OpenCore Gigabyte B460M Aorus Pro

OpenCore configurations for Gigabyte B460M Aorus Pro.

Hardware	Affects
Intel Core i5-10400	SMBIOS
Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB	AAPL,ig-platform-id
Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB	NVMeFix.kext
Fenvi FV-T919	BlueToolFixup.kext IO80211FamilyLegacy.kext IOSkywalkFamily.kext

Configuration

Minimal configuration is applied for every release, this means:

• RELEASE version of OpenCorePkg and all kexts.
• Latest OcBinaryData.
• Prebuilt SSDTs from Dortania.
• Post-install treatments:
  • Universal: Boot without USB.
  • Cosmetic: Hide Verbose.
  • Cosmetic: Add GUI, but not boot-chime.
  • Multiboot: Set LauncherOption, not necessary for single-boot system.
• OpenCore Legacy Patcher version 0.6.9 early preview, as documented here.

config.plist

Aside from the vanilla configuration of Desktop Comet Lake config.plist, there are small changes to config.plist.

Key	Value	Note
DeviceProperties → Add → PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0) → AAPL,ig-platform-id	0300C89B	iGPU doesn't drive display because dedicated GPU is present.
Kernel → Quirks → AppleXcpmCfgLock	False	CFG-Lock is disabled in BIOS.
Kernel → Quirks → DisableIoMapper	True	VT-D is enabled in BIOS.
Kernel → Quirks → XhciPortLimit	False	Running macOS 11.3+.

BIOS Settings

Below are the settings found in Advanced Mode of BIOS version F6.

Name	Enabled	Note
Tweaker → Advanced CPU Settings → Hyper-Threading Technology	✓	Auto also works.
Tweaker → Advanced CPU Settings → VT-d	✓	Related to DisableIoMapper.
Settings → IO Ports → Above 4G Decoding	✓
Settings → IO Ports → Super IO Configuration → Serial Port	✗
Settings → IO Ports → USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off	✓
Settings → IO Ports → SATA and RST Configuration → SATA Mode Selection	✓
Settings → Miscellaneous → Intel Platform Trust	✗
Settings → Miscellaneous → SGX	✗
Boot → CFG Lock	✗	Related to AppleXcpmCfgLock.
Boot → Fast Boot	✗
Boot → Windows 10 Features → Windows 10	✓	Other OS also works.
Boot → CSM Support	✗
Boot → Secure Boot → Secure Boot Enable	✗

The rest of settings that are not found:

• Parallel Port
• Thunderbolt
• VT-x
• Execute Disable Bit
• DVMT Pre-Allocated (iGPU Memory)

Do not change settings not listed here. For example, enabling Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) may seem like a good idea, but specifically discouraged.

Updating

Use download_latest.sh to gathers all the necessary files for new updates. Then follow the steps:

• Use OpenCore-$version-RELEASE/X64/EFI/ as main directory.
• Remove everything from EFI/OC/Drivers/ except OpenCanopy.efi and OpenRuntime.efi.
• Move downloaded folders' content to EFI/:
  • Some Kexts/ to EFI/OC/Kexts/, see here for the list.
  • All ACPI/ to EFI/OC/ACPI/.
  • OcBinaryData/Drivers/HfsPlus.efi to EFI/OC/Drivers/.
  • All OcBinaryData/Resources/ to EFI/OC/Resources/ but keep only one of 3 image sets, part of post-install Cosmetic: Add GUI.
• Prepare config.plist:
  • Copy and rename OpenCore-$version-RELEASE/Docs/Sample.plist to EFI/OC/config.plist.
  • Apply basic Desktop Comet Lake config.plist and custom configuration.
  • Apply changes from post-install Cosmetic: Hide Verbose, Cosmetic: Add GUI, and Multiboot: Set LauncherOption
• Move EFI/ to drive's EFI partition, part of post-install Universal: Boot without USB.