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As far as I am aware, nobody has managed to do a Big Sur install on TRX40 bare metal yet. The first stage goes OK but after the first reboot to continue the install it crashes. Wiser minds than mine are working on it so hopefully they will suss out where the problem is. If you already have it installed on a disk then it runs fine I hear, just the install that won't work. I have an old (about 10 years) 128GB SSD somewhere so I will try that in an enclosure and install BS onto that from my MacBook and then transplant that into the hack. That won't be for a while though until I can get round to it.
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Hi @iGPU, I've just had a chance to boot with the EFI you kindly sorted out for me. However, as soon as it starts to boot into Catalina the (wired) mouse turns off (the light in the base goes off) and it continues to boot. The keyboard is fine. About 15 seconds after the OS boots I get a message that no mouse or trackpad can be found and it begins searching for a bluetooth one. I don't have a bluetooth mouse or keyboard to try.
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@iGPU, that is most appreciated, thank you. My original was based on one from @meina222. If I remember right @meina222 you are having/had a few problems as well so it may be worth your while to take a look at what @iGPU has done, although your MB is a Designare rather than the Xtreme most of it should be good for you as well. I always keep a spare USB stick with the latest fully working EFI as a fall back, still got those for my old Z370 and Z390 motherboards somewhere in the office. If I make changes I always do so on a USB stick first, better to be safe than sorry.
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Try this. EFI.zip
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That should work fine if your USB stick was called MyVolume. After it ran did its name change to Install Catalina or something similar? Did it complete without any errors? There is an App you can use as well which will halt on any errors. Try THIS
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It sounds like you haven't created a Catalina USB install stick. If you have, how did you create it?
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@rressl As requested attached is my latest EFI. You will need to enter your own details for serial number etc in config.plist - where I have put "Your Info Here". It is best to just write in the thread rather than PM, others may be able to help with your questions/comments. This is by no means complete and is just a work in progress but hopefully it will get you going. @Jaidy there are a few updates from the last one here, including a couple of Gigabyte Xtreme specific SSDTs, thanks to @iGPU for these. EFI.zip
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I had this a year or so ago on a Z390 Designare. Clearing the BIOS and redoing the settings was the only way I recovered from it without having to reinstall. A few times I have had to clear NVRAM 3 times in a row without trying to boot an OS inbetween to get it fully back to normal.
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Attached is the config file I used with 0.6.1 Debug version built on 12 August. Pretty much my current config with bits disabled. Various bits still need to be added/removed etc, I'm slowly going through it to clean it up for my MB. Thanks for having a look. config.plist.zip
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I'm not having much luck with this. It halts on a critical error and the saved file does not have the MMIO info in it. I've tried with 0.5.9, 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 debug versions. Tried with and without the SSDTs and with and without the kexts. Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks. opencore-2020-08-22-153125.txt.zip
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Which bit worked, sound or keyboard? I will be updating my EFI (on a separate USB drive for testing first) but it will probably take me a while. Once I have it done I'll let you know. 🙂 Firstly, I've installed Big Sur on an old MacBook, 13" mid 2014 - so not the fastest machine out there, with only 8GB ram!!, and will next create a CCC image on a USB HD to then CCC to another NVMe on the TRX. I can then validate the new EFI for both Catalina and BS on the Xtreme. At some point I'll also have another look at liquidctl to see if it will play nicely with the RGB. It has just been updated to better work with the latest Gigabyte MBs that support Fusion 2 (Windows). I'm not that fussed about RGB but if it is there then there is another challenge and I like the odd challenge. Having been retired for some time I must keep the old brain cells working - I do voluntary work with the Ambulance Service now to keep me busy during the day but need more than that, hence moving onto the TRX from the 3 Intel Hacks I have built so far.
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Cor, that was quick. Thanks very much.
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@iGPU please find attached requested IOReg file for the Gigabyte Xtreme motherboard. We also need a different network kext as we have dual intel 10GB chipset. The (modified) kext is attached. @Jaidy, sound for me is working. I have not tested the onboard headphone jacks etc as I use a Dell AC511 USB Soundbar (it matches my Dell monitors and is designed to clip onto one of them. You could try changing from alcid=1 to alcid=11 or alcid=16 in the boot-args of your config.plist file. My previous Gigabyte boards (Z370 Gaming Ultra, Z390 Designare and Z390 Master all worked with either 11 or 16. As for your keyboard, have you tried going to System Preferences - Keyboard and clicking "Change Keyboard Type..." It should then get you to press a key or two to verify it. I don't use a trackpad so can suggest anything for that. Gigabyte-Xtreme.zip SmallTreeIntel8259x.kext.zip
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Big Sur Beta 5 has been posted, for those who want to give it a try.
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@Jaidy I've just checked the USB on my key ring and I have a copy of my EFI on that - I think it is the latest but if not I believe it does work on our MBs. Let me know if you try it and it doesn't but here it is anyway. As I said, it still needs optimising and some kexts etc removing. EFI.zip
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I have exactly the same Motherboard, Processor and Graphics Card as you. If you can wait until tomorrow I can upload my EFI for you, you'll just need to add your Serial No, UUID etc. As it stands it is fine for installing and running Catalina but will not allow installation of Big Sur. No doubt it can be optimised for Catalina/Big Sur but it would give you a head start on getting things done. In the BIOS you need to disable CSM, Virtualisation and Above 4G Decoding. I have XMP set to Profile 1. That could also be optimised but at least allows things to work for now. If I remember I will save the BIOS settings to a file you could load and attach it with the EFI.
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Yeah, finally got bare metal Catalina installed. 😀 Turns out that it didn’t like having 2 graphics cards in the machine during install - with just the one it flew along nicely. After the install I put the other one back in just to check but it didn’t miss a heart beat. The 2nd card was an Nvidia 1050, which I know can’t be used in Catalina but was installed for Proxmox when I was trying to get that to work and passing through the RX580. i have the usual restart issue that everyone else seems to have, but have now seen the other SSTDs that @iGPU has shared and also a new config file that works with Catalina and Big Sur. I will have a play with those later in the week. I did try an install of BS (with my Catalina config file) but that just hangs after the first reboot. If anybody wants my IOReg file to look at to compare between different motherboards just let me know, I have the Gigabyte Xtreme. There are a lot of files floating about in this thread and it can be hard to keep an eye on what is what and remember to update as things are discovered and files are modified. Would it be a good idea to have somewhere, maybe a sticky post or section in the downloads section, where new/updated files can be upload/downloaded to save everybody jumping around looking for things and trying to remember what each one if for, eg common SSDTs for all boards and then those specific to MSI, Gigabyte etc etc? Just an idea but could be a pain to administer depending on how it is done. Anyway, thanks for your help guys, glad to be finally up and running. Now to try the Adobe fixes later this evening.
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Ah, OK. Good luck, you have got further than me so far. 🙂
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Thanks for replying. I have reset CMOS and NVRAM a number of times and have CSM Disabled and Above 4G Encoding Enabled. When I get back, I'll try removing all the other NVMes and SSD/HDDs and see how it goes.
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Catalina, Mojave and Big Sur will not run with a Nvidia 1080 graphics card. You need an older supported Nvidia card or an AMD one. @meina222's EFI is a few pages back, you can download it from there.
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Not getting anywhere fast here I changed to a Catalina install rather than Big Sur. I am now getting “can’t perform kext scan: no kext summary” and then ”** in memory panic stackshot succeeded ** bytes traced 4064 ••” When I try with BS again I am now getting the same message and I don’t reach the [Configuring PCI] that I got to yesterday. I am away for the weekend but will try again next week Aaaarrrrrrggggg
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Getting further than yesterday thanks to @meina222 but still no joy. Stops at [Configuring PCI] when trying to install Big Sur, and just stays there. Waited up to 10 minutes but it doesn’t progress any further. Will try with Catalina tomorrow but I don’t hold much hope of it progressing beyond this point, but who knows.
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Thanks, I’ll try it tonight.
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No luck so far for me, just error messages. I am on a different MB so will strip out as much as I can from the config.plist and try again. Have already tried without the SSDTs but exactly the same errors.
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Much appreciated. Thanks. As soon as the weather here in the UK cools down a bit I'll start my 'playing'. I have a different MB (Gigabyte TRX40 Xtreme) to everyone else on this and Fabiosun's Proxmox thread so hopefully I can get it working.
