Awesome, it worked right away (tried with Catalina directly), thanks a lot !
However a couple things were confusing in your guide, it would be worth clarifying/improving:
Installing Clover:
- I suggest to mention every version that you use for reference (Mojave/Catalina version, Clover version, kexts version) as things can change at any point in the future and become incompatible.
- The list of kexts you link at this step does not match what's in your repo, that was confusing. For instance there were more kexts in your repo than described here at this step, and USBInjectAll was not in your repo (replaced by USB Ports ?).
At this point in the guide as I wasn't sure I just copy/pasted the content of your repo in my CLOVER folder (erasing its content first).
Building the installer:
Is there a technical reason to rename "Install macOS Catalina" to install_osx ? Or is it just for consistency with the rest of your instructions ?
Installation:
A problem here is that you chose to use the "minimal-dark" theme as the default of your plist: this makes it very hard to follow the rest of your guide, as this theme does not show any text on screen. So you can't know the name of your drives, and that's quite important to properly follow the rest of the Installation instructions, as more drives appears along the way.
Because of that, I accidentally restarted the installation from scratch after the first reboot.
I now have 4 "mac" drives but not sure what they are (only the last is the real drive where macOS is installed - first is probably the original USB drive. Not sure what are the second and third).
Post-Installation:
I did not need to apply any of your fixes to have brightness keys/audio/battery status/usb/mouse working properly - but I still boot from my USB drive containing your whole repo, is it because of that ?
Speaking of which, it'd be nice to include an easy step by step to also install Clover on the drive where macOS was installed (the linked one seems a bit long and complicated). Currently exploring options to do that...
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Anyway I'm quite happy with my setup now, as I've managed to keep it fully external : I wanted to keep the original Windows install, and not have to open the laptop to add a drive (it's pretty complicated with the GS65/P65).
So I bought a
512GB NVME SSD drive and
an USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface, and installed Catalina on it. macOS is as fast as if it was installed on an internal SSD
with a bit of customization... :
