The best way is to read opencore documentation to know, i believe.
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macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread
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1. I assume you used the barrykn method.
2. For high temperature, adjust the fans according to the CPU ... and check if it works.
3. To install catalina create a usb boot (google tutorials)
You convinced me. It's free. Just publish there a recipe for people wanting to go easily on your free way. Good luck. As for now there is absolutely no proof of success on Big Sur.
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justperry
macrumors G5
Not the regular (Apple) way, I don't want/need Opencore/Refind.
But, thanks you pointed that out, wasn't aware this was posible.
justperry
macrumors G5
There are plenty of people which can't comprehend non standard ways, so yes, not easy for noobs.
justperry
macrumors G5
What is that crap (Fugly) system, how dare you posting an enemy's OS screenshot. 😉
Blasphemy.
Ausdauersportler
macrumors 603
But you have seen that we have an OC based patcher, that some systems need OC to boot into Big Sure and the iMac and MacPro users with AMD Polaris or Ellesmere or Navi GPUs use OC to get the hardware acceleration flying.
It is part of the hack now, denying it is like fighting against volume sealing...
Hey. Please accept 1000 apologies, I know this question has been asked more than once on this forum, but I missed it. Please tell me how to open access to Extensions🤦 Thanks.
Ausdauersportler
macrumors 603
Read the micro patcher docs and honestly there is a search function on top of this page making it possibly to search for posts of particular users or key words and even limiting the result set to this thread.
nekton1
macrumors 65816
Running starplayrx BMO2ac_wifi method on MacPro 3,1 with GTX680 (efi flashed) and BT4/wifiac card from 2014 iMac and only thing not working is Airdrop; it flashed-up a neighboring supported MacMini but when I tried an Airdrop transfer, the partner disappeared and has not been seen since.
I'll post some logs if that helps.
I'll post some logs if that helps.
MacHacJac
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******beta release******
Alright so to be clear these drivers are beta I’m looking for about five or ten people who understands terminal and basic scirpiting to participate. I am announcing today support for Radeon 6x from the MacBook Pro 2011 full acceleration support in Catalina and partial support for resolution and basic features like screen brightness and resolution under Big Sur. I should give alittle background. I am a former developer for AMD and a former employee of intel I’ve been coding for almost 20 years this would not have been possible without madmax or thebighive. I will be releasing the final Kexts on December 15th. Until that point I need beta testers if you message me I’ll forward a link to my Google drive. Please note I am not looking for amateurs. You need basic knowledge of Terminal and scripting. Happy holidays everyone 🙂
Alright so to be clear these drivers are beta I’m looking for about five or ten people who understands terminal and basic scirpiting to participate. I am announcing today support for Radeon 6x from the MacBook Pro 2011 full acceleration support in Catalina and partial support for resolution and basic features like screen brightness and resolution under Big Sur. I should give alittle background. I am a former developer for AMD and a former employee of intel I’ve been coding for almost 20 years this would not have been possible without madmax or thebighive. I will be releasing the final Kexts on December 15th. Until that point I need beta testers if you message me I’ll forward a link to my Google drive. Please note I am not looking for amateurs. You need basic knowledge of Terminal and scripting. Happy holidays everyone 🙂
buckrock
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BenSova
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Anyone here have any experience with startosinstall? Is that what was used in dosdude1's patchers for the install to this machine option? I'm hoping to use it in the post install app for updating, but I want to do a reality check and make sure that I'm not jumping out of line here.
Hey @nekton1 would you mind giving us a quick rundown of what method you used to install it? I have pretty much the exact same computer as you (2008 Mac Pro 3,1, 2x 3.2GHz quad core Xeon, GTX680 2GB EFI flashed GPU, 32GB RAM, BCM94360CD WiFi AC + BT4 card and the APFS Boot ROM Patch) and am looking at installing Big Sur but this thread has me seriously confused as to what the current best way is. Thanks a million.
nekton1
macrumors 65816
Got Airdrop working; just needed the BT pairing setup once.
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Ausdauersportler
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This is really an interesting project:
Since the iMac Mid 2011 family use the same GPU type (ATI Radeon 6750, 6770, 6790) can we expect that your drivers will work with theses cards and systems, too?
Hello everyone, let's see if you can help me, I have a usb with catalina loader (opencore 0.6.3), for the spelling that I have changed to my iMac 2011, I have configured it with the .plist file for bigsur, but I have a problem, in Catalina I could choose it as a boot disk, but in big sur it doesn't appear in system settings, choose boot disk.
the kexts are only guaranteed for MacBook Pro although the same kexts are used at startup for the iMac as well so my modified kexts may work but I’m not guaranteeing it because I don’t own a 2011 iMac!