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https://github.com/ciriousjoker/opencore-desktop

This is my opencore setup for Ryzen 5 2600, ASRock B450 Pro4 with onboard lan/audio. It runs Mac OS 11.0 Big Sur Beta 4 at the time of writing this and is based on OpenCore 0.6.0.
https://github.com/ciriousjoker/opencore-desktop

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This is my opencore setup for Ryzen 5 2600, ASRock B450 Pro4 with onboard lan/audio. It runs Mac OS 11.0 Big Sur Beta 4 at the time of writing this and is based on OpenCore 0.6.0.

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# opencore-desktop (debug)



This is my OpenCore setup for Ryzen 5 2600, ASRock B450 Pro4 with onboard LAN & audio. It runs Mac OS 11.1 Big Sur and is based on OpenCore 0.6.4.



Replace `config.plist` with `config_release.plist` if you want to hide debugging info.



# !! REPLACE YOUR PLATFORMINFO BEFORE YOU USE THIS. REPLACE \_\_PLACEHOLDER\_\_!!



## Hardware



- **CPU:** AMD Ryzen 5 2600

- **Mainboard:** [ASRock B450 Pro4](https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450%20Pro4/)

- **Audio:** Realtek ALC892 (also a Creative Soundblaster Z, but see [Troubleshooting](#Troubleshooting) for info on that)

- **Storage:** Samsung SSD EVO 840 (SATA) & Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus (NVMe)

- **GPU:** AMD RX 580



## What's working



**Everything except:**



- Power management

- Sound card: SoundBlaster Z (see [Troubleshooting](#Troubleshooting))

- Booting Windows from inside OpenCore (BSOD on startup)



## Explanation



- **Drivers/Tools/Resources/Bootstrap:** As explained in the Getting Started guide. Nothing special here.

- **ACPI:**

  - **SSDT-EC.aml:** Has to be generated on your machine using SSDTTime. You will hang at [BSSTART] without it

  - **SSDT-USBX.aml:** I think I used a prebuilt here, although I'm not sure, probably from the official prebuilts mentioned in the Getting Started guide

  - **SSDT-XHC.aml:** I have no idea where I got this from, sorry. It's definitely not from [ryzen-catalina](https://github.com/alkalim/ryzen-catalina/) or [ryzenmacpro](https://github.com/aluveitie/RyzenMacPro). You might not need this, but I guess you most likely run into USB 3 issues without it.

- **Kexts:**

  - **AMD-USB-Map.kext:** My system hung at "IOUSBHostInterface deferred" or smth like that without it (potentially related to SSDT-XHC.aml). Sorry, I don't know where I got this from, I think some dude from Reddit posted it and it worked. Maybe there's an "official" build of this, but I won't touch this unless something breaks.

  - **AppleALC.kext:** I use alcid=2 and it seems to work fine (see [Troubleshooting](#Troubleshooting) for more info on audio)

  - **AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext:** Not sure if this is absolutely necessary, but it didn't do any harm

  - **Lilu.kext:** Required.

  - **NVMeFix.kext:** Haven't checked if it's absolutely necessary, but my NVME SSD works out of the box (check if you have the latest firmware!)

  - **RealtekRTL8111:** For onboard LAN with Realtek Gigabit LAN

  - **VirtualSMC:** Required.

  - **WhateverGreen:** Required.

- **config.plist:**

  - I set language code to de:3 (German) because MacOS kept resetting itself to an ANSI keyboard (had en_US:0 there first)

  - I disabled a few debugging flags to speedup boot



## Troubleshooting



- This is the debug branch with debugging enabled by default, using debug versions of OpenCore as well as all the kexts

- If that doesn't spit out useful info, switch to the debug branch to get the debug binaries as well



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- I used OpenCore release to speed up booting (kexts are still debug), so if you run into issues, switch to OpenCore debug first

- System hangs at [BSSTART] (or smth like that): Properly generated EC.aml was missing

- System hangs at "IOUSBHostInterface" (or smth like that): AMD-USB-Map.kext and possibly SSDT-XHC.aml was missing

- Disconnect other sound cards (I almost went crazy until I found this): https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues/1000

- How to get 5.1 audio working:

  - Create new device in Audio-Midi-Setup.app that connects the 3 lines into a single device

- Mac OS keeps opening the DVD drive on boot. Unplug the DVD drive. Seriously this drove me nuts.



### Debugging Tools



- DCPIManager

- IORegistryExplorer

- SSDTTime