Someone else has to chime in, I haven't been able to do it myself, IIRC you volume needs to be unsealed for it to work, others can correct me if I am wrong.
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when Im running the install-setvars.sh Im getting this error
/Volumes/Install macOS Big Sur found on device /dev/disk1s2
/dev/disk3s2
Usage: diskutil mount [readOnly] [-mountPoint Path] DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Mount the volume in the "standard" place (/Volumes), unless an optional
"custom" mount point is specified.
Partition 1 of the USB stick does not appear to be an EFI partition, or
mounting of the partition somehow failed.
Please use Disk Utility to erase the USB stick as "Mac OS Extended
(Journaled)" format on "GUID Partition Map" scheme and start over with
"createinstallmedia". Or for other methods, please refer to the micropatcher
README for more information.
install-setvars cannot continue.
anyone know what I'm doing wrong. Mediainstall worked fine and micropatcher.sh went fine stuck at setvars. I shouldn't have to do anything mediainstall formats everything. SIP is also disabled.
/Volumes/Install macOS Big Sur found on device /dev/disk1s2
/dev/disk3s2
Usage: diskutil mount [readOnly] [-mountPoint Path] DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Mount the volume in the "standard" place (/Volumes), unless an optional
"custom" mount point is specified.
Partition 1 of the USB stick does not appear to be an EFI partition, or
mounting of the partition somehow failed.
Please use Disk Utility to erase the USB stick as "Mac OS Extended
(Journaled)" format on "GUID Partition Map" scheme and start over with
"createinstallmedia". Or for other methods, please refer to the micropatcher
README for more information.
install-setvars cannot continue.
anyone know what I'm doing wrong. Mediainstall worked fine and micropatcher.sh went fine stuck at setvars. I shouldn't have to do anything mediainstall formats everything. SIP is also disabled.
Did you run it as root, you need to input sudo before install-setvars.sh.
Confused by your question, Software Update for OS updates don't run on unsupported macs, so why the question?
possibly:
Please use Disk Utility to erase the USB stick as "Mac OS Extended
(Journaled)" format on "GUID Partition Map" scheme and start over with
"createinstallmedia".
Thank you very much. Installed Big Sur on MacBook Pro 9,2 aka mid2012 without hassle. Now I am writing from Big Sur. It works well. I have two question.
1. Installed over Catalina. Can I clean install using USB stick?
2. When 11.0.2 comes out, can we install it via software update?
Thanks but I did nothing to help with this type of machine, the iMacs 2012 and 2013 are basically "unsupported" for marketing and not for technical reason....
It works all well on Imac late 2013 and installation time was very similar to my MBP 2019, maybe because Imac runs from SSD through usb and it has 32Gb of memory. But my issue is there any way to fix graphics ? I see menus and toolbar it's not transparent and menu has white lines around this is something I don't have on my MBP. I know there was same issue with older unsupported macs who upgraded to Catalina but there was fix . I attach few screenshots Graphics looks definitely broken . Even someone who post before me screenshot it looks like graphs are broken .
1. yes.
2. Most likely not....as in, it won't even download using Software Update.
We later might be able to use delta updaters, for now it's a complete install or install in place.
I think this is why iMac 2013 is not supported
Lots of issues with borders and shadows (widgets, dock, windows, notifications, etc)
Lots of issues with borders and shadows (widgets, dock, windows, notifications, etc)
Thanks to everyone that was able to get all of this together. Very much appreciated!
My system config is in my sig. I was able to get Continuity to work with AWatch System Unlock, Handoff, AWatch Admin Prompt Unlock, and Instant Hotspot. I was not able to get the shared copy/paste (clipboard) to work though. Not a big deal. It was a little tricky on getting the Continuity enabled manually after install - it mounted the read/write OS under /System/Volumes/Update/mnt1 so I had to go there and then find the file to update but wasn't complicated. I could see where that would throw people off.
My system config is in my sig. I was able to get Continuity to work with AWatch System Unlock, Handoff, AWatch Admin Prompt Unlock, and Instant Hotspot. I was not able to get the shared copy/paste (clipboard) to work though. Not a big deal. It was a little tricky on getting the Continuity enabled manually after install - it mounted the read/write OS under /System/Volumes/Update/mnt1 so I had to go there and then find the file to update but wasn't complicated. I could see where that would throw people off.
I see the same issue on my 2018 15" MacBook Pro with retina display in some areas of the UI. I think it's just a bug perhaps.
hopefully - that would be good if it was - a least it is good news that it happens in a 2018
Ah, thanks for this easy step by step instructions
Drag and drop means this
Click on the micropatcher.sh file and hold it, then drag the file while holding the mouse/trackpad button onto the Terminal.
I have updated an existing OpenCore installation to 0.6.3 and then switched from Catalina to Big Sur on a MacPro 5,1. Most of all worked “out of the box“, except the brightness control of the Cinema Display with the F1/F2 key. Is there an additional kext or setting that needs to be set/installed?
If you use big-sur-micropatcher, boot into the USB stick. Run terminal and disable SIP. Reboot into the USB stick and run terminal again. The following worked for me.
Bash:
cd /Volumes/Image\ Volume
mount -uw "/Volumes/BigSur" # or whatever your main volume
mount -uw "/Volumes/BigSur" # for some reason I sometimes have to do this twice
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set::Mac-942B59F58194171B:ContinuitySupport true" "/Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist"
# make sure it took on the read-only volume
defaults read "/Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist" Mac-942B59F58194171B
bless --folder "/Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/CoreServices" --bootefi --create-snapshot
./zap-snapshots.sh "/Volumes/BigSur"