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- Feb 5, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme
- CPU
- i7-3930K
- Graphics
- GTX 680
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi again everyone!
After playing with "Dark Mode" on my MacBook, I became addicted. So I am testing 10.14 Mojave using a separate SSD drive on my trusty old 3930k Hackintosh.
It went pretty well so far. What I did:
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INITIAL INSTALLATION
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1) Since I have been on 10.12, and there is no way to get APFS support, I decided to install from my MacBook. I booted the MacBook up in recovery mode and connected the new SSD externally in a USB-3 enclosure. I formatted the disk using GUID and APFS. Then I installed 10.14. I went ahead and set up a user on first boot (still running on the MacBook).
2) I downloaded the newest Clover and installed on the external USB drive.
NOTE: Above steps could be done the usual way with a USB stick that has the apfs.efi installed; but I was lazy and had the MacBook handy.
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FIX UP CLOVER - copying files from my old working 10.12 clover EFI
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3) I mounted the EFI partition using "EFI Mounter V3" app and copied all the kexts from /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.12 to /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.14 (AppleIntelE1000e.kext, FakeSMC.kext, and realtekALC.kext).
4) I copied missing drivers:
/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi
OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
apfs.efi <- downloaded the appropriate 10.14 version of this
5) I copied missing config files:
/CLOVER/
config.plist
/CLOVER/OEM/SystemProductName/
config.plist
/CLOVER/OEM/SystemProductName/UEFI/
config.plist
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FIRST BOOT ON HACKINTOSH
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6) At the Clover screen I booted with nv_disable=1 and also -v
7) Once booted up in low resolution, I ran shilohh's trusty AGDPfix and rebooted.
Now I am running my dual displays at full resolution with Metal support in Mojave! It has actually been very stable! Next I need to fix my audio and SpeedStep.
I didn't have any luck using the newest version of the audio script from shilohh's guide. It runs but I have no audio.
Now I have to figure out how to get the very basic SpeedStep I use running (I'm basically running 4.2Ghz without much stepping). At the moment I seem to be locked at 3.2Ghz on all cores. Unfortunately I cannot use the full power management setup shiloh uses because my particular 3930k CPU causes crashes when the speed/voltage drops too far...but is 100% stable as long as that never happens. Oh well, at least I can switch back to full speed 10.12 at any time by just swapping SSD drives.
I have been messing around with creating SSDT files; but am pretty rusty. I included my EFI partition (EFI.zip) in case anyone wants to look it over.
This won't be my main system until I can figure out these issues; but it's cool to try!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 2047 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x1180
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: VBIOS 80.04.47.00.2e
Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4
EDIT: Hah! Just noticed my <key>SerialNumber</key> is set to the default. I wonder how long I've been running 10.12 like that? Probably since I updated years ago :-/
After playing with "Dark Mode" on my MacBook, I became addicted. So I am testing 10.14 Mojave using a separate SSD drive on my trusty old 3930k Hackintosh.
It went pretty well so far. What I did:
-----------------
INITIAL INSTALLATION
-----------------
1) Since I have been on 10.12, and there is no way to get APFS support, I decided to install from my MacBook. I booted the MacBook up in recovery mode and connected the new SSD externally in a USB-3 enclosure. I formatted the disk using GUID and APFS. Then I installed 10.14. I went ahead and set up a user on first boot (still running on the MacBook).
2) I downloaded the newest Clover and installed on the external USB drive.
NOTE: Above steps could be done the usual way with a USB stick that has the apfs.efi installed; but I was lazy and had the MacBook handy.
-----------------
FIX UP CLOVER - copying files from my old working 10.12 clover EFI
-----------------
3) I mounted the EFI partition using "EFI Mounter V3" app and copied all the kexts from /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.12 to /EFI/Clover/kexts/10.14 (AppleIntelE1000e.kext, FakeSMC.kext, and realtekALC.kext).
4) I copied missing drivers:
/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI
OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi
OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi
apfs.efi <- downloaded the appropriate 10.14 version of this
5) I copied missing config files:
/CLOVER/
config.plist
/CLOVER/OEM/SystemProductName/
config.plist
/CLOVER/OEM/SystemProductName/UEFI/
config.plist
-----------------
FIRST BOOT ON HACKINTOSH
-----------------
6) At the Clover screen I booted with nv_disable=1 and also -v
7) Once booted up in low resolution, I ran shilohh's trusty AGDPfix and rebooted.
Now I am running my dual displays at full resolution with Metal support in Mojave! It has actually been very stable! Next I need to fix my audio and SpeedStep.
I didn't have any luck using the newest version of the audio script from shilohh's guide. It runs but I have no audio.
Now I have to figure out how to get the very basic SpeedStep I use running (I'm basically running 4.2Ghz without much stepping). At the moment I seem to be locked at 3.2Ghz on all cores. Unfortunately I cannot use the full power management setup shiloh uses because my particular 3930k CPU causes crashes when the speed/voltage drops too far...but is 100% stable as long as that never happens. Oh well, at least I can switch back to full speed 10.12 at any time by just swapping SSD drives.
I have been messing around with creating SSDT files; but am pretty rusty. I included my EFI partition (EFI.zip) in case anyone wants to look it over.
This won't be my main system until I can figure out these issues; but it's cool to try!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 2047 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x1180
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: VBIOS 80.04.47.00.2e
Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4
EDIT: Hah! Just noticed my <key>SerialNumber</key> is set to the default. I wonder how long I've been running 10.12 like that? Probably since I updated years ago :-/
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