I'll be out of class ~4PM East Coast time, I'll go ahead and do a full reinstall on my system on a spare drive. From what I can tell, the issues with Clover having memory errors are fixable (which is the only reason I'm booting with Chimera) and with Clover, I should be fine to install 10.10.5 (currently running 10.10.4 due to a FileNVRAM.kext bug in 10.10.5 which causes a system halt.)
Hopefully, I'll be able to boot the system WITH clover despite my full rack of PCIe devices and forego a kernel patch. I'll report back with my findings.
-IC
EDIT: (9/25)
I can confirm that a 10.10.5 Clover Installer boots up on my GA-X99-UD4 system with an i7-5820K as long as I use the "Test2.efi" provided by Nick Woodhams (
LINK). A kernel patch was NOT required. However, I did not do an install. I am in the process of cloning over my working install (which is on an MBR drive as I am booting with Chimera) over to a GPT hard drive, and running the 10.10.5 combo update (I'm still on 10.10.4.) I'll then forward over the Clover settings from my Install USB and look for a start up. Will update this post.
\\ Clone/Update successful. Trying a test boot now.
// It worked perfectly. Even booted with the default Clover config.plist from the official guide, all I had to do was add npci=0x2000 to it. I'm going to clean up my Clover settings and clone back over to my SSD. I would like to emphasize that I am booting WITHOUT a kernel patch. This is the NATIVE kernel for 10.10.5.
\\ Cloning back to my SSD. I've opted to inject all the kexts I can, rather than keeping them in S/L/E.
// Clone successful. The system is incredible, no more permissions issues or slow start up like I had with Chimera on occasion.
\\ Spoke too soon. It appears that the "Test2.efi" does not work anymore. I had to remove several PCIe devices (my Blackmagic Intensity Pro and an eSATA card) in order to boot up. Also, Clover hangs at boot when I disable XHCI in the BIOS, which as many X99 users know, messes with our illusion of makeshift power management. It's taken my Multi Core down to just above 16K from almost 20K.
// I have now deleted the "Test2.efi" and have booted successfully. Next, I am going to try to disable XHCI in the BIOS. Here we go...
\\ Still cannot boot without XHCI
enabled which is no fun for speedstep, etc. Anyone experienced this?