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Hackintosh.md

Hackintosh installation

Notes about the installation processes for Windows, Linux, and macOS on my new build.

Hardware

  • Case: NCASE M1 V5.0
  • CPU: Intel i7 10700K
  • GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse
  • Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz 32GB
  • Motherboard: ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3
    • Audio card: Realtek ALC1220-VB
    • WiFi/Bluetooth card: Broadcom BCM94360NG
    • Ethernet card: Realtek RTL8125B-CG
  • Storage:
    • WD BLACK SN750 NVMe 1TB — macOS Big Sur
    • WD BLACK SN750 NVMe 1TB (with heatsink) — Windows 10
    • Kingston 500GB SSD — Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
    • Kingston 2TB SSD — Shared internal storage
  • Power Supply: Corsair SF600

What works

  • Audio
  • Ethernet
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth
  • AirDrop
  • iMessage
  • iCloud
  • Find My
  • Sleep/wake
  • Shutdown
  • Restart

What doesn't work

  • Nothing that I am aware of

Installing Windows 10

Created installation USB using this tool and installed with only one drive installed.

All but WiFi and bluetooth worked out of the box. Had to install this driver (suggested in this thread) for WiFi and Bluetooth to work.

Installing Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

Created installation USB by following this guide which uses Rufus. Unplugged Windows drive and plugged in Linux drive and installed as usual.

WiFi worked out of the box, ethernet didn't. Installed some updates and then neither worked. Installed this driver ("2.5G Ethernet LINUX driver r8125 for kernel up to 5.6" as suggested in the second answer here) and ethernet worked.

To get WiFi working again, installed bcmwl-kernel-source from groovy repos by following the first step in the first answer here. You need to download this file and install it via:

sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb

Once this was installed, WiFi and bluetooth worked perfectly again.

Installing macOS Catalina

Ended up doing most of this process on Ubuntu 20.04.1 instead of on my MacBook Pro. Followed the Dortania guide and used this YouTube video for an idea of what to do aswell.

Creating the installation USB

  • Followed the Dortania guide and used macrecovery.py to chose Catelina 10.15.7.
  • The firmware drivers and kexts I chose are available in the EFI directory.
  • I think I used a prebuilt SSDT-AWAC but created the rest myself using SSDTTime.
  • Followed the Comet Lake Dortania guide to edit the config.plist. Used ProperTree to edit the plist and GenSMBIOS to generate the SMBIOS data.
    • In order for audio to work, the layout-id of PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1F,0x3) must be set to 0B000000 as mentioned here and here.
    • When trying to generate serials for iMac20,1 (since the Comet Lake guide recommended it for i7-10700K and lower), I found that the macserial binary included in GenSMBIOS would not work. To fix this I compiled a new macserial binary using the source files found in the 0.6.5 release of OpenCore with gcc -std=c99 macserial.c macserial.h -o macserial and placed this new binary in the Scripts directory of GenSMBIOS.
  • Used the sanity checker and ended up changing a couple values but nothing major.

BIOS Settings

Followed Chris Schmock's settings almost exactly. I ended up updating my BIOS to 1.50 using the Windows easy installation process, as I was having troubles with booting into the USB (but it turned out I had put the EFI directory in the wrong place, so the update was unnecesasry).

Installation

  • Unplugged the Linux and Windows drives.
  • Booted into the USB, chose OPENCORE (external) and formatted the drive to APFS with a GUID partition scheme.
  • Installed Catalina. When the computer restarted, I think the EFI directory had been deleted from the USB? I dragged it back over from Linux, booted back in and the installation continued.

What worked straight away

Audio (the 3.5 mm rear jack and the USB Razer Blackshark V2 Pro both work perfectly), WiFi, Bluetooth, AirDrop, iMessage, Sleep/wake (seems to wake with one tap of space bar and one or two clicks. For good measure, disabled "wake for network access" and "power nap" in System Preferences > Energy Saver, and disabled "allow bluetooth devices to wake this computer" in System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced), Shutdown, Restart.

What didn't work

Ethernet (chip showed up in system report but wasn't working, fixed this later on).

Fixing Ethernet

Followed the advice outlined here (which was then referenced here and here):

Navigate to System Preferences > Network. Select Ethernet, click Advanced, click Hardware, and Select Configure : Manually with Speed : 1000baseT

Booting without a USB

Simply followed the Dortania guide again.

USB Ports

  • Mounted the EFI partition using MountEFI.
  • Removed USBInjectAll.kext.
  • Removed SSDT-EC-USBX-DESKTOP.aml and added Schmock's SSDT-EC-USBX.aml.
  • (This isn't to do with USB, but added Schmock's SSDT-SBUS-MCHC.aml as Papadiche had it too.)
  • Added Papadiche's USBMap.kext.
  • Added USBWakeFixup.kext.
  • Opened config.plist in ProperTree, and clicked File > OC snapshot to inject the kexts.
  • Also changed Kernel > Quirks > XhciPortLimit to False in the config.plist.
  • Rebooted.

Making the boot less verbose

  • Mounted the EFI partition using MountEFI.
  • Opened config.plist in ProperTree and:
    • Changed Misc > Debug > AppleDebug to False.
    • Removed -v from boot-args in NVRAM > Add > 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82.
  • Rebooted.

Using Bootstrap

  • Opened config.plist in ProperTree and:
    • Changed Misc > Security > BootProtect to Bootstrap.
    • Was told to change UEFI > Quirks > RequestBootVarRouting to True but it already was.
  • Rebooted.

Updating to macOS Big Sur

  • Backed up the Hackintosh drive using Carbon Copy Cloner.
    • Mounted the EFI partitions of Hackintosh and the back up drive using MountEFI.
    • Copied the EFI folder from Hackintosh over to the back up drive.
    • Booted into the back up drive to check if it was functional.
    • Booted back into the Hackintosh drive to continue with the update.
  • Updated as usual via System Preferences and all went smoothly.

Adding Ubuntu boot option to OpenCore

The Windows boot option was automatically available and worked perfectly. Ubuntu seemed to be available too but was called NO NAME and I could not boot into it. I logged into Ubuntu and used the disks settings application to rename the EFI partition. This changed it from NO NAME to UBUNTU in the OpenCore boot menu. However, I still could not get this UBUNTU option to work like the Windows one was by default. So I followed this guide and (looked at this guide too).

  • Booted into OpenShell.efi and noting down all of the partitions that corresponded to the each operating system.
  • Couldn't mount Linux EFI using MountEFI so ended up using distutil as recommended here:
    • Used distutil list to list all connected disks.
    • Linux was disk2 and the EFI was partition 1 so I used sudo distutil mount disk2s1.
    • You can later unmount with sudo distutil unmount disk2s1.
  • Ended up with these values:
FS0: Linux
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,A1A31A26-6614-44CD-9E03-A145082203FD,0x800,0x100000)/\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi

FS8: Windows
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1D,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,B0-29-A6-44-8B-44-1B-00)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
  • Mounted the Hackintosh EFI again and edited the config.plist:
    • Added a new entries in MISC > Entries with the correct Path and Name and setting Enabled to True (one entry for Linux, one entry for Windows).
    • For some reason, the Windows entry did not work in the OpenCore menu (it appeared but would not boot, although the original Windows was still present and did boot). The new Linux entry boots perfectly (but the old UBUNTU still doesn't work).

OpenCanopy

Followed the Dortania OpenCanopy guide and set MISC > Boot > PickerVariant to Default.

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