MaciASL VS The-TLDR-Guide-of-Fixing-Shutdown-Restart

If you have access to macOS than you can download and open this tool https://github.com/acidanthera/MaciASL/releases. Right after you open this tool will show you your DSDT and than you can search for whatever the guide tells you to search for.

Then I assumed that I need an editor that can open .aml/.dsl files and use it to find some text in the DSDT.aml, which then I have to paste into the FixShutdown-USB-SSDT.dsl. For this purpose I used MaciASL (which is also not mentioned in the instructions).

Can't emphasize enough for anyone new - take the time and get a basic understanding of how ACPI tables work. Tools used - OpenCore 0.7.8, ProperTree, ssdtprgen, iASL (MaciASL), SSDTTime, and Hackintool for exploring the Hardware and IOReg. i'm averaging 2:45 on battery; for reference - it's roughly 4 in Windows, and less than 2 in Kubuntu 22.04

Note that do NOT use iasl or maciASL by Rehab (they are old and not updated) instead use the ones by acidanthera, iasl-stable, maciASL

Also make sure to use MaciASL by Acidanthera (link)

You need proper software to do that. Download maciASL: https://github.com/acidanthera/MaciASL

So I've previously only had this annoying 'restarts when you try to shutdown' problem many years ago on a Clover based build and IIRC a Clover update auto-magically fixed it. For Opencore I've found what seem to be good guides on Dortania and Koal166's TLDR guide which is much easier to understand.

Hello gang, I'm putting the finishing touches on my first hackintosh in a long time, and for the most part everything has gone much better than expected! I'm just tidying up a few loose ends, and one that has been eluding me has been that shutdown restarts the machine instead of actually shutting it down. The Opencore guide has a section on this but it isn't very detailed, this Github guide by Koala166 is a lot more helpful, but I still got stuck. Basically, my USB Controller has two AHCI paths, and I can't figure out how to deal with that. The GitHub guide suggests that I can duplicate the code block in the fixshutdown aml, but doing that leads to a compiler error, and I can't find any guides or forum posts or anything that mention a device having multiple AHCI paths.

OK, I managed to figure out what I was supposed to do, and fixed the issue. I have also created a guide for anyone who's interested.