[Need help] Guide to installing macOS Sierra on ASRock Z170 K4

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Coming soon.

Currently I'm stuck at loading the installer, with a light grey screen and the beach ball of death.

- Scott

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Step #1 update the BIOS / UEFI to latest using Instant Flash and a FAT32 formatted USB drive.

Remember to unzip the ROM.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Disable CPU CFG Lock in the BIOS.

Disable IOAPIC in the BIOS.

Enable XHCI Hand off in the BIOS.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

After waiting a few minutes I'm once again greeted by the Spinning Beach Ball of Death.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

I'm going to try ***upgrading Clover*** instead of using a fresh auto Clover install from UniBeast 7.0.x

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Tried a fresh config.plist using Clover Configurator with:

verbose
dart=0
kext-dev-mode=1
darkwake
PBR
XMP Detection No

Still no luck.
Stuck at Spinning Beach Ball of Death!

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Trying the latest FakeSMC.kext.

Assuming I can find it!
(It's 1:12am here in Australia)

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

1:42am.

I've installed macOS Sierra 10.12.3

However it freezes at boot up with the following...


Will continue my research and hopefully become an expert to guide others.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

I'm not sure 'How To' consider Rebuild Of Prelinked Kernel... or what I should try next.

I'm using Intel HD 530 via HDMI.

If I leave it long enough it eventually loads to another SBBoD. [Sigh...]

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

OK, I have compiled "AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext" using Xcode from the GitHub repository and copied it to the EFI > Other and EFI > 10.12 folders.

I'll try re-installing as it only takes 15 minutes.