Ploddles
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@fabiosun, Attached is my EFI for your info. @rressl, try this. Just put your serial numbers etc in and you will need to add the pikera boot argument as you have a different dGPU. If you want, later today I can save my BIOS settings profile to a file that you can upload to yours to try, just let me know if you want it. EFI.zip
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@rressl, the network kext you need for your MB is attached. I have the same MB as you. @fabiosun FYI. SmallTreeIntel8259x.kext.zip
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On my MB, the Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme, it was just a case of dong the MMIO Whitelisting and using the NVRAM SSDT. Since doing the Whitelisting I have had no problems with crashes, freezing etc. My only problem at the moment is the lack of any SATA drives showing up and being accessible. They show up in Windows and at the OC picker (one of them has an old CCC bootable backup on it and presents as an option to load at the picker stage) but disappear as soon as macOS starts up. If I select the CCC clone it starts to load but crashes out - I'm guessing because it disappears as the SATA drives disappear.
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Happy to report that I managed to install BS onto an NVMe thanks to @iGPU's EFI. No issues with it at all at the moment. The only remaining problem I have is the lack of any SATA drives once Catalina or BS load up. I can see them at the Opencore Picker and within Windows and Mint, so it is restricted to macOS. As I have pretty much no idea when it comes to SSDTs, I'm guessing the problem, and solution, will be in there somewhere. Attached is my IOREG if anyone can point me in the right direction. Thanks. Ploddles IOREG.ioreg.zip
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I've just reattached 2 SATA disks, a 3TB spinner that I used as a backup of my files and also as a CCC of the system, and a 256GB SSD that I want to try BigSur on. In Windows they show up fine and the CCC backup on the spinner appears in the OpenCore picker, so OpenCore can see the disks at that stage. When I boot into Catalina, both SATA drives completely disappear. Disk Utility can't see them and in Terminal diskutil list does not show them either. I'm assuming this is either a SSDT problem, or I'm missing a rename somewhere in my config.plist. To check it wasn't something just in Catalina, I started the BigSur installation but couldn't see the SATA drives in there to choose as an installation point. Time to do some checking to see where the problem is 🙂 and then give a BigSur installation a try.
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Have you changed the config.plist to include your MMIO Whitelist? The same was happening to mine until I went through the process. Now it Restarts without any issue and NVRAM is working fine. On Shutdown though I still get reboot. I also had to change the Debug bits in the config file, leaving it as enabled etc it would take up to 5 minutes before it would fully boot into Catalina after selecting that from the picker. One other change I made was to the ScanPolicy, changing it back to 0, the reason being leaving it at 19596035 resulted in me not seeing the Windows NVMe - as I dual boot Windows it was the quickest way to get that back into the picker rather than hitting F12 to be able to choose that to boot from.
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@Driftwood, although you are locked out of Catalina ATM, have you tried to see if your EFI will boot Catalina Recovery? I have been locked out of the installed os twice after a sudden reboot but the Recovery console booted fine. For me just 'touching' /System/Library/Extensions solved the booting problem.
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Clearing and Refreshing the CMOS/BIOS did not solve anything for me. What I found was that I could boot into the Recovery Mode with any EFI. So I booted that and then opened Terminal from the Utilities menu. I then "touched" the /System/Library/Extensions folder and rebooted. This forces a rebuild of the prelinkedkernal on next boot and boom, back into Catalina. For anyone who doesn't know, the command to do this is:- touch -c "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions" Just replace 'Macintosh HD' with your own hard disk name. You only need the quotes "" if there is a space in your hard disk name. So, for example, if your disk is called Catalina then the command can be written as touch -c /Volumes/Catalina/System/Library/Extensions
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I erased and repartitioned the USB sticks I used so there is nothing on them. On 1 stick I copied the EFI you posted, on the other stick I copied the Archivio EFI you sent. Maybe I misunderstood what you said but now nothing will boot. No matter, I will clear CMOS later and try again. Is there anything interesting in the MMIO values I sent compared to other MBs?
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@fabiosun Thank you for sending the EFIs. I booted my system with my original EFI and it boots OK. I then tried with your Debug version. It got stuck on the "Watchdog status is 1" screen for about 2 minutes then the screen goes blank for about 5 minutes and then the system booted. I have attached the MMIO details from the created text file on the EFI. I then booted with the new EFI you sent. It displayed a few error messages about No Schema but it did continue and booted. I then did a "Restart" to test if it still hangs but it didn't and it restarted. I again booted from your EFI but this time it would not load. It halted on critical errors. I tried restarting with my normal EFI that worked first but again I get the same error about critical errors. I can no longer boot with any of the EFIs, my original or the 2 that you sent. I clear NVRAM 3 times but still could not start Catalina. Tried loading optimised defaults and disabled CSM, Above 4G Decoding etc. I still cannot boot into Catalina, always critical err or. I will try clearing my CMOS later and try again. Grrrrrrr. gigabyte-master-MMIO.txt.zip
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@fabiosun, There is my original and @iGPUmodified (but some USB ports don’t work with modified) on the previous page, Page 13. Either of those should do. I am at work at the moment so can’t upload right now. I will try what you send back tonight and post the MMIO details requested. @Jaidy, I have the same problem. If I select Restart it just hangs and if Shutdown then it reboots. The reboot doesn’t really bother me as I just power off when it gets back to the OpenCore picker.
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Thank you. 🙂
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That is what I did, with 3 different config files modified for the relevant versions. They always halt at the same place, so there must be something in my config that the debug version doesn't like. @iGPUeven re did my whole EFI (which boots but stops my mouse working - probably a misconfigured/blocked USB port(s). Even with the mouse not working I was hoping a debug version would at least boot and I could get the files off the stick. No such luck. It always halts with the same error.
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@fabiosunI would do but I can't get a debug version to get past a "halting on critical error". I've tried various versions, 0.59, 0.60 & 0.61. They always halt at the same point. Do you have a working debug efi that I could try?
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@Jaidy It looks like one of the new ssdt's is probably disabling 1, or more, of our USB ports. The port my mouse is in is probably the one your keyboard is in. I haven't had time to check any of the ports yet but hope to get a chance later today. I hope @iGPU is ok, he doesn't appear to have been on line for over a day now (not that he has to be online all the time 🙂 ) and both of his Github repositories have been deleted - https://github.com/iGPU Re your sound issue, have you tried alcid=16 rather than alcid=11?
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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
