MP 1,1-5,1 Activate AMD hardware acceleration

[MacsInSpace]

Hey All! I got my MacPro 5,1 + RX580 up and running with full HWAcel as per post #1314 (thank you very much for that!)

Everything was working perfectly until I installed the latest Security Update (for Mojave). Now all of a sudden I cannot download from the App Store. It gives me the error message: "We could not complete your purchase. cancelled". The App Store was working fine before the Security Update and the update is the ONLY thing I changed about my system before the Store started giving me this error. I tried signing out/in from my account and rebooting the machine but to no avail. And my account still works fine on my MBP running High Sierra.

Is this because I still have SIP disabled and the new security update doesn't like that? Or do I need to reinstall the OpenCore package after the update? I tried googling the error message and none of the results helped. The only thing I could think of is that I'm using the package from post #1314 and this disagrees with the latest security update's temperament.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[Dayo]

Everything was working perfectly until I installed the latest Security Update (for Mojave). Now all of a sudden I cannot download from the App Store.

HWAccel depends on spoofing your Board ID which might be flagged as an issue in an enhanced security environment.

Have you tried without HWAccel enabled? I.E., without the spoofing?

 

[h9826790]

Hey All! I got my MacPro 5,1 + RX580 up and running with full HWAcel as per post #1314 (thank you very much for that!)

Everything was working perfectly until I installed the latest Security Update (for Mojave). Now all of a sudden I cannot download from the App Store. It gives me the error message: "We could not complete your purchase. cancelled". The App Store was working fine before the Security Update and the update is the ONLY thing I changed about my system before the Store started giving me this error. I tried signing out/in from my account and rebooting the machine but to no avail. And my account still works fine on my MBP running High Sierra.

Is this because I still have SIP disabled and the new security update doesn't like that? Or do I need to reinstall the OpenCore package after the update? I tried googling the error message and none of the results helped. The only thing I could think of is that I'm using the package from post #1314 and this disagrees with the latest security update's temperament.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for the help!
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Please perform a NVRAM reset (hold Command + Option + P + R to boot, keep holding the keys until you hear the 4th chime)

If you are running anything that require SIP disabled, you can do that after the NVRAM reset.

I’ve seen this once. And successfully fixed it by performing NVRAM reset, hopefully it helps.

 

[Darek Maślanka]

Please perform a NVRAM reset (hold Command + Option + P + R to boot, keep holding the keys until you hear the 4th chime)

If you are running anything that require SIP disabled, you can do that after the NVRAM reset.

I’ve seen this once. And successfully fixed it by performing NVRAM reset, hopefully it helps.

Hello

I have exactly the same problem. NVRAM reset did not help.


config.plst as per post #1314 nothing changed.

Thanx for excellent work.

 

[h9826790]

Hello

I have exactly the same problem. NVRAM reset did not help.


config.plst as per post #1314 nothing changed.

Thanx for excellent work.

Did you check the Apple server status in your area?

Sometimes it's not the cMP's fault.

I saw lots of similar posts on Facebook today (not from cMP users). So, it seems Apple's server has problem now.

 

[Darek Maślanka]

Did you check the Apple server status in your area?

Sometimes it's not the cMP's fault.

I saw lots of similar posts on Facebook today (not from cMP users). So, it seems Apple's server has problem now.

On another computer it works without a problem.

Server all green.

I try toomorow without HWAcc.

 

[MIKX]

On another computer it works without a problem.

Server all green.

I try toomorow without HWAcc.

Did you do the NVRAM reset like this ? ( read all the text )

 

[Darek Maślanka]

Did you do the NVRAM reset like this ? ( read all the text )

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Yes

 

[sailmac]

Everything was working perfectly until I installed the latest Security Update (for Mojave). Now all of a sudden I cannot download from the App Store. It gives me the error message: "We could not complete your purchase. cancelled". The App Store was working fine before the Security Update and the update is the ONLY thing I changed about my system before the Store started giving me this error.

FWIW, I'm getting the same error message for two days in a row. Simply trying to update an app via the Mac App Store.

My 5,1 is running Mojave 10.14.6 (18G4032). I have not installed the latest macOS supplemental update and I do not have OpenCore installed (yet).

It looks to me like your installation of the security update, followed by the App Store error, is a coincidence rather than a cause. HTH.

 

[Dayo]

It looks to me like your installation of the security update, followed by the App Store error, is a coincidence rather than a cause.

Yeah. Seems to be a widespread issue and not related to OC: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251378763?login=true&page=3

 

[Darek Maślanka]

Yeah. Seems to be a widespread issue and not related to OC: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251378763?login=true&page=3

One start of Windows without OC (after a NVRAM reset, the computer booted from a disk attached instead of DVD-ROM), saving certificates through windows to ROM (fast beast), it turns out that this is rather a problem with Mojave.
Fortunately, I had a BootRom backup, at least I practiced restoring from a backup: D

Sorry my english is poor.

 

[h9826790]

One start of Windows without OC (after a NVRAM reset, the computer booted from a disk attached instead of DVD-ROM), saving certificates through windows to ROM (fast beast), it turns out that this is rather a problem with Mojave.
Fortunately, I had a BootRom backup, at least I practiced restoring from a backup: D

Sorry my english is poor.

It seems I found the solution. Apple updated some terms or policy. Therefore, Appstore refuse to download anything until you accept that.

I just checked my Appstore, have the same error.

Then all I did is just go to the Apple Support Communities website -> log in. Then it shows me a new terms of service for me to accept. Once I accepted it, my Appstore back to normal straight away. (If you already logged in, you may perform a logout then login again).

N.B. I updated to 18G4032 on the 1st day it released. And Appstore works after that update. So, this is not update related, but Appstore in Mojave just suddenly stop working today (until I accept the new terms).

 

[MacsInSpace]

Then all I did is just go to the Apple Support Communities website -> log in. Then it shows me a new terms of service for me to accept. Once I accepted it, my Appstore back to normal straight away. (If you already logged in, you may perform a logout then login again).

Accepted the new terms and now the Appstore is working just fine, again. Crisis averted. Thank you!

 

[gabe211]

Hello, I followed directions as posted on #1314 but having issues booting.

When I select the OS volume on the boot picker it just stalls at the white screen and gray apple logo. No progress bar.

I performed a NVRAM reset (let it chime 4 times) and no luck.

Interestingly I can boot into the recovery volume just fine. Figured maybe something wrong with the OS install so thought I'd just reinstall and even that didn't work. At the recovery volume, when I select "reinstall macOS" I just get "Installation requires downloading important content. That content can't be downloaded at this time. Try again later."

Figured the recovery partition is borked, so I tried a Catalina installer boot usb, when I try to boot off of it I get a progress bar that just hangs around 90%.

I don't know what else to try

 

[h9826790]

Hello, I followed directions as posted on #1314 but having issues booting.

When I select the OS volume on the boot picker it just stalls at the white screen and gray apple logo. No progress bar.

I performed a NVRAM reset (let it chime 4 times) and no luck.

Interestingly I can boot into the recovery volume just fine. Figured maybe something wrong with the OS install so thought I'd just reinstall and even that didn't work. At the recovery volume, when I select "reinstall macOS" I just get "Installation requires downloading important content. That content can't be downloaded at this time. Try again later."

Figured the recovery partition is borked, so I tried a Catalina installer boot usb, when I try to boot off of it I get a progress bar that just hangs around 90%.

I don't know what else to try

Do you have backup boot drive? Or Mojave? Or even Windows?

Basically, if this OC package can't work as expected, my suggestion still boot to any OS / recovery partition - >mount EFI partition -> delete OC.

This will allow your cMP boot without OC again.

Anyway, did you installed anything that required SIP to be disabled? If yes, you may boot to recovery again, and disable SIP to see if that make any difference.

Your Recovery Partition seems working. However, that "cannot download" problem seems related to the "new terms issue" we just discussed in other posts.

Please go to the Apple Support Communities website, and login (or logout -> login), then see if that allow your recovery partition to download the required installer.

 

[startergo]

Hello, I followed directions as posted on #1314 but having issues booting.

When I select the OS volume on the boot picker it just stalls at the white screen and gray apple logo. No progress bar.

I performed a NVRAM reset (let it chime 4 times) and no luck.

Interestingly I can boot into the recovery volume just fine. Figured maybe something wrong with the OS install so thought I'd just reinstall and even that didn't work. At the recovery volume, when I select "reinstall macOS" I just get "Installation requires downloading important content. That content can't be downloaded at this time. Try again later."

Figured the recovery partition is borked, so I tried a Catalina installer boot usb, when I try to boot off of it I get a progress bar that just hangs around 90%.

I don't know what else to try

You might have a bad drive.

Cannot install macOS, ‘installation requires content not available’.

Brief summary. Partner and I own two 2017 iMacs. Yesterday I wanted to clean install both. 21inch iMac, cmd + option + r, delete partition, reinstall latest version of macOS with internet recovery. Now I go to my iMac, 2017 27inch. Same steps, cmd + option + r, delete drive, install macOS...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[gabe211]

Do you have backup boot drive? Or Mojave? Or even Windows?

Basically, if this OC package can't work as expected, my suggestion still boot to any OS / recovery partition - >mount EFI partition -> delete OC.

This will allow your cMP boot without OC again.

Anyway, did you installed anything that required SIP to be disabled? If yes, you may boot to recovery again, and disable SIP to see if that make any difference.

Your Recovery Partition seems working. However, that "cannot download" problem seems related to the "new terms issue" we just discussed in other posts.

Please go to the Apple Support Communities website, and login (or logout -> login), then see if that allow your recovery partition to download the required installer.

I do have a separate drive with Mojave. When I select it, it stalls at the apple logo and progress bar with about 90% progress. Same as trying to boot of the USB installer.

Before applying opencore, the only modification I had was using the Innie plugin for Lilu to make my NVME drive internal. Could that have cause conflicts?

I'm thinking my next route I guess is to put my Catalina NVME in an enclosure, mount it on another machine, then mount its EFI using clover, and delete opencore. That hopefully should work.

*edit, I missed the part where I can just mount the EFI using the terminal using the recovery partition. I'll try that first.

 

[cdf]

Before applying opencore, the only modification I had was using the Innie plugin for Lilu to make my NVME drive internal. Could that have cause conflicts?

You might have two versions of Lilu, one in /Library/Extensions/ and the other injected by OpenCore. This would be problematic. Use OpenCore to either inject Innie or add the built-in property.

 

[gabe211]

You might have two versions of Lilu, one in /Library/Extensions/ and the other injected by OpenCore. This would be problematic. Use OpenCore to either inject Innie or add the built-in property.

I'm able to boot back into the OS after removing opencore from the EFI partition.

You're right, I was injecting the Lilu plugin via /Library/Extensions/lilu.kext. Interestingly I just tried removing that kext via kext unload (which gave an error saying the service was in use) so removed it via rm -rf and rebooted but even after an nvram reset my pci nvme drive is still showing as internal. SIP has been disabled throughout all of this.

The kext is not present at all at /Library/Extensions/ so I'm afraid to give opencore another try until I can for sure know it's not loaded. Any ideas?

*edit: main drive is now showing as external which means the Lliu xext is now unloaded. I'll give opencore another try 🤞

 

[startergo]

No OpenCore boot nor any Acceleration enabled:

OpenCore boot HWA enabled:

I don't see any difference in the registries. It must have been enabled in a different place then. But where?

 

[gabe211]

If you followed the guide on post #1314 with an NVME drive and are not able to boot (apple logo with no progress bar), I found someone else on this thread had the same issue and they received help on the other open core thread:

try this EFI folder

The EFI folder from the user above instantly worked for me. Though it is an older release of opencore (REL-057-2020-04-04) it works. I'll need to read up on how to update but for now I have hardware acceleration, boot screen, etc.

The only issue I'm running into is that my recovery partition just refuses to show up on the boot screen. It's definitely there but diskutil shows it as unmounted. CMD + R and all the other methods don't work. I've even tried rebuilding the recovery partition with this tool, which shows as successful but still won't show up on the boot picker.

+-- Container disk2 36E8A700-AFAF-4647-9A2E-520899E4754B
|   ====================================================
|   APFS Container Reference:     disk2
|   Size (Capacity Ceiling):      2000189177856 B (2.0 TB)
|   Capacity In Use By Volumes:   979619020800 B (979.6 GB) (49.0% used)
|   Capacity Not Allocated:       1020570157056 B (1.0 TB) (51.0% free)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Store disk1s2 87EF83CC-0248-4EBE-99D1-8DE9D697AFE1
|   |   -----------------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk1s2
|   |   Size:                       2000189177856 B (2.0 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s1 68D4C650-65F7-4ADF-908A-26A0109D3710
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s1 (Data)
|   |   Name:                      Macintosh HD 10.15 - Data (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/Data
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         966916706304 B (966.9 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s2 299C5E04-5AED-4AA5-A27F-0F1E332FCED9
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s2 (Preboot)
|   |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         26841088 B (26.8 MB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s3 C905D33C-08AA-4715-AF43-85820319FD96
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s3 (Recovery)
|   |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         526602240 B (526.6 MB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s4 532980A7-99D4-43ED-AA75-2D48E88D0BF1
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s4 (VM)
|   |   Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /private/var/vm
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         1073762304 B (1.1 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s5 ACDE33F0-A355-4F6C-BF7C-8FB0062C5B92
|       ---------------------------------------------------
|       APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s5 (System)
|       Name:                      Macintosh HD 10.15 (Case-insensitive)
|       Mount Point:               /
|       Capacity Consumed:         10774609920 B (10.8 GB)
|       FileVault:                 No
|

Also, interestingly plugging a USB3 OS installer into a PCIe USB3 card just doesn't show up on the picker, when plugin into the the stock USB2 port it does show up but just refuses to boot. It starts loading but stalls at around 90%. I've tried several USB OS installers so not sure what is going on there.

 

[tsialex]

If you followed the guide on post #1314 with an NVME drive and are not able to boot (apple logo with no progress bar), I found someone else on this thread had the same issue and they received help on the other open core thread:



The EFI folder from the user above instantly worked for me. Though it is an older release of opencore (REL-057-2020-04-04) it works. I'll need to read up on how to update but for now I have hardware acceleration, boot screen, etc.

The only issue I'm running into is that my recovery partition just refuses to show up on the boot screen. It's definitely there but diskutil shows it as unmounted. CMD + R and all the other methods don't work. I've even tried rebuilding the recovery partition with this tool, which shows as successful but still won't show up on the boot picker.

+-- Container disk2 36E8A700-AFAF-4647-9A2E-520899E4754B
|   ====================================================
|   APFS Container Reference:     disk2
|   Size (Capacity Ceiling):      2000189177856 B (2.0 TB)
|   Capacity In Use By Volumes:   979619020800 B (979.6 GB) (49.0% used)
|   Capacity Not Allocated:       1020570157056 B (1.0 TB) (51.0% free)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Store disk1s2 87EF83CC-0248-4EBE-99D1-8DE9D697AFE1
|   |   -----------------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk1s2
|   |   Size:                       2000189177856 B (2.0 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s1 68D4C650-65F7-4ADF-908A-26A0109D3710
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s1 (Data)
|   |   Name:                      Macintosh HD 10.15 - Data (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/Data
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         966916706304 B (966.9 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s2 299C5E04-5AED-4AA5-A27F-0F1E332FCED9
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s2 (Preboot)
|   |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         26841088 B (26.8 MB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s3 C905D33C-08AA-4715-AF43-85820319FD96
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s3 (Recovery)
|   |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         526602240 B (526.6 MB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s4 532980A7-99D4-43ED-AA75-2D48E88D0BF1
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s4 (VM)
|   |   Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /private/var/vm
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         1073762304 B (1.1 GB)
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk2s5 ACDE33F0-A355-4F6C-BF7C-8FB0062C5B92
|       ---------------------------------------------------
|       APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk2s5 (System)
|       Name:                      Macintosh HD 10.15 (Case-insensitive)
|       Mount Point:               /
|       Capacity Consumed:         10774609920 B (10.8 GB)
|       FileVault:                 No
|

Also, interestingly plugging a USB3 OS installer into a PCIe USB3 card just doesn't show up on the picker, when plugin into the the stock USB2 port it does show up but just refuses to boot. It starts loading but stalls at around 90%. I've tried several USB OS installers so not sure what is going on there.

Mac Pro firmware only supports boot from it's own USB 2.0 native ports.

 

[startergo]

The only issue I'm running into is that my recovery partition just refuses to show up on the boot screen

3. HideAuxiliary
Type: plist boolean
Failsafe: false
Description: Hides auxiliary entries from picker menu by default.
An entry is considered auxiliary when at least one of the following applies:
• Entry is macOS recovery.
• Entry is macOS Time Machine.
• Entry is explicitly marked as Auxiliary.
• Entry is system (e.g. Clean NVRAM).
To see all entries picker menu needs to be reloaded in extended mode by pressing Spacebar key. Hiding auxiliary entries may increase boot performance for multidisk systems.

 

[gabe211]

Worked great thanks!

 

[thecrownguy]

Please Help! Ok... If I am asking a stupid question I am sorry. I have been running open core for a while, and just went to 5.8. Works like a champ... with the exception of the boot picker screen. how do you select the recovery, or my windows? I have tried the mouse, the arrows... every stupid key on the keyboard and I cannot select anything. Is there supposed to be a mouse pointer?