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MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro5,1: BootROM thread | 144.0.0.0.0
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So, only bricks mine then
EXACTLY! You have spares, and recovery procedures.
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Very prophetic! Sorry your machine got bricked. Now I feel guilty, I didn’t really expect that.
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I am new in firmware modifications and will read all the posts just to be sure that I will do the correct procedure. My goal is to have my HighPoint SSD7101A-1 controller connected to PCIe x16 slot 2 with 4 x NVMe 960 EVO 500 in RAID0 to work at maximum speed. Appreciate any help received and sorry for idiot questions as I am new in this journey . Thanks in advance for any help / Suggestions . Special thanks to Tsialex who just started to help me in another post and ask me to jump to here. Marcos Silva
No sure if it's related. But APFS + TRIM enable may hit a slow boot bug. If you are using APFS, you may try disable TRIM to see if boot time back to normal.
Anyway, tsialex also help me to reconstruct my BootROM. NVMe DXE is injected, no change on boot time.
Since my cMP has no NVMe onboard yet, so, it's quite clear that the NVMe DXE injection alone shound't affect the boot time. It should be something else in your case.
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Just see this post, so, your boot time issue is SIP related for BOTH OS?
Is your 10.14 upgrade from a 10.13 clone? Or it's a clean installation?
For both cold booting (power off min. 20 Sec.) and warm booting (restart from power on condition)
Slow boot / double boot is related to SIP. It boots fine when enabled.
I put assembled a fresh BootRom, injected & flashed. I was comparing the performance with a previous version of the NVMe driver when I noticed the affect SIP had on booting.
We have tested several BootRom versions and I was only reporting test results. My machine boots fine thanks to @tsialex’s tutelage, and encouragement.
Both 10.13.6 installs and the 10.14 install are clean/fresh unmolested for testing.
Yes, slow-ER boot/double boot occurs when changing from Drive A to B, or B to A when SIP is disabled.
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Could be. I have also tested with/without trim and no difference noticed.
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With regards to what specific instances?
My post above applied to both. Behavior was the same whether cold or warm booting (aka restart).
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I understand that, but was there a specific post in question? I posted that information in 805 above.
I thought you were referring to something in that post.
Well you edited that post after MIKX posted his. I'm not sure if you added the info about cold boot vs. restart or not, but that is what I think he was asking everyone to make clear in their reports of boot time--does it vary based on whether it was a cold boot or a reboot? If you indeed did have that info in your post originally then maybe he missed it.
Actually no I didn't, not for the 2nd post. After he posted the 1st time, I immediately updated it for clarity but it was there all night before the 2nd post. So I'm trying to understand if there was another post that needed clarity.
Yes it does vary whether cold or warm booting. I wasn't giving a benchmark of booting. Just reporting it was slower for me on a magnitude.
Is there some other point that needs clarification on this? It was simply to say that on MY machine, booting performance was much degraded.
My apologies for confusing anyone or failing to include enough information on the first post.
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I don't think any offense was intended, he just wanted to see if the symptoms were the same for a cold boot vs. a reboot. Either he missed it in your post or it wasn't clear from your post prior to your edit. English isn't everyone's first language here and sometimes the way something is worded can be confusing. In any case, it's very clear now
None was taken, sometimes I post late at night when pain keeps me up, so I may overlook a detail that needed inclusion. I wasn't offended, I just wasn't sure if there was another specific post that clarification was wanted for. I literally added the wanted information within 5 min. of request. I guess I should have quoted and said, information added. I didn't think to do that. I figured he read it.
Second post confused ME.
Same 138 firmware in build 18A384a. Just checked with iHex.
If anyone here is installing the new build with RX580, please check for HEVC encoding support.
Maybe we’ll get lucky next week. Still wondering what Apple is going to do about boot screens. A lot of people won’t be happy if FileVault and Boot Camp are now unsupported.
Where is the firmware file located?
Also just downloaded 18A384a with the installinstall script; as I'm on PB would it do any harm to run this installer over it?
Also just downloaded 18A384a with the installinstall script; as I'm on PB would it do any harm to run this installer over it?
@tsialex I just installed my NVME Samsung 970 EVO, did a clean HS install on NVME and copied my system disk to NVME.
Boot from NVME works perfectly, even with HDD removed, recovery also works without installed HDD. When I switch on the computer it takes approx. 16 seconds before the chime, after the chime the computer logs on approx. 15 seconds later, total logon time approx. 32 seconds.
The only small thing is that my NVME disk is identified an an external disk.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Boot from NVME works perfectly, even with HDD removed, recovery also works without installed HDD. When I switch on the computer it takes approx. 16 seconds before the chime, after the chime the computer logs on approx. 15 seconds later, total logon time approx. 32 seconds.
The only small thing is that my NVME disk is identified an an external disk.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
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