Getting Sonoma working on my HP ProDesk 600 G3 SFF, with i7-7700 and HD Graphics 630 wasn't easy at all. I spent days just fixing a (not so) simple AHCI error.
When I saw the Apple logo, I thought that it was finally done. So I jumped into Display Settings to set my resolution to 1440x900, which was my monitor's resolution (it's a Dell 1770W with VGA and DVA, currently connected via VGA).
All resolutions were 16:9. Texts were stretched and ugly, dock icons were rectangular, and the Apple logo was poured (couldn't find a better word for it).
I tried infinite 3rd-party apps (and yes, BetterDisplay too), but when I was setting the resolution via those for some reason the monitor thought that they were 800x600, looking even worse than before.
You might say "EDID is the way to go!", I couldn't get it to work. Neither on Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu, tools that were supposed to dump current EDID were able to find anything. So I tried to build one and put its hex into the "0x2 thing" in the OpenCore config. list.
Booted up, and... IT WAS REMOVED!
I even tested it multiple times, I even checked if the USB was not Write-Protected or damaged. Seemed that OpenCore was consciously deleting that from the config.
So, I tried Hackintool, the Swiss army knife for Hackintosh post-install fixes. It seemed that our knife was a bit old-fashioned, generated me a text and a bunch of files to put in /System/Library/...., in macOS SONOMA! So I spent hours, figuring out that nobody has posted how to do that, in a way that works in Sonoma (it's not just SIP or Sudo).
And, yes. This was the whole story. The more you make progress, the more giving up will be hard. Any advice is highly appreciated.
When I saw the Apple logo, I thought that it was finally done. So I jumped into Display Settings to set my resolution to 1440x900, which was my monitor's resolution (it's a Dell 1770W with VGA and DVA, currently connected via VGA).
All resolutions were 16:9. Texts were stretched and ugly, dock icons were rectangular, and the Apple logo was poured (couldn't find a better word for it).
I tried infinite 3rd-party apps (and yes, BetterDisplay too), but when I was setting the resolution via those for some reason the monitor thought that they were 800x600, looking even worse than before.
You might say "EDID is the way to go!", I couldn't get it to work. Neither on Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu, tools that were supposed to dump current EDID were able to find anything. So I tried to build one and put its hex into the "0x2 thing" in the OpenCore config. list.
Booted up, and... IT WAS REMOVED!
I even tested it multiple times, I even checked if the USB was not Write-Protected or damaged. Seemed that OpenCore was consciously deleting that from the config.
So, I tried Hackintool, the Swiss army knife for Hackintosh post-install fixes. It seemed that our knife was a bit old-fashioned, generated me a text and a bunch of files to put in /System/Library/...., in macOS SONOMA! So I spent hours, figuring out that nobody has posted how to do that, in a way that works in Sonoma (it's not just SIP or Sudo).
And, yes. This was the whole story. The more you make progress, the more giving up will be hard. Any advice is highly appreciated.
