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I didn't have much progress, for an unknown reason Hackintool froze, before it froze if opened after wakeup from sleep, now it froze if opened after a fresh boot. I only use a Bluetooth and a wifi adapter, and now I have them plugged on the Apple Keyboard which is a hub hence not affected by USB port limit.

If you can use Clover 5142 I think you are almost there, because the last Clover I used was before 5100. From what I read, I cannot upgrade to Monterey, at least not before I change the display adapter. It is GTX 760 at the moment. I don't have step by step guide but I can give you few suggestions from my experience. The boot disk should on the first SATA port of the motherboard, I found this behaviour on the older version of OpenCore, I haven"t tried if the new version fixed this issue. Start with OpenCore debug release, so you could deduct where is the error. Was it during OpenCore reboot? Or was it in macOS? Once it works, we can replace the binaries with the release version. Use ../Utilities/ocvalidate/ocvalidate to validate the config plist, OpenCore wouldn't boot at all if you have a wrong config. If you have dsdt.aml in Clover, I suggest to keep using it with OpenCore. Sometimes macOS cannot boot if there was certain usb dongle attached, like bluetooth or wifi. Remove it before booting, you can plug it back after you are in macOS. I think this is due to the USB port mapping that I haven't corrected. Good luck

Here is the contents on the EFI partition. all files are from OpenCore GitHub, except the DSDT.aml

@SuDoDmz I use standard files from OpenCore project, except the DSDT.aml that was built specific for this board and CPU, almost the same DSDT since Snow Leopard. From my experience, when installing Big Sur I suggest you to remove any USB dongles (WiFi, Bluetooth).

I disabled ApfsDriverLoader.efi in the config.plist and after a few reboots (assisted with reset button*) Big Sur is up. Updated to 11.6.1, seems stable: shutdown, restart, sleep/wake work Next task is to create the USB mapping.

My machine has a USB3 add-on, I forgot the brand, but it works natively.

Sorry for my absent, I didn't touch the machine for quite sometime, but then this weekend I did some works on my OpenCore (OC) partition, with OC version 0.7.5 I managed to have verbose mode working, shutdown and restart also work. Problems: 1. Wakeup from sleep cause a CMOS reset 2. Tried to install Big Sur but the installation stuck at : CryptoAlloc:674: Using 64 buffers with size 16384, 512 buffers size 65536

Here it is. Sorry for the delay. This DSDT is for my machine as in the signature. I kind of lost track what is inside as it is created and tailored since 10.6. I am having this computer since 2009 and want to update the OS as far as it could go. I have created another thread about using OpenCore on X58, and I am able to boot Catalina however there are some issues here and there. https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/341766-opencore-legacy-for-ga-ex58-ud5/ DSDT.aml.X58.Clover.20201115.zip

Here it is. I tried OpenCore to use before but it was a frustrating uphill battle, then I stopped the project. config.plist.X58.Clover.20201115.zip

Anyone is able to install Big Sur 11.0 on this board? I have a working 10.15.7 using Clover.

Anyone is able to install Big Sur 11.0 on this board? I have a working 10.15.7 using Clover.

@MacNB May I know the version of OpenCore you use? In your config you use Delete instead of Block so I guess the version is different. From my experience the attribute name can vary from version to version.

@Milone Here it is. Sorry for the delay. I didn't progress much since the last update. I put it on the cloud as it is more than 10MB. I scrubbed some information like serial numbers and UUID, because I think you can use your own. Please share your progress here, 2 heads are better than 1 OpenCore 0.5.8 EFI folder https://app.box.com/s/p734usv9f7bd3f2dx42n7wkjjre5852u

I think there is something wrong with the NVRAM mechanism. Besides the variables reported by hackintool or the command nvram -p , the rest that specified in config.plist never appeared. Which I think, impacted the verbose mode, because it relies on the using of NVRAM. I tried the emulated method, I know the scripts works because upon shutdown it erased the manual entries I created from nvram.plist But I still don't see the others NVRAM variables. Should they be visible too?

Anyone tried this X58 with OpenCore? I am in the progress and have some issues like, cannot restart, cannot boot with verbose and iClould error. The one that I really want to fix is the restart, currently it ended with a black screen then I have to press the reset button to restart. Shutdown and wake from sleep are ok. Restart works fine in Clover without the need of a specialized kext.