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startergo
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lbuisson
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yes which icns name is it?
have you complete list of all icns name?
it is for finalyse my 2 themes for OpenCore 🙂
I always keep SIP off, but you should able to use OC / HWAccel with SIP on. I tested.
I ran the latest OpenCore from the link in the YouTube description. I'm on a Mac Pro 5.1 running Mojave, using a Radeon vii.
Everything went great, and I got the boot picker when I rebooted. However, choosing my boot drive (Samsung SSD in a pcie card, not NVME) sends me to hang on a white screen with the Apple logo. I can boot into the recovery partition, though.
Resetting the PRAM didn't work.
Nor did removing the SSD and resetting the PRAM.
Restoring the original GPU and booting whilst holding option takes me to a blank white screen with a moveable mouse cursor.
Trying to reinstall the OS came back with "Your Mac needs a firmware update in order to install to this volume. Please select a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume instead"
Disk utility wouldn't let me erase any drives to anything except AFPS, but I found a terminal command which unlocked extended journaled as an option. I formatted an old drive back to journaled, and ran the Mojave installer from the recovery partition.
The installer ran up until the point where it restarts. Got the boot picker again, this time with the new drive. Buuuut trying to select that drive returns an error of "MacOS could not be installed on your computer. An error occured while verifying firmware. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again."
Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.
Everything went great, and I got the boot picker when I rebooted. However, choosing my boot drive (Samsung SSD in a pcie card, not NVME) sends me to hang on a white screen with the Apple logo. I can boot into the recovery partition, though.
Resetting the PRAM didn't work.
Nor did removing the SSD and resetting the PRAM.
Restoring the original GPU and booting whilst holding option takes me to a blank white screen with a moveable mouse cursor.
Trying to reinstall the OS came back with "Your Mac needs a firmware update in order to install to this volume. Please select a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume instead"
Disk utility wouldn't let me erase any drives to anything except AFPS, but I found a terminal command which unlocked extended journaled as an option. I formatted an old drive back to journaled, and ran the Mojave installer from the recovery partition.
The installer ran up until the point where it restarts. Got the boot picker again, this time with the new drive. Buuuut trying to select that drive returns an error of "MacOS could not be installed on your computer. An error occured while verifying firmware. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again."
Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.
For Catalina installation, you have to turn on the VMM flag and turn off SMBIOS spoofing.
Also, please make sure you don’t have another copy of Lilu or WEG installed.
Option boot often won’t work with TempoSSD card
antonlinus
macrumors regular
Is it possible to keep SIP on even if i use your custom .kext for downvolting my Radeon VII? Usually enabling SIP would disable the .kext no? Can i move the custom .kext to the OC EFI to allow for enabled SIP + power management on the vii?
Thanks for the reply. I'm getting the issue with the Mojave installer - I don't even have Catalina as an option.
Can I uninstall lilu or weg without being able to get into the OS? At the moment I can't boot into anything. Is this something I can do via terminal?
I tried taking the SSD out of the sonnet card and running it straight from one of the SATA bays - option boot still just returns a white screen with a moveable cursor.
you can either use the no kext argument for SIP, or move the whole table into the OC config
Make sure no drive installed on the sonnet card, or better remove the card.
Mojave doesn’t need VMM, but still need to disable SMBIOS spoofing
I removed the sonnet card when I put the SSD into the SATA bay. No cigar, unfortunately. 😓
Any tips on how to disable SMBIOS spoofing without access to the OS would be appreciated. Is there a way to do it from the terminal?
You should able to do everything in terminal, but I am not familiar with the require commands.
You may need to do some search about how to mount find / mount the EFI partition, and edit the config.plist (e.g. by using nano)
The required modification is at here.
MAFcz
macrumors newbie
Hi,
my friend has problem with HW acceleration. He instals Open Core from post #1314 and everything works. After that he edits config.plist base on post #1326 to install Catalina. He upgrades to Catalina and he misunderstand something about HW acceleration because he tried to activate it HW acceleration base on post #1 by adding Lilu and WhateverGreen to Library/Extensions a he enter code to Terminal too.
I told to delete kext in Extensions but nothings change. Catalina works, h.264 works but no HEVC encode.
Also in "About this Mac" he has Unknown CPU.
He has Mac Pro 2009 update to 5.1 with 144.0.0.0 firmware with Xeon W3680, GPU is RX 560.
Thanks all of you for advices!
my friend has problem with HW acceleration. He instals Open Core from post #1314 and everything works. After that he edits config.plist base on post #1326 to install Catalina. He upgrades to Catalina and he misunderstand something about HW acceleration because he tried to activate it HW acceleration base on post #1 by adding Lilu and WhateverGreen to Library/Extensions a he enter code to Terminal too.
I told to delete kext in Extensions but nothings change. Catalina works, h.264 works but no HEVC encode.
Also in "About this Mac" he has Unknown CPU.
He has Mac Pro 2009 update to 5.1 with 144.0.0.0 firmware with Xeon W3680, GPU is RX 560.
Thanks all of you for advices!
antonlinus
macrumors regular
As in just cut from the /library folder and paste into the OC/kext folder? Or actually copying the text from the kext and pasting it into the .config in the oc efi?
Hey guys, is there a stable version working yet that includes:
- h264/h265 Hardware Accelleration
- Boot Picker
- Titan Ridge Thunderbolt3 hack
- h264/h265 Hardware Accelleration
- Boot Picker
- Titan Ridge Thunderbolt3 hack
I know few guys did that, but since I don’t have that card to test, so, not included in my package.
The modification seems fairly straight forward, may be you guys can open a new thread which is particularly about how to config OC to support Titan Ridge.
I'll consider adding the Titan Ridge Thunderbolt hack/card only if a new 218+ ppi 5K or 6K monitor 27"+ as current monitor options are outdated.
As for boot picker - I am also using NDK boot picker recommended by @h9826790 with an all black theme + AppleUserInterfaceTheme enabled and I'm loving it!
As for boot picker - I am also using NDK boot picker recommended by @h9826790 with an all black theme + AppleUserInterfaceTheme enabled and I'm loving it!
MAFcz
macrumors newbie
So we done NVRAM reset and start from scratch. Now we have Catalina and Only h.264. Still no HEVC. We use package from post #1314 with OpenCore 0.5.7.
Any idea where we done something wrong? I use same package on my dual cpu Mac Pro and everything works fine and I absolutely love it!
Thanks for advices.
Please update to 10.15.4. Even that's not a requirement, but that may able to fix some "broken" system files.
Thanks for this. I was unsuccessful in editing the right plist, so I plugged my harddrive into a windows machine, and used some software to delete the EFI folders in the partition to disable OpenCore.
I'm now trying to install Mojave on a secondary drive so that I can try again, but I'm getting the message that my firmware needs to be updated in order to install. I am already running Mojave on my main drive, and already ran the firmware update to do this. Do I need to run it again?
(EDIT: changed clover to OpenCore)
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startergo
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