- Joined
- Dec 9, 2013
- Messages
- 11
- Motherboard
- Lenovo Thinkpad T470, Clover
- CPU
- i5 7300
- Graphics
- HD620, 1920x1080
Hi there,
I've been doing my best to follow RehabMan's guide to install OSX 10.14.6 to my Thinkpad T470, with little success so far. The furthest I can get is half-way through the installation, to where OSX reports "15 minutes remaining" before rebooting. I don't see any error messages at this point because of the installation graphics.
These are my notes I made as I went along:
SPECS:
Lenovo T470 i5-7300, 16GB RAM, Samsung 512 GB NVMe SSD, touch screen, 1920x1080 display.
1. Starting with RehabMan guide “Booting the OS X Installer on Laptops…”
2. Using USB 2.0 32GB USB stick.
3. Create bootable USB using instructions (GPT). Using Mojave installer from Mac App Store, created on a real MacBook Pro 2013.
4. SourceForge latest Clover (5070) missing common drivers, so using one from https://cloverdb.com instead. Installed UEFI, drivers and theme.
5. Clover installation complete.
6. Downloaded and copied HPSPlus.efi to drivers folder.
7. Checking BIOS: Secure Boot is off, VT-d disabled, CSM enabled, fast boot disabled.
8. Installed latest kexts: FakeSMC, Lilu, WhateverGreen, USBInjectAll, VoodooPS2Controller, IntelMausiEthernet
9. Downloaded config.plist for Intel HD 620 from https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config and saved to EFI/CLOVER
10. Edited config.plist to uncomment Graphics/ig-platform-id key. String is currently 0x591b0000 - good for Intel HD620, I believe.
11. Edited config.plist to set Graphics/Inject/Intel to true.
12. DVMT-prealloc patch seems to be enabled in config.plist. Doing nothing more with it at present.
13. Eject USB and turn to target machine...
14. Booting from Mac install USB (not verbose). Shows black screen with white Apple logo, progress bar at approx 15%. Reaches installer screen. Erase HDD partition in Disk Utility to create new Mac OS Journaled partition with GUID. Install macOS. Installing Mojave. No progress seen. Reboots after less than one minute
15. Returned to Clover installer to add all remaining drivers as in guide. Adding DataHubDxe.efi and FSInject.efi. AppleImageLoader and AppleUISupport not present in Clover so found copies elsewhere. Not sure if they're needed or not, but trying to remain consistent with guide. Returning to target machine...
16. Booting from Mac install USB (not verbose). Shows black screen with white Apple logo, progress bar reaches approx 15%. Reaches installer screen. Erase HDD partition in Disk Utility to create new Mac OS Journaled partition with GUID. Install macOS. Installing Mojave. Progress bar to 2 minutes remaining (70%). Reboots to Clover boot loader (successfully, apparently).
17. Option to boot from HDD now present. Booting from HDD. Black screen with white Apple logo. Progress bar seen to "About 15 minutes remaining" (15%). Reboots
18. Again
19. In Clover boot loader, set ig-platform-id to 0x12345678 and verbose mode. "About 15 minutes remaining". Reboots
20. Back to config.plist. Changing InjectKexts to Yes. Set Graphics/ig-platform-id to 0x12345678.
21. OSX installer continues to reboot after booting from HDD and reaching "15 minutes left" in installation.
Aside from this, I have also tried the various "working" EFI folders for the T470 by various users on Github, also never getting past installation.
My EFI Folder is attached together with a few screenshots of the verbose boot prior to entering the installer page (black screen with Apple logo).
Grateful for any pointers here. I'm a long time Hackintosher with my X220 but with the T470 it's defeating me so far.
I've been doing my best to follow RehabMan's guide to install OSX 10.14.6 to my Thinkpad T470, with little success so far. The furthest I can get is half-way through the installation, to where OSX reports "15 minutes remaining" before rebooting. I don't see any error messages at this point because of the installation graphics.
These are my notes I made as I went along:
SPECS:
Lenovo T470 i5-7300, 16GB RAM, Samsung 512 GB NVMe SSD, touch screen, 1920x1080 display.
1. Starting with RehabMan guide “Booting the OS X Installer on Laptops…”
2. Using USB 2.0 32GB USB stick.
3. Create bootable USB using instructions (GPT). Using Mojave installer from Mac App Store, created on a real MacBook Pro 2013.
4. SourceForge latest Clover (5070) missing common drivers, so using one from https://cloverdb.com instead. Installed UEFI, drivers and theme.
5. Clover installation complete.
6. Downloaded and copied HPSPlus.efi to drivers folder.
7. Checking BIOS: Secure Boot is off, VT-d disabled, CSM enabled, fast boot disabled.
8. Installed latest kexts: FakeSMC, Lilu, WhateverGreen, USBInjectAll, VoodooPS2Controller, IntelMausiEthernet
9. Downloaded config.plist for Intel HD 620 from https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config and saved to EFI/CLOVER
10. Edited config.plist to uncomment Graphics/ig-platform-id key. String is currently 0x591b0000 - good for Intel HD620, I believe.
11. Edited config.plist to set Graphics/Inject/Intel to true.
12. DVMT-prealloc patch seems to be enabled in config.plist. Doing nothing more with it at present.
13. Eject USB and turn to target machine...
14. Booting from Mac install USB (not verbose). Shows black screen with white Apple logo, progress bar at approx 15%. Reaches installer screen. Erase HDD partition in Disk Utility to create new Mac OS Journaled partition with GUID. Install macOS. Installing Mojave. No progress seen. Reboots after less than one minute
15. Returned to Clover installer to add all remaining drivers as in guide. Adding DataHubDxe.efi and FSInject.efi. AppleImageLoader and AppleUISupport not present in Clover so found copies elsewhere. Not sure if they're needed or not, but trying to remain consistent with guide. Returning to target machine...
16. Booting from Mac install USB (not verbose). Shows black screen with white Apple logo, progress bar reaches approx 15%. Reaches installer screen. Erase HDD partition in Disk Utility to create new Mac OS Journaled partition with GUID. Install macOS. Installing Mojave. Progress bar to 2 minutes remaining (70%). Reboots to Clover boot loader (successfully, apparently).
17. Option to boot from HDD now present. Booting from HDD. Black screen with white Apple logo. Progress bar seen to "About 15 minutes remaining" (15%). Reboots
18. Again
19. In Clover boot loader, set ig-platform-id to 0x12345678 and verbose mode. "About 15 minutes remaining". Reboots
20. Back to config.plist. Changing InjectKexts to Yes. Set Graphics/ig-platform-id to 0x12345678.
21. OSX installer continues to reboot after booting from HDD and reaching "15 minutes left" in installation.
Aside from this, I have also tried the various "working" EFI folders for the T470 by various users on Github, also never getting past installation.
My EFI Folder is attached together with a few screenshots of the verbose boot prior to entering the installer page (black screen with Apple logo).
Grateful for any pointers here. I'm a long time Hackintosher with my X220 but with the T470 it's defeating me so far.