Hi,
First some background information:
I've been having problems with Clover for the last year, it worked but not flawlessly so I left it there.
There was a recurring problem with the AptioFixes from build 48xx and up. Before these problems I had installed and configured Clover multiple times from scratch with succes (using only Clover Configurator)… Because It’s getting clear to me OpenCore is the future and much cleaner than Clover I decided to figure out if it is usable…
I've been trying to install Catalina for days using opencore using this setup and could not get it to work. (Stuck on boot before initialising kernel using -v)
I found a pre-build OC EFI folder for a different motherboard (I'm using a MSI z370m Gaming Pro AC, the EFI folder was build for a MSI B360 Mortar) and it booted and installed immediately. But of course it's not perfect.
Would you like to take a look at the used EFI folder?
And can you help me get up to speed with doing the post-install procedure?
The problems I have are:
- No onboard audio (not a problem, speakers are connected trough the monitor, they work)
- Crash on shutdown/restart (it will shutdown/restart as normal but at boot I get a popup that my system was shutdown due to a problem)
- Not all USB ports are working
- No FusionDrive support in OpenCore (I think this is because AfpsDriverLoader.efi does not support FusionDrives at this moment, not a problem but it would be nice if it works)
Things I still like to do myself when all is working:
- create new SMBIOS info
- try and activate FileVault later on
Included in WeTransfer Link (send me.zip is too large )
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/86285a0acd299a5b597c8444da7122f220191214215612/8ddb7d6f61f6a5191a085ef268e13b1e20191214215612/a40be3
- Send me (from runme.app)
- EFI Folder (I downloaded for the MSI B360 Mortar)
- Shutdown crash report (generated after reboot)
EDIT: the used EFI folder is from here: https://github.com/SuperNG6/MSI-B360-10.14.6-EFI/tree/OpenCore
EDIT2: Things that do work but never worked well on Clover
- Boot is much faster
- Using AirPlay screen to Apple TV
- Bluetooth is stable (with clover it stoped connecting to devices once in a while, maybe this is because of the fresh install)
- much lower latency on my build in ethernet (from about 20ms to 0ms ping to router)
My hardware:
MSI z370m Gaming Pro AC - latest firmware (older firmware also did not work so I updated)
i5 8400
16GB ram
Saphire AMD RX580
iGPU BIOS setting: startup on PEG, IGPU enabled 64m