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just got 10.11.5 installed on a Skull Canyon NUC and wanted to share notes in case anyone was trying with their new NUCs as well.
- Clover 3526
- used BIOS and most config settings from skylake NUC guide
- "Couldn't allocate runtime area" memory errors prevented booting - aptio fix 1 and 2 and lowmem didnt work (OsxAptioFix2Drv worked once, the first time, but never again)
- had to use a modified aptiofix with the -2000 fix created by users with x99 boards with mem map issues caused by PCI devices.
thanks to users nick woodhams and h4v in SourceForge tickets discussion for Clover. I asked h4v if I could share his modified aptiofix here. EDIT: thx h4v, attached the file here and here is the link to the sourceforge ticket:
https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/tickets/125/#c28a/ae73
- also removed all kexts to lower memory requirements just in case - only fakesmc
- success! but after that stuck at 'still waiting for root device'
- unplugged all USBs and tried each port, only the yellow plug in front worked
tried "cpus=1" just in case but didn't seem to matter
So got OSX installed and the system seems to be working fine so far. Havent done much further testing yet, plan on doing SSDT for cpu and seeing if any other patches needed, will update this thread with any news. Any other Skull Canyon NUC early adopters please join in until we can get a proper guide going!
Update 1: looks like theres still some boot issues as I was unable to boot again... but a few hours later was able to get in. installed ethernet kexts and did some Geekbench runs. Everything working great so far... besides the random booting.... :-D
NOTE: Geekbench scores are WITHOUT turbo boost. still haven't had time to try to get a proper SSDT for the cpu yet.
- Clover 3526
- used BIOS and most config settings from skylake NUC guide
- "Couldn't allocate runtime area" memory errors prevented booting - aptio fix 1 and 2 and lowmem didnt work (OsxAptioFix2Drv worked once, the first time, but never again)
- had to use a modified aptiofix with the -2000 fix created by users with x99 boards with mem map issues caused by PCI devices.
thanks to users nick woodhams and h4v in SourceForge tickets discussion for Clover. I asked h4v if I could share his modified aptiofix here. EDIT: thx h4v, attached the file here and here is the link to the sourceforge ticket:
https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/tickets/125/#c28a/ae73
- also removed all kexts to lower memory requirements just in case - only fakesmc
- success! but after that stuck at 'still waiting for root device'
- unplugged all USBs and tried each port, only the yellow plug in front worked
tried "cpus=1" just in case but didn't seem to matter
So got OSX installed and the system seems to be working fine so far. Havent done much further testing yet, plan on doing SSDT for cpu and seeing if any other patches needed, will update this thread with any news. Any other Skull Canyon NUC early adopters please join in until we can get a proper guide going!
Update 1: looks like theres still some boot issues as I was unable to boot again... but a few hours later was able to get in. installed ethernet kexts and did some Geekbench runs. Everything working great so far... besides the random booting.... :-D
NOTE: Geekbench scores are WITHOUT turbo boost. still haven't had time to try to get a proper SSDT for the cpu yet.
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