Hello guys, I have successfully installed macOS using Leesureone Open Core EFI.
Big thank you Lee!
Also another
big thank you to Rehabman for making this possible!
My adventure was that I used one of Lee's EFIs from pg90 and after trying every one including the Clover version, only OpenCore 6.8 version works for me.
I have the NUC8 i7BEH with 1 x 16GB Crucial ram. SATA ssd 1TB from Crucial MX500. Firmware was updated to the latest BE0088.bio and after reading so many threads, I was worried that only older bios like v51 and v71 would work. But luckily OC6.8 works on v88 firmware for me.
I'm just doing simple stuffs on this NUC, mainly surfing web, watch youtubes and also email. Didn't register any UUID and serial number (it's a huge hassle doing that), as I don't use any Airdrop or iMessage, etc The NUC will be always on when I'm using it, so didn't test any sleep or hibernate function as well.
Understand that this belongs to Mojave forum, but since this is a major thread for NUC, I'll post my experience here.
I created Catalina boot disk instead of Mojave. Installed Catalina and then successfully updated to Big Sur afterwards via Apple auto update. Using the OC 6.8 for both and no problems at all. USB-c works well, but I have no TB3 devices to test further.
Some things are not quite working:
1) Using SATA ssd, there's no TRIM enabled. And cannot be enabled with Terminal commands.
2) I connect my UHD TV as a monitor and both Cat and BS only max out at 30Hz refresh rate. No higher.
3) Bluetooth is working and it is always ON. I paired my headphones and it works really well. Just cannot off it.
4) The audio for the TV via HDMI is max and there's no control. The vol bar is grayed out.
5) The wifi is not working, but I understand that. I'm using LAN for this NUC so no problem.
6) Didn't test phone jack as I don't use it for wired earphones purpose.
If anyone has any tips to improve further, I'd like to thank you in advance.
Dual booting with win10 (on NVMe) and win10 has refresh rate of 60Hz. So the hardware is capable of doing better.
Now time to go install some apps for more functionalities.