dsarch Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Hello Friends! I have two NVME SSDs here, both 512gb, which have windows installed and working: Samsung NVME 960 Pro m.2 WD Black NVME PCIe (which I changed from 512k to 4k but the installer still can't see it) I have been trying to make them work (one at a time) for the past two weeks and I'm exhausted, since I tried everything that saw in many, many forums and blog posts. The hardware is a Dell Latitude e7270 with i7-6600u and 16GB DDR4, but for some reason, the OSX installer seems to always load IONVMeFamily.kext and ignore any kind of patch that I try to use, so I can't use any of the NVME disks with a OSX Sierra USB stick. Here are my clover files: clover_dsarch.zip Please, can some help me with this? I literally don't know what to do to fix this and install OSX on these disks. Thanks a million for any help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted December 26, 2017 Moderators Share Posted December 26, 2017 Which version of Sierra are you trying to install? High Sierra natively support NVMe if you're planning to install that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsarch Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Hey Jake! I'm trying to install 10.12.6. I tried to install High Sierra before but could not get the installer to boot and got stuck in different parts of the HS boot. Here is what I tried: 1) Created HS pendrive 2) Plugged the NVME disk on the motherboard slot 3) Installed Clover from RehabMan: Clover_v2.4k_r4359.RM-4506.7036cf0a 4) Decompressed EFI_4359.zip and put on /EFI 5) Tried with these bootpacks: - E7270_1.17.5_HS.zip - E7470_1.17.5_HS.zip - E7470_1.17.5_alternate.zip When I booted, none of them worked and had different errors, what kind of information can I provide for help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted December 26, 2017 Moderators Share Posted December 26, 2017 Replace contents into /EFI/Clover Files patched for 10.12.6 from your attachment in post #1 E7270_NVME_10.12.6_dsarch.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsarch Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Hey Jake! It worked! Seems it is installing right now!!!!! What was wrong? You did something that it recognized the drive during boot, whereas with my files it seemed to load IONVMEFamily every time, ignoring the patches. I have been trying to fix this for the past two weeks and you fixed that in a snap! I will try with High Sierra as well - could you generate a bootpack for High Sierra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted December 26, 2017 Moderators Share Posted December 26, 2017 For HS, just remove the following: HackrNVMeFamily-10_12_6.kext SSDT-NVMe-Pcc.aml and name from SortedOrder in Config.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsarch Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Update: It does the initial installation (disk partition and installation) but when it reboots it goes to the installer again =( Seems it was just hidden and it is installing now =) What was wrong in the files I sent you? This is the files I used when I was following Rehabman's post: clover_dsarch_hacknvme.zip Thanks for everything, Jake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted December 26, 2017 Moderators Share Posted December 26, 2017 You have SSDT DropOEM = Yes, but you don't have any patched DSDT/SSDTs in /EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched other than SSDT_NVMe-Pcc.aml. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsarch Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Hmmmmm, now it makes sense! Thanks a lot, Jake! In your opinion, is Sierra more stable than High Sierra in your hackintoshes? Is there any problem with High Sierra? Also, do you recommend some guide on how to generate the DSDT/SSDTs so I can generate them myself? Thanks again for everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsarch Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Hey Jake! Just finished the installation, bluetooth is working but wifi is not. Do you have any idea on what can I do to fix it? Nevermind, the problem is that I added the kexts in Library/Extensions instead of System/Library/Extensions. Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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