I have multiple disks and some of them don't have efi folder. You can find the blessed efi driver with the bless command. Sometimes you will find it in the system folder. You can always create a new folder though. Just follow the structure of the OC.
Many thanks for showing I am not alone. Used Bless info verbose and it seems to indicate that it is using an EFI in the S/L Core services. No idea why this is so but as with forums they are great for learning more about the Mac. Maybe this is because it is an NVME drive that appears as an external drive. I would guess that making an EFI folder in the EFI partition would be the way to go so that OC can be used. Will wait to see if any more knowledgeable member can confirm this.
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I will probably hold off for now and await developments. Adding an EFI folder would seem to make sense and then Bless to this. Thanks for your great work on this.
Mac-Pro-4:~ martinlo$ bless --mount /Volumes/EFI --setBoot
Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bcsudo bless --mount /Volumes/EFI --setBoot --file /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/OpenCore.efiIt does not work for me. I tried imacpro1.1, Macpro7.1 tried renaming to GFX0 but no hardware acceleration. Has anybody else achieved acceleration with OC?This is the one stop shop HWAccel guide. The 1st half was invented by cdf, credit to him. I just put everything into a single post. So that no need to visit the OpenCore thread for those only interested in HWAccel. I won't explain anything in this post. The steps here just for "how to make it work". If you want to know what those setting really means. Please go to the OpenCore thread, everything should be covered at there.
OpenCore on the Mac Pro
This guide explains how to use the excellent OpenCore boot loader to install, run, and update the latest version of macOS on the MacPro5,1, resulting in a clean, unaltered operating system just like on a supported Mac.forums.macrumors.com
WARNING:
For those who need dual boot, please stay with the old method. I have no time to test the dual boot compatibility with this method yet.
For those who need multiple monitors, you must follow all steps below. Otherwise, some display ports may not work. Also, you may experience some screen flickering when just boot to desktop. But then should be stabilised. For single monitor users, you may skip steps 4a, 4b and 12a, but expect only the 1st display port on your graphic card work. It's your choice.
iStat menu sensors won't work. But MacsFanControl and smcFanControl can still control the fans (I expect TG-Pro can do the same thing, but haven't test it). However, most sensors reading may still disappear. AFAIK, all sensors still work, just the 3rd party software not necessary able to read them.
BACKUP! BACKUP! and BACKUP! before you do anything.
I also highly recommend you have a bootable clone of your current boot drive. Or at least have a Bootable installer right next to you, just in case something goes wrong.
The whole process does not need boot screen. However, I still highly recommend you have a Mac EFI UGA graphic card immediately available to you when required.
So, now if you willing to take the risk, you may start. And please report back if there is any error you. I prefer some experienced users as testers, and then tell me if it work or not. There is no guarantee that the follow steps (and my uploaded config.plist file) are 100% correct. The steps and config in this guide are a bit different than my actual setup. Because I fine tune the setting a bit to fit my own cMP. It is extremely hard to keep everything as simple as possible, but also can fine tune for different configs cMP. Therefore, the following steps are developed for "one method fit all 5,1".
000) Dump your current BootROM with ROMTool. I have absolutely no idea if this SMBIOS spoofing method is 100% safe to the firmware. For those who worry about may brick the logic board, please stand by for at least few more weeks. So that some pioneers can test this method, and analyse if this is safe to do so. At this moment, we simply lack of evidence to decide if it's safe / unsafe. (Credit to Tsialex, he advice me to that still no evidence to tell if OpenCore with SMBIOS Spoofing will write anything into the private NVRAM section. Which has no way to erase by normal user except flash your backup BootROM image back to the cMP. We already started the investigation, stay tuned).
00) Remove Lilu and WhateverGreen if you installed them before. Also, revert the AppleGVA.framework if you edit that before.
0) Disable SIP -> Shutdown -> Remove ALL hard drives (as safety precaution) except your current boot drive (I expect it's with the latest Mojave), then boot to desktop
1) Download OpenCore 0.5.1
2) Download AppleSupport 2.1.1
3) Download Clover Configurator
4) Download Config.plist
4a) Download Lilu 1.3.9
4b) Download WhateverGreen 1.3.4
5) Unzip everything
View attachment 873851
6) Open terminal, and enter
Code:diskutil list
7) You should see something like this, but with different disk identifier. If there is only one hard drive, the disk identifier should be disk0s1 for your EFI partition. Not matter what the number is, just use that number. e.g. In my case, it's disk6s1.
View attachment 873834
8) enter (use your own identifier if not disk0s1)
and enter your admin password accordinglyCode:sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1
9) You should now see a EFI partition mounted on your desktop. Open it, there should be a EFI folder inside, backup this folder and everything inside. I suggest make at least two backups.
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10) Copy the OpenCore-0.5.1-RELEASE/EFI folder to the EFI partition. The resulting folder, /Volumes/EFI/EFI, should contain the folders OC and BOOT
11) Copy AppleSupport-2.1.1-RELEASE/Drivers/FwRuntimeServices.efi to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/Drivers
View attachment 873848
12) Copy config.plist to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC
View attachment 873847
12a) Copy Lilu-1.3.9-RELEASE/Lilu.kext and WhateverGreen-1.3.4-RELEASE/WhateverGreen.kext to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/Kexts
View attachment 873853
13) Open Clover Configurator, then select SMBIOS -> click the little button on the right hand side to select iMacPro1,1 (near the bottom of the list) -> generate your own Serial Number and UUID.
View attachment 873850
14) Open config.plist with TextEdit
15) search "Your Serial Number", and replace that by the Serial Number generated in step 13
16) search "Your UUID", and replace that by the UUID generated in step 13
17) Save the file
18) Go back to terminal, and enter
Code:bless --mount /Volumes/EFI --setBoot
If you reboot now, your 5,1 should ident itself as iMac Pro, and have full HWAccel.
If anything goes wrong, NVRAM reset should disable OpenCore and make your cMP boot normally.
However, if that doesn't work, you should swap in your backup boot drive, remove the modded hard drive, and try NVRAM reset again.
If still doesn't work, swap in your Mac EFI UGA graphic card to see what's wrong.
Once you can boot to desktop, you can shutdown and re-install you modded hard drive. If you replace the EFI folder by your backup, OpenCore and all associated kexts will be completely removed from your
boot drive. That should go back to the "normal" state.
And please report back if the above can actually work, thanks!
Last login: Wed Nov 6 21:52:10 on console
g5@G5 ~ % ioreg -l |grep \"PerformanceStatistics\" | cut -d '{' -f 2 | tr '|' ',' | tr -d '}' | tr ',' '\n'|grep 'HW\|Command'
"HWChannel KIQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel VCE
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel sDMA0
Commands Completed"=7381
"HWChannel VCELLQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel VCELLQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU GPCOM
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU RBI
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel GFX
Commands Completed"=7627
"HWChannel Compute1
Commands Completed"=19
"HWChannel Compute1
Commands Submitted"=19
"HWChannel UVDEnc
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel UVDEnc
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU RBI
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU GPCOM
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel UVDDec
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel KIQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel GFX
Commands Submitted"=7627
"HWChannel Compute0
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA1
Commands Submitted"=8105
"HWChannel UVDDec
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel Compute0
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel UVDEncLLQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel Compute2
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel VCE
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA0
Commands Submitted"=7381
"HWChannel Compute2
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel UVDEncLLQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA1
Commands Completed"=12383
g5@G5 ~ %"HWChannel KIQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel VCE
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel sDMA0
Commands Completed"=1648
"HWChannel VCELLQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel VCELLQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU GPCOM
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU RBI
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel GFX
Commands Completed"=688
"HWChannel Compute1
Commands Completed"=72
"HWChannel Compute1
Commands Submitted"=72
"HWChannel UVDEnc
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel UVDEnc
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU RBI
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU GPCOM
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel UVDDec
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel KIQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel GFX
Commands Submitted"=688
"HWChannel Compute0
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA1
Commands Submitted"=1271
"HWChannel UVDDec
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel Compute0
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel UVDEncLLQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel Compute2
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel VCE
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA0
Commands Submitted"=1648
"HWChannel Compute2
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel UVDEncLLQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA1
Commands Completed"=1875-----------------------------------------------------------------------
System Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Host G5.local
OS macOS Catalina Version 10.15.1 (Build 19B88)
Kernel Darwin 19.0.0 x86_64
RAM 128.00 GB
Model Identifier iMacPro1,1
CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz
Intel Generation ???
Platform ID 0x00000000
Board ID Mac-F221BEC8
FW Version 144.0.0.0.0
Serial Number
Hardware UUID
System ID
ROM 70CD6093A784
Board Serial Number
VDA Decoder Decoder Failed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Serial Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Country China (Quanta Computer)
Year 2019
Week 08.13.2019-08.19.2019
Line 146 (copy 1)
Model iMacPro1,1
Valid Unlikely
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PXS1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
GPU Name Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
GPU Device ID 0x67DF1002
Quartz Extreme (QE/CI) Yes
Metal Supported Yes
Metal Device Name AMD Radeon RX 480
Metal Default Device Yes
Metal Low Power No
Metal Headless No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
boot-args -v agdpmod=pikera -no_compat_check-----------------------------------------------------------------------
System Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Host Mac-Pro-Mojave
OS macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G1012)
Kernel Darwin 18.7.0 x86_64
RAM 48.00 GB
Model Identifier iMacPro1,1
CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3690 @ 3.47GHz
Intel Generation ???
Platform ID 0x00000000
Board ID Mac-7BA5B2D9E42DDD94
FW Version 144.0.0.0.0
Serial Number
Hardware UUID
System ID
ROM 00254BFB1892
Board Serial Number
VDA Decoder Fully Supported
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Serial Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Country China (Quanta Computer)
Year 2017
Week 07.23.2017-07.29.2017
Line 3271 (copy 1)
Model iMacPro1,1
Valid Possibly
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
display
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
GPU Name Vega 20 [Radeon VII]
GPU Device ID 0x66AF1002
Quartz Extreme (QE/CI) Yes
Metal Supported Yes
Metal Device Name AMD Radeon VII
Metal Default Device Yes
Metal Low Power No
Metal Headless No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------With your config file the system just stutters real bad. Videoproc refreshes endlessly
I have partial success:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
System Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Host G5.lan
OS macOS Catalina Version 10.15.1 (Build 19B88)
Kernel Darwin 19.0.0 x86_64
RAM 128.00 GB
Model Identifier iMacPro1,1
CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz
Intel Generation ???
Platform ID 0x00000000
Board ID Mac-7BA5B2D9E42DDD94
FW Version 144.0.0.0.0
Serial Number
Hardware UUID
System ID
ROM 70CD6093A784
Board Serial Number
VDA Decoder Fully Supported
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Serial Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Country China (Quanta Computer)
Year 2019
Week 03.19.2019-03.25.2019
Line 837 (copy 1)
Model iMacPro1,1
Valid Unlikely
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PXS1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
GPU Name Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
GPU Device ID 0x67DF1002
Quartz Extreme (QE/CI) Yes
Metal Supported Yes
Metal Device Name AMD Radeon RX 480
Metal Default Device Yes
Metal Low Power No
Metal Headless No
-----------------------------------------------------------------------g5@G5 ~ % ioreg -l |grep \"PerformanceStatistics\" | cut -d '{' -f 2 | tr '|' ',' | tr -d '}' | tr ',' '\n'|grep 'HW\|Command'
"HWChannel KIQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel VCE
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel sDMA0
Commands Completed"=6542
"HWChannel VCELLQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel VCELLQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU GPCOM
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU RBI
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel GFX
Commands Completed"=2733
"HWChannel Compute1
Commands Completed"=5810
"HWChannel Compute1
Commands Submitted"=5810
"HWChannel UVDEnc
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel UVDEnc
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU RBI
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel SAMU GPCOM
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel UVDDec
Commands Completed"=1177
"HWChannel KIQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel GFX
Commands Submitted"=2733
"HWChannel Compute0
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA1
Commands Submitted"=10347
"HWChannel UVDDec
Commands Submitted"=1177
"HWChannel Compute0
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel UVDEncLLQ
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel Compute2
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel VCE
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA0
Commands Submitted"=6542
"HWChannel Compute2
Commands Submitted"=0
"HWChannel UVDEncLLQ
Commands Completed"=0
"HWChannel sDMA1
Commands Completed"=14746
g5@G5 ~ %I removed this boot flag even tried agdpmod=vit9696 and shikigva=96, but I cannot get the HEVC working
Did you enabled PXS* rename to GFX0? You have to insert the base64 value of your PXS[1-4].
PXS1@0 is what I see in the registry:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
System Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Host G5.lan
OS macOS Catalina Version 10.15.1 (Build 19B88)
Kernel Darwin 19.0.0 x86_64
RAM 128.00 GB
Model Identifier iMacPro1,1
CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz
Intel Generation ???
Platform ID 0x00000000
Board ID Mac-7BA5B2D9E42DDD94
FW Version 144.0.0.0.0
Serial Number
Hardware UUID
System ID
ROM 70CD6093A784
Board Serial Number
VDA Decoder Fully Supported
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Serial Info
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Country China (Quanta Computer)
Year 2019
Week 03.19.2019-03.25.2019
Line 837 (copy 1)
Model iMacPro1,1
Valid Unlikely
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
PXS1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
GPU Name Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
GPU Device ID 0x67DF1002
----------------------------------------------------------------------- <dict>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>PXS1 to GFX0</string>
<key>Count</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>Enabled</key>
<true/>
<key>Find</key>
<data>UFhTMQ==</data>
<key>Limit</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>Mask</key>
<data></data>
<key>OemTableId</key>
<data></data>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>R0ZYMA==</data>
<key>ReplaceMask</key>
<data></data>
<key>Skip</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>TableLength</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>TableSignature</key>
<data></data>
</dict>That is what I have. At some point I made a mistake but I corrected it. So I was testing with "UFhTMQ=="
My RX-580 is PXS2, slot-2, I can get HEVC working with Mojave or High Sierra using iMacPro1,1 config and UFhTMg==
I got an expansion chassis, but now I moved all the Nvidia cards there. Anyway acceleration is only for the AMD so I have disconnected the chassis during the tests. In the registry they are hooked under "display" and PXS2 in the root, but Hackintool sees it under "display" whereas first slot is directly under PXS1.