macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

[lumos]

Hi!
Successfully got update 11.4 beta2 on my Mac Pro 3.1.
Just pushed - "Update" and waited some time.
P.S Previosly i updated OpenCore config by OCLP 0.1.2

Mac Pro 3.1 Specs
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CPU 2xE5462 2.8ghz
RAM 24GB (6x4GB) 6400f DDR2
SSD M.2 PCI-AHCI Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB (with cheap orient M.2 - PCI Adapter)
GPU Gigabyte R9 280 3GB (Mac Efi flashed)
BootRom mods - APFS support, NVME support.
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Did you notice the freeze during the update? I got many freeze problems with the latest 11.3 and 11.3.1 updates. Also after the update has been completed macOS randomly freeze during the boot.
I notice this freeze only with 11.3 and 11.3.1, the previous versione 11.2.3 work flawless.

Thanks

 

[Pri-est]

Did you notice the freeze during the update? I got many freeze problems with the latest 11.3 and 11.3.1 updates. Also after the update has been completed macOS randomly freeze during the boot.
I notice this freeze only with 11.3 and 11.3.1, the previous versione 11.2.3 work flawless.

Thanks

No one freezed in that case - cause no expansion card and NVME drives.

 

[ramram2000]

hello everyone
I am an amateur and unfamiliar user

after install Big Sur 11.3 on my MBP 10.1 (retina 15" mid 2012) by OpenCore Legacy Patcher v0.1.2
my WiFi country code has set to US. i live in Iran. coz of this, my macbook location services unable to determina current location at this time and i cant use Location services.

two days ago Mr @khronokernel guide me what should i do for fix this.
he said :

"you can set brcmfx-country=XX to change the country code to other regions. For Iran, I believe it's IR

So in your config.plist, open it up and look for boot-args. In the entry, add brcmfx-country=IR and reboot. Then check System Profiler -> Network -> Wifi and see if the country code correctly updated

If you're unfamiliar how to get your config.plist, you'll need to find the drive you install OpenCore on and mount it with MountEFI. Then, go into EFI/OC/config.plist and edit from there"

i could find and mount my mac EFI by MountEFI and i found config.plist.
but as im an amateur and unfamiliar user,i cant configure and write code in config.plist to chang my WiFi country code.

i attached some screenshot and too i uploded my config.plist

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anybody here can help me and edit my config.plist right , plz help me or guide me how should i do

thx

 

[amaze1499]

Out of curiosity: I never used OpenCore patcher until today, but is it really that easier to use in comparison to micropatcher? The latter was just reinstalling the system from USB, run the .sh and reboot and run the patches again. Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[Ausdauersportler]

Out of curiosity: I never used OpenCore patcher until today, but is it really that easier to use in comparison to micropatcher? The latter was just reinstalling the system from USB, run the .sh and reboot and run the patches again. Any feedback would be appreciated.

There is not much to add to this post.

For a while I maintained the Micropatcher so I know it pretty well. I am using OCLP on all of my systems and asked all Micropatcher users to migrate, too. There are no limitations compared to the Micropatcher. You would need an unpatched USB installer only once. I would strongly recommend a clean installation when migrating, no in place update.

OCLP is (most likely) the future of Big Sur and macOS 12.x patchers. I see no come back to other solutions, but I have no glass ball.

 

[contacos]

my task bar randomly turns dark and I need to "activate" and "deactivate" auto hide in the settings for it to return to how it should be. After a while it randomly goes back to black. Is that a known Big Sur bug? Just a minor thing but still annoying. Not sure if it is related to be being hooked up to an external monitor.

 

[Danwilderspin]

The 1st page of this thread has a list of metal GPUs compatible with the iMac. My signature mentions one of them. cheers

I followed the list and got the k610m Kepler card as it’s down as compatible and everything works except AirPlay which used to work pre card and present big sur which is why I’m trying to work out if others have the issue

 

[StephN999]

you'd need to figure out how to install an Ivy Bridge CPU into your iMac. Haven't looked myself, though I believe there's been some experiments before

Bonjour,

I made some modifications to test without success, my skills being unfortunately limited, if you have an idea!?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ausdauersportler]

I followed the list and got the k610m Kepler card as it’s down as compatible and everything works except AirPlay which used to work pre card and present big sur which is why I’m trying to work out if others have the issue

The iGPU does and did no work with any Big Sur patcher on the iMac12,x so far - this is a known and documented issue. Currently the iGPU is disabled using OCLP anyway to avoid sleep problems and additional patching.

IF one COULD get it working you WOULD have to patch in AppleGVA.framework in the same way we did this for Mojave and Catalina - this would surely break OTA updates.

If you need the iGPU you have to stay with Catalina or get a new Polaris AMD - these offer 4K H.264 via dGPU.

Edit: NO iGPU, NO AIRPLAY! It is even more complicated. NO Broadcom WiFi Card, NO AIRPLAY!

 

[lumos]

No one freezed in that case - cause no expansion card and NVME drives.

But did Apple implemented something that create this freeze with the 11.3.1?
My Mac Pro 3.1 only have a Samsung SSD (not a NVMe) and yes, it has a Sonnet Allegro USB-C 3.2 PCIe Card expansion board.
I hope OCLP can bypass this freeze with the next releases.

 

[hvds]

On MBP5,2, following the success of graphics acceleration made possible again by @ASentientBot , I've made BS my principal macOS now.

I'm prudent and use rsyncs to keep user data in sync both ways between Catalina and BS. Note that the scripts are run on BS because BS data is not seen properly from Catalina, at least for the OCLP installation. This in addition to the usual backup methods.

I have three installations now on different SSDs (all are Samsung 860 EVO or 840, 500GB):

1- Catalina 10.15.7 (19H1030) on an SSD now connected to USB. Graphics acceleration with ASentientBot's Catalina SkyLight framework etc.
2- BigSur 11.3 (20E232) on an SSD which is now on internal SATA. Installed with OCLP 0.1.1 including system volume patching. Graphics acceleration with ASentientBot's public beta BS SkyLight framework etc.
3- BigSur 11.4beta1 (20F5046g) on an SSD which is connected to USB. Installed with jackluke's BigSurBasesystemfix and OC 4b.

I'm quite happy with this setup, and I'm convinced now that BS can be used in production on MBP5,2 (which has Nvidia Geforce 9400M and 9600M GT GPUs).

ad 2: just lacking keyboard backlight.
ad 3: keyboard backlight in place. Of course I'd be happy to have support for graphics acceleration also with this installation method.

Great thanks again to ASentientBot, to khronokernel and the OCLP team, to jackluke, and to dodsude1!

I'll continue BS installation exercises in verbose mode to disks on SATA and USB to find out about the occasional hangs observed during installation using OCLP.

EDIT: to my knowledge BigSurBasesystemfix is the only installation method which works without any hickups right now on Legacy USB machines, like MBP5,2 is.

Updated MBP5,2 to 11.3.1 from 11.3.
This is a system-volume-patched system, to have graphics acceleration.

The update was offered in system settings. Download a little above 11GB, I stopped it to use the full installer.
Started the 11.3.1 installer app. Stage 1 is announced to take about 1.5h, so stopped this as well.

Then made with createinstallmedia a new USB installer for 11.3.1, and installed this via OCLP 0.1.2. One freeze during installation, retried with manual power-off and reboot od macOS installer via 0.1.2, then proceeds right to login. Ran 0.1.2 in booted system to re-apply graphics acceleration patches.

All running fine. Setting up prior to graphics acceleration patching is a bit slow, but once done, the MBP5,2 is still a very usable system with BS.

 

[RustyBl0ck]

Hello!!! My grandma is going to give me her Late 2009 iMac 27" for my b-day soon, and I know this is the first generation of iMac 27". But even though it is super old, I would like to know if I can install Big Sur, but first, I would only like to do it under these circumstances:

- No graphics card changing, if this is required, I don't want to sign up;
- Some sort of accelerated graphics patcher to not have the pc too buggy;
- Any complexity I can tolerate, I mean by it doesn't matter how hard it is to do, just please no soldering or modifying the internals;
- And, I have a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo w/ ATI Radeon HD 4670 16GB 1333MHz RAM

Since I've never had an incompatible Mac to mess with, I really need some help. Thx!!!

(P.S. If anyone has done it successfully with no graphical issues, and using an iMac 10,1 please help me!)

 

[Danwilderspin]

The iGPU does and did no work with any Big Sur patcher on the iMac12,x so far - this is a known and documented issue. Currently the iGPU is disabled using OCLP anyway to avoid sleep problems and additional patching.

IF one COULD get it working you WOULD have to patch in AppleGVA.framework in the same way we did this for Mojave and Catalina - this would surely break OTA updates.

If you need the iGPU you have to stay with Catalina or get a new Polaris AMD - these offer 4K H.264 via dGPU.

Thank you - would this same issue have caused airplay not to work too?

 

[vincenzo79]

Hello everybody,
I have seen that many are using OCLP to make updates.
Until now I have always used Micropatcher with which I have always felt good.
Do you recommend using OCLP?
Are there any particular procedures to carry out since I have always used Micropatcher until now?
Vincenzo

 

[Bert Nase]

I now use OCLP (0.1.2) and all seems to work well including updates to Big Sur 11.3.1. After all patching etc. I had to do my work again and now recognized, that my EIZO 2nd Monitor connected to my iMac 14,2 does not work any longer. It's connected via Thunderbolt 2. It has worked with micropatcher at least. Any ideas? I won't like to go back now that it seems to work.

 

[dhinakg]

InstallAssistant for 11.4 beta 2 is out:
macOS Installer - 11.4 beta 2 build 20F5055c: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...vltnbljm5d9xkkn36ufa1gee/InstallAssistant.pkg

 

[startergo]

But did Apple implemented something that create this freeze with the 11.3.1?
My Mac Pro 3.1 only have a Samsung SSD (not a NVMe) and yes, it has a Sonnet Allegro USB-C 3.2 PCIe Card expansion board.
I hope OCLP can bypass this freeze with the next releases.

Apple broke knowingly or unknowingly the multicore CPUs in cMP. It is not related to anything specific, but so far it has been identified as a boot race condition.

 

[K two]

Big Sur success 11.2.3 on Mini3,1. OCLP 0.1.2 as nimble as Catalina running from external SSD. Worth the effort.

 

[BuffyzDead]

Hello!!! My grandma is going to give me her Late 2009 iMac 27" for my b-day soon, and I know this is the first generation of iMac 27". But even though it is super old, I would like to know if I can install Big Sur, but first, I would only like to do it under these circumstances:

- No graphics card changing, if this is required, I don't want to sign up;
- Some sort of accelerated graphics patcher to not have the pc too buggy;
- Any complexity I can tolerate, I mean by it doesn't matter how hard it is to do, just please no soldering or modifying the internals;
- And, I have a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo w/ ATI Radeon HD 4670 16GB 1333MHz RAM

Since I've never had an incompatible Mac to mess with, I really need some help. Thx!!!

(P.S. If anyone has done it successfully with no graphical issues, and using an iMac 10,1 please help me!)

.

 

[johnrak]

I just performed an OTA update from 11.3 to 11.3.1 for the first time using OCLP 0.1.1. Thank you all for your great work.

 

[cab_007]

Have been using OCLP since going to 11.2.3 and the OTA updates have been great, currently on 11.4 beta 2 build 20F5055c. Most everything is good, but somewhere in either 11.4 beta the ability to unlock my rMBP via Apple Watch no longer works. I've disabled the ability to unlock via AW and re-enabled but every time my rMBP goes to sleep, it tried to unlock with AW but falls back to password prompt. I know, this is a first world problem and not a deal breaker but I had gotten used to the ease of unlocking so much so that I'm missing this feature. Hopefully this is due to the "beta" state of 11.4 and developers will catch it - as I hope its not with OCLP. My Wifi (updated card) and BT work fine otherwise (ok, the wifi signal is a bit weak but does get 802.11ac connection).

Just thought I'd share...

 

[Pri-est]

Hi!
Successfully Updated both system on my Mac Mini 3.1 (Late 2009)

From 11.3 to 11.3.1
No issues.

P.S Updated OC config by OCLP 0.1.2

From 11.4 Beta1 to 11.4 Beta 2
Issue - freezes on every reboot in update process.
After update and applying system volume patch - works fine.

 

[k.alexander]

See this my reply, few pages ago.

macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

The 2012 MBP is fully supported by OCLP. I think it is worthwhile switching over to OCLP because of simplicity of OTA afterwards. You might think OCLP is complicated but it is straight forward in operations especially for models fully supported. When I switched to OCLP, it was not that hard: -...

forums.macrumors.com

Thank you. Just did this, including removing the USB; everything seems to be working fine.
Anything I need to know about OCLP going forward? Is there anything different about the way the bootloader works now, like the options I will have, in case of an emergency (i.e. to boot into recovery or safe mode or etc?)
Do I still need the OpenCore-Patcher.app? Should I hold on to it? I am assuming I can get rid of the Patched Sur.app that I used before? Do I need the Python Launcher.app I downloaded as one of the earlier steps of setting up OpenCore?

Thanks

 

[slim0287]

Hello everybody,
I have seen that many are using OCLP to make updates.
Until now I have always used Micropatcher with which I have always felt good.
Do you recommend using OCLP?
Are there any particular procedures to carry out since I have always used Micropatcher until now?
Vincenzo

I very much would like the answer to this question as well. I have an iMac 14,2 that is running 11.3.1 now and I have always used micropatcher. I'd like to know if there is something unique I need to do with OCLP because I have used micropatcher. I am reading carefully through the OCLP documentation but have not yet found word one way or another for this case.

 

[webg3]

Big Sur 11.3.1 has improved RAM memory management.
Very notable on the Air 2012 i5 4GB RAM
OpenCore 0.6.8