HUANANZHI X99 BD4 - Won't boot

[Man0waR]

Hello,

Please, need help! I created config according to non-vanilla-way manual.

BigSur installation boots, displays some text and hard reboots.

Hardware is: Xeon E5-2690v4, Lynx Point B85 chipset, 2x16GB RDIMM, HUANANZHI-X99-BD4

Not sure what to try next.

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 Regards,

 Serg

conf.7z 2021-08-26.7z

[MaLd0n]

try this folder

https://tinyurl.com/yymycyc7

[Man0waR]

Does not reboot now. Just stays on text console where the last lines are:

ACPI: sleep states S3 S4 S5

RTCMemoryFixup RTCFX: @console relocated to 0xe0000000

Can't it be related to the graphics card? I have a pretty old Radeon 7750 with UEFI-patched BIOS

[MaLd0n]

nvram is reseted one time❓

have a csm option in bios❓

[Man0waR]

SCM-disabled, NVRAM-resetted

still stuck at boot

the last line is

HID: Legacy shim 2

 

also the last line can be:

pci (build 00:23:31 Jun 23 2021), flags 0x20c0080

[MaLd0n]

this it instead CpuTscSync

https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/voodootscsync/downloads/RehabMan-VoodooTSCSync-2018-1020.zip

[Man0waR]

Still no luck. Stops with:

ACPI Error: [PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20160930/dswload2-274)

No Local Variables are initialized for method ["\" ]

[MaLd0n]

try with clover folder for x99

[Man0waR]

stops even earlier than with OpenCore

a.zip

Edited August 27, 2021 by Man0waR
clover->OpenCore

[MaLd0n]

u can send me one photo in error screen with opencore❓

[Man0waR]

attached!
also, at this point USB keyboard is losing backlit.

boot_rename_to_jpg.zip

[Man0waR]

just found if add to my config npci=0x2000

then it is not rebooting anymore, and goes much further, but still stuck (screenshot)

boot-my_rename_to_jpg.zip

[MaLd0n]

bro my folder have this bootarg. x99 need it

use one usb 2 port

[Man0waR]

>bro my folder have this bootarg. x99 need it

I know, but with my config the system can proceed to a later phases.

With your config it is hanging earlier

I tried to insert flash drive and keyboard into USB2 port - didn't help

 

I think using X99 profile is not appropriate in my case, because motherboard has desktop B85 chipset

[MaLd0n]

if have a b85 chipset use this folder

https://tinyurl.com/36pjy29u

[Man0waR]

no, with this one boot process stops very early

 

no-boot-rename-to-jpg.zip

[Man0waR]

well, I have found a couple of things:

1. MacOS does not support processors with core count which is not power of two. I have 12-core CPU (24 threads). So need to override CPU in config.

2. I tried to boot BigSur in QEMU on the same computer. It works (if override core count) if use emulated VGA adapter, but fails if pass-through my Radeon 7750. So I suspect that something wrong with it, or it requires some special initialization.

3. I ordered another very low end graphics card nVidia GT710 to continue tests

 

[MaLd0n]

go

[Man0waR]

well, with the new graphics card I was able to install BigSur in QEMU virtual machine (using pass-through for NVME, USB and graphics).

But native installer (without QEMU) won't start as it was before. Probably I need some very special config.

[MaLd0n]

post one photo in error screen