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Bonjour,
Mac OS 11.5 Beta 1 + OCLP Ok 😉
For the moment I stopped testing the last release of OpenCore 0.7.0 because I still didn't understand how to arrange the themes on these last versions, it's not for lack of looking though...
Edit: There have been some changes, I will have to retest.
Mac OS 11.5 Beta 1 + OCLP Ok 😉
For the moment I stopped testing the last release of OpenCore 0.7.0 because I still didn't understand how to arrange the themes on these last versions, it's not for lack of looking though...
Edit: There have been some changes, I will have to retest.
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iMac14,1 (no modifications, stock config with 256 GB Apple SSD)
OCLP 0.1.5
fresh install of macOS Big Sur 11.5 Beta 1
so far everything seems to work 100% OK, no problems during installation.
Just use picker mode auto and almost everything is the sameBonjour,
Mac OS 11.5 Beta 1 + OCLP Ok 😉
For the moment I stopped testing the last release of OpenCore 0.7.0 because I still didn't understand how to arrange the themes on these last versions, it's not for lack of looking though...
Edit: There have been some changes, I will have to retest.
macOS BS 11.5 from Apple Store
https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/macos-big-sur-beta/id1497794093?mt=12
MBP 9,2 Non-retina SSD with OCLP 0.1.5 and OC0.7.0 working perfect, no issues and performance like catalina.
https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/macos-big-sur-beta/id1497794093?mt=12
MBP 9,2 Non-retina SSD with OCLP 0.1.5 and OC0.7.0 working perfect, no issues and performance like catalina.
It seems the Big Sur disk seal is broken by booting into High Sierra.
I have to disable SecureBoot in OCLP to boot back into Big Sur.
I have to disable SecureBoot in OCLP to boot back into Big Sur.
Hi! Successfully updated to 11.5 Beta1 on my Mac Pro 3.1
No issues.
No issues.
Yes, yes...
It is possibly only the BS preboot volume what got changed, not the main system volume.
Ran into this two weeks ago when fixing Mojave and High Sierra reboot volumes and enabling SMB, too. Can one avoid this by not mounting the BS APSF partitions on HS boot, the good old /etc/(v)stab will be a spot to do this! Did not check this myself, the day here has 24h only, too. Read this post ...
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Sorry people, since I’m on my tiny SE2020, search for this it’s not helping.
Someone it’s suggesting to change the wifi card on my mbp9,2.
I know this has been talked here but I can’t find it. I’m searching this one BCM94331PCIEBT4cAX.
The c it’s as far I can see, the one with bt4.0 but ifixit says I need BCM94331PCIEBT4AX.
it will work?
Then, I will search a way to restablish my erased serial number
Thank you all
Someone it’s suggesting to change the wifi card on my mbp9,2.
I know this has been talked here but I can’t find it. I’m searching this one BCM94331PCIEBT4cAX.
The c it’s as far I can see, the one with bt4.0 but ifixit says I need BCM94331PCIEBT4AX.
it will work?
Then, I will search a way to restablish my erased serial number
Thank you all
Successful Installation of Big Sur 11.5 beta1 on 17” MacBook Pro 5,2 (mid 2009), SSD.
Method: OCLP 0.1.5
Started with reinstalling Big Sur 11.4 beta3 onto its own partition, via OCLP 0.1.5; wanted to check whether I could utilize Software Update, within System Preference panel, to download Big Sur 11.5 beta. (see Post #10,107 for 11.4 beta install info)
Big Sur 11.5 beta did appear in Software Update as an available download.
Initiated download; it started slow, but subsequently download speed was very fast. Once download completed it automatically moved into “prepare software (Big Sur beta?) for installation” phase.
The process was estimated to take 20 minutes and it was actually pretty accurate.
Once “preparation” was completed I let the system reboot. Black screen with apple logo and progress bar appeared, but quickly rebooted again.
At that point I pressed option key and apple disk picker appeared: it had “install Mac OS” icon as one of the selection, but, based on previous experience, I did not choose it in apple disk picker (prohibitory sign would result).
Instead, I chose OCLP icon which was installed on an external USB thumb drive. (I have OCLP installed on internal SATA and external USB thumb drives)
Booted into OCLP picker, and noticed two Macintosh HD icons (disks); I let the system auto start from Macintosh HD that was auto-chosen when picker appeared. I assumed that one of those Macintosh HD icons was actually a misnamed “Mac OS Install disk”, the other Macintosh HD icon pointed to an actual disk, of same name, where I have Mojave installed. (I have Big Sur, Catalina and Mojave installed on same SSD)
Letting "auto-chosen" Macintosh HD disk to boot, led to another black screen with Apple Logo and progress bar. I allowed the progress bar to continue until another reboot; again I pressed option key and from apple disk picker chose OCLP icon (this time an OCLP located on the internal drive).
The OCLP disk picker no longer presented two Macintosh HD icons, rather it showed Macintosh HD (Mojave), Catalina HD and Big Sur HD. I chose the Big Sur disk icon, and after one more black screen with Apple Logo and progress bar, machine booted into desktop, followed by abridged installer assistant window.
I was not asked to set up a new account, just prompted whether File Vault is to be activated, and prompted to login into my Apple account. Note, that at that point in process there was no graphic acceleration, so moving cursor to select choices was rather slow. Finally, machine greeted me with full desktop, and I logged into my account.
I let the system perform all the necessary auto optimizations, which takes a while and near maxes-out the CPU, before lunching OCLP patcher (from internal SATA disk) and applying graphic acceleration patches.
On reboot everything worked without obvious issues.
Hope this may be of help.
Thank you to all the developers, testers, and forum members involved in this project.
Method: OCLP 0.1.5
Started with reinstalling Big Sur 11.4 beta3 onto its own partition, via OCLP 0.1.5; wanted to check whether I could utilize Software Update, within System Preference panel, to download Big Sur 11.5 beta. (see Post #10,107 for 11.4 beta install info)
Big Sur 11.5 beta did appear in Software Update as an available download.
Initiated download; it started slow, but subsequently download speed was very fast. Once download completed it automatically moved into “prepare software (Big Sur beta?) for installation” phase.
The process was estimated to take 20 minutes and it was actually pretty accurate.
Once “preparation” was completed I let the system reboot. Black screen with apple logo and progress bar appeared, but quickly rebooted again.
At that point I pressed option key and apple disk picker appeared: it had “install Mac OS” icon as one of the selection, but, based on previous experience, I did not choose it in apple disk picker (prohibitory sign would result).
Instead, I chose OCLP icon which was installed on an external USB thumb drive. (I have OCLP installed on internal SATA and external USB thumb drives)
Booted into OCLP picker, and noticed two Macintosh HD icons (disks); I let the system auto start from Macintosh HD that was auto-chosen when picker appeared. I assumed that one of those Macintosh HD icons was actually a misnamed “Mac OS Install disk”, the other Macintosh HD icon pointed to an actual disk, of same name, where I have Mojave installed. (I have Big Sur, Catalina and Mojave installed on same SSD)
Letting "auto-chosen" Macintosh HD disk to boot, led to another black screen with Apple Logo and progress bar. I allowed the progress bar to continue until another reboot; again I pressed option key and from apple disk picker chose OCLP icon (this time an OCLP located on the internal drive).
The OCLP disk picker no longer presented two Macintosh HD icons, rather it showed Macintosh HD (Mojave), Catalina HD and Big Sur HD. I chose the Big Sur disk icon, and after one more black screen with Apple Logo and progress bar, machine booted into desktop, followed by abridged installer assistant window.
I was not asked to set up a new account, just prompted whether File Vault is to be activated, and prompted to login into my Apple account. Note, that at that point in process there was no graphic acceleration, so moving cursor to select choices was rather slow. Finally, machine greeted me with full desktop, and I logged into my account.
I let the system perform all the necessary auto optimizations, which takes a while and near maxes-out the CPU, before lunching OCLP patcher (from internal SATA disk) and applying graphic acceleration patches.
On reboot everything worked without obvious issues.
Hope this may be of help.
Thank you to all the developers, testers, and forum members involved in this project.
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Yes, it is slightly off topic and just because I had the tab open anyway, look here. You need the CAX to get BT 4.0.
That is a great and well informed answer, @Larsvonhier ! But... "They most likely ignore feedback on betas from such machines" - apparently not correct, I submitted feedback on Big Sur beta from my unsupported Mac, and got a fix and even a reply to ask me to check it was working! (Amongst many others I sent with no reply at all! Which I am sure is completely normal and most people's experience - and mine too, apart from that one!)
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Are you getting graphics acceleration and reasonable graphics performance? For years now, the Macforums threads for unsupported Macs have indicated that the 17" models were unlikely to be supported. It appears unlikely that Apple will introduce a new 17" model within the foreseeable feature and old models are available at quite attractive prices. Would make an interesting successor to my 2008 iMac where the power supply was recently destroyed by a power surge.
Ok @Ausdauersportler, thanks. But the configuration that I indicate below (in CODE) is suitable for making the Kext substitutions, as mentioned in your topic? Or can't I do this without first completely disabling "authenticated-root" and the other csrutil options, which are now set as you can see below? In fact, OCLP sets up my iMac14,2 this way.
Code:
Vincenzo@iMac-Studio ~ % csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: unknown (Custom Configuration).
Configuration:
Apple Internal: disabled
Kext Signing: enabled
Filesystem Protections: enabled
Debugging Restrictions: enabled
DTrace Restrictions: enabled
NVRAM Protections: enabled
BaseSystem Verification: disabled
This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.
Vincenzo@iMac-Studio ~ % csrutil authenticated-root status
Authenticated Root status: enabledThe new OCLP does include (Beta) graphic acceleration patches (the latter developed by Asentientbot) which do work very well on my 17" MacBook Pro 5,2 (mid 2009). There are some minor glitches, but those are inconsequential to usability. If you are planning to buy used 17 inch, be sure to read OCLP compatibility manifest, and search forum for posts regarding model you plan to purchase. In addition, include in your estimate the cost of installing an SSD and bringing RAM to 8 GB level. Consider also, that some software still requires tweaking to achieve full functionality, e.g., Zoom and camera pairing. A 16 inch M1 MacBook Pro is in Apple's plans, but based on previously introduced Intel models, the price of a "well" configured M1 may be astronomical(?)
Hope this information is of help.
If you want to become a patch developer you can either try to understand the micropatcher logic (I did exactly this) or follow the OCLP approach. Since OCLP can install graphics patches (and doing this by installing new kernel extensions to the root system volume) with SIP and SMB disabled using exactly the very same code I posted here (some weeks ago I was asked how to achieve the patching and send over the same link) you can just do the same.
Not only helpful, but comprehensive as well. Thanks. I already have a 1 tb SSD out of the old iMac & will look into RAM prices. Zoom is a priority; provided that the standard apps such as Photos & Numbers are OK, I can manage with a few missing features.
My MBP5,2 is very similar to RogueB‘s, and I have very positive experience with BS on it as well. Using BS now since a few weeks (when graphics acceleration for non-metal GPUs became available) as my production system.
I‘m using zoom a lot, works well. Photos is fine; you may have heard about the missing „all photos“ folder which can be worked around with an „intelligent“ folder. In keynote were observed problems with presentations containing certain slide transitions; an older keynote version (10.0) works well. Music does not show the video part of some music videos, but plays the music. Numbers and pages work fine, as do the microsoft office tools.
Small things, which are believed to be due to explicit use of metal features by those apps.
ASentientBot‘s work brings OpenGL back to BS, but does not emulate metal.
Explicit use of metal in some apps may increase over time; older versions should help.
Still enjoying the large 17“ screen, including when traveling!
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Also here MBP5,2 is running fine with 11.5b1.
This time I updated an installation used for beta tests, made with jackluke's BigSurBasesystemFix. With his tool injected the new SharedSupport.dmg into the existing installer and used it to install over 11.4b2. This method works well since 11.0, and still does.
I have a Mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro 6,1 - still on High Sierra. I'm comfortable doing the OCLP, as I had good luck with my Metal-upgraded iMac.
But I've been putting off upgrading my 17" MBP. Would you say the performance and features of Big Sur outweigh the UI bugs at this point? I would mainly be using 1st party Apple apps on this machine. It's already set with an SSD and 8GB of RAM. I didn't have the best of luck with Catalina Patcher due to some weird UI glitches, so I've stuck with High Sierra so far.
Mac Pro 4.1 (flashed to 5.1) updated to 11.5 beta 1 from 11.4 beta 1
Issues - some freeze (NVME issue), i didn't remove expansion cards, all PCI slots use by GPU, 2xNVME SSD and USB 3.0 expansion card
OCLP 0.1.1
Issues - some freeze (NVME issue), i didn't remove expansion cards, all PCI slots use by GPU, 2xNVME SSD and USB 3.0 expansion card
OCLP 0.1.1
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I recently installed BS 11.3.1 on my 10,1 MBP using OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher by @khronokernel and @dhinakg (vers. 0.1.4). Since upgrading my laptop to BS, I have been able to do every update as if this laptop was natively supported. Tonight I updated from 11.4 beta to 11.5 beta and once complete am noticing much faster performance of the new OS on my laptop.
I'm wondering if anyone who recently updated to 11.5 beta noticed the same from their computers?
I'm wondering if anyone who recently updated to 11.5 beta noticed the same from their computers?
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I'm a bit puzzled: as far as I know our Retina 15-inch rMBP's @ 10,1 (mid-2012 and early-2013) are unsupported for Big Sur. So technically your device is not natively supported unless you mean you are able to have OTA system updates by virtue of OCLP????
I am still on 11.3.1 so I can't verify your noticing faster performance yet. It sounds tempting to upgrade, so thanks!
Curious: what aspects seem snappier? Startup ... opening certain apps ... download times ... etc.?