ASUS Z170-DELUXE – i7-6700K – HD 530 & RX 5700 – [From macOS El Capitan 10.11.6 to Big Sur 11 – Windows 10]
Clover EFI for ASUS Z170-Deluxe – macOS Big Sur
Insanelymac GUIDE: https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/342082-guide-asus-z170-deluxe-i7-6700k-hd-530-rx-5700-from-macos-el-capitan-10116-to-big-sur-11-windows-10/
ASUS Z170-DELUXE
macOS Install Instructions
For specs, notes, other informations see the linked Insanelymac guide
Installation:
- Create a macOS USB Installer with any method you now.
- For creating Big Sur Installer USB on Windows, use my guide: [GUIDE] Creating Clover macOS Big Sur Installer USB on Windows
- On macOS you can download the macOS Installer from App Store, or with gibMacOS, and create the USB Installer with the official “createinstallmedia” method
- For Sierra and older you need to use the official .dmg from Apple’s website.
- Mount your USB’s EFI and paste my CLOVER and BOOT folder from my bootpack folder to it
- On Windows you can mount your USB’s EFI with MiniTool Partition Wizard
- Open MiniTool, select your USB drive’s EFI partition, right click, select “Change Letter”, Click OK, Apply, OK
- After that you can manage the EFI using Explorer++ in administrator mode
- On macOS you can use Terminal to mount, or use EFI Mountain Snow.app to mount your USB EFI
- If there is no EFI folder inside the EFI partition you need to create that first
- On Windows you can mount your USB’s EFI with MiniTool Partition Wizard
Example Structure:
- After finished, next step is to boot the Installer USB
- I suggest to boot with config_debug.plist because if anything will go wrong you’ll see the logs of what causing that.
- In Clover press NUM 0 or select “Options” below the partitions, select “Configs”, then select “config_debug.plist”
- Install macOS
- Don’t forget to boot from your USB after restarts
- If you install Big Sur boot from Preboot only!
- Don’t forget to boot from your USB after restarts
- After installing you need to mount your USB’s EFI and your System Drive’s EFI then copy the CLOVER and BOOT folder to your System Drive’s EFI
- (again, if there is no EFI folder, you need to create it first)
- Unmount and remove your USB Installer and restart your system
Post Installation
- Open up your config.plist with Clover Configurator.app, on SMBIOS tab, generate new SMBIOS, then you can log-in to iServices now