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Personal macOS setup guide for AMD platform

MacOS High Sierra AMD Ryzen Install Guide

Based on XLNC macOS images and instructions from AMD-OSX forum.

Disclaimer: This is only an installation log for mine future use, feel free to use it, but I won't provide any support. This works for me, but that doesn't guarantee it will work for you even if you have exactly the same setup.

Hardware Setup:

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700
  • MOBO: Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5
  • GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX460 4GB
  • RAM: G.Skill Trident z RGB 16GB 2400 MHz

Installation

  1. Image: AMDHS_Installer v2 clover edition
  2. Restore image to at least 8GB usb stick with TransMac
  3. BIOS Settngs (skip the ones that you dont have):
HPET                        = Enabled
Sata Mode                   = AHCI
IOMMU                       = Disabled
APU / Integrated Graphics   = Disabled 
GPU / Graphics Priority     = PEG/PCI
Serial Port                 = Disabled
Parallel Port               = Disabled
Legacy USB Support          = Enabled
AS Media 3.1/3.0 controller = Enabled 
EHCI Handoff                = Enabled
XHCI Handoff                = Enabled
SECURE BOOT                 = Disabled / Other OS
CSM Support                 = Disabled
  1. Plug usb stick to USB 3.0 (3.1 gen 1) port and boot in UEFI mode
  2. Boot into installer
  3. Disk utility: format drive with GUID scheme and MacOS Extended Journaled fs
  4. Exit diskutil and install OS to previously formatted drive

Post-installation

  1. After reboot boot once again into installer
  2. Open terminal and run xlnc command
  3. Select 1.Bronya
  4. Then select 2.Post Install
  5. Enter name of macos disk name (disk name entered in diskutil)
  6. Answer Y to all questions asked
  7. Reboot
  8. Boot again into USB but now choose to boot from your partition, not the installer

Clover installation

  1. Download Clover bootloader (I've used version v2.4k_r4497)
  2. Install on boot drive with settings:
- Install for UEFI booting only
- Install Clover in the ESP
- Install Clover Preference Panel
- OsxAptioFixDrv-64
- PartitionDxe-64
- UsbKbDxe-64
  1. Copy config.plist to EFI/CLOVER/ (Replace file)
  2. Copy contents of kexts folder into EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/
  3. Remove USB
  4. Reboot

Known bugs: HDMI output image is distorted, looks like compressed JPEG.