Carbon Copy Cloner is able to do a bootable Big Sur clone now, for Intel based machines.
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How did you get that particular view of the .plist please? It doesn't look like that in BBEdit or Text Edit on mine
Also when I try to adjust it I get
Even if I can get around that won't it just change the plist in the current snapshot?
It is to me! I need instruction please
You needed to apply the fix after installation to get wifi to work. It does not work "out of the box". I just had to drag and drop the fix into terminal, let it do its thing and after a reboot, my wifi was / is working great.
Any good idea to upgrade ?
Can this Mac support a Big Sur method?!
Mac works already perfect with dosdude1 Catalina Patcher
Can this Mac support a Big Sur method?!
Mac works already perfect with dosdude1 Catalina Patcher
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The answer is in the first post of this thread under Spoiler: Video Card Support.
Currently, it is not possible to get graphics acceleration when running Big Sur on a system with:
Pre-Metal AMD video cards (Radeon HD 6xxx, 5xxx, 4xxx series and older without acceleration.)
The general view is that the system will not be usable without graphics acceleration.
Thanks sharing this. Another very good article from the Eclectic Light Company.Nothing to worry about. Big Sur changes boot disk structure, even compared to Catalina.
It is the SSV(Sealed System Volume) I think, something new in Big Sur.
Boot volume layout
A complete guide to the structure and layout of APFS startup disks from High Sierra to Big Sur (Intel), together with tear-out PDF charts.eclecticlight.co
It seems that the numbering Y of diskXsY varies a bit. In all recent work with Big Sur always saw diskXs2 for the Preboot volume. In the attached example, the Preboot of Catalina on my internal SSD has Y=3, while the two external Big Surs, Y=2. Maybe due to the order of mounting.
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So one positive experience, and one negative experience, so far! I think I will side on... forward progress; I'll take the plunge! I, too, have my WiFi/BT card replaced, though I have WiFi turned off as I rely on plain ol' wired Ethernet.
I will of course make a clone of my existing Mojave startup and give it a spin. I just have to downgrade my "server" cMP to Mojave (from Catalina) so I can offload my 32-bit legacy apps to run on that...
Yup, that should work.
PlistEditPro.How did you get that particular view of the .plist please? It doesn't look like that in BBEdit or Text Edit on mine
Also when I try to adjust it I get
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Even if I can get around that won't it just change the plist in the current snapshot?
It is to me! I need instruction please
Someone else has to chime in, it used to be easy to change that file, more tricky now, I haven't had the time to fiddle within the System on Big Sur.
I am pretty positive it should also work if you move the .plist file to another location or rename it.
Normally you can unload the .plist, but it will be enabled again after a restart
We've got a new update on the patcher! (https://github.com/moosethegoose2213/automator-for-barrykn-micropatcher/releases)
Release Notes:
-Fixed missing rm -rf /tmp/choice
-Added a custom icon for the boot picker on some machines
-Option to reboot to install media automatically
-No need for EFI Boot (in theory)
-Added check to make sure to don’t createinstallmedia to the booted volume (learned this the hard way)
-If you decide to check it out, let us know how it goes!
NOTE: There is no post-install recovery yet, we are having issues with it still.
Release Notes:
-Fixed missing rm -rf /tmp/choice
-Added a custom icon for the boot picker on some machines
-Option to reboot to install media automatically
-No need for EFI Boot (in theory)
-Added check to make sure to don’t createinstallmedia to the booted volume (learned this the hard way)
-If you decide to check it out, let us know how it goes!
NOTE: There is no post-install recovery yet, we are having issues with it still.
Thanks @justperry.
Yes, things did used to be easier
I'll take a look at PlistEditPro (though I'm not sure how much I'll get to use it with my limited abilities 😁
Last section of the @Barry K. Nathan micro patcher online doc about how to change the system volume on your own....Thanks @justperry.
Yes, things did used to be easier
I'll take a look at PlistEditPro (though I'm not sure how much I'll get to use it with my limited abilities 😁
Is there any Big Sur future for Core 2 Duo, MCP79, NVIDIA 9400 machines?? The latest Catalina build runs perfect on them.
I again got the error below, the third time in about 1.5-2 months, not too worried about it since running BS on a 2012 Mac Mini, so unsupported.
PlistEdit Pro still does the job but you need to change permissions from root/wheel (I use BatChmod for this). BBEdit will offer to change ownership (i.e., unlock) in order to edit, so it should work too. I haven't tried to change to false because it is so easy just to use Terminal after each reboot.
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Kind of a random, but important (to me at least) question:
In catalina and before, in the sharedsupport folder, there are a bunch of DMGs, including basesystem.dmg. Is there something like that in big sur? Where? If not, how does apple get around the fact that there is no basesystem.dmg in the installer app?
In catalina and before, in the sharedsupport folder, there are a bunch of DMGs, including basesystem.dmg. Is there something like that in big sur? Where? If not, how does apple get around the fact that there is no basesystem.dmg in the installer app?
I too use Batchmod, I wonderful little App.
Running as root also works, that is, on a file which you don't own, but not for the Read-only file system.
Just a few hours ago, I took the plunge, erased my big sur drive and installed everything from scratch, this time using starplayrx bigmac patcher which provides for a clean installation. So fat so good! I feel it runs cleaner and no freezes so far.
Hi guys. Is there a significant difference between Micro Patcher and Patcher Sur? Which of these patches should I use when upgrading to Big Sur on a 2011 iMac 27 with Quadro K4100M? Or is there no fundamental difference?
Hmm, that was before, must have been having a brainfart.
Here's the contents of Install macOS Big Sur Beta.App