[Guide] HP Envy Haswell series J/K/Q/N using Clover UEFI (10.11)

[Georgii14]

You can likely boot with your USB.

Otherwise, collect EFI/Clover from Linux, Windows, or by removing the HDD and connecting to a working computer.



No idea without the actual files.

Are there any boot-args that could help get me to the OS temporarily?

 

[RehabMan]

Are there any boot-args that could help get me to the OS temporarily?

You can try safe mode.

But you can (likely) boot using a USB prepared according to the guide.

 

[Georgii14]

You can try safe mode.

But you can (likely) boot using a USB prepared according to the guide.

Booting Mac OS X from Recovery worked.

 

[RehabMan]

Booting Mac OS X from Recovery worked.

Your config.plist has significant differences from the config.plist used by this guide.

The ACPI configuration looks ok though... And assuming your EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi is the same as CLOVER/CLOVERX64.EFI you probably have clover installed correctly.

Note: You do not need EmuVariableUefi-64.efi.

The kexts you have in EFI/Clover/kexts/Other is not according to the guide (and not that BrcmPatchRAM.kext does not work standalone, read the README for details).

You may have other issues with your system volume/kexts installed/etc. So you may need to do a fresh install (you can do a fresh install to a second partition as a test).

Enabling mouse support in Clover is a bad idea.

 

[MSamuel]

Download OS X from the Mac App Store. Prepare USB per guide. Do a fresh install.

Hello,

So I finally found a time to do a fresh install on separate ssd drive, although unfortunately I am getting the same issue with ableton and geekbench apps in a fresh system, but here are some of my findings and details which possibly may shed some light light on the problem :

1. So I downloaded original OS X (10.11) from Mac App Store and prepared USB drive according to the instructions in [Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover. And here I noted one interesting thing : according to the guide I installed Clover v3333 and used special config_HD4600_4400_4200.plist (which was certainly renamed to config.plist) but whenever I tried to boot from the USB drive, installer was booting with graphic glitches :


So then I tried different options (like booting verbose which was uninformative, booting w/o caches... etc) with no luck, but only using config_HD5300_5500_5600_6000.plist I was able to boot successfully without graphics issues and complete the installation. Here is my EFI/CLOVER content from the USB drive attached as "CLOVER_USB_2016-02-06.zip".

2. After the installation and when all the steps from current guide were done, after placing the config.plist from current (J) repo I am having short glitches during boot again :



This occurs every time approx in the middle of the boot and just for a short time, after that the system boots normally and working just fine.
Here is verbose mode output just before the glitch :




As was said above, after that the system boots normally and working stable.

3. Still the same problem with Ableton, it's crashes with exactly the same errors :

[FONT=Helvetica]Application Specific Information:[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica]*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x104f222e0'[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica]terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica]abort() called[/FONT]

Please ref ableton_crash_report.zip for detailed crash report.

Also Geekbench fails with the same error :

$ ./Geekbench\ 3 Geekbench\ 3 
2016-02-06 09:54:31.114 Geekbench 3[610:11334] Failed to connect (exportLicenseFileMenuItem) outlet from (PLMenuController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable
2016-02-06 09:54:31.114 Geekbench 3[610:11334] Failed to connect (installTerminalCommandMenuItem) outlet from (PLMenuController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable
2016-02-06 09:54:31.456 Geekbench 3[610:11334] -[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1007387b0
2016-02-06 09:54:31.467 Geekbench 3[610:11334] -[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1007387b0

Here is the other system info :

[FONT=Menlo]kextstat|grep -y acpiplat[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   13    2 0xffffff7f82495000 0x66000    0x66000    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (4.0) 3BE4E926-E063-3BBD-BE05-F6F97358C7A4 <12 11 7 6 5 4 3 1>[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kextstat|grep -y appleintelcpu[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]— no output[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kextstat|grep -y applelpc[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   79    0 0xffffff7f8212d000 0x3000     0x3000     com.apple.driver.AppleLPC (3.1) 32BDCF9F-0473-32D4-9DAE-F523EFB2D244 <73 12 5 4 3>[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kextstat|grep -y applehda[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]   84    1 0xffffff7f810d4000 0x1d000    0x1d000    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController (272.51.3) AC7816C9-DEF7-310A-B059-5852BF07A843 <83 82 68 12 7 6 5 4 3 1>[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]  107    0 0xffffff7f8125e000 0xb2000    0xb2000    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA (9272.50.31) 344D4A99-D22C-3E43-9699-82C1B7044CE2 <106 85 84 83 82 68 6 5 4 3 1>[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -u /[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]Password:[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext VoodooPS2Mouse.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext VoodooPS2Controller.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext USBInjectAll.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext RealtekRTL8111.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext IntelBacklight.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext FakeSMC.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext FakePCIID_Intel_HDMI_Audio.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext FakePCIID.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67030 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA2A for kext AppleHDA_IDT76e0_Envy.kext[/FONT]
[FONT=Menlo]kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext ACPIBatteryManager.kext[/FONT]

Sorry for such long update, but I would appreciate so much if you can help to troubleshoot this.
It very looks like a configuration issue.
Thank you very much!

 

[RehabMan]

installer was booting with graphic glitches :

You should enable legacy boot/CSM in BIOS as mentioned in post #1.

2. After the installation and when all the steps from current guide were done, after placing the config.plist from current (J) repo I am having short glitches during boot again :

You should enable legacy boot/CSM in BIOS as mentioned in post #1.

3. Still the same problem with Ableton, it's crashes with exactly the same errors :

No experience with this app. Probably app specific issue.

Also Geekbench fails with the same error :

$ ./Geekbench\ 3 Geekbench\ 3

GeekBench3 is an .app. Should be run as .app bundle from Finder, not Terminal.

 

[MSamuel]

You should enable legacy boot/CSM in BIOS as mentioned in post #1.

You should enable legacy boot/CSM in BIOS as mentioned in post #1.

No experience with this app. Probably app specific issue.

GeekBench3 is an .app. Should be run as .app bundle from Finder, not Terminal.

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I will try legacy install option as soon as I will have chance.

As for Ableton, it has eligible worldwide support (not for hackintosh of course), and it fully certified with 10.11, so this is definitely not the issue with the app itself.

As for Geekbench, sure, I also tried to launch the app from Finder (as .app bundle), results are exactly the same, the icon just appears in the dock and freezing, I also captured the same errors in Console (native log viewer app) :

07.02.16 12:18:48,085 Geekbench 3[6531]: Failed to connect (exportLicenseFileMenuItem) outlet from (PLMenuController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable
07.02.16 12:18:48,085 Geekbench 3[6531]: Failed to connect (installTerminalCommandMenuItem) outlet from (PLMenuController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable
07.02.16 12:18:48,275 Geekbench 3[6531]: -[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10ad20c90
07.02.16 12:18:48,275 Geekbench 3[6531]: -[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10ad20c90

screenshot attached.

So, as I already mentioned in my previous updates, many forums states that this issue is most likely related to the graphics card issue, which I feel in my case indirectly confirmed by the fact that graphic patches in config_HD4600_4400_4200.plist did not work for me, but config_HD5300_5500_5600_6000.plist worked just fine.

I know that this is mostlikely the issue with my machine only or with my installation, so I am really sorry for wasting your time.

It would be also interesting to know if other guys following this instructions have any issues running Geekbench on 10.11.

In any case, Thank You very much for your time and advices!!!!

 

[gfoury]

07.02.16 12:18:48,085 Geekbench 3[6531]: Failed to connect (exportLicenseFileMenuItem) outlet from (PLMenuController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable
07.02.16 12:18:48,085 Geekbench 3[6531]: Failed to connect (installTerminalCommandMenuItem) outlet from (PLMenuController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable

I get exactly those two lines in my working copy. (It's the version purchased from Steam, since I am an idiot.)

I don't get the following in logs, though:

07.02.16 12:18:48,275 Geekbench 3[6531]: -[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10ad20c90
07.02.16 12:18:48,275 Geekbench 3[6531]: -[__NSCFString bytes]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10ad20c90

If you're desperate, one debugging tool I've found useful for crashes in trusted code is

sudo dtruss -f './Geekbench\ 3.app/Contents/MacOS/Geekbench\ 3'

which traces all the system calls made by the process and its children. Sometimes, you'll see something right before the crash, like opening the system keychain. That happened to me, and it was a corrupt keychain file. Another thing I've seen happen is a program examining network interfaces; if you don't have a "builtin" network, license management software can get unhappy. Does the iTunes Store work for you?

If the real problem is a corrupted system foundation file, none of this is going to help. My next debugging suggestion would be "Run the OS X Installer again on your existing disk, to refresh the OS files"...

 

[RehabMan]

I will try legacy install option as soon as I will have chance.

No. This guide uses UEFI.

As for Ableton, it has eligible worldwide support (not for hackintosh of course), and it fully certified with 10.11, so this is definitely not the issue with the app itself.

No experience with it. For you to research.

As for Geekbench, sure, I also tried to launch the app from Finder (as .app bundle), results are exactly the same, the icon just appears in the dock and freezing, I also captured the same errors in Console (native log viewer app) :

No other reports of problems with GeekBench. It seems to be a problem only you have...

So, as I already mentioned in my previous updates, many forums states that this issue is most likely related to the graphics card issue, which I feel in my case indirectly confirmed by the fact that graphic patches in config_HD4600_4400_4200.plist did not work for me, but config_HD5300_5500_5600_6000.plist worked just fine.

The guide works when you follow it as written. You should read carefully.

 

[RehabMan]

I get exactly those two lines in my working copy. (It's the version purchased from Steam, since I am an idiot.)

GeekBench 3 is free (32-bit). No need for 64-bit version. And I have no idea what it means to "purchase from Steam". Sounds like a scam.

If the real problem is a corrupted system foundation file, none of this is going to help. My next debugging suggestion would be "Run the OS X Installer again on your existing disk, to refresh the OS files"...

Or... do a complete fresh install (erase the target partition) according to the guide in post #1...