[GUIDE] macOS Catalina on ASRock DeskMini 310 with 9th Gen Intel Core CPU, Dual-Boot

[EDL]

10.15.6 was the most flawless update ever - on my side (with OC 0.5.8) ... nice!

I probably try to test the framebuffer secondary monitor thing next days ... maybe something has changed again.

 

[Yaroslavl]

10.15.6 was the most flawless update ever - on my side (with OC 0.5.8) ... nice!

nice. can you give some instructions how to safely update to 10.15.6 ? i have 10.15.3 now and it works perfectly, so im a little bit scary to apply newest update...

 

[EDL]

nice. can you give some instructions how to safely update to 10.15.6 ? i have 10.15.3 now and it works perfectly, so im a little bit scary to apply newest update...

Are u using OpenCore? Then, just do it ...

I started using OC with 10.15.4: 10.15.5-update was a bit weird due to a lot of restarts, but in the end all was ok (except the secondary monitor thing / framebuffer changes). 10.15.6 was like on a Mac - 3 restarts and everything was fine.

 

[Yaroslavl]

no, im on clover

 

[Css13]

10.15.6 was the most flawless update ever - on my side (with OC 0.5.8) ... nice!

I probably try to test the framebuffer secondary monitor thing next days ... maybe something has changed again.

nice. can you give some instructions how to safely update to 10.15.6 ? i have 10.15.3 now and it works perfectly, so im a little bit scary to apply newest update...

Yes, it would be very useful if you could share it.
Thank you!

 

[Vladimirar9]

Hello. Please tell me if the image output works through the HDMI port or DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. I can't install the system in any way, the screen goes blank and just turns black.

 

[maui87]

Hey guys,

finally I got my OC up and running and even fixed my black screen problem at startup. Only one thing is left: at startup I have to replug my BT dongle to have a working BT connection. With clover I had this sometimes but now with OC everytime.
my BT Dongle is also Asus BT-400
Any hints? I tried brcmPatchRAM without success.

EDIT: Okay, easy fix. Only had to disable onboard BT in Bios. (There is no onboard connected)

 

[zweckmehl]

Wow! Thanks for this thread. I got a deskmini 310 with 32GB RAM, i7-9700, 1TB nvme and 2 x 2TB FireCuda HDs. I have an intel AX200 WIFI card, but this didn' work, so I left it out and used a ASUS BT-400 BT-Dongle, which works fine for BT. WIFI might get added later.

My deskmini is on the latest FW 4.40. I have another MacBook Pro from 2012, so I did the 1TB nvme in a external case, installed Catalina there and replaced the EFI with those from the first Post on this thread, replaced whatevergreen, lilu, AppleALC with there latest versions.

I put also a 512GB microSD card inside the reader on the motherboard, but it didn't get recognised?

Then I build in the catalina-nvme in my deskmini. Worked from the start including iMessages.

Only thing which didn't work is the APPLE App-Store, regardless how often I try to log in with my Apple ID credentials, it didn't work. Maybe someone can help with this. Do I really need an Apple-blessed WIFI-Card for this to work?

Any recommendations for me? Should I go OpenCore even if Clover works fine?

Thanks again for all who contributed to this thread.

 

[maui87]

I would definitely say OpenCore. It's more difficult to setup but worth it. Now with OC I have a completely working hacki with even BT, sleep and no more display issues

 

[zweckmehl]

Thanks @maui87 I may try this in the next couple of days. I first had to fix my AppStore Problem.

I just did:

cd /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
sudo rm preferences.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist*; sudo shutdown -r now

And all network interfaces were good and AppStore worked... Thanks for the tip!

This did solve the Problem for me, now I can login to the App Store and download my apps. So no need to add a WIFI-Card just for this.