gazza35 Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Hey all So just fitted the dreaded Radeon and yup, problems straight away ha ha. Ok so my card, without anything altered in Clover, boots to a black screen, I did find the whlole LILU thing, i dropped that in and booted that with whatevergreen and it worked, just reports as being a different card and is a little glitchy and when shutting down or restarting it does show some artifacts on the screen. IS there a way to get this card installed in High Sierra correctly withouty having to use the lilu method, is there a modded kext already or does anyone know of a better way than Lilu. Im no expert and my knowledge is slim when it comes to Mac Os, however i am able to follow plainly written tutorials no problem, i may be wrong, i may have to stick with Lilu, but i have a feeling that there is a better method. Any help anybody can give me please ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdevs Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 1 hour ago, gazza35 said: Hey all So just fitted the dreaded Radeon and yup, problems straight away ha ha. Ok so my card, without anything altered in Clover, boots to a black screen, I did find the whlole LILU thing, i dropped that in and booted that with whatevergreen and it worked, just reports as being a different card and is a little glitchy and when shutting down or restarting it does show some artifacts on the screen. IS there a way to get this card installed in High Sierra correctly withouty having to use the lilu method, is there a modded kext already or does anyone know of a better way than Lilu. Im no expert and my knowledge is slim when it comes to Mac Os, however i am able to follow plainly written tutorials no problem, i may be wrong, i may have to stick with Lilu, but i have a feeling that there is a better method. Any help anybody can give me please ? Hi there Check this post and you might find your answer. macOS Sierra has this issue with many AMD GPUs but if you use the latest version of clover and use RadeonDeInit it might help you to boot into macOS without the need to use WhateverGreen and Lilu. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 33 minutes ago, Cyberdevs said: Hi there Check this post and you might find your answer. macOS Sierra has this issue with many AMD GPUs but if you use the latest version of clover and use RadeonDeInit it might help you to boot into macOS without the need to use WhateverGreen and Lilu. Thankyou, i shall try now, i did try a post earlier with Radeon deinit and somehow clover wouldnt even show up when i rebooted, it just attempted to boot mac straight away, took me half an hour to get back in via a usb booter, so im just in process of reverting my config to what i did have, i may have to reinstall clover. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 Tried it, unfortunatley, no answer. Looking at my config.plist, there are so many things ticked now that werent before i first booted with Lilu, im assuming they are needed for LILU, so ive no idea whether to untick these things or what, i really dont want sit here for 6 months trying to work out what Lilu has done to my config :(. config.plist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdevs Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 hours ago, gazza35 said: Tried it, unfortunatley, no answer. Looking at my config.plist, there are so many things ticked now that werent before i first booted with Lilu, im assuming they are needed for LILU, so ive no idea whether to untick these things or what, i really dont want sit here for 6 months trying to work out what Lilu has done to my config :(. config.plist No actually except for these boot flag (-lilubetaall radpg=15 which you don't need by the way) none of those settings has anything to do with Lilu an WhateverGreen. Rename GFX0 to IGPU & Rename HDEF to AZAL are related to the GPU as well but you don't need them either. For RadeonDeInit you need to use clover revision 4296 or newer Try this config and make sure you have a backup of your existing config just in case. You can use a bootable USB disk for testing this config and if it worked ok then you can replace your existing config with this one. config.plist.zip 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 No joy, but thanks anyway, like so many others with this series of card it appears i may have to settle for the Lilu option, a shame but i dont know where to go from here next, tried just about everything i can think of. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdevs Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 12 minutes ago, gazza35 said: No joy, but thanks anyway, like so many others with this series of card it appears i may have to settle for the Lilu option, a shame but i dont know where to go from here next, tried just about everything i can think of. Have you tried InjectATI=true with Dashimaki framebuffer without using Whatevergreen and lilu? Remember that you need to remove the WhateverGreen while using InjectATI=true. It's not good to use both. Give this config a try with your fingers crossed. config-2.plist.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 18 hours ago, Cyberdevs said: Have you tried InjectATI=true with Dashimaki framebuffer without using Whatevergreen and lilu? Remember that you need to remove the WhateverGreen while using InjectATI=true. It's not good to use both. Give this config a try with your fingers crossed. config-2.plist.zip Do i remove whatevergreen and Lilu with that config or do i use it with them ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdevs Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, gazza35 said: Do i remove whatevergreen and Lilu with that config or do i use it with them ? Yes remove the whatevergreen.kext and just test with the config. You can keep lilu thought. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 Thanks for all the help but after days of tinkering still no joy, my system now is not bootable, completely dead, clover wont start my partition at all it just reboots in a loop. This only leaves my windows 8 partition bootable now, so i booted to 8 and restored my original config and bootflags with Lilu and whatevergreen but no change, still in a loop :(. Dont know where to go from here, ive never had these issues on El Capitan or Sierra, im wishing i never upgraded. There doesnt appear to be a way to wipe my HS Efi from windows and re-install Clover from scratch so im probably going to have to make a bootable usb and boot to recovery and reinstall High sierra, as im not very knowledgeable with Mac Os, i have no other ideas on what else i can do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 UPDATE 1 Cannot get Os or the Recovery to boot, completely dead in the water. Booted from a Clover USB, can boot recovery this way, but cant access the Mac partition, greyed out, and therefore i cant repair anything this way. Im currently looking for 1 last method to wipe the EFI if i can and manually install clover from windows, if this is at all possible. Failing that i am going to have to re-install if that doesnt work, if i do get the system working again i will settle for Lilu and whatevergreen because clearly nothing else is going to work without damaging my setup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 UPDATE 2 My system is completely screwed up, i cant do anything. Booting from usb to recovery i cant repair disk, it just wont, tried 8 times but repair disk cant repair the damage thats been caused to the partition. Cant re-install OS over the top of the partition to replace all the system files, partition always greyed out and when i try to select it, it just says DISK LOCKED. Right now my Hack is dead and i have no idea what to do next. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberdevs Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, gazza35 said: UPDATE 2 My system is completely screwed up, i cant do anything. Booting from usb to recovery i cant repair disk, it just wont, tried 8 times but repair disk cant repair the damage thats been caused to the partition. Cant re-install OS over the top of the partition to replace all the system files, partition always greyed out and when i try to select it, it just says DISK LOCKED. Right now my Hack is dead and i have no idea what to do next. Hi, That's really weird and I never encountered that error unless the hard disk was physically damaged (bad sectors or old hard disks waiting to fail) which has nothing to do with clover and macOS. Let me see if I can manage to create a universal EFI folder for you to test if you still want to. Sorry for delay on the reply I've been very busy today. @gazza35 Do use UEFI booting or legacy? Edited July 7, 2018 by Cyberdevs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza35 Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 Hey thats cool, was no rush, ok its all good thanks, thanks for all the help, but i gave up and bit the bullet, wiped the partition and reinstalled completely. From the reinstall it did boot straight away with no tinkering but the graphics were scrambled, upon re-adding my config and lilu and whatever, its now booting again and running fast. At the end of today im just going to leave it at that, i have no idea what caused the corruption, everything was good until i added the next config file today, thats when the hard drive got corrupted for some reason. Personally, i think i should have reinstalled fresh when i fitted the new card, as it was a swith from an installed Nvidia setup to an Asus setup. Ive had radeons before and had issues with Mac, just one of those cards thats a nightmare to get working. But its all good, i think i could have spent another week trying to unlock the partition but it just wasnt going to happen sadly, got there in the end tho thankfully. Again thanks for the help 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/334786-asus-hd-7770-v2-1gbddr5/#findComment-2624778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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