Final solution to install macOS12/13 on MSI B550 Buggy MBs

[TheBlueMister]

CO-OP with Pikachu and P2mmao.
See this in CHN at links below

關於微星AMD 5000系列想上Monterey或是Ventura的建議（已成功安裝上Ventura)-远景论坛-微软极客社区

,阷於微星amd,5000系列想上monterey或是ventura的建議（已成功安裝上ventura)

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FIRST: Plz make sure you board only has one PCIE4 M.2 SSD on the First M.2 Slot(That's important) and make sure there aren't any more M.2 SSD and SATA DEVICES installed on your board.
SECOND: Boot macOS Installer from External Disk like Samsung T7 or other removable USB Storage Drive. (you need to burn install dmg into your external drive first)
LAST: Boot ur installation USB with EFI which you can successfully boot macOS11 and logically fit for 12 or 13. ENJOY.

KNOWN ISSUES: 1. No WiFi. 2. No BLE. 3. No Ethernet Connection (Sometimes happend)

HOW TO FIX ISSUES: Buy an USB WLAN Adapter which can work successfully with MAC on Ali Express or Amazon.

MSI Engineers are working on this problem and they will successfully solve it in a month(maybe).Thanks for your all working with MSI Buggy B550 Boards.

 

[p2mmao]

CO-OP with Pikachu and P2mmao.
See this in CHN at links below

關於微星AMD 5000系列想上Monterey或是Ventura的建議（已成功安裝上Ventura)-远景论坛-微软极客社区

,阷於微星amd,5000系列想上monterey或是ventura的建議（已成功安裝上ventura)

bbs.pcbeta.com

FIRST: Plz make sure you board only has one PCIE4 M.2 SSD on the First M.2 Slot(That's important) and make sure there aren't any more M.2 SSD and SATA DEVICES installed on your board.
SECOND: Boot macOS Installer from External Disk like Samsung T7 or other removable USB Storage Drive. (you need to burn install dmg into your external drive first)
LAST: Boot ur installation USB with EFI which you can successfully boot macOS11 and logically fit for 12 or 13. ENJOY.

KNOWN ISSUES: 1. No WiFi. 2. No BLE. 3. No Ethernet Connection (Sometimes happend)

HOW TO FIX ISSUES: Buy an USB WLAN Adapter which can work successfully with MAC on Ali Express or Amazon.

MSI Engineers are working on this problem and they will successfully solve it in a month(maybe).Thanks for your all working with MSI Buggy B550 Boards.

A very detailed guide

 

[Levonhard]

CO-OP with Pikachu and P2mmao.
See this in CHN at links below

關於微星AMD 5000系列想上Monterey或是Ventura的建議（已成功安裝上Ventura)-远景论坛-微软极客社区

,阷於微星amd,5000系列想上monterey或是ventura的建議（已成功安裝上ventura)

bbs.pcbeta.com

FIRST: Plz make sure you board only has one PCIE4 M.2 SSD on the First M.2 Slot(That's important) and make sure there aren't any more M.2 SSD and SATA DEVICES installed on your board.
SECOND: Boot macOS Installer from External Disk like Samsung T7 or other removable USB Storage Drive. (you need to burn install dmg into your external drive first)
LAST: Boot ur installation USB with EFI which you can successfully boot macOS11 and logically fit for 12 or 13. ENJOY.

KNOWN ISSUES: 1. No WiFi. 2. No BLE. 3. No Ethernet Connection (Sometimes happend)

HOW TO FIX ISSUES: Buy an USB WLAN Adapter which can work successfully with MAC on Ali Express or Amazon.

MSI Engineers are working on this problem and they will successfully solve it in a month(maybe).Thanks for your all working with MSI Buggy B550 Boards.

How do you know that MSI engineers are working to solve this problem?

I never hoped for them to solve this because hackintosh have not many users for them to care about, and hackintosh is not an official thing.

 

[Middleman]

How do you know that MSI engineers are working to solve this problem?

I never hoped for them to solve this because hackintosh have not many users for them to care about, and hackintosh is not an official thing.

Here's my thinking. MSI is a Chinese company and the PCBeta website is a Chinese tech site. The US Trade War in recent years has perhaps left a lot of Chinese tech companies in the lurch (not including the fall of Bitcoin/crypto which is affecting their bottom line) and so they are perhaps probably more willing than ever now to try and innovate to try to break out of this deadlock.

 

[TheBlueMister]

How do you know that MSI engineers are working to solve this problem?

I never hoped for them to solve this because hackintosh have not many users for them to care about, and hackintosh is not an official thing.

Cause one of MSI Engineer are friend of my friend Pikachu

 

[p2mmao]

but stll no news from them

 

[apriliars3]

Fixed this?

 

[soulblood]

msi b450i also has this issue? ventura stuck at EB?

 

[Middleman]

For those of you who are looking to install macOS on MSI motherboards you could perhaps try have a look at my EFI here

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...-5900x-rx550-samsung-1tb-970-evo-plus.319781/

My EFI works for up to Monterey 12.3+. Please adjust core count in Kernel > Patches as needed according to the AMD Vanilla kernel guide on Github.

With regards to the report that the system may not boot from other M.2 devices, you may need to install SATA-unsupported.kext I've attached here below (unzip it first) as well as NVMEFix.kext.

For WiFi I would suggest testing (and switching between) either latest built itlwm.kext or Airportitlwm.kext for Intel based cards. Some Big Sur installs worked better in my experience with itlwm.kext whereas Monterey worked better with Airportitlwm.kext.

And for all AMD CPU users, if you are booting 12.4 Monterey, you will also need AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext enabled.

 

[beembuilds]

Hi Ed, That seems to have worked, all the ports on the rear are working but they don't show up in Hackintool


blog

Cause one of MSI Engineer are friend of my friend Pikachu site

 

[apriliars3]

For those of you who are looking to install macOS on MSI motherboards you could perhaps try have a look at my EFI here

My EFI works for up to Monterey 12.3+. Please adjust core count in Kernel > Patches as needed according to the AMD Vanilla kernel guide on Github.

With regards to the report that the system may not boot from other M.2 devices, you may need to install SATA-unsupported.kext I've attached here below (unzip it first) as well as NVMEFix.kext.

For WiFi I would suggest testing (and switching between) either latest built itlwm.kext or Airportitlwm.kext for Intel based cards. Some Big Sur installs worked better in my experience with itlwm.kext whereas Monterey worked better with Airportitlwm.kext.

And for all AMD CPU users, if you are booting 12.4 Monterey, you will also need AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext enabled.

What is your hardware and msi motherboard?

Can I test with MSI B550 Tomahawk and AMD 3900X with Samung 850 sata ssd.

 

[Middleman]

What is your hardware and msi motherboard?

Can I test with MSI B550 Tomahawk and AMD 3900X with Samung 850 sata ssd.

No mine is not a MSI motherboard but a Gigabyte - B550 Vision D with 5900X to be exact.
The build is confirmed working with Monterey 12.3+ and is rock solid.

 

[apriliars3]

No mine is not a MSI motherboard but a Gigabyte - B550 Vision D with 5900X to be exact.
The build is confirmed working with Monterey 12.3+ and is rock solid.

But the issues is with MSI bios motherboard, Gigabyte is compatible with all bios.

 

[Middleman]

But the issues is with MSI bios motherboard, Gigabyte is compatible with all bios.

Perhaps it calls for the use of Coreboot >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot

Coreboot is a very powerful open source firmware designed for PowerPC, x86-x64, RISC-V & ARMv8 that can replace whatever proprietary BIOS firmware in the system and allow it to boot say Linux or any other operating system. It may help MSI users get around the issue of a troubling motherboard implementation.

 

[apriliars3]

Can update to macOS Ventura with MSI B550 and macOS Big Sur? I have now OC 0.8.0

 

[Edhawk]

Not sure, the MSI 500-series motherboard had issues in Monterey, not sure if they have been solved in Ventura.

YI would recommend you use a spare SSD/NVMe/HDD for thge Ventura installation, not try to upgrade your current Big Sur install. So you retain your curent working Big Sur drive in case the Ventura installation doesn't work.

Ventura requires OC 0.8.3 as minimum better to use 0.8.5 or 0.8.6 with the latest/revised AMD patches,as these are required for your AMD system to work with macOS Ventura.

 

[apriliars3]

I updated my EFI to OC 0.8.5 and works with Big Sur, but when I try to install from pendrive macOS Ventura, boot and freeze with this cross.




I have MSI B550 Tomahawk + Nvidia GT710 with Samsung 970 Evo (Windows 10) and Samsung 850 Evo (macOS Ventura) and bios updated for Ryzen 5000. Can any help me if it is possible install Ventura or update to Monterey with this curse motherboard?

 

[Edhawk]

The error you are facing is ‘still waiting for root device’. This is common when the USB installer is dropped by the OS after control has been handed over to the OS from the bios.

You should try using a different USB port in the first instance.

The better solution is to map your USB ports in Catalina, so they work without issue in macOS.

 

[apriliars3]

The error you are facing is ‘still waiting for root device’. This is common when the USB installer is dropped by the OS after control has been handed over to the OS from the bios.

You should try using a different USB port in the first instance.

The better solution is to map your USB ports in Catalina, so they work without issue in macOS.

I test with different ports, front and rear of the case and motherboard.

How can map my usb ports? All works with macOS Big Sur, I can use any of this, also I can boot macOS Big Sur with this pendrive, but if I try boot macOS Installer has issue with USBXHCI I understand. I test with Samdisk Extreme 16GB usb 3.0, I can test with other Toshiba 32GB usb 2.0 better.

Need modify something on bios? I have MSI B550 Tomahawk motherboard, and dortania guide recommended ony Big Sur, and I can update to Monterey or install Ventura.

Hardware Limitations | OpenCore Install Guide (dortania.github.io)

For the most part, all motherboards are supported as long as the CPU is. The exception is MSI 500-series AMD motherboards (A520, B550, and X570). These motherboards have issues with macOS Monterey:

• PCIe devices are not always enumerated properly
• The BIOS update for Zen 3 support breaks boot

macOS Big Sur or earlier is recommended for these motherboards.

 

[shnyaps]

I test with different ports, front and rear of the case and motherboard.

How can map my usb ports? All works with macOS Big Sur, I can use any of this, also I can boot macOS Big Sur with this pendrive, but if I try boot macOS Installer has issue with USBXHCI I understand. I test with Samdisk Extreme 16GB usb 3.0, I can test with other Toshiba 32GB usb 2.0 better.

Need modify something on bios? I have MSI B550 Tomahawk motherboard, and dortania guide recommended ony Big Sur, and I can update to Monterey or install Ventura.

Hardware Limitations | OpenCore Install Guide (dortania.github.io)

For the most part, all motherboards are supported as long as the CPU is. The exception is MSI 500-series AMD motherboards (A520, B550, and X570). These motherboards have issues with macOS Monterey:

• PCIe devices are not always enumerated properly
• The BIOS update for Zen 3 support breaks boot

macOS Big Sur or earlier is recommended for these motherboards.

hmm.. I have MSI x570 MB+5950x and Ventura is working amazing. Just recreated config from zero (step by step)