's COA. I then detached
the HP SSD and installed Mojave on a Mushkin 240 GB SSD.
The first installer I prepared would cause a kernel panic on booting, but booted slowly in verbose mode.
I was able to complete the installation by rebooting the installer each time in verbose mode.
After everything was working, I modified the installer USB by removing all the kexts in EFI/Clover/other
except for Fake_SMC.kext. Booting from the installer no longer panics and works it OK in graphics mode.
In my installed Clover and Mojave, I followed the same strategy of only installing Fake_SMC in
Clover/kexts/other and installed all kexts in /L/E/.
With regard to the config.plist, your config.plist has device/properties for AAPL,ig-platform-id that don't
seem right for my disabled HD 2500 graphics, so I deleted that section, and for the ALC 221, you
have codec-id <2102ec10> which I think is right, but you have device-id <20e10000> which I think
should be <201e0000>. Originally, I was able to get full ALC functionality with your ssdt.aml, codec
commander, and merely injecting 11 in Clover. I've now removed the Clover injecton setting, and
switched over to Devices/Properties for the codec, using your codec-id, the modified device-id, and
layout-id <0b000000>. Internal and HDMI audio are working fine.
I've read about others here having trouble getting to the installer and having slow-boots, and I'm wondering
if your device properties are universal and/or correct for the device-id of the codec.
In any case, it is working well now and many thanks. I've run benchmarks and can see a small improvement
in the Geekbench scores corresponding to the faster i5-3570. Your installation also purports to provide
a working recovery volume but I haven't tested it yet. Do I need to install extra kexts for the recovery to work
properly?
Lisa