This will be my second Ryzen hackintosh build, or attempt. I had fairly good results with my previous Ryzen laptop, the Helios 500. But there are some nagging issues.
This Legion 5 on paper should be a good candidate to be hackintoshed, but that is why I am making this thread. I am not an expert by any means as I work with a bud to get things installed.
I will be posting the progress and issues that I encounter, maybe some posters here have greater understanding on how to solve bumps in the road.
I will start with some basic information of the Laptop.
Brand: Lenovo
Model: Legion 5 6th Gen
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800h
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600m 8GB ( Same Device ID as all Navi 23 GPU's. wether is desktop or laptop)
HDD: X2 1TB NVMe drives
Ram: x2 8GB 3200mhz ddr4
Display: 15.6 1080p 165HZ
Highlights: There are very few amd laptops with compatible Navi 23 GPU's with a MUX. at the moment, the Asus G14 is one, and this one. But likely to be more this year.
For those that do not know what a "MUX" switch is, essentially allows to disable IGPU of the Ryzen chip allowing for the dedicated GPU to take role of powering the system to Mac OS. My Helios worked because The DGPU was not hindered by the IGPU as it was independent (no Optimus so to speak)
However, I am not sure if this laptop may require some hardware patching to have it able to properly boot into macOS. I will upload a series of pictures of the bios so those who want to chime in can get a good look at what are the option bios wise.
Some image may share some options, needed to take multiple snapshots because they would not fit on a single picture
The following are pictures where I got stuck. If anyone can chime in will be appreciated.
This Legion 5 on paper should be a good candidate to be hackintoshed, but that is why I am making this thread. I am not an expert by any means as I work with a bud to get things installed.
I will be posting the progress and issues that I encounter, maybe some posters here have greater understanding on how to solve bumps in the road.
I will start with some basic information of the Laptop.
Brand: Lenovo
Model: Legion 5 6th Gen
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800h
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600m 8GB ( Same Device ID as all Navi 23 GPU's. wether is desktop or laptop)
HDD: X2 1TB NVMe drives
Ram: x2 8GB 3200mhz ddr4
Display: 15.6 1080p 165HZ
Highlights: There are very few amd laptops with compatible Navi 23 GPU's with a MUX. at the moment, the Asus G14 is one, and this one. But likely to be more this year.
For those that do not know what a "MUX" switch is, essentially allows to disable IGPU of the Ryzen chip allowing for the dedicated GPU to take role of powering the system to Mac OS. My Helios worked because The DGPU was not hindered by the IGPU as it was independent (no Optimus so to speak)
However, I am not sure if this laptop may require some hardware patching to have it able to properly boot into macOS. I will upload a series of pictures of the bios so those who want to chime in can get a good look at what are the option bios wise.
Some image may share some options, needed to take multiple snapshots because they would not fit on a single picture
The following are pictures where I got stuck. If anyone can chime in will be appreciated.
