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[Guide] MSI GP72 2QE Leopard Pro (or similar) High Sierra 10.13.4 (Broadwell)

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MrMarnic

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Motherboard
MSI Gp72
CPU
i7 5700HQ
Graphics
Hd 5600
Mac
  1. MacBook
Mobile Phone
  1. iOS
MSI GP72 2QE Leopard Pro
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Overview:
This guide discribes how to install High Sierra on a MSI GP72 2QE Leopard Pro on UEFI with CSM.
This guide works for Dual-booting.

Summary:
  • What does not work
  • Not tested
  • Requirement
  • USB Creation
  • BIOS Settings
  • Installing MacOs
  • Post Installation
  • The End

What does not work:​
  • WLAN (USB Wlan Adapter or exchange Card)
  • Webcam
  • Cardreader
  • Gtx 950M (must be disabled)
Not tested:
  • Internet with Lan

Requirement:​
  • MSI GP72 2QE Leopard Pro or similar
  • Newest BIOS (E1793IMS.10F)
  • USB Stick (at least 8GB)
  • MacOs X Running Environment
  • High Sierra Installation App already downloaded
Installation:
USB Creation:
  • Insert USB into Mac and erase Disk with Disk Utility with MacOs Extended Journaled and GPT Partition Map
  • Download Clover EFI Boot Loader latest version
  • Run Clover Boot Loader
  • Change Install Location to your stick
  • Click on customize
  • Tick Install for UEFI booting only
  • Select BGM Theme
  • In Drivers64UEFI select OsxAptioFixDrv-64
  • Click on Install
  • Download Clover Cofigurator
  • Mount EFI from Stick with CC
  • Open partition and go to EFI/Clover/kexts
  • Delete all other folders than Other
  • Go to folder Other
  • Download lates version of FakeSMC and put the FakeSMC.kext in to the folder
  • Download lates version of Voodoo-PS2-Conroller and put it also there
  • Go back to Clover folder and delete config.plist
  • Download predefined config of Intel HD 5600 from here (config_HD5600.plist)
  • Put file into Clover folder and rename it to config.plist
  • Open drivers64UEFI
  • Download HFSPlus.efi and put it in the folder
  • If installing on an SSD you should also include apfs.efi
  • You can find apfs.efi at /usr/standalone/i386/apfs.efi inside of "/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg".
  • Open terminal
  • Type in sudo "/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume /Volumes/install_osx --nointeraction
  • Change install_osx to the name of your stick for example USB
  • If the stick name has a blank put in quotation marks for example /Volumes/"My USB"
  • Press enter and wait until installation has finished
  • Eject USB Stick

BIOS Settings:
  • Enter BIOS on MSI Boot Screen with Delete Key
  • Go to Boot and select Boot mode UEFI with CSM
  • Disable Fast Boot
  • Go to Security and Secure Boot menu
  • Disable Secure Boot
  • Go to advanced and USB Configuration and enable XHCI and EHCI Hand-off
  • Show secrete settings with Left Alt + Right Control + Right Shift + F2
  • This is needed because you can only boot to MacOs with Graphics Acceleration and without Kernel Panic with DVTM Preallocated higher than 48MB (at least 64MB)
  • Go to Advanced and System Agent Configuration and disable VT-d for installer booting
  • Go to Advanced and System Agent Configuration and Graphics Configuartion and set DVTM Pre-Allocated to 128MB (at least 64MB)
  • Save changes and exit
Installing MaoOs:
  • Press F11 on MSI Boot Screen and select your stick
  • Now the installer will boot and a countdown should come which counts down until the installer on your USB stick will be loaded (In case of no count down select your USB stick and press enter)
  • To install MacOs High Sierra you must format your drive with Disk Utility to MacOs Extended with GPT partition map you can call it MacOs
  • Choose MacOs (or what ever name you have chosen) as installation disk
  • Don't worry the computer will restart a few times
  • After installation has finished boot again with with your stick but this time select your hard drive with MacOs installed as booting disk
  • You now should be in MacOs High Sierra
Post Installation:
  • If you don't have internet access at the moment download the files needed in this step on an other computer and transfer it with an stick to this one
  • You need Clover EFI Boot-loader and Clover Configurator again
  • Download MultiBeast
  • Download ACPI-Battery-Driver lates version
  • Run Clover Boot loader
  • Change Install Location to your MacOs disk
  • Click on "customize"
  • Tick "install for UEFI booting only"
  • Select "BGM" Theme
  • Select "Install RC scripts on target volume"
  • In Drivers64UEFI select OsxAptioFixDrv-64
  • Click on "Install"
  • Open Clover Configurator and mount EFI partition of your MacOs hard drive
  • Click on "Open Partition"
  • Go to folder EFI/Clover/kexts and delete all folder expect Other
  • Put the kexts from your usb stick in this folder
  • Also put the ACPI-Battery-Driver kext in there
  • Open EFI/Clover/drivers64UEFI and put apfs.efi and HFSPlus.efi from your usb stick in there
  • Replace the config.plist of your hard drive with the other one on your stick
  • Eject the USB stick
  • Open the config.plist on your hard drive with Clover Configurator
  • Go to Acpi and tick "FixShutdown" on fixes
  • Go to the Boot section and put in the Default Boot Volume the name of your hard drive
  • At timeout you can select how long the countdown will take
  • Go to device sections and under Audio set Inject to 1
  • Save file with "File-) Save"
  • Close Clover Configurator completely
  • Open Multi Beast
  • Go to Drivers and than to Audio
  • Open Universal and select the latest VoodHDA kext (mine now v2. 9.0d10)
  • Click on Build and than on Install
  • Restart Computer
  • Open Audio settings and set Speaker(Analog) as speaker
  • Set Microphone (Digital) as Input device
End:
This was the guide for installing MacOs High Sierra. I hope you enjoyed it and I could help you.
If there are any questions post them down in the comment section



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Hi, thanks for this guide! My problem was the hardware acceleration with the gpu, but with the trick in BIOS it works. But I had to select Intel GPU in BIOS to boot the installation, it was never happen.
For the ethernet I used AtherosE2200Ethernet v2.2.2, for the audio you said "Go to device sections and under Audio set Inject to 1", I typed 1 but it wasn't working. With "Detect" options it works, but there isn't audio when I connect the notebook with HDMI. Another little problem is the gamepad, I play in cloud with GeForce Now and the software sees it, but when I press the button in the gamepad nothing happens. Siri, iMessage and Facetime didn't works but it's ok, I don't use it.
I updated to Mojave like a normal Mac with App Store, the new version works out-of-the-box but I had to reinstall VooDooHDA.

And that is all, thanks again
 
ghish said:
Hi, thanks for this guide! My problem was the hardware acceleration with the gpu, but with the trick in BIOS it works. But I had to select Intel GPU in BIOS to boot the installation, it was never happen.
For the ethernet I used AtherosE2200Ethernet v2.2.2, for the audio you said "Go to device sections and under Audio set Inject to 1", I typed 1 but it wasn't working. With "Detect" options it works, but there isn't audio when I connect the notebook with HDMI. Another little problem is the gamepad, I play in cloud with GeForce Now and the software sees it, but when I press the button in the gamepad nothing happens. Siri, iMessage and Facetime didn't works but it's ok, I don't use it.
I updated to Mojave like a normal Mac with App Store, the new version works out-of-the-box but I had to reinstall VooDooHDA.

And that is all, thanks again
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Thanks for your reply.
In the meantime I reinstalled my system and I will update the guide in the next week so that you can use iMessage/FaceTime/Siri
And I now use AppleAlc for sound and not clover
 
MrMarnic said:
I will update the guide
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Thank you! I never understood the things about DSDT, have we to do something about it? Is It for this that I have problems with the gamepad?
 
ghish said:
Thank you! I never understood the things about DSDT, have we to do something about it? Is It for this that I have problems with the gamepad?
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Yeah we must you DSDT to fix the brightness key of the Keyboard.
One question do you mean the touchpad or a controller with gamepad?
I will probably update it in this week.
 
MrMarnic said:
One question do you mean the touchpad or a controller with gamepad?
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I mean the USB gamepad, like PlayStation or Xbox gamepad. MacOS see it but when I test it with a tool and when I press buttons, the tool don't see nothing. Same with Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming.
 
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Hi :) So, no more update?
 
Kind of. At the moment I am making an guide for Mojave. I will post the link here. I promise it will come faster than the update on the High Sierra Guide. ;)
 
MrMarnic said:
Kind of. At the moment I am making an guide for Mojave. I will post the link here. I promise it will come faster than the update on the High Sierra Guide. ;)
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Thank you! :thumbup:
 
I am sorry to disappoint you. But I dont‘t know if I will ever make an updated guide. I’m trying it but I cannot promise anything. Sorry
 
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