Z170A Gaming M5 + 6600K Sierra install

[distortionmusic]

- Not working yet - 

 

I have talked about installing Sierra on my system here and already got some great tips from cyberdevs but to avoid confusion with the Gigabyte mainboard topics and to maybe help people with the same components with their Sierra install, I made a new topic here.

 

System setup:

 

- MSI Z170A Gaming M5

- i5 6600K 3,5 GHz

- Crucial Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 3000MHz

- MSI GTX 970 4G

- TP link wireless card

- TP links second ethernet card

- 2x Intel M.2 SSD 120GB

- Adata SP900 128GB SSD

 

BIOS settings:

- UEFI booting only

- VT-d off

- serial port off

- Thunderbolt support off (didn't matter with booting for working so I left it off)

- USB handoff on

- CFG lock off

- XMP on (for 3000MHz DDR4)

 

Software using so far:

 

USB with 10.12.1 downloaded from the App Store and copied using createinstallmedia

USB with latest Clover (r3911 at the moment of writing)

 

Status

It doesn't work yet. Can't even boot into the installer

Booting gets stuck at osxaptiofixdrv, tried using osxaptiofixdrv2 and didn't work either. Tried various methods to install Clover, with bootdiskutility on windows, the normal installer on Mac, stock config.plist and various modified configs from users around the forum regarding the Gigabyte 170X topics.

It can be that I made a very stupid mistake of some kind, but after three days of trying I'm out of ideas.

[xtraa]

Assuming you have

- not updated to the latest beta BIOS 1.C with "support for next generation intel cpus"

- formatted the stick with GUID (because OS X likes to have MBR preselected for sticks) and you also

- picked the UEFI entry from your F12 boots selection menu, not the legacy entry,

- made the standard UEFI configs, like setting your drives to ACPI and disabling CSM under Boot Options > Windows etc. 

- placed all your kexts in EFI/Clover/Other/ and deleted the old folders,

- plus you have either OsxAptioFix2Drv OR OsxAptioFixDrv installed but not both at the same time,

 

the folder /EFI/Clover/drivers64uefi/ should contain the following files 

 

HFSPlus.efi

PartitionDxe-64.efi

EmuVariableUefi-64.efi

OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi

FSInject-64.efi

OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi

 

Maybe if you check these points, you'll already find the error. there is also an entry from a German hackintosh board, and the dude has nearly the same setup so you may try his files, too. click.

 

Hope that helps and good luck!

[distortionmusic]

I'm sorry for replying this late, work and school got in between my free time! I didn't have any time to retry installing clover on my usb yet, but I can confirm that I did use the 1.C BIOS. Is this a serious issue?

I did have legacy only selected, and disabled CSM, enabled AHCI

 

I will check the german board and will try again soon, thank you for your tips so far!

[distortionmusic]

@xtraa I have tried what you told me, but still no luck. Right now the boot gets stuck at "unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI"\ ......."

 

I have typed out my UEFI settings, maybe I'm missing something.

 

Files in my drivers64UEFI folder are:

 

AppleImageCodec-64.efi

AppleKeyAggregrator-64.efi

AppleUITheme-64.efi

DataHubDxe-64.efi

EmuVariableUefi-64.efi

FirmwareVolume-64.efi

FSInject-64.efi

HFSPlus.efi

OsxAptioFix2Drv-64.efi

OsxFatBinaryDrv-64.efi

PartitionDxe-64.efi

SMCHelper-64.efi

 

The kexts I placed in /Other were:

AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext

FakeSMC.kext

realtekALC.kext

USBInjectAll.kext

MSI CLICK BIOS 5

MB: 						Z170A Gaming M5 (MS-7977)
BIOS Version: 				        1.C
CPU 						i5 6600K @ 3,5 GHz
RAM 						DDR4 16GB 3000MHz

used expansion slots 		                GTX970 4G gaming edition 
						TP link gigabit ethernet (have tried booting without both TP LINK cards, didn't matter.)
						TP link wireless WLAN

SATA Port 1					Intel SSDSCKJW 120GB
SATA Port 2					not present
SATA Port 3					not present
SATA Port 4					ADATA SP900 128GB
SATA Port 5					Intel SSDSCKJW 120GB
SATA Port 6					not present


///PCI Subsystem settings
PEG0 max link speed 		        auto
PEG1 max link speed			auto
PCI Latency timer			32 pci bus
above 4g decoding			disabled

///ACPI settings
power led				dual color

///Integrated peripherals
Onboard LAN controller		        enabled
LAN option rom				disabled
Network stack				disabled

SATA mode				AHCI mode
Hot plug drive 1-6			disabled

HD audio controller			enabled
HPET					disabled
Intel serial I/O			disabled

///Integrated graphics config
Initiate graphic adapter		        PEG
IGD multi monitor				disabled

///Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt support				disabled (doesn't matter to installer of on or off so far)

///USB config
usb controller					enabled
XHCI handoff					enabled
legacy usb support				enabled

///Super IO config
Serial COM0 					disabled

//power management
EuP 2013					disabled
restore ac after power loss		        power off
on board led controller			        on
system power fault protection	                disabled

[Donw35]

^{Whats your config.plist look like ?}

[distortionmusic]

I've used the stock one that Clover gave me after it's install, and the last one I tried is from a guy with about the same hardware from a german board @xtraa mentioned above, from this post.

 

I don't know how to add files to a post so here's a link to my dropbox with all files I've tried. 

 

Probably I've messed up the configs, after it didn't work I tried changing stuff to make it work but no luck yet.