AsRock B450M Steel Legend Ryzen 5 2600 R9 370

Hackintosh

This is a repo where I store my EFI and steps to get my Ryzen Hackintosh working properly.

Hardware Used

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Mainboard: AsRock B450M Steel Legend
Memory: Corsair Vengeance (2x8GB) DDR4-3200
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro (512GB) M.2 NVMe (OSX)
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 370 4GB

Software Version

MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (Build 19H2)

Reference Links

GPU Spoofing

OpenCore GPU Spoof
Patch SSDT-GPU-SPOOF
Inject Kexts with Hackintool
Bypass CSR Filesystem
Compiling and Decompiling ACPI Tables

Preparing OpenCore USB

Making OC Installer in Windows
Organizing OpenCore EFI
Gathering Required Files
Dumping DSDT
Modifying config.plist

Tools Needed

Hackintool – Injecting Kexts
MaciASL – ACPI Editing IDE for macOS
ProperTree – Edit .plist
GenSMBIOS – Generate SMBIOS
SSDTTime – Dump DSDT & Apply General Patch
MountEFI – Mount OS EFI Partition
gibMacOS – Download and Create Bootable OC USB

Steps

Prepare the USB

Download and load recovery to USB using gibMacOS
Put ACPI, Drivers and Kexts into EFI
Configure config.plist

boot-args: -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 alcid=1 npci=0x2000

Patch config.plist with GenSMBIOS
Verify serial generated by GenSMBIOS is not in use
Pass OpenCore Sanity Check

Configure BIOS

Load UEFI Defaults
OC Tweaker > Load XMP Setting > XMP 2.2 profile (for DDR4-3200)
Advance > Super IO Configuration > Serial Port > Disable
Boot > CSM > Disabled

Install macOS

Format a drive as APFS with GUID Partitioning Table
Proceed with installation

GPU Spoofing (FakeID)

Identify PCI ID & ACPI Path 👉🏼 OpenCore GPU Spoof
Patch SSDT-GPU-SPOOF.dsl and compile it to SSDT-GPU-SPOOF.aml 👉🏼 Patch SSDT-GPU-SPOOF

~~External (_SB_.PCI0, DeviceObj)~~
~~External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP, DeviceObj)~~

Modify this 2 lines into 👇🏼

External (_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP, DeviceObj)
Scope (\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP).

Place it into EFI/OC/ACPI
Update config.plist (OC Snapshot)

Patch AMD Kexts

Disable CSR Proctection from Recovery Mode with csrutil enable --without fs and reboot 👉🏼 Bypass CSR Filesystem
Copy AMD7000Controller.kext, AMDRadeonX4000.kext and, AMDRadeonX4000HWServices.kext from /Systems/Library/Extensions
Modify each Info.plist, replace 0x68191002 with 0x68111002
Patch kexts with Hackintool 👉🏼 Inject Kexts with Hackintool
Re-engage CSR Proctection with csrutil enable from Recovery Mode

Fix Adobe Crashes on AMD

Follow instructions here 👉🏼 Adobe Crash Fix XLNC

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