It is part of the OpenCore distribution. OCLP is based on OpenCore and provides only the necessary parts. You can also search this, the Big Sur and Catalina threads for the term disklabel, the problem has been discussed numerous times. You can manage it editing files deeply hidden .... no tool needed. But you are changing the disk label.
Hi, I noticed my patched macs are sluggish during the first runs. Did you apply the OCLP GUI Patch after your install, too? It sped things up for my installs. After the 2nd or 3rd startup things mostly run pretty smooth. I don't know for the MBP5,4 though, but noticed this pattern on a MBP 8,2.
Let me give Big Sur another try and make sure I install the patch. Will also give Monterey a go and see how that runs. Thanks for the tips!
I have the same problem.
disklabel from OpenCore-0.7.7-RELEASE/Utilities/disklabel/ to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/BOOT/./disklabel -e "macOS" .disk_label .disk_label_2x
Create and keep a TM backup on your current system. You can use it to return to this current macOS version. You cannot use a Monterey TM backup to restore into a former macOS like Big Sur or Catalina (AFAIK), i.e. a converted Monterey Photo library might not run with the Big Sur version of the Photo app.
But if I'm on Monterey and have a TM backup of my Monterey setup I can use it to restore my Mac back into Monterey? I don't want to go back to Catalina or Big Sur, I want to stay with Monterey but I also want to keep a TM backup in case something (like an update) breaks Monterey and I need to restore to an earlier time (still Monterey though).
Yes, you can. So, Time Machine require to use APFS in macOS Monterey making more fast the backups.
I back up with Time Machine to an EXT4 formatted server share on Monterey, what am I doing wrong?
You can read Apple Support Guide:
Nothing. Only directed attached disks or iSCSI disks must be formatted with a macOS recognized filesystem. Network shared disks must be formatted with a server supported format, i.e.: ext4; ext3; BTRFS; ntfs;ZFS, etc. See NAS devices and the variety of formats that are used
Get rid of the fusion drive. Replace drives with SSDs.Guys, I am finally running Monterey 12.1 on my refreshed 2011 27inch iMac (Fusion Drive, Metal GPU, more RAM, new Wi-Fi/BT module). Everything works great (so far), its like new Mac
I have only 2 issues:
1) Long boot time (4-5 minutes) - please have a look at attached picture - I mark the lines which cause this
2) After putting iMac to sleep, it will automatically wake up after few seconds
Can you please try to help me?
Thanks in advance
There is a minor difference between using a network share (which can be literally anything) and a directly mounted file system where macOS can detect which kind of underlying filesystem is being used directly from the mount command used. Monterey allows TM to use APFS snapshots now and if I am not mistaken it really forces APFS to be used on directly attached disks. Man page reading needs to be done…
Congrats! Sure you will resolve those minor errors.Guys, I am finally running Monterey 12.1 on my refreshed 2011 27inch iMac (Fusion Drive, Metal GPU, more RAM, new Wi-Fi/BT module). Everything works great (so far), its like new Mac
I have only 2 issues:
1) Long boot time (4-5 minutes) - please have a look at attached picture - I mark the lines which cause this
2) After putting iMac to sleep, it will automatically wake up after few seconds
Can you please try to help me?
Thanks in advance
EDIT: Added screen shot from Terminal > diskutil - I am cusios why SSD (faster) is on the second position - does it matter? When installing OCLP (0.3.3) on internal drive, I chose EFI on SSD drive.
Yes, it makes sense. I created DIY Fusion drive like 5 years ago when high-capacity SSDs was expensive. So I bought 240 SSD from OWC and merged it with stock iMac 1TB HDD.
Well, I tried it and I got from 4-5 min boot (Fusion) to 1:30 from chime to login screen (just SSD). Also it seems, the computer now stays in sleep until mouse button is pressed.
I, on the other hand, use fusion drives with (almost) all of my Metal+BT4 upgraded 2009-2011 iMacs. I have never had problems you described earlier. I suspect that a clean install helps. Also, I create the fusion drive directly from the macOS (USB stick) installer. I simply run Terminal from Utilities and type
diskutil resetFusion. (A side note: this completely wipes both EFI partitions. I usually copy the OCLP files and folders from SSD EFI to a temporary USB stick before 'resetting Fusion', and then back to SSD EFI after 'resetting Fusion'.)