Seeking advices for opencore's black screen with HfsPlus, while enter reboot loops with HfsPlusLegacy

[dreadlord999]

Hello everyone, I come here after hours of failure. I am trying to turn my 10+ years desktop PC into a hackintosh but got stucks at the beginning.

I followed some web guidances to make my efi. However, when I used the driver "HfsPlus.efi", it give a black screen immediate after BIOS reboot; though, when I changed to load with "HfsPlusLegacy.efi", it does able to enter the opencore picker but soon get into a reboot loop as the enclosed system log.

BIOS setting and specs:
CSM & Fastboot : Disabled;
VT-x : Enabled;
Secure boot: Enabled (cannot be changed under BIOS default);
Boot OS: Other UEFI.
Storage: HDD 500GB x 2, BIOS only support AHCI, but looking for AppleRAID0 for enhancing speed performance;
Ethernet: Realtek 8xxx family;
Wifi/bluetooth: By USB receiver (Boardcom)

I am a rookie and probably won't further upgrading any hardwares on this PC. I would like to seek for your advises and guidances on debugging my EFI, any feedback will be grateful and is much appreciated. Thanks a lot!

 

[EliteMacx86]

Hello everyone, I come here after hours of failure. I am trying to turn my 10+ years desktop PC into a hackintosh but got stucks at the beginning.

I followed some web guidances to make my efi. However, when I used the driver "HfsPlus.efi", it give a black screen immediate after BIOS reboot; though, when I changed to load with "HfsPlusLegacy.efi", it does able to enter the opencore picker but soon get into a reboot loop as the enclosed system log.

BIOS setting and specs:
CSM & Fastboot : Disabled;
VT-x : Enabled;
Secure boot: Enabled (cannot be changed under BIOS default);
Boot OS: Other UEFI.
Storage: HDD 500GB x 2, BIOS only support AHCI, but looking for AppleRAID0 for enhancing speed performance;
Ethernet: Realtek 8xxx family;
Wifi/bluetooth: By USB receiver (Boardcom)

I am a rookie and probably won't further upgrading any hardwares on this PC. I would like to seek for your advises and guidances on debugging my EFI, any feedback will be grateful and is much appreciated. Thanks a lot!

The very first recommendation would be to use an SSD. With the OS becoming heavier nowadays, HDD would be really slow.

Secondly, check if your Motherboard supports UEFI. Should be, hopefully. You'll probably likely need to spoof the GPU. However, its a postinstall task. What macOS version are you trying to install?

Regarding your EFI, its not as per the guide.

 

[dreadlord999]

Hi administrator, thanks for your advise. I am targeted to install macOS 10.15 Catalina considered with my hardware limitations.
For Motherboard & GPU, I had mobbed it with ATIFlash and currently it is okay to boot with CSM disabled, as UEFI (at least for windows).
Regarding the hardware, CPU=Intel Ivy Bridge i3-3220, HDD, RAM=8GB Is it better to use Legacy settings instead of UEFI ones?
For the EFI, I will try redo it under your web's guidances (currently, most are done by "opcore simplifer" + SSDTTimer). Hope it would be easier for later debugging. Thanks!

 

[EliteMacx86]

Hi administrator, thanks for your advise. I am targeted to install macOS 10.15 Catalina considered with my hardware limitations.
For Motherboard & GPU, I had mobbed it with ATIFlash and currently it is okay to boot with CSM disabled, as UEFI (at least for windows).
Regarding the hardware, CPU=Intel Ivy Bridge i3-3220, HDD, RAM=8GB Is it better to use Legacy settings instead of UEFI ones?
For the EFI, I will try redo it under your web's guidances (currently, most are done by "opcore simplifer" + SSDTTimer). Hope it would be easier for later debugging. Thanks!

UEFI will be preferred.