redband123 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Have been trying to boot with Opencore without success. I have Mojave installed by Clover on Asus Prime z370 A-II motherboard (samsung NVME M.2 drive) and it runs very well, but I want to replace Clover with Opencore bootloader. So I have made a Mojave installer on a USB stick and put Opencore in the EFI partition. My copy clover config and Opencore config are attached. When I select the USB to boot from F8 there is a pause of a few seconds and my Clover boot menu from Mojave appears with the entry to boot Mojave from the USB installer. I cannot understand why the Opencore bootloader does not boot - I have -v boot arg in Opencore and expect to see the boot process in verbose mode - not the Clover boot menu. I have tried all kinds of permutations for Opencore - even different USB sticks but all to no avail. It must be something fundamental for the USB not to boot! Anyone have any ideas? config.plist Opencore config.plist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
telepati Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, redband123 said: Have been trying to boot with Opencore without success. I have Mojave installed by Clover on Asus Prime z370 A-II motherboard (samsung NVME M.2 drive) and it runs very well, but I want to replace Clover with Opencore bootloader. So I have made a Mojave installer on a USB stick and put Opencore in the EFI partition. My copy clover config and Opencore config are attached. When I select the USB to boot from F8 there is a pause of a few seconds and my Clover boot menu from Mojave appears with the entry to boot Mojave from the USB installer. I cannot understand why the Opencore bootloader does not boot - I have -v boot arg in Opencore and expect to see the boot process in verbose mode - not the Clover boot menu. I have tried all kinds of permutations for Opencore - even different USB sticks but all to no avail. It must be something fundamental for the USB not to boot! Anyone have any ideas? config.plist Opencore config.plist I checked your config. First of all; 1. You using old config. download the latest sample.config.plist (Download latest OpenCorepkg) 2. Platform datas empty 3. No need virtualsmc.efi anymore 4. Quirks are not configured properly. Follow this guide; https://khronokernel-2.gitbook.io/opencore-vanilla-desktop-guide/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redband123 Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Thank you for responding. How do I tell what version of config.plist I am using - can I get this info from "get info"? I used the full sample as you suggested and used propertree to compile my config.plist. Also made aterations to some Quirks Omitted virtualsmc.efi but despite this get exactly the same result as posted in my earliar post. Could it be because my Asus board does not have CFG-Lock? The Plateform data was omitted intentially for posting here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
telepati Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, redband123 said: Thank you for responding. How do I tell what version of config.plist I am using - can I get this info from "get info"? I used the full sample as you suggested and used propertree to compile my config.plist. Also made aterations to some Quirks Omitted virtualsmc.efi but despite this get exactly the same result as posted in my earliar post. Could it be because my Asus board does not have CFG-Lock? The Plateform data was omitted intentially for posting here First, add your full system on your signature. It can be, as far as I know, CFG-Lock is a mandatory setup for OC. You must definitely disable it. You can find the details on the guide. Edited January 30, 2020 by telepati Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redband123 Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 Asus Prime z370 A-II Motherboard, Intel i5-9600k CPU, 32GB DDR4 3200 Ram, Radon Saphire RX 570 GPU, Samsung NVME M.2 Drive Above is full spec of my system. I have Mojave installed on the M.2 Drive using Clover bootloader and have no issues. You say that disabling CFG-Lock is mandatory for OC but I thought it was so for any Hackintosh whatever the bootloader used. My Motherboard may have no entry for CFG-Lock in my UEFI Bios but there must be some entry from Clover bootloader or my config.plist to allow me to boot successfully with Clover. If in order to use OC on my system means that I have to patch or alter my UEFI Bios then I am not willing to do that and will have to stick with my existing setup of Clover. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
telepati Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 39 minutes ago, redband123 said: Asus Prime z370 A-II Motherboard, Intel i5-9600k CPU, 32GB DDR4 3200 Ram, Radon Saphire RX 570 GPU, Samsung NVME M.2 Drive Above is full spec of my system. I have Mojave installed on the M.2 Drive using Clover bootloader and have no issues. You say that disabling CFG-Lock is mandatory for OC but I thought it was so for any Hackintosh whatever the bootloader used. My Motherboard may have no entry for CFG-Lock in my UEFI Bios but there must be some entry from Clover bootloader or my config.plist to allow me to boot successfully with Clover. If in order to use OC on my system means that I have to patch or alter my UEFI Bios then I am not willing to do that and will have to stick with my existing setup of Clover. But you are not reading the guide I sent you. There is a link about Fixing CFG Lock and Recommended BIOS settings. Also, you can find your answers in the main thread; But, the guide I sent you easy to follow for beginners with OC. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redband123 Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 I have just checked my UEFI Bios and found CFG-Lock embedded deep within and this is disabled so my problem must be related to my config.plist or ACPI .aml files Thank you for responding Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redband123 Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 Followup on my last post - am able to boot but get error see attached. Presumably I have the wrong ACPI files but frankly stumped? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
telepati Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 6 minutes ago, redband123 said: Followup on my last post - am able to boot but get error see attached. Presumably I have the wrong ACPI files but frankly stumped? Your quirks set up wrong. Follow the guide and find correct quirks for your setup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redband123 Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 Right so only quirks are wrong. Since there are quirk properties for ACPI, Booter, Kernel and UEFI where do you think I should start? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342327-cannot-boot-opencore/#findComment-2706640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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