Hey guys, I have a radeongate Macbook 2011. I swapped out the SSD hard drive to another Macbook to install High Sierra on it then swapped it back into the the Macbook 2011. Then I tried starting it up again in single recovery mode wanting to try dosdude's solution...
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Discrete AMD GPU of my 2011 MacBook Pro 8,2 has finally failed because of the reasons mentioned here (...
Installing GRUB
Follow the steps described in this guide:
https://gist.github.com/blackgate/17ac402e35d2f7e0f1c9708db3dc7a44
Installing the attached kext to prevent the GPU from waking up from sleep (optional)
WARNING: This kext should only be used with the GRUB solution in place, otherwise...