OpenCore-Post-Install VS The-TLDR-Guide-of-Fixing-Shutdown-Restart

Rename PTS to ZPTS: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Post-Install/blob/master/extra-files/FixShutdown-Patch.plist

I think that particular kext requires SecureBoot to be setup.

Source: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Post-Install/blob/master/extra-files/SSDT-GPRW.aml https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Post-Install/blob/master/extra-files/GPRW-Patch.plist

I know many people have posted about this already and I know what the issue is related to. I have been trying for days to make the FixShutdown-USB-SSDT.dsl method from Dortania work but the instructions are very unclear.. This is actually my first time asking for help because I'm really stuck and don't know how to proceed.

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).

- Grabbed SSDT-USBX from here

Also download SSDT_USBX.aml from here;

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.