[Guide] Lenovo Z50-70/Z40-70/G50-70/G40-70 using Clover UEFI

[Feartech]

Great guide. Not only was able to get everything up and running, but I also could successfully to macOS Catalina. Just one small issue though. Pressing cmd+P doesn't seem to input anything. Pressing cmd will all the other keys works. I wonder what might be causing this issue....

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[mrugeshtank]

I tried as displayed in post #251.
But after updating to catalina I'm not able to use USB mouse or trackpad.
So I am not able to login to my account.

Can someone tell what I'm missing?

 

[yllapilate]

On Mojave (10.14.6) I'm having a strange and intermittent issue where the control key "sticks" and I can't figure out how to unstick it on my z50-70 without a reboot. I have seemed to be able to slam various keys (not turning the keyboard on and off) randomly and get control to be "unstuck" again, but it's a complete unknown right now since all systematic attempts to isolate what might be causing this have failed so far.

Any ideas?

 

[Smexhy]

Trying to clean install on the new SSD with freshly created USB bootable through UniBeans, however when I am trying to boot into installation it’s stucked at the end of the progress bar with apple logo, waited like 1 hour with no luck. Which clover options could help and how your installation went guys?

In unibeast I used UEFI option when creating bootable USB.
Followed all required BIOS settings here on the forum.

 

[Feartech]

Trying to clean install on the new SSD with freshly created USB bootable through UniBeans, however when I am trying to boot into installation it’s stucked at the end of the progress bar with apple logo, waited like 1 hour with no luck. Which clover options could help and how your installation went guys?

In unibeast I used UEFI option when creating bootable USB.
Followed all required BIOS settings here on the forum.

post 1 doesn't mention to use unibeast (unibeast is mainly for desktops)

 

[Smexhy]

post 1 doesn't mention to use unibeast (unibeast is mainly for desktops)

Thank you, I followed this guide as it’s linked in #1 (+ made necessary changes that are mentioned in first post, used MBR method and createinstallmedia approach as suggested) https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...40-70-g50-70-g40-70-using-clover-uefi.261787/

I had no issues, I can even boot to clover, but there is nothing to install.

Just the clover menu. I really think I followed everything correctly, read through it all but I had to miss something perhaps? Is there anything that comes to yours mind?

Here is how my file structure looks like:

Downloaded freshly and latest version of MacOS Catalina and Clover.

 

[Feartech]

Thank you, I followed this guide as it’s linked in #1 (+ made necessary changes that are mentioned in first post, used MBR method and createinstallmedia approach as suggested) https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...40-70-g50-70-g40-70-using-clover-uefi.261787/

I had no issues, I can even boot to clover, but there is nothing to install.

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Just the clover menu. I really think I followed everything correctly, read through it all but I had to miss something perhaps? Is there anything that comes to yours mind?

Here is how my file structure looks like:

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Downloaded freshly and latest version of MacOS Catalina and Clover.

Finally, we need one EFI driver not included in the Clover installer, HFSPlus.efi:
- it can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/JrCs/CloverGrowerPro/raw/master/Files/HFSPlus/X64/HFSPlus.efi
- copy it to /EFI/Clover/drivers/UEFI

Note: Please, DO NOT forget HFSPlus.efi. Without it, you won't see any HFS+ partitions, including the HFS+ partition that the OS X installer is on.

 

[Smexhy]

Finally, we need one EFI driver not included in the Clover installer, HFSPlus.efi:
- it can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/JrCs/CloverGrowerPro/raw/master/Files/HFSPlus/X64/HFSPlus.efi
- copy it to /EFI/Clover/drivers/UEFI

Note: Please, DO NOT forget HFSPlus.efi. Without it, you won't see any HFS+ partitions, including the HFS+ partition that the OS X installer is on.

Thank you! I totally thought I don't need it because I read under that that if I am installing on SSD there is this new APFS but now I get it how stupid I am. Thanks again, hope everything will go as planned now!

 

[Feartech]

Thank you! I totally thought I don't need it because I read under that that if I am installing on SSD there is this new APFS but now I get it how stupid I am. Thanks again, hope everything will go as planned now!

the APFS one will read apfs formatted drives, the HFSPlus will be able to read the usb installer

 

[Smexhy]

the APFS one will read apfs formatted drives, the HFSPlus will be able to read the usb installer

At the phase 2 I have this problem. When choosing the boot option “Boot macOS Install from ..." entry in verbose there are only ++++++ at the top.

In the guide there is mentioned: “For 10.12, boot that entry instead of install_osx on the USB.” Does this mesn ONLY for 10.12 or 10.12 and HIGHER?

EDIT: Tried both options, but after that phase 1 restart, neither of them are booting as there are only +++++++ and it stops. First time it booted just fine to the installer so I am not sure what to do nor what is causing it. I am using config.plist from the repo from post #1 which was labeled as “config_install.plist” which I renamed properly just to “config.plist” and placed in my clover on USB.

Even when using config from rehab for my hd4400 it was stucked like on multibeast.