Big Sur Success Gigabyte Aorus Master z390

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Gigabyte Z390 Master

48GB Ram

2 PCI NVME 1TB and 2TB

3 1TB SSDs

Radeon 580 8GB

Intel 8700K

WiFi Broadcom BCM43xx

 

Working:

All except internal WiFi. Used the Broadcom BCM43xx card instead.

 

Problems installing:

Would get stuck on the installation process due to a USB hub connected. Took 2 weeks to realize that was the problem. Just unplug it and the Install process went perfect.

 

REMEMBER, use debug options when installing so u can see where u r and if anything stuck. The last part of the Install is a process now called SEALING the system volume and it takes FOREVER (relative to our previous experiences in Catalina etc). I have a NVME SSD which is VERY fast but it still took about 15 minutes to finish the installation. It seems to be stopped at a FORCING CS_RUNTIME but it really is sealing the volume. read this.

 

I got the ssdt by booting into linux and getting the SSDT from this Youtube video. They are included in the EFI. This EFI does not have the Mac boot sound/images due to size but its as simple as adding the audio/image section in the EFI resource folder. Look at opencore documentation.

 

Good luck

 

EFI.zip

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Thanks. I believe that most kexts are NOT ENABLED, still I should clean it (Virtual, Lilu, Whatever, IntelMausi and ApplALC  should be used). 

 

I did a fresh install and took very long (maybe less than 15 minutes but not 2 minutes). Later I did a Software Update to a newer Beta versions and that took about 2 minutes.

 

Have u tried to create an Image fo the BigSur and restore it? I used a second drive with BS and create successfully as Image of the other BS. But when I tried to restore it with asr it complained that the “seal is broken” and quit.

 

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