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- Asus ROG MAXIMUS Z370 HERO X
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- Graphics
- Radeon VII
@Stork sadly (I've held up for as much as I could), I'm gonna need to update to catalina... I need xcode 11.5
I know you're not doing it anytime soon, but do you know of any similar builds that have successfully upgraded from Mojave to Catalina?
I didn't wanna go through this hassle, but I'll have to...
I hope it will help you. Of course my voice is not as authoritative as that of Stork, but I can tell you that with the configuration exactly the same as that presented by Stork (before I changed the processor and video card) I switched to Catalina since Beta 1 without ever having any limitation in the functionality (as it was for this config in Mojave), except for the fact that I returned from SMBIOS 1.1 (to which I had gone for better effectiveness) to 19.1 to have Sidecar.
Now I have also returned to Catalina 10.15.4 to SMBIOS 1.1 because Sidecar does not use it very much and it is easily replaceable with some Apps and I have regained the effectiveness I had given up on.
I have been from Beta 1 to 10.15.3 with the configuration of this thread without ever having problems or limitations, now in 10.15.4 I have a problem with the USB-C port of the HERO X and a dongle (of those for macbooks) that panics MacOS on waking up after sleep, but it's a minor problem only related to waking up and I solved it by keeping the dongle off if I don't need it and I haven't had a panic for several weeks.
I am waiting for 10.15.5 to understand if it will be resolved, but if you do not have any particular needs you can update to 10.15.3 which does not present any problems.
The important thing is that you make the transition with Clover and with the primary Kekt updated to the latest version in the EFI in addition to the obvious System Backup
I don't know if anything has changed in the meantime about this need, but I remember that I could not go from Mojave to Beta 1 without adding an SSDT-EC.aml in the EFI (in ACPI/patched): the update stopped; after that addition everything is always smooth yarn even in the self-selections of the update partitions.
One last detail that I suggest you go into if you haven't done it yet, not having had to update for a long time, is the change of Clover DRIVERS that abolished the older versions, keeping only the 64, it seems to me around the version 509x, but I'm not sure and therefore since for the new versions of Catalina you need the updated Clover, you must be master of it.
Regards
Edit:
The other thing that I had taken for granted because I made it progressively over time and therefore escaped me in the list of major changes described above, is the good habit (highly recommended) to eliminate the Kext (hackintosh related) from the Library/Extension and to put them back in the EFI in their usual place.
There is a thread highlighted in the Catalina forum to read for more information.
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