<< Solved >> HP Z440 High Sierra doesn't start installer

[OSXplorer]

Hi

Trying to be short here...

I had a working installation from approx. a year ago from Unibeast with Clover 4428. Some random halts during startup, but mostly ok. No backups, and I updated Clover, after which my system doesn't start. I've tried fiddling with Clover, and now OpenCore 0.6.4 for approx. a week pretty much all time I could spare. This has taken too much of my winter holidays .

Following the OC installation guide as pedantically as I could, the install halts with the following:

66:961 00:865 OCSMC: SmcReadValue Key 4D535463 Size 1
67:014 00:052 OCSMC: SmcReadValue Key 4D534163 Size 2
67:075 00:060 OCABC: MMIO devirt start
67:127 00:052 OCABC: MMIO devirt 0xD0000000 (0x10000 pages, 0x8000000000000000) skip 0
67:180 00:052 OCABC: MMIO devirt 0xFED1C000 (0x4 pages, 0x8000000000000001) skip 1
67:242 00:061 OCABC: MMIO devirt end, saved 262144 KB

Last bug I found from my config was to force a specific slide, after which the boot didn't halt to the MscReadValue Key ... 2.

I'm trying to get the OS booting my GTX 1070 in VESA mode, and I'll focus on the web drivers when the system otherwise boots up.

Specs are:
HP Z440 - C612 chipset - M60 v2.43, 06/12/2020 - OpenCore 0.6.4
CPU E5-2680 v3 (Hashwell-EP) - 12 cores - 2.5 GHz
GFX: Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti

I know nvidia is troublesome, however as the system worked for a year quite well, I'm sure it's possible to re-install somehow.

BIOS setup as images in separate zip file.

I would like to get OC working, however I don't mind Clover install either. I would assume an Unibeast with 4428 Clover might do the trick as it worked previously. How to change the clover version in unibeast is however beyond my skills.

EFI.zip includes also my memmap.txt from OpenShell, as well as three debug logs, where I've tried the MmioWhitelist, to which I could've used more information from the install guide page.

All tips and hints are most welcome!

Happy holidays to all!

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hi

Trying to be short here...

I had a working installation from approx. a year ago from Unibeast with Clover 4428. Some random halts during startup, but mostly ok. No backups, and I updated Clover, after which my system doesn't start. I've tried fiddling with Clover, and now OpenCore 0.6.4 for approx. a week pretty much all time I could spare. This has taken too much of my winter holidays .

Following the OC installation guide as pedantically as I could, the install halts with the following:

66:961 00:865 OCSMC: SmcReadValue Key 4D535463 Size 1
67:014 00:052 OCSMC: SmcReadValue Key 4D534163 Size 2
67:075 00:060 OCABC: MMIO devirt start
67:127 00:052 OCABC: MMIO devirt 0xD0000000 (0x10000 pages, 0x8000000000000000) skip 0
67:180 00:052 OCABC: MMIO devirt 0xFED1C000 (0x4 pages, 0x8000000000000001) skip 1
67:242 00:061 OCABC: MMIO devirt end, saved 262144 KB

Last bug I found from my config was to force a specific slide, after which the boot didn't halt to the MscReadValue Key ... 2.

I'm trying to get the OS booting my GTX 1070 in VESA mode, and I'll focus on the web drivers when the system otherwise boots up.

Specs are:
HP Z440 - C612 chipset - M60 v2.43, 06/12/2020 - OpenCore 0.6.4
CPU E5-2680 v3 (Hashwell-EP) - 12 cores - 2.5 GHz
GFX: Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti

I know nvidia is troublesome, however as the system worked for a year quite well, I'm sure it's possible to re-install somehow.

BIOS setup as images in separate zip file.

I would like to get OC working, however I don't mind Clover install either. I would assume an Unibeast with 4428 Clover might do the trick as it worked previously. How to change the clover version in unibeast is however beyond my skills.

EFI.zip includes also my memmap.txt from OpenShell, as well as three debug logs, where I've tried the MmioWhitelist, to which I could've used more information from the install guide page.

All tips and hints are most welcome!

Happy holidays to all!

Since you seem to me to want to keep the GTX 1070 Ti, it is clear you don't plan on moving beyond High Sierra. In such a case there will be no need to upgrade Clover or move to OpenCore. Clover 4428 should be enough for you.

Personally I believe the only situation which necessitates a Clover upgrade or bootloader change is an OS upgrade (e.g. when you want to move to Mojave or Catalina). But since you are keeping the 1070 Ti, you can't upgrade the OS without rendering the card useless.

Did you keep the USB stick from the time when you were able to install High Sierra on your system?

 

[OSXplorer]

Since you seem to me to want to keep the GTX 1070 Ti, it is clear you don't plan on moving beyond High Sierra. In such a case there will be no need to upgrade Clover or move to OpenCore. Clover 4428 should be enough for you.

Personally I believe the only situation which necessitates a Clover upgrade or bootloader change is an OS upgrade (e.g. when you want to move to Mojave or Catalina). But since you are keeping the 1070 Ti, you can't upgrade the OS without rendering the card useless.

Did you keep the USB stick from the time when you were able to install High Sierra on your system?

Thanks for your input!

You are right, I'm planning to stick with the 1070 and High Sierra.

Unfortunately I fiddled with the USB stick and don't have any backup of the boot files that worked .

I found the Unibeast with CLover 4428 from the archives, and trying to get that working now. Stuck to end of random seed ++++++++++ with reboot. I've already tried multiple aptiomemfixes without any success.

 

[OSXplorer]

BIOS update had some E5 microcode updates, and now my machine boots forward. It's now stuck to

AMFILoadTrustedKeysFromNVRam: failed getting NVRAM
using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers

Journey continues...

 

[OSXplorer]

Got my system working today.

There was an update to BIOS that had fixes to Xeon microcode support. I had one BIOS update before the system broke, and I'm suspecting the previous version didn't work properly.

I followed these instructions to the letter at first:

GitHub - Nosskirneh/Hackintosh-HP-Z440-macOS-High-Sierra-10.13: Tips on how to install Hackintosh macOS High Sierra (10.13) with a HP Z440 Workstation

Tips on how to install Hackintosh macOS High Sierra (10.13) with a HP Z440 Workstation - Nosskirneh/Hackintosh-HP-Z440-macOS-High-Sierra-10.13

github.com

As I was unable to boot into installer, I did the patching with Airbook, copied my machine DSDT.aml into the ACPI/patched, disassembled and built without modifications according to the guide here:

[Guide] Patching LAPTOP DSDT/SSDTs

Overview In order to make many OS X features work well on a laptop, you will always need a properly patched DSDT (and maybe some of the SSDTs). The purpose of this guide is to provide a foundation for proper patching of your OEM DSDT/SSDTs. Advanced users may wish to implement hotpatching via...

www.tonymacx86.com

Then I had to cut off internet and change time/date so that High Sierra didn't complain about resources.

Got apps downloading by logging in and out from app store.

So far so good (keeping my fingers crossed)!