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[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

Leesureone said:
Sorry for the late response, I wasn't getting notifications of new postings. When you say you flashed the Thunderbolt controller and that may be the issue are you able can to flash it back?
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Thanks @Leesureone
I will try to flash it back this weekend.
I think something changed with 11.3, have you had the chance to try it with your nuc8? do you notice any different thunderbolt's behavior with your unflashed unit?
 
Leesureone said:
Headless means using a dedicated dGPU for display and the iGPU for computations only. How are you doing that on an NUC or am I missing something?
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@Leesureone

I have no idea. It is an NUC8I7, Mojave 14.6, Screen & File share on and the HDMI and USb-C are empty, only Ethernet and Usb-HD. Is Clover, based on one of your versions from ± 1.5 year ago. No recollection what or how was changed, but it works.

See attached Clover folder and screenshot Lib/Ext. Maybe you can unravel this mystery/fluke.
TIA
 

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vicantu said:
Thanks @Leesureone
I will try to flash it back this weekend.
I think something changed with 11.3, have you had the chance to try it with your nuc8? do you notice any different thunderbolt's behavior with your unflashed unit?
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Yes I updated and it’s behaves the same, there are other users reporting issues with their USB configuration after updating but from what I’ve read it wasn’t set up properly to begin with.
 
H786vv9Zq7 said:
@Leesureone

I have no idea. It is an NUC8I7, Mojave 14.6, Screen & File share on and the HDMI and USb-C are empty, only Ethernet and Usb-HD. Is Clover, based on one of your versions from ± 1.5 year ago. No recollection what or how was changed, but it works.

See attached Clover folder and screenshot Lib/Ext. Maybe you can unravel this mystery/fluke.
TIA
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I think it’s possible you are confused. You can’t run headless with an NUC, you wouldn’t have a display, no graphics output. The one exception would be if you had an external graphics card working via thunderbolt.
 
@Leesureone

I've found a hardware workaround. Nuc8I7, OC6.8 and a HDMI to VGA converter (but not connected to a display). The NUC boots correctly and can be controlled through screen sharing without the NUC itself being connected to keyboard, mouse or display. My problem solved, thank you again for the much appreciated EFI's and advice!

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@kaemale the kext works but not very well. Caveats I found:

- If you boot with an SD card inserted macOS will kernel panic
- Read/write speeds are pretty slow (writes for me were around 10MB/sec or less). For my use case performance wasn't good enough

I don't bother with this kext and use Windows to write to SD cards instead. USB based card readers are another good option.
 
Hi @spottsy so were you able to get macOS Big Sur working on your Intel NUC Bean Canyon? I have the same Intel NUC and I am looking at turning that into a Hackintosh too.

I tried going through the last 2-3 pages of this thread but I can't find anywhere where you specified what you used for a fresh install.

Could you please point me in the right direction if I wanted to get a fresh install of macOS Big Sur?
I don't need to dual boot with Windows but if that's necessary, I can do that too.

Thank you.
 
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Wechikoma said:
Hi @spottsy so were you able to get macOS Big Sur working on your Intel NUC Bean Canyon? I have the same Intel NUC and I am looking at turning that into a Hackintosh too.

I tried going through the last 2-3 pages of this thread but I can't find anywhere where you specified what you used for a fresh install.

Could you please point me in the right direction if I wanted to get a fresh install of macOS Big Sur?
I don't need to dual boot with Windows but if that's necessary, I can do that too.

Thank you.
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See page 90 of this thread for more information as well as here #4,094
 
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